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Duane Morris (duane-morris)

Duane Morris LLP is a Philadelphia-headquartered, full-service U.S. and international law firm founded in 1904 by Russell Duane, Steven Heckscher, and Roland S. Morris. Chaired by Matthew A. Taylor, the firm describes itself as "a law firm with more than 900 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally" — with a U.S. footprint spanning the East Coast, Texas, the Mountain West, and California, plus international offices in London, Singapore, Vietnam (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City), Shanghai, Myanmar, and joint ventures/alliances reaching Mexico and Latin America. An Am Law 100 firm since 2001, Duane Morris is known for depth in intellectual property (including patent prosecution and PTAB practice), trial and appellate litigation, real estate, corporate transactions, employment, healthcare, cannabis, and life sciences. The firm publishes an extensive LexBlog-powered thought-leadership network of more than 50 practice-area blogs, all of which expose RSS 2.0 feeds via the standard WordPress /feed/ convention. Duane Morris does not expose any public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI spec, GraphQL endpoint, webhooks, status page, or developer portal; the GitHub organization at github.com/duanemorris exists but has no public repositories. The firm's only machine-readable surfaces are the RSS feeds of its blog network.

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Scope

  • Type: Index
  • Position: Consumer
  • Access: 3rd-Party
  • Classification: Company

Firm Profile

  • Founded: 1904
  • Founders: Russell Duane, Steven Heckscher, Roland S. Morris
  • Headquarters: 30 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Chair: Matthew A. Taylor
  • Chief Operating Officer: Charles J. O'Donnell
  • Lawyers: 900+
  • Offices: 30+ (25 in the U.S., 6 international)
  • Structure: Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
  • Revenue: $526.23 million USD (2021, per Wikipedia citing Am Law)
  • Profit per Equity Partner: $1.081 million USD (2021)
  • Am Law Status: Am Law 100 member since 2001; Am Law 200 #82 by gross revenue (2025); NLJ 500 #74 by size (2025)
  • Positioning: "A law firm with more than 900 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally, is asked by a broad array of clients to provide innovative solutions to today's legal and business challenges."
  • Notable Achievement: 16 consecutive years of revenue growth; collaborative culture featured in the Harvard Business School case study "Duane Morris: Collaborating for Growth"

Practice Areas

ADA Title III Compliance, Animal Law, Antitrust, Appellate, Artificial Intelligence, Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization, Benefits and Executive Compensation, Cannabis, Capital Markets, Class Action Defense, Construction, Corporate, Delaware Business Law, Discovery Strategy and Data Analytics, Education, Energy and Environmental, European Sanctions Enforcement, Fashion/Retail/Consumer Branded Products, Fintech, Franchise, Gaming, Health Law, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labor and Employment, Lender Liability and Loan Enforcement, Life Sciences, Mergers and Acquisitions, New Markets Tax Credits and Affordable Housing, Non-Compete and Trade Secrets, Opportunity Zones, PFAS and Environmental Mass Tort, Private Client Services, Products Liability, Project Development / Infrastructure / P3, PTAB Practice, Real Estate, Securities Arbitration, Sports Law, State Attorneys General Practice, Sustainability / Resiliency / Risk Mitigation (ESG), Tax, Technology Law, Transportation / Automotive / Logistics, Trial and Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense.

Industries Served

Banking and Finance, Cannabis, Construction, Education, Energy, Fashion and Retail, Gaming and Sports, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences and Biotech, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Technology, Transportation.

Office Locations

United States (25)

Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Berwyn (satellite), Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, North Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland (Maine, satellite), San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle (satellite), Silicon Valley, South Jersey, Washington DC, Wilmington.

International (6) + Alliances

Hanoi (Vietnam), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), London (UK), Myanmar (Yangon), Shanghai (China — joint venture), Singapore (Duane Morris and Selvam joint venture). Alliances in Mexico and Latin America.

Notable Mergers

Year Firm Location
2020-01 Satterlee Stephens New York

Notable Cases

  • Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. — U.S. Supreme Court precedent on claim construction in patent infringement.
  • Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (1998) — represented Pennsylvania in the 46-state litigation that produced the ~$206 billion settlement with the major tobacco companies.

