Crowell & Moring

Crowell & Moring LLP
Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States
No. of offices 9
No. of attorneys 500
Major practice areas General practice
Revenue Increase $368.5 million (2014)[1]
Date founded 1979
Company type LLP
Website
www.crowell.com

Crowell & Moring is an international law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Irvine, New York City, Los Angeles, Anchorage, San Francisco, Cheyenne, London, Brussels and affiliate offices Cairo and Riyadh.[2] With more than 500 lawyers, the firm was founded in 1979 by 53 lawyers, most of whom were previously at Jones Day.[3]

The firm has grown steadily since its founding, through acquisitions of practice groups, mergers, and an influx of lateral partners and internal promotions. In July 2013, Crowell & Moring bolstered its Energy Group with the addition of a six-member team from Dickstein Shapiro.[4] In October 2009, Crowell & Moring opened a San Francisco office by merging with a 28-lawyer litigation team from Folger Levin & Kahn.[5] In August 2009, the firm brought on five partners[6] from Patton Boggs and opened an Anchorage, AK office to expand its Environment & Natural Resources Group's work in energy and climate change. In October 2008, Crowell & Moring opened an office in Los Angeles by merging with seven-lawyer white collar defense boutique Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP. In 2007, a 10-lawyer financial services group from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney joined Crowell & Moring's New York office. These moves were followed by an additional seven intellectual property lawyers[7] in 2008. Crowell & Moring also hired three partners from Morgan & Finnegan, an IP law firm, to open in New York in 2006 and then merged with King Pagano Harrison, a health care and litigation boutique of some 20 attorneys.[8]

In 2013, Crowell & Moring was ranked by The National Law Journal/Legal Times ranking as the “Washington Litigation Department of the Year” in the General Civil Litigation category.[9]

In 2011, Crowell & Moring partnered with the Association of Corporate Counsel on the ACC's first-ever "Guide to Value-Based Billing," a guide for in-house counsel and their outside law firms on pricing legal services to best suit the client's goals.[10]

Government contracts

Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Practice is one of the largest in the U.S.[11] and has experience with government agreements and subcontracts (domestic or international) including the bidding and award process; ethics and compliance issues, including suspension and debarment; cost accounting rules and defective pricing; claims; audits and investigations; data rights; cybersecurity and privacy; export controls; security clearances; small business issues; domestic preference requirements; and due diligence and transactional assistance relating to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.

Representative matters include a bid protest on behalf of Health Net of the award of a $16 billion Department of Defense (DOD) managed health care contract;[12] securing dismissal of allegations on summary judgment of a False Claims Act case seeking single damages of $1 billion against ACADEMI (formerly Blackwater/Xe Services) under a Department of State security contract in Iraq and Afghanistan; and securing a judgment of over $100 million for SUFI in a breach of contract case against the Air Force's Non-Appropriated Fund Purchasing Office.[13]

Crowell & Moring represented Blackwater Worldwide in the investigation after a series of deadly shootouts in the Iraqi capital left several Iraqi security agents and civilians dead in May 2007.[14] According to the Legal Times, two other large defense contractors, Erinys Iraq and Kuwait & Gulf Link Transport Co., are among the firm's clients. Crowell also routinely counsels companies bidding for government contracts and in oversight investigations that sometimes result from those contracts.[15]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/home/id=1202717456852/Crowell-Reaps-Benefits-of-Cost-Management-Technology-Sees-11-PPP-Growth?mcode=1202615432600&curindex=0&back=NLJ
  2. ↑ Chambers and Partners : Chambers USA Guide Profile
  3. ↑ http://www.americanlawyer.com/firmProfile.jsp?name=Crowell+%26+Moring
  4. ↑ http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/dickstein_energy_chief_leads_5-lawyer_group_to_crowell
  5. ↑ Law.com: Half of Folger Levin to Join Crowell & Moring
  6. ↑ The AmLaw Daily: Alaska, Ho! Crowell Raids Patton Boggs, Sets Up in Anchorage
  7. ↑ Washington Business Journal: Crowell & Moring adds IP attorneys
  8. ↑ http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/10/crowells-gardiner-wont-comment-on-merger-buzz.html
  9. ↑ http://www.nationallawjournal.com/special-reports/id=1202607374340/DCs+Litigation+Departments+of+the+Year%3Fmcode=1202615492640&curindex=28
  10. ↑ http://www.acc.com/advocacy/valuechallenge/toolkit/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=1309263&page=/legalresources/resource.cfm&qstring=show=1309263&title=Handbook%20for%20ValueBased%20Billing%20Engagements
  11. ↑ http://www.law360.com/articles/307220/law360-ranks-largest-government-contracts-practice-groups
  12. ↑ http://www.gao.gov/decisions/bidpro/4016523.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/WHEELER.SUFI110812.pdf
  14. ↑ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washbizblog/2008/07/roadshow_crowell_moring.html
  15. ↑ http://www.chambers-associate.com/Law/FirmFeature/2838

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