Duane Morris

This is a full-service international law firm with more than 900 attorneys practicing from offices across the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia. Clients across a broad array of industries engage the firm to provide legal and business counsel on complex commercial, regulatory and transactional matters, and its stated positioning is delivering innovative solutions to contemporary legal and business challenges. For companies in the consumer packaged goods and beverage sectors, a firm of this scale and geographic footprint typically serves as outside counsel on corporate, commercial and cross-border work, and its multi-office structure means client engagements are frequently staffed across more than one office and practice group; the firm reports that over 25 percent of client business is conducted through multiple offices and practices. The organization traces its roots to a partnership of prominent Philadelphia lawyers formed a century ago and has since expanded from that single-city base into a global platform spanning the U.S., Europe and Asia. Despite that growth, it emphasizes continuity of a collegial, collaborative internal culture, which its leadership and outside observers credit for its ability to recruit experienced lateral partners and to keep growing through varied economic cycles. That culture has been the subject of academic study: Harvard Business School produced a second case study of the firm, titled "Duane Morris: Collaborating for Growth," which was incorporated into the school's curriculum and distributed to business schools internationally for course use. By financial scale, the firm has ranked in the Am Law 100 since 2001 and reports sixteen consecutive years of revenue growth, with 101 partners having joined in the five years preceding the profile. Internationally, its reach extends beyond wholly owned offices through joint ventures in Myanmar, Shanghai and Singapore, alliances in Mexico and throughout Latin America, and a leadership position within an international network of independent law firms, giving clients access to counsel in markets where the firm does not maintain its own office. Diversity and inclusion is a long-standing institutional priority and the firm describes itself as a pioneer in law firm efforts in this area. It attained Mansfield Certification Plus status in 2024 for the fourth consecutive year, won the Minority Corporate Counsel Association Innovator Award (subsequently renamed for George B. Vashon, reflecting a firm tradition), and has repeatedly earned a top rating for LGBTQ equality from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index. It was included in the 2025 Disability Equality Index Report as a top-scoring company and recognized among the 2025 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, and it runs an annual firmwide diversity and inclusion retreat alongside targeted business development efforts. A Women's Impact Network for Success supports the retention and advancement of women attorneys; the firm has been ranked repeatedly among the Best Law Firms for Women by Seramount, honored by the San Francisco Gender Equality Principles Initiative, and previously named a Best Place to Work for Women Over 35 by Crain's Chicago Business. Several attorneys hold LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council, the San Francisco office is LEED certified and the Las Vegas office is LEED Silver certified as part of a downtown revitalization effort. Pro bono work is substantial in volume: in 2025 lawyers and staff collectively dedicated more than 34,000 hours of pro bono legal assistance, work recognized by the Veterans Consortium, the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, the Supreme Court of Florida and the Prime Minister of Singapore, among others.