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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is a global law firm. It is one of the most prestigious and selective law firms in the world. Since 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202596369694?slreturn=20140416123345 )〕 profits per equity partner have been the second highest in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Complete Profits Per Equity Partner Rankings )〕〔()〕〔()〕〔()〕 The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and currently employs 700 attorneys throughout eighteen locations around the world, including in New York City, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Houston, Tokyo, London, Mannheim, Moscow, Hamburg, Paris, Hong Kong, Munich, Sydney, Brussels, and Seattle. The firm's largest office is located in New York City. ==History== The firm was established in 1986 by John B. Quinn, Eric Emanuel, David Quinto, and Phyllis Kupferstein with the purpose of being a litigation-only firm. Joined in 1988 by name partner A. William Urquhart, the firm aimed to do away with law firm formalities. Beginning in 2007, Quinn Emanuel expanded internationally by opening its first foreign office in Tokyo. A year later, the firm expanded to London, then Mannheim, Germany in 2010, Moscow in 2011, and Hamburg in 2012.〔()〕〔()〕 On September 1, 2011, Washington DC's Legal Times Blog announced that the firm was opening up its first office in the nation's capital. In 2013, the firm opened offices in Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, and Sydney, and in 2014 it opened a Brussels office and a Houston office. Quinn Emanuel is the first AmLaw 100 firm to have a female name partner.〔(What's in a Name - The American Lawyer )〕〔(Quinn Emanuel Becomes First Am Law 100 Firm to Have a Female Name Partner - Law.com )〕 The firm changed its name in March 2010 to include Kathleen Sullivan, former Dean of Stanford Law School, who heads the firm's appellate practice. The firm was previously known as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges.〔(Quinn Emanuel Makes Kathleen Sullivan Name Partner - News - ABA Journal )〕 In 2014 the firm was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by Microsoft in connection with a contract it had supposedly signed with the IRS.〔http://www.geekwire.com/2014/microsoft-sues-irs-seeks-details-contract-law-firm-hired-perform-audits/〕 A large part of the firm's self-image is the lack of a formal dress code. This casual self-image extends into the corporate structure of the firm, which lacks any formal management committees other than an advisory committee for the evaluation of contingency fee cases. Around 35 percent of Quinn attorneys went to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, NYU or Columbia.〔(Firm Feature - Chambers Associate )〕 Intellectual property litigation is the firm’s largest practice area and currently has over 200 lawyers who litigate IP cases.〔(Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP )〕 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「Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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