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Crowell & Moring

U.S. law firm — partner-owned, Washington D.C.-centered, government-contractor and regulatory practice focus

Owned byPartner-owned limited liability partnership; no external investors or parent company

FundingClient legal fees — a mix of hourly billing and contingency arrangements across litigation, regulatory, and transactional work

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Background

Crowell & Moring was founded in June 1979 when 53 attorneys — most departing from Jones Day — followed partners Eldon 'Took' Crowell and John Frederick Moring to open a new firm at 1100 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C. The founders aimed to build a collegially managed firm and adopted a five-member governance committee rather than a single managing partner. Through the 1990s and 2000s the firm expanded via strategic combinations with boutique practices in intellectual property, health care, and white-collar defense, adding offices in London, Brussels, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Orange County. More recent expansions include Doha (2020), Chicago and Denver (2021), and Boston (2025). The firm has earned Band 1 rankings from Chambers USA in government contracts for more than a decade, and has appeared on The American Lawyer's AmLaw 100 list, posting roughly $744 million in gross revenue in 2025. Its most prominent public controversy came on January 7, 2021, when its 12-member management board unanimously approved a statement calling President Trump 'unfit for office' after the Capitol riot, making it the first major U.S. law firm to call for his removal under the 25th Amendment — a move that drew both praise from civil-liberties advocates and criticism from government-contractor industry observers wary of antagonizing a sitting administration. Since Trump's return to office in January 2025, the firm has pursued a pragmatic dual track: challenging the administration's tariff regime in court on behalf of corporate clients while simultaneously publishing detailed analysis of executive orders for those same clients' compliance planning.

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Profile compiled 2026-09-10; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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