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| | headquarters = Washington; D.C. | | | headquarters = New York; NY |
| | num_offices = 12 | | | num_offices = |
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| | num_attorneys = 1,059 | | | num_attorneys = 1,059 |
| | num_employees = 2,500 | | | num_employees = |
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| | established = 1962 | | | established = |
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| | revenue = 1,076 | | | revenue = |
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| | website = http://www.wilmerhale.com | | | website = |
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| }} | | }}#REDIRECT [[Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr]] |
| '''Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP''' (known as '''Wilmer Hale''') is an American law firm with 12 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004, through the merger of the Boston-based firm, Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.<ref name=WP53310 /><ref name=Law.Com42004>{{cite journal|title=Wilmer Cutler Joins Forces With Hale and Dorr|journal=New York Law Journal|date=April 20, 2004|url=http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1082131900146&slreturn=20130407152720|author=Anthony Lin}}</ref>
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| ==History==
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| ===Hale and Dorr, 1918–2004===
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| Hale and Dorr was founded in Boston in 1918 by Richard Hale, Dudley Huntington Dorr, Frank Grinnell, Roger Swaim and John Maguire. Reginald Heber Smith, author of the seminal work [[Justice and the Poor]] and a pioneer in the American [[legal aid]] movement, joined the firm in 1919 and served as managing partner for thirty years. Hale and Dorr gained national recognition in 1954 when partner [[Joseph Welch]], assisted by associate [[James D. St. Clair|James St. Clair]] and John Kimball, Jr., represented the [[U.S. Army]] on a [[pro bono]] basis during the historic [[Army-McCarthy hearings]]. In 1974, [[James D. St. Clair]] represented President [[Richard Nixon]] before the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in [[United States v. Nixon]]. In 1988, partner Paul Brountas chaired the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor [[Michael Dukakis]], and in 1990, senior partner [[William Weld]] was elected governor. The firm has had a long and mutually profitable relationship with nearby [[Harvard Law School]], alma mater of more than a fifth of Wilmer Hale's current lawyers, and home of the Wilmer Hale Legal Services Center.<ref name=LSC>{{cite web|title=WilmerHale Legal Services Center|url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc/|publisher=Harvard Law School|accessdate=May 7, 2013}}</ref>
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| In 1988, the law firm established a subsidiary as a registered investment adviser. Initially known as ''Haldor Investment Advisors, L.P.'', and then ''Hale Dorr Wealth Advisers''. In 2008 ''Hale Dorr Wealth Advisors'' became ''Silver Bridge''.<ref>The Boston Globe, "Hale and Dorr launches "Silver Bridge Advisors", September 29, 2008</ref>
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| ===Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 1962–2004===
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| Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering was founded in Washington in 1962 by former [[Cravath, Swaine & Moore|Cravath]] attorneys [[Lloyd Cutler]] and [[John H. Pickering|John Pickering]], along with a senior lawyer, Richard H. Wilmer. Cutler, who later served as [[White House Counsel]] to Presidents [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[Bill Clinton]], founded the [[Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law]] in 1962, and served on its executive committee until 1987.
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| In the 1980s, Cutler led the founding of the Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, to aid South African lawyers who fought to implement the rule of law during [[apartheid]]. From 1981 to 1993, partner [[C. Boyden Gray]] left the firm to serve as White House Counsel to Vice President and President [[George H. W. Bush]]. In 2003, partner [[Jamie Gorelick]] began serving as a member of the [[9/11 Commission]].
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| ===Combined firm, 2004–present===
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| The two firms merged to form Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in 2004.<ref name=WP53310 /><ref name=Law.Com42004 />
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| In 2010, the law firm relocated its administrative support base to a new campus in [[Dayton, Ohio]] as it sought to streamline internal business operations across its many offices.<ref name=WP53310>{{cite news|title=WilmerHale moving support staff to Ohio|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/30/AR2010043002684.html|accessdate=May 7, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 3, 2010|author=Amanda Becker}}</ref> The office houses more than 200 employees from existing WilmerHale offices and new employees from the Dayton area. Individuals in the Business Services Center include administrative support staff, bringing together services such as finance, human resources, information technology services, operations, document review and management, and practice management, which will provide improved efficiencies for administrative teams and the firm, and reduce significant operational expenses.<ref name=WHDayton>{{cite web|title=Dayton - Business Services Center|url=http://www.wilmerhale.com/pages/officedetails.aspx?officeId=11555|work=Offices|publisher=WilmerHale|accessdate=May 7, 2013}}</ref>
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| ==Reputation==
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| Wilmer Hale has ranked in the top 20 in the popular Vault "prestige" ranking of the top hundred American law firms and on the ''[[American Lawyer]]'' "A-List" of the nation's twenty leading law firms based on revenue per lawyer, pro bono work, associate satisfaction, and diversity.<ref name=WHRecognition>{{cite web|title=Recognition|url=http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/recognition/|work=About|publisher=WilmerHale|accessdate=May 7, 2013}}</ref> According to the British magazine ''[[Legal Week]]'', the firm ranked 14th among American law firms in terms of total revenue in 2006.<ref name=WSJ2006>{{cite news|title=Top 50 US Firms 2006|url=http://wsj.com/public/resources/documents/legalweek1.pdf|accessdate=May 7, 2013|newspaper=Wall Street Journal}}</ref>
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| ==Clients==
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| ===''A Civil Action''===
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| In the late 1980s, Hale and Dorr partner Jerome Facher represented [[Beatrice Foods]] in a suit by eight families from [[Woburn, Massachusetts|Woburn]], [[Massachusetts]] who claimed that Beatrice, along with [[W.R. Grace]], had polluted the town's water supply, resulting in an elevated number of leukemia cases and immune-system disorders. The case was memorialized in the book ''[[A Civil Action]]'', by [[Jonathan Harr]], and in a [[A Civil Action (film)|movie of the same name]] starring [[Robert Duvall]] as Facher and [[John Travolta]] as plaintiffs' lawyer [[Jan Schlichtmann]].<ref>[http://home.earthlink.net/~dkennedy56/woburn_harr.html Dead link May 7, 2013]</ref> Upon further discovery, the EPA took the case on and W.R. Grace was successfully indicted for making false statements. Both W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods paid a total $64.9M to clean up the contaminated sites in Woburn, Massachusetts.
