About The Firm

Locke Lord is a full-service, international law firm with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Our team of approximately 650 attorneys has earned a solid national reputation in complex litigation, regulatory and transactional work. We serve our clients’ interests first, and these clients range from Fortune 500 and middle market public and private companies to start-ups and emerging businesses.

Locke Lord’s team builds collaborative relationships and crafts creative solutions to solve problems - all designed and executed with long-term strategic goals in mind. Among Locke Lord’s many strong practice areas are appellate, aviation, bankruptcy/restructuring/insolvency, business litigation and dispute resolution, class action litigation, corporate, employee benefits, energy, environmental, financial services, health care, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, international, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, public law, real estate, regulatory, REIT, tax, technology, and white collar criminal defense and internal investigations.

We embrace multiple points of view and support Local Diversity Committees in each of our cities as well as an overall Firm National Diversity Committee. Women hold positions of power in Firm management. There are two women on the Firm’s Executive Committee, including Firm Chair Jerry Clements. The Firm’s Board of Directors has six female members, one of whom serves as Co-Chair. The Managing Partner of our Chicago office also is a woman. Our groups and committees help promote a firmwide philosophy of inclusion and action, helping raise scholarship money for minority and economically disadvantaged students, hosting holiday parties for lower income children and supporting longtime Firm programs like Flexible Work Arrangements, Domestic Partner Benefits and the Women’s Initiative. An important part of Locke Lord’s mission is to reach out to the communities we serve in meaningful partnerships and pro bono work.

Locke Lord’s Mission Statement sets the tone: At the end of each year, we want our firm to be better, stronger and more highly regarded than it was at the beginning.

Firm Accolades

Locke Lord consistently ranks among the top 100 law firms nationally in the annual AmLaw 100 (American Lawyer) list, moving up to No. 68 in 2011.
Chambers USA 2011 recognizes 37 Locke Lord attorneys and 15 practice areas, including nationwide recognition for our Energy, REIT and Insurance practices. Our Banking & Finance, Corporate M&A, Corporate Insurance, Direct Insurance, Environmental, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Real Estate, Reinsurance and Tax practices all received state recognition.
Seventy-six Locke Lord attorneys are on the Best Lawyers 2012 list, and six Firm practice areas rank among the top in the nation, including Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Insurance Law, Litigation – Trust & Estates, Oil & Gas Law and Trusts & Estates Law. Overall Locke Lord has 32 “Best” spots in national rankings and 68 “Best” spots in metropolitan rankings.
Locke Lord’s REIT practice is recognized in the prestigious Chambers Global 2011. The practice also scored in the top of the rankings done by the 2009 AmLaw Corporate Scorecard.
For the seventh consecutive year, Locke Lord was named the Top Law Firm Lobby Practice in Texas by Capitol Inside and also made its Top 10 list in the Texas Lobby Power Rankings 2011. The widely read publication said our firm stays No. 1 consistently “because it wants to be number one and works aggressively to not only keep that distinction but to solidify its lock on it more each year.” In addition, Texas Lawyer has consistently ranked the firm's lobbying practice at the top of law firm lobbying practices based on lobby billings reported to the Texas Ethics Commission.
Our Insurance and Reinsurance Practices are consistently recognized in national and international publications, earning frequent inclusion in Reactions magazine's annual survey and in The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers list of leading U.S. Firms. The Practices also have earned a string of accolades from Chambers USA: Client's Guide of America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 United States and Global Broker & Underwriter.
We are the only law firm to receive a 2010 Corporate Achievement DiversityFIRST™ Award from the Texas Diversity Council.
Locke Lord attorneys donate their time in several Pro Bono projects, including a victory for the family of a retired firefighter killed while saving lives during the 9/11 tragedy. Our work ensured that Capt. James Corrigan’s name was included in the memorial with other New York firefighters who died as heroes that day. We also won asylum for a young Ethiopian woman who has sought safety and political refuge in the United States for 18 years. She is now free to pursue her dream of medical school and a career as a pediatric oncologist.
Locke Lord’s Marketing team has repeatedly been ranked among the top firms in the United States by Marketing the Law Firm. Also, for the second consecutive year, the Marketing team in 2012 received the most top honors for a law firm in the Legal Marketing Association Midwest Awards where we received five awards in the categories of Practice Development, Promotional & Collateral Materials (2); Identity; and Marketing on a Shoestring. In 2011, the team won four top honors, including Best in Show for groundbreaking innovation in the development of a Firm iPhone/iPad App.