Company Profile
Company Overview
Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the United States, with offices in 17 cities and more than 700 attorneys collaborating across 25 major practice areas. The firm’s size, diversity, and state-of-the-art information systems enable us to offer a comprehensive, integrated range of legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national, and international matters.
Our clients include emerging and middle-market businesses, national and multi-national corporations, financial institutions, public entities, educational and not-for-profit institutions, and individuals.
Within our major areas of practice, we also have nearly thirty teams that focus on specific industries or areas of law. We know that businesses want attorneys who understand their industries and their markets, and our teams provide that focus.
Our attorneys adhere to the highest standards of legal excellence and the highest standards of service. We are widely respected for the depth of our industry knowledge and for being responsive, efficient, and easy to work with. In all areas, we use our experience and insight to articulate clearly our clients’ options and the risks involved in any venture.
Our major practice areas in the DC office include:
o Technology & Intellectual Property (TIP)
o Business Litigation
o Syndication
o Business
o Affordable Housing
o Insurance
o Real Estate
o Public Finance
o Labor & Employment
o Private Clients
o Government Investigations & White Collar Defense
Company History
Nixon Peabody was formed by the 1999 merger of two firms that began practicing more than a century ago: Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle LLP and Peabody & Brown. Nixon Hargrave was originally a Rochester, New York, firm that had grown to become one of the largest law firms in New York. It had a strong corporate/institutional practice and a nationally recognized public finance practice. Boston-based Peabody & Brown had a nationally recognized syndication practice and was active in middle and high-growth markets. Both firms wanted to expand their geographic reach and broaden and deepen their practice strengths so they could offer a diverse array of high-quality legal services to regional, national, and international clients.
The firm has steadily realized its vision. In 2000, Nixon Peabody merged with Sixbey Friedman Leedom & Ferguson in Northern Virginia, doubling the size of its intellectual property practice. The firm expanded into California in 2001 through a merger with Lillick & Charles, a firm with seventy attorneys and practice strengths in business, finance, real estate, commercial litigation, insurance coverage litigation, aircraft defense litigation, and international commerce.
Most recently, Nixon Peabody united with the century-old Boston firm of Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, adding fifty attorneys with exceptional skills and experience in business, litigation, and health services.
Benefits
Tuition Reimbursement, Wellness program.