Squire Patton Boggs

Squire Patton Boggs
No. of offices42 (2022)[1]
No. of attorneys1,452 (2022)[2]
Major practice areasGeneral practice
Key people
  • Mark J. Ruehlmann
  • (Chairman and Global CEO)
  • Stephen C. Mahon
  • (Global Managing Partner)
  • Michele Connell
  • (Global Managing Partner)
  • Ed Newberry
  • (Global Managing Partner)
  • Jonathan Jones
  • (European Managing Partner)
  • Fred Nance
  • (Global DEI Counsel)
RevenueIncrease US$1.04 billion (2022)[2]
Profit per equity partnerIncrease US$1.2 million (2022)[2]
Date founded1890 in Cleveland as Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
1887 in Leeds as Hammond Suddards
1962 in Washington D.C. as Patton Boggs
Company typeSwiss association
Websitewww.squirepattonboggs.com

Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with over 40 offices in 20 countries. It was formed in 2014 by the merger of multinational law firm Squire Sanders with Washington, D.C. based Patton Boggs. It is one of the largest law firms in the world by total headcount and gross revenue, twelfth largest firm in the UK by revenue, and one of the top 12 by number of countries occupied.[3]

Its largest offices are in Washington, D.C., Leeds, London and Cleveland, each having more than 100 lawyers.[4] The firm serves a diverse base of legal clients ranging from Fortune 100 and FTSE Index 100 corporations to newly emerging companies, private clients and local and national governmental entities.[5] The company lobbies on behalf of the entity of the Saudi government that was directly responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; after the murder, the company continued to represent the entity for years until a pressure campaign led the company to drop the client.[6][7] Due to its lobbying role for Saudi Arabia, multiple members of Congress refused to interact with representatives of the firm.[7]

Squire Patton Boggs is currently among the largest lobbying firms in the world. The lobbying arm, long managed by Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., is currently managed by Edward Newberry and Robert Kapla.

  1. ^ "Locations | Squire Patton Boggs". www.squirepattonboggs.com.
  2. ^ a b c "Squire Patton Boggs". Law.com.
  3. ^ "Patton Boggs And Squire Sanders Formally Agree On Their Merger". Forbes. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Squire Patton Boggs merges with San Francisco law firm Carroll, Burdick & McDonough". cleveland.com. Retrieved 2016-12-09. The Cleveland office, with 110 lawyers, is the firm's third largest, after the offices in Washington, D.C., and London.
  5. ^ "Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP Profile". The National Law Review. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ Friedman, Dan. "Top lobbying firm is still on the payroll of Saudi center implicated in Jamal Khashoggi's murder". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  7. ^ a b Friedman, Dan. "K Street Firm Finally Cuts Ties With Saudi Office Implicated in Khashoggi Murder". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2021-10-09.