Company Profile
Perkins Coie LLP
Company Overview
With more than 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie LLP represents great companies across a wide range of industries and stages of growth—from startups to FORTUNE 500 corporations.
Company History
Perkins Coie got off to a good start: founded in 1912, the Seattle-based firm's earliest clients included one William E. Boeing Sr., founder of the eponymous aeronautics company. The relationship with Boeing contributed to Perkins Coie's reputation for representing high-tech and cutting-edge ventures in what has become one of the nation's technology hotspots. The firm's intellectual property practice-including patent prosecution, patent litigation, and trademark and copyright protection and litigation-now includes more than 200 attorneys.
Perkins Coie likes to say that it provides "counsel to great companies," and a look at its client list will confirm that that's true. Firm clients include household names like Microsoft, Facebook, craigslist, Starbucks, Amazon, and Google.
Although the firm has stayed true to its Seattle roots with the largest office still in Seattle, the firm has expanded to include sixteen domestic offices, including four offices and almost 200 attorneys in California, as well as large offices with more than 100 attorneys each in the Chicago and Washington, DC offices.