1. 10 Offices, 4 Continents,
Leadership in Law
100 Years, 650 Attorneys.
Founded in the country’s heartland almost a century ago, Dorsey &
Whitney, LLP is today an international law firm of more than 650 attorneys
in 19 offices on four continents. Using an interdisciplinary team approach
and a culture of innovation, collaboration, creativity, and excellence, we
partner with our clients to achieve uncommon success.
Former U.S. Vice-President and Dorsey & Whitney partner Walter Mondale with the Dorsey team in China (image © www.Dorsey.com)
Dorsey D.C. attorney Stefan M. Lopatkiewicz with Rebecca Medrano, the Executive Director of
GALA Hispanic Theatre at the theater’s ground-breaking ceremony at the Tivoli Theater building,
a major architectural conservation project in which the DC Government collaborated with private
funding sources. Dorsey represented GALA which now has a state-of-the-art performing arts
space under the historic dome of the Tivoli Theater. In this picture are Carol Schwartz (on the left)
and Jim Graham (in the hardhat), both City Council members who supported the project.
D orsey’s office in Washington offers clients particular expertise in
litigation and arbitration, energy law, and telecommunications law.
Dorsey and its individual lawyers have a long history of public
service. The firm dedicates substantial resources, on a pro bono basis,
to serve the unmet legal needs of disadvantaged individuals and of
non-profit organizations in the communities we serve. For fifteen
consecutive years, Dorsey has met the ABA Law Firm Pro Bono
Challenge by contributing at least 3% of its billable hours to pro bono
work. These efforts span an enormous range of legal disciplines, but
include a focus on civil and public rights, criminal appeals, housing,
family rights, international human rights, nonprofits and minority owned
micro-business, and political asylum. Lawyers in Dorsey’s Washington,
D.C., office currently are handling a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia on behalf of two veterans groups against
the Department of Veterans Affairs seeking to reduce the VA’s chronic
delays in deciding veterans’ disability claims and to expedite appeals of
VA benefits determinations.
Dorsey’s Washington, D.C., lawyers also are heavily involved
in the community. Dorsey lawyers also have provided important
leadership roles for such organizations as the GALA Hispanic Theater,
the National Museum of Natural History, the Federal City Council, and
the District of Columbia College Success Foundation.
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The Sant Ocean Hall, © Roy National Museum of Natural History, a project that Chip Magid, the head of the Dorsey office, is very involved with on a pro bono basis (image: Smithsonian Institution © www.SI.edu)
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