Schiff Hardin
Schiff Hardin LLP is a national law firm with more than 300 attorneys practicing out of seven offices nationwide — Ann Arbor, Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, Newport Beach, San Francisco and Washington, DC. It is a general practice firm serving corporate clients in a number of practices.
History
The firm was founded in 1864 as Hitchcock & Dupee and ranks as one of Chicago's oldest law firms. In its early years, it represented the Chicago City Railway Company and Chicago Transit Authority. In 1889, Hitchcock & Dupee gained Northern Trust as a client; today the company still turns to Schiff Hardin for all matters of legal advice. The firm acquired its current name in 2004.Schiff Hardin opened a Washington, D.C. office in 1977. An office in New York City followed. 2002 brought a suburban Chicago office in Lake Forest. In 2007, the firm merged with Morgenstein & Jubelirer to open a San Francisco office, followed by an Ann Arbor, Michigan office in 2012.
Notable Deals and Cases
- Chicago Board Options Exchange — In the early 1970s, the firm created the legal structure of the CBOE. In June 2010, the firm represented the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated in its approximately $3 billion demutualization transaction, in which the CBOE converted from a member-owned Delaware non-stock corporation to a Delaware stock corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of a new parent holding company, CBOE Holdings, Inc.
- ' — The firm represented Mark S. Kipnis, the former general counsel of Hollinger International, Inc., in this highly publicized trial.
- ' — Schiff Hardin represented Julie Rae Harper, a woman wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the murder of her young son, at her retrial. This case generated considerable media attention after ABC-TV's 20/20 program ran a show about the case.
- — In a case that has received nationwide attention, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, represented by Schiff Hardin's Animal Law practice attorneys and North Carolina counsel, obtained a full and final judgment in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Woodley in a case involving animal hoarding.
Notable Clients
| AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. | |
| Bunn-O-Matic Corporation | Laidlaw International, Inc. |
| CenterPoint Properties Trust | |
| Chicago Board Options Exchange | Newell Rubbermaid Inc. |
| Chicago Transit Authority | NiSource Inc. |
| Dorel Industries Inc. | Northern Trust |
| Eastman Kodak Company | Owens-Illinois, Inc. |
| Emaar Properties | Sanford |
| Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Novartis | |