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300 North LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: (312) 862-2000
Management Committee Chair: Jon A. Ballis
Firmwide Chairs: Lauren Casazza, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Greco and Julian Seiguer
Local Chairs: Stephanie Berdik, Amanda Border (Boston); Ryan Bennett, Nader Boulos, Shelly Hirschtritt, (Chicago); Anthony Speier (Texas); Sierra Elizabeth, Nisha Kanchanapoomi and Christopher Lawless (LA); Christopher Greco, Stefan Atkinson, Laura Sullivan and Nicole Washington (NY); Travis Nelson (SLC); Vlad Kroll and Brandon Brown (Palo Alto/San Francisco); Ragan Naresh (D.C.); William Burke and Matthew Elliott (London); Achim Herfs and Wolfgang Nardi (Munich)
Total No. Attorneys (2022):
3K - 3.5K
No. of Partners Named 2021:
151
Base Salary (2022)
1st year: $215,000
2nd year: $225,000
3rd year: $250,000
4th year: $295,000
5th year: $345,000
6th year: $370,000
Summer Associate: $205,000 or $3942/week
Please visit
www.kirkland.com/careers
for office-specific email addresses.
No. of U.S. Offices: 11
No. of International Offices: 7
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
Los Angeles, CA (DTLA and Century City)
New York, NY
Palo Alto, CA
Salt Lake City, UT
San Francisco, CA
Washington, D.C.
Beijing
Brussels
Hong Kong
London
Munich
Paris
Shanghai
Intellectual Property
Litigation
Restructuring
Transactional
*See firm website for complete list of practice areas and industries.
