Perkins Coie is an international law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and was established in 1912. It is the oldest and largest law firm headquartered in the Pacific Northwest and has a total of 19 offices throughout the United States and Asia. In addition to company representatives, companies often represent political clients.
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The company was founded in 1912 and has represented the Boeing Company since the founding of the aerospace company in 1916. Other clients include or have included Microsoft, Amazon.com, Starbucks, Costco, Craigslist, Google, Facebook, Intel, Twitter, AT & T, Zillow, REI, Intellectual Ventures, UPS, Barack Obama, Expedia, Safeco, T-Mobile, Dale Chihuly, Quora and Nintendo.
Perkins Coie is a notes adviser to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Leadership Council, the Democratic Senator's Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Other political clients include almost all Democrats from the United States Congress. It has also represented several presidential campaigns, including from John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. The group's Political Law Practice was for many years headed by Robert Bauer and now headed by Marc Elias.
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Famous cases
The company represents Christine Gregoire in a prolonged court process around Washington's 2004 gubernatorial election.
A team of Perkins lawyers led by Elias succeeded in representing Al Franken in his recounting and legal battle over the 2008 Senatorial election in Minnesota.
In 2006, Perkins Coie, led by partner Harry Schneider, represented Salim Ahmed Hamdan, driver and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden's suspects. This case was brought to the US Supreme Court at Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , in which the Court ruled that the Bush administration uses military commissions to try unconstitutional terrorism suspects.
Perkins Coie works in case of Doe v. Reed about the signature of the petition in the country's voting initiative campaign, which has been successfully put before the US Supreme Court on April 28, 2010.
In 2010, Elias requested an opinion from the Federal Election Commission stating that certain Google and Facebook ads are covered by "small items" and "impractical" exceptions from laws that otherwise require political advertising to include disclaimers that reveal who pays them. The Commission grants Google's request in a divided voice, and stumbles upon Facebook's request. According to The New York Times , "Facebook still runs as if it was exempt from disclaimer terms". In October 2017, Perkins Coie lobbied to beat a bill called "Honest Ad Act", which would require an internet company to reveal who is paying for political advertising.
Perkins Coie was hired in 2015 as an advisor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. As part of his representatives from the Clinton campaign and the National Democratic Committee, Elias maintains Fusion GPS's intelligence company for opposition research services. The service began in April 2016 and closed before the US Presidential election in early November. An important product of the research is a file explaining alleged attempts by Russia to promote Donald Trump's presidential campaign. During the campaign, the Clinton and DNC campaigns paid Perkins Coie $ 5.6 million and $ 3.6 million respectively. On October 24, 2017, Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from its client confidentiality obligations.
Famous Alumni
The surviving alumni of the company include 16 Lieutenant Governor Washington Cyrus Habib, former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, Circuit 9 Circuit Court of Justice Margaret McKeown and Ronald M. Gould, and Oregon State Representative Chris Garrett.
In 2009, President Obama appointed Robert Bauer, chairman of the company's Political Law practice, to become the White House Counsel. Bauer returned to private practice with Perkins Coie in 2011. In 2015, Hillary Clinton named Marc Elias as general counsel for his campaign.
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External links
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