American law firm
Venable LLP
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Headquarters
| Washington, D.C.
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No.
of offices
| 13
|
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Offices
| Annapolis
,
Baltimore
,
Chicago
,
Fort Lauderdale
,
Los Angeles
,
Miami
,
New York City
,
San Francisco
,
Tampa
,
Towson
,
Tysons
,
Washington, D.C.
,
Wilmington
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No.
of attorneys
| 800+
|
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No.
of employees
| 1,300+
|
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Major practice areas
| Corporate law
, complex litigation,
intellectual property
,
entertainment law
, and government affairs
|
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Key people
| Stuart Ingis, Chairman
|
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Revenue
| $717,017,642 (2021)
|
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Profit per equity partner
| $1,234,973 (2021)
|
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Date founded
| 1900
|
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Founder
| Richard Venable
|
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Company type
| Limited liability partnership
|
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Website
| www
.venable
.com
|
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Venable LLP
is an American
law firm
headquartered in
Washington, D.C.
[1]
It is the largest law firm in the state of Maryland.
[2]
Founded in 1900 by Richard Venable in
Baltimore
,
[3]
Venable operates 13 offices across the United States
[4]
and employs about 850 professionals
[5]
specializing in regulatory, litigation, corporate, and investigations matters.
[6]
In 2021, Venable was ranked as the 78th highest grossing law firm in the world.
[7]
From 2020 to 2021, Venable's total revenue grew from
US$
681.8 million to $717 million. Revenue per lawyer saw a similar increase, with each lawyer generating a revenue of $965,031 and each equity partner generating $1.23 million on average.
[8]
History
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Venable was founded in 1900 by law professor Richard Venable in
Baltimore
.
[3]
It became the second-largest law firm in the
Baltimore-Washington area
in 1999 when it merged with Washington-based Tucker Flyer.
[9]
The firm expanded cross country to
Los Angeles
in 2006.
[10]
In 2017, Venable headquarters moved to a new building in Washington, located at 600
Massachusetts Avenue
.
[1]
In one of the largest law firm mergers of 2018, Venable acquired the New York intellectual property firm Fitzpatrick Cella, which had 100 attorneys at the time.
[11]
Venable opened a construction law office in
Chicago
in January 2021, with firm chairman Stu Ingis stating that the decision to expand was founded on Venable's "history of measured, strategic growth through the addition of talented attorneys and practices in markets that support client needs".
[12]
In
The American Lawyer
AmLaw
100 ranking for 2021, Venable was rated 59th in revenue per lawyer, 71st in profits per lawyer, 76th in profits per equity partner, and 73rd in all-partner compensation, for an overall ranking of 65th.
[13]
Shortly after the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
, Venable terminated its lobbying deal with
Sberbank
, Russia's largest bank.
[14]
It was known that
Sberbank
had paid more than $800,000 to Venable for lobbying since 2017, according to Senate records.
[15]
In November 2022, Venable announced that it would merge with Genovese Joblove & Battista, a multi-practice Florida-based law firm with offices in Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale.
[16]
Notable alumni and current attorneys
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- Birch Bayh
, former
U.S. Senator
from
Indiana
- James H. Burnley IV
, former
U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- John Marshall Butler
, former
U.S. Senator
from
Maryland
- Benjamin Civiletti
, former
United States Attorney General
- Doug Emhoff
, former Managing Director of Venable's West Coast Offices, Partner at
DLA Piper
, husband of
Vice President of the United States
Kamala Harris
and
Second Gentleman of the United States
- James W. Gerlach
, former United States Representative, Pennsylvania
- Asa Hutchinson
,
former Governor of Arkansas
, former
Undersecretary
of
Homeland Security
and former head of the
Drug Enforcement Administration
, former
U.S. Representative
from
Arkansas
' 3rd congressional district
- Glenn F. Ivey
, Congressman for Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District, United States' House of Representatives
- Amy Berman Jackson
,
District Judge
on the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Benson E. Legg
, former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Daniel E. Lungren
, former United States Representative, California and former Attorney General of California
- L. Paige Marvel
,
Article I
federal judge
for the
United States Tax Court
- Powell Moore
, former White House Legislative staff member and U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense official
- J. Frederick Motz
,
Senior Judge
of the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Francis D. Murnaghan
, Jr., former federal judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Mark Pryor
, former
U.S. Senator
from
Arkansas
- William D. Quarles, Jr.
, former United States District Judge for the District of Maryland
- Karl Racine
, the first elected
Attorney General of the District of Columbia
- James E. Rogan
, former
U.S. Representative
of
California
and current judge of the
Superior Court of California
- John Sarbanes
,
U.S. Representative
,
Maryland's 3rd congressional district
- Paul Sarbanes
, former
U.S. Representative
from Maryland and former
U.S. Senator
from Maryland
- Brian Schwalb
,
Attorney General for the District of Columbia
- Ari Schwartz
, former member of the
White House National Security Council
where he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cybersecurity
- Bart Stupak
, former
U.S. Representative
from
Michigan's 1st congressional district
- Roger W. Titus
, federal judge on the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Robert L. Wilkins
,
United States circuit judge
of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
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