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Polsinelli is a law firm in the United States headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm currently has more than 750 attorneys in 18 offices. Polsinelli is also the fastest-growing law firm in the U.S. for the past seven years (2008–2014), according to ''The American Lawyer''.〔http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202600856100〕 ==History== The Polsinelli firm was started in 1972 by Jim Polsinelli and two other young attorneys in a small office to serve business and real estate clients in the historic Country Club District in Kansas City, Missouri. Polsinelli represented small businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the 1980s. In the mid-1980s the firm expanded its trial practice by adding a national products liability practice. In 1991, Polsinelli’s Kansas City office moved to its current location in the Plaza Steppes building in Kansas City. In the 1990s, Polsinelli continued to expand both in the number of attorneys. In 2000, Polisnelli created a Science and Technology group with patent and business attorneys focused on the emerging biotech industry. After opening an office in Overland Park, Kansas in 1988, Polsinelli further expanded by establishing offices in St. Louis in 1991, Topeka, Kansas in 1995 and Edwardsville, Illinois in 2002. With its June 2004 merger with Suelthaus, PC, a 35-lawyer St. Louis-based entrepreneurial business law firm founded in 1929, the firm doubled the size of its St. Louis office. In July 2005, it opened offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. In January 2006, Nasharr & Shea LLC, a small banking and real estate firm, merged into the firm, giving Polsinelli an office in Chicago. On February 1, 2009, the 300 attorney Polsinelli firm merged with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., a 180 lawyer Kansas City based, regional law firm with a national trial reputation and a business practice. Shughart Thomson & Kilroy (STK) traces its roots to 1939 when Harry Thomson graduated from law school and joined Henry Shughart. The third-named partner, Jack Kilroy, Sr., joined the firm after World War II. STK grew in large part due to its recognition of premier trial lawyers. Geographically, STK opened an Overland Park, Kansas office in 1983; a Springfield, Missouri office in 1997; and a Denver, Colorado office in 1998. STK opened offices in Phoenix and St. Joseph, Missouri through mergers in 2002 with Goodwin Raup, a Phoenix trial firm and with Watkins Boulware Lucas & Minor. During 2011, the firm underwent additional growth with new offices in Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles, California (acquisition of the Quateman LLP law firm - California's largest women-owned municipal bond counsel firm).〔http://www.polsinelli.com/history/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polsinelli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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