| has gloss | eng: Crowell & Moring is an international law firm headquartered in Washington D.C., with offices in Irvine, New York City, Los Angeles, Anchorage, San Francisco, London and Brussels, and around 450 lawyers. . The firm was founded in 1979 by 53 lawyers, most of whom were previously at Jones Day. The firm has grown steadily since its foundation, through acquisitions of practice groups and mergers. Crowell raided Morgan & Finnegan to open in New York in 2006 and then merged with King Pagano Harrison, a health care and litigation boutique of some 20 attorneys. In 2007, Crowell lured a 10-lawyer financial services group from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney to increase headcount in its New York office; however, that same year a 25-member securities group decamped to Mayer Brown in search of a deeper platform. Most recently, in October 2008, Crowell launched an office in Los Angeles by merging with seven-lawyer white collar defense boutique Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine LLP. |
