History

Founded by Gary D. LeClair and Dennis M. Ryan, LeClairRyan is a first generation firm that has grown 100-fold in its first 20 years.

LeClairRyan has approximately 300 attorneys in 21 offices. Attorneys and legal professionals are currently located in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

 and Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

  The firm provides representation throughout the United States.

LeClairRyan has helped launch over 700 businesses and has become a full-service provider of legal counsel to Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging startups.

The firm's clients include:
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies,
The Travelers Companies,
Genworth Financial

Genworth Financial

Genworth Financial is a Fortune 500 global financial security company that specializes in life and long term care insurance, wealth management, mortgage insurance, lifestyle protection insurance and annuities...

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Ferguson Enterprises

Ferguson Enterprises

Ferguson Enterprises Inc., headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, is largest plumbing wholesaler in North America and a major distributor of HVAC/R equipment, waterworks and fire protection products, and industrial pipes, valves and fittings.-History:...

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Waste Management, Inc.,
Coca Cola Enterprises,
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC,
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.,
Sodexo, Inc.,
Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines

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Delta Air Lines, Inc.,
United Air Lines, Inc.,
American Airlines, Inc.,
Southwest Airlines Co.,
Citibank, N.A. / Private Bk Div,
Bank of America, N.A.,
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.,
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.,
Deutsche Bank AG,
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

Notable people

• Jim Gilmore
  Jim Gilmore
  James Stuart "Jim" Gilmore III is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, former 68th Governor of Virginia, and a member of the Republican Party. A native Virginian, Gilmore studied at the University of Virginia, and then served in the U.S. Army as a counterintelligence agent...
  
  — Attorney General of Virginia, former Virginia Governor and Presidential Candidate
• Lizz Acee – Chair of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division 2008-2009; former Chair of the Connecticut Bar’s Young Lawyers Section
• Karol Corbin Walker – first African-American President of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), first African-American appointed as Chair of the NJSBA’s most prestigious Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, first African-American woman to attain partner status at any major New Jersey law firm, appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine to the New Jersey State Ethics Commission
• Tom Wolf – appointed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
  Tim Kaine
  Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine is a Virginia politician. Kaine served as the 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, and was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011...
  
   to the Board of Commissioners of the Virginia Port Authority (VPA)