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| ===Enron and WorldCom reports===
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| In the wake of news articles raising concerns about transactions between [[Enron]] and its [[chief financial officer|CFO]], [[Andy Fastow]], lawyers from Wilmer Cutler & Pickering represented a special investigative committee of Enron's board of directors in an internal investigation into those transactions. The resulting report, known as the "[[William C. Powers|Powers]] Report," laid out the facts that have been the predicate for much of the public discussion of Enron since that time.<ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/1771735.html Dead link May 7, 3013] ''Houston Chronicle''</ref>
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| Similarly, after [[WorldCom]]'s announcement that it would have to restate financial statements, the firm represented a special investigative committee of WorldCom's board of directors in performing an internal investigation into the accounting irregularities. The investigation resulted in a widely covered written report that detailed a variety of accounting issues as well as the role of management and the board of directors.<ref name=AA61003>{{cite news|title=WorldCom report: Sullivan masterminded fraud|url=http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/news/1752398/worldcom-report-sullivan-masterminded-fraud|accessdate=May 7, 2013|newspaper=Accountancy Age|date=June 10, 2003|author=Larry Schlesinger}}</ref>
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| ===Other notable and controversial clients===
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| In 1986, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering represented corporate raider [[Ivan Boesky]] in high-profile [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] and [[United States Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] proceedings, as well as multiple class actions based on his participation in insider trading violations.
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| Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering represented [[Swiss banks]] accused of profiting from the Holocaust in their settlement negotiations with plaintiffs. The firm also represented [[Siemens AG]], [[Krupp AG]], and other German companies accused of exploiting forced laborers during the Nazi era.<ref name=JPSRFall2004>{{cite journal|title=Suing Hitler's Willing Business Partners: American Justice and Holocaust Morality|journal=Jewish Political Studies Review|date=Fall 2004|volume=16|issue=3-4|url=http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-bazyler-f04.htm|author=Michael J. Bazyler|publisher=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs}}</ref> | |
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| Since 2005, Wilmer Hale has represented Senator [[William Frist]] in regard to an SEC [[insider trading]] investigation.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558504/site/newsweek/ Dead link NBC News as of May 8, 2013]</ref>
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| Wilmer Hale was hired to represent [[PepsiCo]] in the SEC investigation related to the departure of PepsiCo general counsel Maura Smith. In the course of this representation, a Wilmer Hale attorney inadvertently e-mailed a confidential legal memorandum to a [[The Wall Street Journal|''Wall Street Journal'']] reporter as part of an internal communication to other attorneys working on the matter, which made several details of the investigation public.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/departure-of-pepsico-lawyer-is-focus-of-sec-probe-1506504603|title=SEC Probes Departure of PepsiCo’s Former Top Lawyer|last=Ackerman|first=Andrew|date=2017-09-27|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2017-09-28|last2=Palazzolo|first2=Joe|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660|last3=Maloney|first3=Jennifer}}</ref>
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| ==''Pro bono''==
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| Both Hale and Dorr and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering have a long history of involvement in ''[[pro bono]]'' work. Wilmer Hale has ranked at or near the top of ''[[The American Lawyer]]''{{'s}} ''pro bono'' ranking since the merger. In recent years, the firm has been involved in several high-profile cases.
