Name
Philadelphia
Intellectual Property
University of Pennsylvania 2002
I graduated from law school four years ago at age 40 after two previous careers as an engineer and a home builder. Engineering was too “technical;” I wanted work that involved more interaction with people...
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Silicon Valley
Stanford 1995
Dechert is the fourth firm at which I've practiced since graduating from law school. In the decade that I spent at those three firms, I picked up a kit of legal tools; at Dechert, I've been able to use these tools....
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New York
Financial Services
Harvard 1989
I came to Dechert in early 2000 after spending a number of years at a law firm in New Jersey. Not only did I switch firms, but I changed my practice area....
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New York
Litigation
Harvard 2005
As a young litigator, I value the exposure and practical experience I have gained since joining Dechert....
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Washington, D.C.
Financial Services
Tulane University 2001
I will never forget my first day at Dechert
—it was September 11, 2001. 9/11 changed the lives of all Americans, particularly those of us who live and work in our nation’s capital.
But it also changed my career....
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Hartford
Finance & Real Estate
University of Connecticut 2005
I came to Dechert as a summer associate because of the unique opportunity it offered to explore transactional law in depth....
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Boston
Finance & Real Estate
Harvard 1965
As a lateral partner, I chose Dechert over other national/international firms five years ago for two principal reasons....
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Hartford
Finance & Real Estate
William and Mary 1988
I came because Dechert took a chance on “retraining” a 9
th-year commercial/bankruptcy litigator into a transactional lawyer doing cutting-edge real estate finance....
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San Francisco
Finance & Real Estate
University of Southern California 1994
I came to Dechert because I wanted to practice in a top-tier law firm and learn from and work with some of the brightest people in the field....
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New York
Hartford
Finance & Real Estate
Yale University 1992
I am a finance and real estate partner dividing my time between Dechert's
Hartford and
New York City offices.
I came here just over a year ago after making the difficult decision to leave my prior firm....
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Washington, D.C.
University of the Pacific 1983
After spending much of my career "in-house" with the NASD, I decided it was time to try private practice again. Joining Dechert's Financial Services Group as a broker-dealer specialist was the best professional and personal move I could have made....
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New York
Corporate & Securities
New York University 1977
I joined Dechert to affiliate myself with a dynamic, growing law firm that has a strong private equity platform, in both the formation of LBO and other private equity funds as well as in....
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Washington, D.C.
Litigation
University of Michigan 1984
I joined Dechert in January 2005 from Swidler Berlin where I had founded and headed the antitrust group. Dechert offered our group a unique opportunity to build on our prior success....
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New York
Finance & Real Estate
University of Chicago 1987
We work on interesting and innovative transactions, and the people here are nice. In addition, the firm has made a real effort to expand overseas and....
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Hong Kong
Financial Services
University of Michigan 2001
Dechert is a global firm that works on a human level. I’ve worked on projects spanning four continents since I joined Dechert....
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Philadelphia
Intellectual Property
Villanova University 1991
I came to Dechert from a boutique patent firm. While I believed that Dechert's commitment to the Intellectual Property Group would provide an excellent platform for me to develop my own client base....
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Philadelphia
Finance & Real Estate
University of Pittsburgh 1995
I came to Dechert for the opportunity to do world-class work in a location where I wanted to live....
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Washington, D.C.
Litigation
Cornell 1997
The people make Dechert a truly special place to work....
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Boston
Financial Services
Harvard 1987
After a decade in-house at a huge U.S. financial services company, I joined Dechert, which, for some time, my former employer had been using as outside counsel....
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Silicon Valley
Litigation
University of the Pacific 1984
Having been at several firms before joining Dechert, I am most impressed by the successful efforts to promote cross-office relationships and trial team integration....
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Philadelphia
Corporate & Securities
University of Chicago 1978
What I have enjoyed most about my time at Dechert is working with colleagues from many offices who are willing to step in and unselfishly share their expertise....
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New York
Litigation
SUNY at Buffalo 2005
I came to Dechert because of the people. There are many firms that do similar types of work, but after interviewing at a number of firms....
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New York
Corporate & Securities
William & Mary 2005
What attracted me to Dechert was the collegiality among attorneys and staff....
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Philadelphia
Intellectual Property
Temple University 2001
I came to Dechert because I had a sense that the partners and senior associates genuinely cared about the professional development of the young lawyers joining the firm....
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San Francisco
Finance & Real Estate
UCLA 1988
I started at Dechert in 1988 as a first-year associate and have never entertained the idea of working at any other law firm....
