King & Spalding LLP.

King & Spalding LLP. Reviews

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Notable cases

• Successfully represented Verizon Wireless in false advertising litigation involving use of maps illustrating comparison of Verizon's 3G coverage map to AT&T's 3G coverage map.
• Served as national counsel for Purdue Pharma in the OxyContin litigation; defeated class certification 15 times and obtained 410 dismissals, including 30 summary judgment orders, without payment or settlement.
• Served as national and trial counsel for GlaxoSmithKline in connection with multiple coordinated litigations and individual claims involving its SSRI antidepressant Paxil.
• Represented Sprint in its $35 billion merger with Nextel Corporation in 2004 and subsequently advised Sprint Nextel in a number of its key acquisitions including Clearwire's WiMAX business for $4.2 billion in 2008, Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million in 2009 and wireless affiliate iPCS, Inc., for $831 million in 2009.
• Advised Caremark Rx Inc. in its $27 billion merger with CVS Corporation in 2006.
• Served as legal counsel to Novelis, a Canadian-based aluminum company in its purchase by Hindalco Industries Ltd., an Indian steel company for total consideration of $6 billion.
• Advised Suez Energy International and Mitsui & Co., Ltd., on the largest-ever power and water financing for the $3 billion Ras Laffan project in Qatar in a joint venture with Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Electricity and Water Co.
• Secured a $133 million arbitration award, the largest ever granted to individual claimants by the World Bank Group's International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, against the government of Egypt in 2009, involving the expropriation of a 161-acre (0.65 km2) resort property on the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea.
• Secured an arbitral award finding of $700 million in damages against the government of Ecuador on behalf of Chevron Corporation, in 2010, in a bilateral investment treaty dispute related to past oil operations by Chevron's subsidiary, Texaco petroleum company.
• Achieved a total trial victory for former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier in 2010, as a federal court jury in New York City cleared him of allegations that he mislead investors, in a securities class action case thought to be the largest ever tried to verdict.

King & Spalding LLP. Awards and Recognitions

Ranked 29 in "AmLaw100" survey (The American Lawyer 2012). The firm has ranked among the top 50 surveyed law firms each year since 1990.

Ranked 39th highest grossing law firm in the world (The American Lawyer's 2011 survey of the top 100 global law firms)

Ranked 36th largest law firm in the United States (National Law Journal's annual NLJ 350 survey)

One of 50 legal market leaders in the United States and the United Kingdom (The Lawyer's Transatlantic Elite survey)

One of only 52 law firms selected to BTI Consulting's "Client Service A-Team" for eleven consecutive years

Ranked 9th law firm with the greatest international reach and expertise (Law360's 2012 survey)

Identified as one of the region's premier legal advisor every year since it established its Asia-Pacific office, and three King & Spalding practices and four of the firm's attorneys ranked among the best in the Asia-Pacific region (Chambers Asia-Pacific 2012)

Two King & Spalding practices and four individual attorneys recognized as among the best in the United Kingdom (Chambers UK 2012).

Five King & Spalding attorneys and the firm's international arbitration and projects practices recognized as leaders in their fields (Chambers Latin America 2012)

Diversity

Diversity is an integral part of the King & Spalding culture as it significantly improves the firm's ability to provide exceptional legal services to its clients. Hence, the firm strives to create a workplace environment that attracts, nurtures, retains, and promotes the best legal talent from across the world irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, and national origin.

In order to ensure that the firm promotes diversity, each King & Spalding partner has to spend 15+ hours working on efforts related to diversity and inclusion. In 2011, the partners devoted 3000+ hours toward such initiatives.

As a testament to its commitment to promoting diversity at the firm and in the field of law, King & Spalding received a Law Firm Diversity Recognition Award from Chevron Corporation for the second year in a row.

Summer associate program

King & Spalding typically prefers 2L students from premier law schools for its Summer Associate Program; however, the firm may consider outstanding 1L or 3L students as well once in a while. The most successful summer associates at the firm are well-rounded and independent thinkers who have a proven record of achievement along with interesting work and life experiences with exceptional interpersonal skills.

While academic performance is an important measure of achievement, other predictors of success considered in the firm's evaluation process for the Summer Associate Program include excellence in law-related activities such as moot court and law review, leadership in extracurricular activities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to work well in a collaborative environment.

Working for the King & Spalding LLP.

Working at King & Spalding is one of the most exciting opportunities for an attorney because of the unrivalled variety of work that the firm attracts from all over the world across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Here, the clients always come first and there are no shortcuts to success.

Entrepreneurial in spirit, King & Spalding admires and rewards enterprise and imagination in its employees. With diversity as one of its core values, the firm provides an excellent set of legal professionals who are abound with energy, extremely intelligent and ambitious, and committed to working in a collaborative environment and helping their clients succeed.

The firm's comprehensive career development resources (including a wide range of on-the-job and classroom training) enable its attorneys to continually grow their careers and effectively meet client and firm needs and expectations. In a sentence, King & Spalding is a firm where you will have the opportunity to work with exceptional mentors and kindred spirits who will lead you toward a highly successful legal career.