Law Firm Supporters

The law firms of Brown & Welsh, P.C. (www.brownwelsh.com), Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (www.debevoise.com), and Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (www.mto.com) provide essential legal advice and administrative support to the American Branch of the International Law Association.

The American Branch is immensely grateful for their support.

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Munger Tolles & Olson, founded in 1962, recently earned first place on The American Lawyer’s “A-List” of the nation’s most elite law firms. With 192 lawyers in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, Munger Tolles maintains a robust national and international client base. Its clients include many of the largest corporations, including companies in the aerospace, energy, entertainment, electronics, pharmaceutical, retail and insurance industries. It also represents other law firms, major universities, international corporations and foreign governments.

The firm’s principal areas of practice include securities, antitrust, commercial and media litigation, criminal investigations and defense, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, general business transactions and advice, intellectual property, real estate, taxation, and employment law.

Its lawyers have tried cases in federal and state courts across the United States and in international arbitrations. Its lawyers have also played public roles as varied as president of the California State Bar, chairs of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, president of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations, executive director of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and president of the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, an international law firm, was founded in 1931. The firm offers a diverse range of sophisticated legal services in litigation, international, corporate, real estate, tax, and trusts and estates law to businesses and individuals.

The firm has approximately 750 lawyers located in New York, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong and Shanghai. We are the only firm to include former Attorneys General of both the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as two Queen’s Counsel.

Our litigation representations include a broad range of complex matters in courts in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and elsewhere, as well as before agencies, administrative bodies and international arbitration tribunals worldwide. Our corporate work spans the full range of general corporate, transactional and regulatory representations in the United States and throughout the world.

We maintain a tradition of excellence that is reflected in our recognition as being among the top five law firms on The American Lawyer A-List for six consecutive years.

Brown & Welsh LLP

Brown & Welsh, located in Meriden, Connecticut, concentrates in business law (domestic and international) and related litigation, including contracts, Uniform Commercial Code (sale of goods, promissory notes and other negotiable instruments, electronic transfer of funds, letters of credit and security interests), bankruptcy, commercial real estate leasing (including evictions), real estate conveyancing (including mortgage foreclosures), computer law (including domain name disputes and identity theft), Qui Tam (including scientific Qui Tams), arbitration, mediation, and corporations and other business entities (including statutory trusts).