Taft Stettinius & Hollister

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
No. of offices 9
No. of attorneys More than 400
No. of employees More than 700
Key people Thomas T. Terp, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Executive Committee
Date founded 1885
Founder Worthington, Strong, Stettinius & Hollister; Taft & Taft
Company type Limited Liability Partnership
Website
www.taftlaw.com

Taft Stettinius & Hollister, commonly known as "Taft", is a major law firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It has offices in Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Phoenix, Arizona.[1]

History

Taft traces its roots back to 1885, when Worthington & Strong was founded by Judge William Worthington and Edward W. Strong. John L. Stettinius and John B. Hollister joined the firm after its founding, at which point the firm became known as Worthington, Strong, Stettinius & Hollister. In January 1923, Judge Worthington died. In the following year, a young firm headed by Robert A. Taft and Charles P. Taft II, sons of former President William Howard Taft, joined the older firm to become Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.[2]

The firm's labor department, led by J. Mack Swigert, was instrumental in helping Senator Robert Taft draft and pass the groundbreaking Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.[3]

Since the 1980s, the firm's expansion beyond Cincinnati has been accomplished with the aid of strategic mergers with local firms with its various branch offices, including Kelley, McCann, and Livingston of Cleveland in 2001,[4] Sommer Barnard of Indianapolis in 2008,[5] Kahn Kleinman of Cleveland in 2008,[6] Chester, Wilcox, and Saxbe of Columbus in 2012,[7] and Shefsky and Froehlich of Chicago in 2014.[8]

Practice areas

The firm's practice areas include business & finance, business restructuring, bankruptcy and creditor rights, environmental law, health and life sciences, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate, tax and more.[9] Taft employs more than 400 attorneys.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.martindale.com/Taft-Stettinius-Hollister-LLP/law-firm-483037-offices.htm
  2. ↑ "Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Organizational Profile". The National Law Review. April 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ Peale, Cliff (September 4, 2000). "Local lawyer had role in labor law". Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/01/03/fin_taft_stettinius.html
  5. ↑ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sommer-barnard-merges-with-ohio-based-law-firm-taft-stettinius--hollister-llp-57550827.html
  6. ↑ http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20080807/FREE/137731442/1006&Profile=1006
  7. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2011/11/15/chester-willcox-merging-with-taft.html?page=all
  8. ↑ http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140102/NEWS04/131239973/taft-starts-adding-lawyers-following-shefsky-merger#
  9. ↑ http://www.martindale.com/Taft-Stettinius-Hollister-LLP/law-firm-483037-practice-areas.htm
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