Four partners from the Menlo Park office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP have been named to the Daily Journal‘s “Top 100 Lawyers” list. The Davis Polk lawyers selected for the list, which recognizes the leading 100 lawyers in California, were corporate partners Bruce K. Dallas, Alan F. Denenberg and William M. Kelly and litigation partner Christopher B. Hockett. Over 25 percent of Davis Polk’s Menlo Park partners were included.
The Daily Journal, a leading legal newspaper in California, has published the list annually since 1997. The list is compiled by members of the newspaper’s editorial staff, and includes lawyers in a variety of sectors, including private practice, academia and public service.
Founded in 1999, Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office serves as the focal point for the firm’s global technology practice and consists of more than 60 lawyers, including 15 partners and two counsel. The corporate practice emphasizes corporate governance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, IP strategy and counseling, compensation and tax.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a global law firm with more than 750 lawyers in offices in New York, Menlo Park, CA, Washington DC, London, Paris, Madrid, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
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