Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm has twenty-two[2] offices, including U.S. offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington State, and the District of Columbia, and has presence via international offices in Japan, Beijing,[3] Shanghai, and Sweden. The firm is particularly known[4] for its intellectual property practice. Clients have included Google in litigation related to its Google Print product,[5] and Sony in its suit against 21-year-old hacker George Hotz for jailbreaking the PS3.[6]
In 1997, the firms Kilpatrick & Cody (founded, 1874 in Atlanta), and Petree Stockton (founded 1918 in Winston-Salem), merged to form Kilpatrick Stockton LLP.[7]
On January 1, 2011, Kilpatrick Stockton,[8] and Townsend and Townsend and Crew[9] (founded in 1860) merged to form Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.[10][11][12][13]
In 2011, the firm assisted Sony in its lawsuit against George Hotz and some people associated with the group fail0verflow for "jailbreaking" the PlayStation 3. This included the attempted subpoena of Hotz's webhost to gather information about visitors to the site, as well as attempted subpoenas of YouTube, Twitter, Blogger and PayPal.[14][15]
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has over 250[16] partners. The firm's most notable partners include the following:
The predecessor firms of Kilpatrick & Cody, founded in 1874 in Atlanta, and Petree Stockton, founded in 1918 in Winston-Salem, merged their established traditions of service in early 1997 to form Kilpatrick Stockton LLP. Today, the firm serves international and multinational clients. Kilpatrick Townsend has been representing clients overseas since 1980, when our first European office opened.
Updated Apr 9, 2019
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The new hires include six lawyers and two government relations advisers, including partners Keith Harper, Charles Galbraith and Robert Harmala.
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