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 ofce. 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 ofce in Shanghai,
associates in its Seattle and Portland ofce 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 notied
In an effort to extend its i nternational reach, the rm joined
at the time of acceptance into law school.
forces with the Pacic Legal Network of Sydney, Australia to establish DWT Pacic in 2008. Davis Wright Tremaine is also
As a means of recruiting and preparing future lawyers for
a member of Lex Mundi and the Pacic 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.