Kaye Scholer
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Kaye Scholer is a law firm founded in 1917 by Benjamin Kaye and Jacob Scholer. The firm has more than 500 attorneys in eight offices located in the cities of Chicago, Frankfurt, London, Los Angeles, New York (headquarters), Shanghai, Washington, D.C., and West Palm Beach.
Kaye Scholer is internationally known for being a leading litigation firm. Its particular areas of litigation strength include antitrust, intellectual property, and products liability. In 2005, The National Law Journal seleted Kaye Scholer as one of the nation's ten elite litigation defense firms. In 2006, American Lawyer magazine selected Kaye Scholer as the products liability litigation firm of the year. In 2006, The National Law Journal again named Kaye Scholer to its list of elite litigation defense firms.
Kaye Scholer also has a well developed transactional practice, including world-class expertise in aviation, bankruptcy, finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and real estate.
Kaye Scholer is one of the nation's 25 most profitable large law firms, according to American Lawyer magazine.
Kaye Scholer maintains a reputation for being a collegial firm, something of a rarity in law firms of its size and economic success.
Among Kaye Scholer's alumni are former Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the U.S. Government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and Brian Leiter, professor of law at University of Texas at Austin and blogger of the Leiter Reports.[1]