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Philadelphia
Litigation
University of Pennsylvania 1972
Some 35 years ago I had to choose between two very fine firms for the start of my legal career. I liked them both—nice people, good lawyers, hard choice. But there was something about Dechert Price & Rhoads that tipped the balance....
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Washington, D.C.
Stanford 1982
I came to Dechert because of my interest in pursuing a securities law practice with an international orientation. I was not disappointed....
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Silicon Valley
University of Pennsylvania 1983
I came to Dechert from the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1991, and it has been a fascinating and rewarding experience since day one....
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New York
Tax
University of Pennsylvania 1975
Compared to other firms I have worked at, Dechert is zealous in having firm-wide, office-wide, department-wide, and topic-wide regular meetings to make sure that we are all informed....
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Washington, D.C.
Case Western Reserve 2003
I recently returned to Dechert's D.C. office after working for about a year as an in-house attorney for a mutual fund complex....
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Princeton
New York
New York University 1993
I joined Dechert's Princeton office 10 years ago after having spent my first four years at a top New York firm. My practice at Dechert has been wonderfully diverse....
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Philadelphia
Litigation
Stanford 1993
I came to Dechert because I wanted to be part of a thriving white-collar criminal defense practice, to work with top-tier attorneys....
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Washington, D.C.
Litigation
University of Maryland 1995
I came to Dechert out of law school because I wanted to pursue a career in the Financial Services Group
—and Dechert in
Washington was the premier firm in the country for '40 Act work....
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New York
Litigation
Columbia University 1977
From day one, I have felt I was part of Dechert. The Firm has been incredibly supportive and has allowed—indeed encouraged—me to expand the areas of my practice....
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San Francisco
Finance & Real Estate
Temple University 1995
Dechert is constantly involved in leading-edge, high-profile transactions, and that is what makes the work fun and challenging....
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New York
Litigation
Fordham University 1990
I joined Dechert with 64 other lawyers from Swidler
Berlin in January 2005....
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Philadelphia
Litigation
University of Pennsylvania 1967
I came to Dechert out of
law school in 1967. I already knew I wanted to practice law in Philadelphia, and Dechert was not only the best general practice firm in the city, as far as I could tell, but it had lawyers to whom I was viscerally drawn....
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New York
Corporate & Securities
Columbia University 1970
I have been at Dechert for 18 months.
To me, the essence of being part of a law firm is to be part of a community that enhances the experience of practicing law and my ability to do so....
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New York
Financial Services
New York University 2005
I came to Dechert because it offered a unique combination of terrific people and challenging work. I have been given a lot of responsibility, even at this very early stage in my career....
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Princeton
Intellectual Property
Harvard 1990
I have been with Dechert in its Princeton office my entire career, which spans more than 15 years.
The reason I came here, and the reason I'm still here, is that our Princeton office offers the unique opportunity to have the "best of both worlds"....
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Philadelphia
Litigation
Widener University 1996
I enjoy working at Dechert because of my fellow colleagues and the experiences I have had.
My colleagues are intelligent and courteous....
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Princeton
Litigation
New York University 1974
Before I came to Dechert in 1995, I was dumb, happy, and well-treated at a then large Philadelphia-based law firm.
Having moved around via inertia from state government to federal government....
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London
Durham University
Dechert’s employment department has a fast moving and buzzy feel.
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Washington, D.C.
Financial Services
Vanderbilt University 2001
Dechert is notable not just for the quality of the legal work we do but for the qualities of the people who do that work....
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Washington, D.C.
Financial Services
Georgetown 2005
As a law student with a background in the financial services industry, Dechert was on a very short list of firms for which I wished to work....
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New York
Litigation
Harvard 1977
When my partners and I were looking for a firm to join, we did a pretty thorough analysis of the big firms that had a New York City office. We concluded that, as a platform, Dechert was unmatched....
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Washington, D.C.
Financial Services
Georgetown University 1990
I enjoy the opportunity to teach associates about the law. Like many practices in law firms, the hedge fund practice is a specialized area....
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New York
Litigation
Harvard 1997
As an associate, one of the best parts of working with partners at Dechert is that they are willing to give you as much responsibility as you are able to handle....
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Philadelphia
Tax
Yale University 1971
Recently I celebrated my 35th anniversary as a Dechert lawyer. The firm has grown amazingly during this period and adapted gracefully and successfully to massive changes in the profession....
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London
Financial Services
Columbia University 1996
As a summer associate, I got to work on a preferred stock offering for a closed-end fund from start to finish. After that project, I was hooked. I knew that the Financial Services Group at Dechert was right for me....
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San Francisco
University of California, Berkeley 2005
After being a summer associate at Dechert, the firm was the clear choice for me—a decision I have never regretted....
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