Fox Rothschild

With nearly 1,000 attorneys practicing across 30 offices coast-to-coast and serving clients in various industries, Fox Rothschild doesn’t focus on only one area. As it continues to grow, the firm is building an impressive client list.

Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love

Fox Rothschild was founded in Philadelphia in 1907. Over the past decade, the firm has expanded to several new regions across the country through mergers and lateral moves, opening offices in Seattle, Boston, Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and Sarasota. In 2018, the firm welcomed 130 attorneys in six offices throughout the southeast (North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) through a merger with Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP—the largest combination in firm history to date. Fox Rothschild’s client list includes closely held businesses, small public companies, and tax-exempt organizations, as well as high-net-worth individuals and celebrities (including Angela Bassett, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and Bishop T.D. Jakes) and Fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, Walmart, Merck & Co., and Xerox.

Niche

Fox Rothschild is an established player in business, corporate and securities, entertainment, labor and employment, employee benefits, real estate, creditors’ rights, litigation, and estate law. In addition to its mainstream departments, Fox Rothschild has developed niche practices, including entertainment, sports, and the highly regulated field of cannabis law. Capitalizing on the brand-building revolution in the entertainment and sports industry, the firm’s attorneys devise strategies for celebrities, athletes, and businesses to develop their brands and capitalize on them. Fox attorneys have also been associated with numerous well-known and award-winning television programs, motion pictures, and music releases.

Fox Rothschild is leading the pack with its multidisciplinary cannabis practice. The practice consists of nearly 90 professionals across legal disciplines. Its team counsels growers, distributors, processors, investors, and suppliers of ancillary products and services. The group launched a blog called In the Weeds to help keep cannabis entrepreneurs informed on banking, real estate, financing, corporate entity formation and governance, taxation, and creditors’ rights issues that the industry regularly faces. The firm has also penned a number of helpful guides including the Cannabis Industry State Tax Guide, Employment Compliance in the Age of Legalized Marijuana, and The National Survey on Marijuana Laws and Regulations.

The firm also recently formalized a nationwide AI Practice. The AI team helps clients develop, deploy, and use AI in a responsible, ethical, and legal manner, including developing policies that comply with applicable laws and regulations, minimize risk, and promote innovation. Fox Rothschild’s AI attorneys also help clients navigate the complex data privacy, security, and transparency issues that AI can create, as well as provide guidance on regulatory compliance, contractual agreements, intellectual property protection, dispute resolution and litigation, ethical AI, training, and education.

Feeling Fit and Well

Fox takes a holistic approach to the promotion of employee well-being by offering tools and programs that encourage physical, psychological, and financial health through its wellness program, Fox Live Well program. Since launching the program in 2009, the firm says that it has worked with healthcare carriers and various vendors to pursue its mission of educating, inspiring, engaging, and incentivizing attorneys and staff to maintain balance and adopt healthy lifestyles.

• Secured a key victory in a bid protest challenging former President Joe Biden’s policy requiring project labor agreements on all federal construction projects valued at $35 million or more.
• Contributed an amicus brief on behalf of the International Municipal Lawyers Association to a 9-0 SCOTUS win that establishes that employers need only prove an exception to the Fair Labor Standards Act by a preponderance of the evidence.
• Advised HistoSonics, the manufacturer of the Edison Histotripsy System and novel histotripsy therapy platforms, in its $102 million Series D financing.  
• In a significant victory for hospitals, succeeded in clarifying the law that governs when courts may intrude on the intrahospital process associated with the suspension or restriction of a physician’s privileges.

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• Gold Status on the ALISS scorecard, 2024—All Legal Industry Sustainability Standard
• Client Service A-Team, 2024—BTI Consulting