In the late 1980s, the firm moved to Palo Alto from San Francisco. In 1989, the firm (then Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum) facilitated the IPO of Qualcomm. On October 31, 2006, the firm (then Cooley Godward) merged with Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman, which resulted in the firm growing from 440 lawyers to 550. In the announcement of the merger, The New York Times referred to Cooley as a 'Leading Silicon Valley law firm'. In 1995, two former partners of the firm, Robert Gunderson and Scott Dettmer, formed the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer. Offices Ĭooley's San Francisco office at 101 California Street Like many other law firms, the firm laid off 114 people in 2009 from its offices, citing 'the uncertain economy'. Cooley has offices in ten US cities, London, Shanghai, Beijing, Brussels, and Singapore. Ĭooley launched in London in January 2015, creating a 55-lawyer practice and the firm's first office in Europe. Its lawyers were hired from the London offices of Morrison & Foerster and Edwards Wildman Palmer, raiding the latter's entire office. The office is run by Justin Stock who headed the corporate department of Morrison & Foerster's London office before joining Cooley. The firm launched its Beijing office in 2018. The American Lawyer has ranked Cooley number forty-seven in its annual ranking of U.S. Top Legal 500 and the National Law Journal's NLJ 250 has ranked Cooley's practice areas from second through eighth tier in its national survey of law firms.
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