Notable Alumni

  • Roland S. Morris — US Ambassador to Japan; founding partner
  • Hon. Michael Baylson — US District Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • Hon. Gene E. K. Pratter — US District Judge
  • Hon. Marjorie Rendell — US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Mark Singel — Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1987-1995)

Thought Leadership — Blog Network (50+ Blogs, All RSS-Enabled)

Duane Morris runs a LexBlog/WordPress-powered blog network at blogs.duanemorris.com plus the standalone Duane Morris Institute at duanemorrisinstitute.com. Every blog exposes an RSS 2.0 feed via the standard /feed/ URL convention. Validity spot-confirmed on Class Action Defense, Cannabis Industry, Artificial Intelligence, and Duane Morris Institute feeds.

Blog Topic RSS
ADA Title III Compliance Disability access compliance feed
Animal Law Developments Animal law feed
Antitrust Law Antitrust and competition feed
Appellate Review Appellate law feed
The Artificial Intelligence Blog AI law and regulation feed
Banking and Finance Law Banking and finance feed
Benefits Law Employee benefits feed
Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Bankruptcy and restructuring feed
Cannabis Industry Cannabis law feed
Capital Markets Securities and capital markets feed
Class Action Defense Class action litigation defense feed
Concerted Action - Labor Blog Labor and employment feed
Construction Law Construction feed
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic legal updates (archive) feed
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Regional law feed
Discovery Strategy and Data Analytics E-discovery and analytics feed
Diversity and Inclusion DE&I and workplace feed
Delaware Business Law Delaware corporate law feed
Duane Morris Institute Employment / workplace law (institute) feed
Duane Morris and Selvam Singapore joint venture practice feed
Duane Morris London UK practice feed
UpdateED: Education Law Education law feed
Energy and Environmental Energy and environmental feed
European Sanctions Enforcement European sanctions feed
Fashion, Retail and Consumer Branded Products Fashion and retail law feed
Fintechnically Speaking Fintech law feed
Franchise Law Franchise law feed
Gaming Law Gaming and sports betting feed
Green IP IP and sustainability feed
Health Law Healthcare law feed
Immigration Law Immigration feed
Insurance Law Insurance feed
International Arbitration International arbitration feed
The Legal Dish Food, beverage, and hospitality feed
Lender Liability and Loan Enforcement Banking and lending litigation feed
Life Sciences Law Biotech and life sciences feed
New Markets Tax Credit / Historic Tax Credits / Affordable Housing Tax credits and affordable housing feed
Non-Compete and Trade Secrets Law Trade secrets and restrictive covenants feed
Opportunity Zones - Insights From the Land of OZ Opportunity Zone tax law feed
PFAS PFAS environmental law feed
Private Client Services Wealth and estate planning feed
Pro Bono Pro bono practice feed
Products Liability Products liability litigation feed
Project Development / Infrastructure / P3 Infrastructure and PPP feed
PTAB Practice Patent Trial and Appeal Board feed
Securities Arbitration Securities arbitration feed
Sports Law Sports law feed
State Attorneys General State AG regulatory practice feed
Sustainability, Resiliency and Risk Mitigation ESG and sustainability feed
TechLaw Technology law feed
Transportation, Automotive and Logistics Transportation law feed
UK Employment Law Update UK labor and employment feed
Vietnam Vietnam practice feed
White Collar Criminal Law White collar criminal defense feed

APIs

Duane Morris LLP publishes no public developer API. There is no developer portal, SDK, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specification, JSON Schema, GraphQL endpoint, webhooks, status page, or changelog. The GitHub organization at https://github.com/duanemorris exists but holds no public repositories.

The only machine-readable surfaces produced by the firm are the RSS 2.0 feeds exposed by its LexBlog blog network — more than 50 practice and industry blogs at blogs.duanemorris.com (plus the Duane Morris Institute at duanemorrisinstitute.com), each reachable via the standard WordPress /feed/ convention. RSS validity has been spot-confirmed on the Class Action Defense, Cannabis Industry, Artificial Intelligence, and Duane Morris Institute feeds.

This repository profiles the firm itself — its practice areas, offices, leadership, and thought-leadership properties — rather than a developer-facing API surface.

Common Properties

Tags

Antitrust, Appellate, Arbitration, Banking, Bankruptcy, Cannabis, Capital Markets, Class Action, Construction, Corporate, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Education, Employment Law, Energy, Environmental, ESG, Fintech, Franchise, Gaming, Healthcare, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, International Law, Labor, Law, Law Firm, Legal, Legal Services, Life Sciences, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Patents, PFAS, Private Equity, Products Liability, Real Estate, Regulatory, Securities, Sports, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, Trade Secrets, Transportation, White Collar Defense.

Timestamps

  • Created: 2026-05-23
  • Modified: 2026-05-23

Maintainers

FN: Kin Lane Email: kin@apievangelist.com