Venable LLP is an American law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is the largest law firm in the state of Maryland. Founded in 1900 by Richard Venable in

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, today Venable has 10 offices across the United States and 800 attorneys who practice in areas such as corporate law, complex litigation, labor and employment, intellectual property, cybersecurity and data privacy, advertising and marketing, entertainment and media, environmental law, bankruptcy and restructuring, and various government affairs. In 2021, Venable was ranked as the 78th highest grossing law firm in the world. From 2020 to 2021, Venable's total revenue grew from $681.8 million to $717 million. Revenue per lawyer saw a similar increase, with each lawyer generating a revenue of $965,031 and each equity partner generating $1.23 million on average.

History

Venable was founded in 1900 by law professor Richard Venable in

. It became the second-largest law firm in the Baltimore-Washington area in 1999 when it merged with Washington-based Tucker Flyer. The firm expanded cross country to

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in 2006. In 2017, Venable headquarters moved to a new building in Washington, located at 600

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. In one of the largest law firm mergers of 2018, Venable acquired the New York intellectual property firm Fitzpatrick Cella, which had 100 attorneys at the time. Venable opened a construction law office in

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in January 2021, with firm chairman Stu Ingis stating that the decision to expand was founded on Venable's "history of measured, strategic growth through the addition of talented attorneys and practices in markets that support client needs". In '' The American Lawyer AmLaw'' 100 ranking for 2021, Venable was rated 59th in revenue per lawyer, 71st in profits per lawyer, 76th in profits per equity partner, and 73rd in all-partner compensation, for an overall ranking of 65th. Shortly after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Venable terminated its lobbying deal with Sberbank, Russia's largest bank. It was known that Sberbank had paid more than $800,000 to Venable for lobbying since 2017, according to Senate records. In November 2022, Venable announced that it would merge with Genovese Joblove & Battista, a multi-practice Florida-based law firm with offices in Miami, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale.

Notable alumni and current attorneys

*John Banghart, former

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* James H. Burnley IV, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation * John Marshall Butler, former

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* Benjamin Civiletti, former

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*Kathleen G. Cox, Judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland *C. Carey Deeley, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland * Doug Emhoff, former Managing Director of Venable's West Coast Offices, Partner at DLA Piper, husband of

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Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman of the United States *Susan K. Gauvey, United States Magistrate Judge of the District Court for the District of Maryland * James W. Gerlach, former United States Representative, Pennsylvania * Asa Hutchinson,

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, former U.S. Representative from

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' 3rd congressional district * Amy Berman Jackson, District Judge on the

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*Joseph H.H. Kaplan, former Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge * Benson E. Legg, former Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland * Daniel E. Lungren, former United States Representative, California and former Attorney General of California * L. Paige Marvel, Article I

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* Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit *R. Frances O'Brien, Chief Judge of the General District Court of Arlington, Virginia *Michael T. Pedone, Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Larry Hogan of

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, former United States District Judge for the District of Maryland * Karl Racine, the first elected Attorney General of the District of Columbia *David E. Rice, United States Bankruptcy Judge * James E. Rogan, former U.S. Representative of

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and current judge of the Superior Court of California * John Sarbanes, U.S. Representative, Maryland's 3rd congressional district * Paul Sarbanes, former U.S. Representative from Maryland and former

from Maryland * Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia *

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, federal judge on the

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*Zuberi Bakari Williams, Judge of the District Court of Maryland, Montgomery County

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