Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

 

Law Firm Profile

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP By Teresa Cajot Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is a national business and litigation law firm that serves businesses within the US and around the globe. The firm, which was founded in 1908, has offices in Seattle; Los Angeles; Bellevue; San Francisco; Portland; New York; Anchorage; Washington, DC; and Shanghai.

The rm has grown largely through mergers within the last

The rm, which prides itself on a culture of diversity, chartered

two decades. In the 1990s, it merged with Ragen, Tremaine, Tremaine,

the PRISM Committee in 1999 to ensure that diversity issues

Krieger,, Schmeer & Neill of Portland and also with Lankenau Krieger

concerning culture, race, gender, age, and other areas are

Kovner & Outten, which led to the formation of Davis Wright

appropriately addressed within the r m setting. Additionally,

Tremaine’s New York ofce. Also in the 1990s, the rm

the rm sponsors a diversity scholarship program for rst-year

became the rst US law rm to establish an ofce in Shanghai,

associates in its Seattle and Portland ofce locations. Diversity

China. In 2007, the r m merged with Washington, DC-based

scholarships are open to rst year law students of diverse

rm Cole, Raywid & Braverman and in 2008 it took in more

backgrounds who have demonstrated academic excellence in

than 20 lawyers from the former Heller Ehrman LLP LLP..

both their undergraduate studies and through their rst year of law school. Scholarship applicants must be willing to serve

Today, Davis Wright Tremaine boasts more than 500 attorneys

as a summer associate with Davis Wright Tremaine between

who provide a range of services in the areas of environmental

their rst and second year of law school. Ideal candidates

land use and real estate, complex business transactions and

must demonstrate a desire to promote diversity within the

litigation, employment law, civil litigation, trusts and estates,

community in the present and an interest in promoting

general business, healthcare, arbitration and mediation, media

diversity following graduation from law school.

and entertainment litigation, intellectual property, government relations, credit recovery and bankruptcy bankruptcy,, tax, immigration

Additionally,, Davis Wright Tremaine Additionally Tremaine offers the John M. Davis

and corporate matters, regulatory issues, trade practices,

Diversity Scholarship at the University of Washington, which

commercial misappropriation, privacy and security security,, and more.

is dedicated to the rm’s founder. founder. The scholarship i s largely funded by the rm’s partners. All eligible students are notied

In an effort to extend its i nternational reach, the rm joined

at the time of acceptance into law school.

forces with the Pacic Legal Network of Sydney, Australia to establish DWT Pacic in 2008. Davis Wright Tremaine is also

As a means of recruiting and preparing future lawyers for

a member of Lex Mundi and the Pacic Rim Advisory Council,

the workforce, the rm offers a summer associate program.

which consists of 32 leading independent law rms and rms and serves

Participants gain experience in a number of areas and are

to connect the global legal community.

exposed to client conferences, trials, depositions and hearings. They may also pr epare pleading contracts, memoranda, and other legal documents and perform legal research.

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