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| ===Guantanamo controversy===
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| A team of Wilmer Hale attorneys represents the “[[Algerian Six]]”, a group of men who fell under suspicion of planning to attack the US embassy in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] and who are now held in the [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp]].<ref name=Cageprisoners42006>{{cite web|title=Torture in Guantánamo|url=http://old.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=13493|publisher=Cageprisoners Ltd|accessdate=May 8, 2013|author=[[Melissa Hoffer]]|date=April 20, 2006}}</ref>
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| In 2006, attorney [[Melissa Hoffer]], then part of the team with Wilmer Hale, delivered a speech in [[Caen]], France, critical of U.S. detainee policy.<ref name=TV5Monde>{{cite web|title=La leçon de Guantanamo|url=http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/plaidoiries/pop_plaid.php?plaid=7|publisher=TV5Monde|accessdate=May 8, 2013|author=Melissa Hoffer|authorlink=Melissa Hoffer|language=French |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717014124/http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/plaidoiries/pop_plaid.php?plaid=7 |archive-date=2012-07-17}}</ref> Other WilmerHale lawyers participating in the case include Stephen Oleskey,<ref name=DN!011707>{{cite news|title=Top Pentagon Official Calls for Boycott of Law Firms Representing Guantanamo Prisoners|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/17/top_pentagon_official_calls_for_boycott|accessdate=May 8, 2013|newspaper=Democracy Now!|date=January 17, 2007}}</ref> and Rob Kirsch.<ref name = "Counterpunch" >[http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/us/us_psychologists_doctors_medics_and_torture.htm "The folks who brought us Brainwashing and ECT try to clean up]: Psychologists, Guantanamo and Torture" article by Stephen Soldz on ''Counterpunch'' August 1, 2006, accessed May 8, 2013</ref>
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| In January 2007, [[Cully Stimson]], deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, criticized Wilmer Hale and other major law firms for representing ''"the very terrorists who hit their bottom line back in 2001,"'' and questioned whether such work was really being done [[pro bono]] or might actually receive funding from shadowy sources.<ref name = WSJ011207 >[https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/12/bush-lawyer-blasts-corporate-law-firms-for-representing-detainees/ "Bush Lawyer Blasts Law Firms For Representing Detainees"] post by Peter Lattman on Law Blog ''[Wall Street Journal]'' on the cases, trends and personalities of interest to the business community, January 12, 2007</ref> In a ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' editorial criticizing Stimson, Harvard Law School professor (and former [[United States Solicitor General]] under President Reagan) [[Charles Fried]] wrote:
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| {{cquote|''"It is no surprise that firms like Wilmer Hale (which represents both [[Pharmaceutical lobby|Big Pharma]] and Tobacco Free Kids), [[Covington & Burling]] (which represents both Big Tobacco and Guantanamo detainees), and the other firms on Mr. Stimson's hit list, are among the most sought-after by law school graduates, and retain the loyalty and enthusiasm of their partners. They offer their lawyers the profession at its best, and help assure that the rule of law is not just a slogan but a satisfying way of life."''<ref name = WSJ011607 >[https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/16/stimson-under-fire/ "Stimson Under Fire"] post by Peter Lattman on Law Blog ''[Wall Street Journal]'' on the cases, trends and personalities of interest to the business community, January 16, 2007</ref>}}
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| In December 2007, [[Seth P. Waxman|Seth Waxman]] made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in ''[[Boumediene v. Bush]]'' which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.<ref name = "WH61208" >[http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/news/newsDetail.aspx?news=1169 "Supreme Court Rules that Guantanamo Detainees Have Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus"] Wilmer Hale press release, June 12, 2008, retrieved on June 13, 2008</ref>
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| ==Attorneys and lawyers==
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| Notable attorneys and lawyers, past and present:
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| '''Hale and Dorr'''
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| * [[Fred Fisher (lawyer)|Fred Fisher]]
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| * [[Robert Mueller]]
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| * [[James D. St. Clair|James St. Clair]]
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| * [[Joseph Welch]]
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| * [[William Weld]]
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| '''Wilmer Cutler & Pickering'''
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| * [[John B. Bellinger III|John Bellinger III]]
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| * [[Manuel F. Cohen|Manuel Cohen]]
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| * [[Lloyd Cutler]]
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| * [[Stavros Lambrinidis]]
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| * [[Paul A. Engelmayer]]
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| * [[Timothy Dyk]]
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| * [[Sally Katzen]]
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| * [[John H. Pickering|John Pickering]]
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| * [[Barbara Olson]]
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| * [[James Robertson (judge)|James Robertson]]
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| '''Wilmer Hale'''
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| * [[Charlene Barshefsky]]
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| * [[Jamie Gorelick]]
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| * [[C. Boyden Gray]]
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| * [[Robert Kimmitt]]
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| * [[William F. Lee]]
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| * [[Alison J. Nathan]]
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| * [[Seth P. Waxman]]
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| * [[Steve Charnovitz]]
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| * [[David W. Ogden]]
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| * [[Gary Born]]
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| * [[Robert Mueller]]
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist|30em}}
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.wilmerhale.com Wilmer Hale]
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| *[http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/history/ Wilmer Hale History]
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| *"[http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/09/28/those_long_long_law_firm_names_grow_shortsnappy/ Long, Long Law Firm Names Grow Short and Snappy]", from ''[[The Boston Globe]]''
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| *"[http://www.masslawyersweekly.com/wilmer_hale.cfm WilmerHale: A Merger's Tale]", from ''Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly''
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