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Although its largest office is still in Seattle, Perkins Coie has expanded to include 17 domestic offices—4 of which are in California—and 4 international offices. Perkins Coie likes to say that it provides “counsel to great companies,” and a look at its client list confirms that this is true. Firm clients include household names such as Microsoft, Meta, Starbucks, Amazon, and Google. 

From Birth to Boeing

Perkins Coie got off to a good start. Founded in 1912, the firm’s earliest clients included William E. Boeing, Sr., founder of the eponymous aeronautics company. The relationship with Boeing contributed to Perkins Coie’s reputation for representing high-tech and cutting-edge ventures in Seattle, which has become one of the nation’s technology hotspots. Today, the firm has more than 1,200 lawyers working across many industries, including aerospace and transportation, energy and natural resources, financial services and investments, life sciences and healthcare, retail and consumer products, technology, and communications.

A Bit of Everything

Perkins Coie is a full-service firm with a range of practices. Business practices include emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance and securities; litigation practices range from privacy and data security to white collar investigations and defense; and its IP practice is focused on patent prosecution, patent litigation, trade secret, and trademark. Other significant practices include labor and employment, product liability, business litigation, antitrust, insurance recovery, and securities litigation practices, as well as financial transactions, financial regulations, technology transactions & privacy, environmental, real estate, and trust and estate planning.

Perkins Coie has also earned a reputation as a go-to firm for tech startups over the past few decades, and the firm boasts a number of innovative services itself. The firm’s “Startup Percolator” is an interactive website that provides entrepreneurs resources for and guidance on aspects of company formation such as crafting a business plan and choosing a legal structure. Through its Le[a]dBetter program, the firm offers a 15% discount off its hourly rates to tech startups with at least one woman in a leadership position.

A Writer’s Life

Perkins Coie is a shop filled with lawyers who know how to put pen to paper. The firm publishes 13 blogs and each one focuses on legal topics in a specific industry or practice, including virtual currency, privacy and data security, asset management, and white collar law. The firm has also been recognized for its command of the written word; Perkins Coie lawyers are ten-time recipients of the Burton Award as of 2020, which commends the top authors of articles submitted by the nation’s largest law firms.

• Perkins Coie has served as longtime counsel to Amazon.com, Inc., from private company through its IPO to its market leadership of today.
• Perkins Coie represented Hitachi Zosen U.S.A. Ltd. on the litigation, regulatory, and business issues arising out of damage to the world’s largest tunnel boring machine. This is recognized as the largest and most complex construction dispute in Pacific Northwest history.
• Perkins Coie represented Alphabet, owner of Google and YouTube, in its negotiation for exclusive rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket offering. this was the largest sports rights deal of 2022 globally.

• One of "100 Best Companies to Work For" for 22 consecutive years, 2003-2024—Fortune Magazine
• “Best Law Firms for Women & Diversity”, ranked in Seramount’s top five since 2021, #4 (2021), #2 (2022), #1 (2023), and #2 (2024)—Seramount
• Ranked as a leading Fintech law firm—Chambers Fintech 2024 Guide
• Named “Law Firm of the Year” in Technology, 2024—Best Lawyers®,
• Top Rating - Human Rights Campaigns Corporate Equality Index, 2009-2024 – HRC