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Our departments serve as home bases from which our individual lawyers conduct their practices. New associates generally join a department when they start their first year with the firm. As practices evolve, some lawyers change departments or become involved in projects in another department depending on the firm's business needs. In addition, because the complex legal issues we handle often call upon multiple disciplines, special teams often form across practice areas to meet our clients' needs.

 
Corporate partner Raj Marphatia regularly works with associates Mike Sartor, left, (Washington & Lee University School of Law '05) and Dasha Tcherniakovskaia, center, (Suffolk University Law School '06).

Our 2010 submission to NALP reports the following information as to the allocation of our 1000+ lawyers among the firm's eight departments and six domestic offices (note that unassigned lawyers are shown in the department(s) in which they principally practice, and lawyers splitting between departments are shown in both departments):

Practice Areas No. Partners
No. Associates &
Other Lawyers
  Corporate 145 424
  Litigation 76 282
  Intellectual Property 77 178
  Tax & Benefits 23 72
  Health Care 22 61
  Private Client Group 8 11
  Bankruptcy & Business Restructuring 8 23
  Labor & Employment 5 8