Alston & Bird is a leading national AmLaw 50 firm and has offices in Atlanta, Brussels, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Research Triangle, Silicon Valley, Ventura County and Washington, DC. The firm's more than 800 attorneys provide a full range of services to domestic and international clients conducting business around the world. Counseling clients from what was initially a local context quickly expanded to regional, then national levels, and now spans a global economic environment. Alston & Bird has overlaid its broad range of legal skills and business knowledge with a commitment to innovation and technology.

Alston & Bird is the dynamic, prominent firm it is today as the result of the leadership of individual, outstanding attorneys and thoughtful mergers that strengthened our practice areas, culture and philosophies. The firm's history dates back to 1893 through the long roots of the Alston, Miller & Gaines' predecessor firms. The merger with Jones, Bird and Howell formed Alston & Bird on December 1, 1982. Expansion beyond Georgia began with the establishment of an office in Washington, DC, followed by the 1997 merger with Bell Seltzer Park & Gibson (Charlotte and Raleigh, NC) and Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green in 2001 (New York, NY), and the acquisition of Crews, Shepherd & McCarty LLP in 2007 (Dallas, TX). Alston & Bird's Silicon Valley office opened on August 1, 2008, and its Los Angeles and Ventura County offices opened on September 2 following the acquisition of Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava and MacCuish LLP.

Our unique culture and core values have been nurtured for more than a century. They define who we are and how we interact with our clients and with each other. From the founding of the firm, collegiality, teamwork, loyalty, diversity, individual satisfaction, fairness and professional development have been guiding principles and values by which we measure ourselves.

Alston & Bird's 330-lawyer litigation department has an exceptional record of achievement. The firm serves as trial counsel in matters across the United States and we have the bench strength to tackle litigation of any size and complexity. We have a strong tradition of producing trial lawyers who are skilled in obtaining the best possible results in the courtroom or in negotiation. Our commitment to developing litigators starts with an internal trial training program that takes young lawyers through each step of the process and culminates with a mock trial in our state-of-the-art courtroom.

Our litigators have access to the sophisticated technology needed to cope with the demands of modern day litigation. In addition, we have flexible staffing models that allow for cost-efficient solutions in document intensive cases. Similarly, we have internal accounting and financial consultants ready to assist our litigators as an added value to our clients.

Our litigation services include: