On 13 July 2022, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) announced the opening an office in San Francisco through a combination with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, a multi-practice firm with more than a century of experience providing comprehensive representation to clients in the Bay Area and across the country.
Completed 1 September 2022, this expansion further strengthens our capabilities in California and allows us to provide a full range of legal services to clients operating in one of the world’s leading centres of innovation. Click here to read the full announcement.
In July 2023, the office strengthened its litigation capabilities via a combination with San Francisco boutique litigation firm Simmonds & Narita LLP. The Simmonds & Narita team brought extensive experience defending individual and class actions filed under a wide range of consumer protection statutes in federal and state courts in California and jurisdictions across the country against companies operating in the consumer financial services industry. Click here to read the full announcement.
With offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley, Womble Bond Dickinson now has more than 50 attorneys across four markets in California and a global platform of more than 1,000 lawyers in 32 offices across the US and the UK (including our strategic expansion into New York and Nashville earlier this year).
Founded in 1896, Cooper, White & Cooper has strong ties throughout the San Francisco business, legal, and civic communities, and their lawyers have decades of experience in the unique aspects of doing business in California and, especially, the Bay Area. This team is well-positioned to serve clients in a broad range of legal needs, including real estate, environmental, energy, construction, employment, as well as litigation, corporate transactions, and many other areas of practice that require on-the-ground support.
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