Robins Kaplan LLP

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Headquarters	Minneapolis, Minnesota
No. of offices	offices
No. of attorneys	271 attorneys
No. of employees	approximately 400 support staff
Major practice areas	Litigation, general practice
Key people	Steven A. Schumeister, managing partner
Date founded	1938
Company type	Limited liability partnership
Website	www.rkmc.com

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP (abbreviated RKMC) is a large U.S. law firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2008, the firm had 271 lawyers in six offices nationwide: Minneapolis; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; and Naples, Florida. The firm closed its Washington, D.C. office during the summer of 2007.

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi was ranked as the 174th largest law firm in the USA by the National Law Journal (NLJ). The firm was the third-largest Minneapolis-based firm on the NLJ's survey.

Practice areas

Over the years, RKMC has developed a strong litigation practice in personal injury, mass tort, intellectual property, antitrust, white collar crime, and various other areas of business litigation. The firm also has a substantial corporate law practice in securities, mergers and acquisitions, and other types of transactions.

History & clientele

The firm was founded as Robins & Davis in 1938. Among the more high-profile cases the firm has handled are the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the fire at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981 (RKMC represented the victims), and the Dalkon Shield litigation.

RKMC represented the Government of India in the aftermath of the Bhopal Disaster, against Union Carbide. They have also represented E & J Gallo Winery in antitrust matters, and Honeywell, Unocal Corporation, Pitney Bowes, and Intergraph in patent infringement cases. In 1985, RKMC handled the initial public offering of Best Buy.

Closure of Washington, D.C. office

On June 7, 2007, the firm announced the planned closure of its Washington, D.C. office. The closure occurred after four of the office's thirteen partners left RKMC to work at Arent Fox.^[1]

Notable lawyers & alumni

Mike Ciresi, former chairman of the firm's executive board, former candidate for U.S. Senator for Minnesota.
Dean Arthur Pinkert, member of the International Trade Commission and former senior attorney for Import Administration in the International Trade Administration of the United States Department of Commerce.
Susan Richard Nelson, magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

External Links

^ "Robins Kaplan to Close D.C. Office", Law.com, 7 June 2007.

[1] "Robins Kaplan to Close D.C. Office", Law.com, 7 June 2007.

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