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Preston Gates & Ellis
Preston Gates & Ellis
Company typeLimited Liability Partnership
IndustryLaw
Founded1883
Defunct2007 (merged into K&L Gates)
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington, U.S.
ProductsLegal services
Websitewww.prestongates.com

Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP, also known as Preston Gates, was a law firm with offices in the United States, China, and Taiwan. Its main office was in the IDX Tower in Seattle. In 2007, the firm merged with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham to form K&L Gates.

The "Gates" in the firm's name refers to William H. Gates Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Gates retired from the firm in 1998.

History

In 1883, Harold Preston, born 1858 in Illinois, the son of Brig. Gen. Simon Manly Preston, arrived in Seattle and established his own law practice. Together with O.B. Thorgrimson, an attorney originally from Chicago, Preston expanded the practice throughout the early 1900s.

In 1924, Roger Shidler and George Harroun established another law firm based in Washington state. William H. Gates Sr. joined the firm in 1964, and as principal counsel expanded the firm's clients to include high technology, manufacturing, distribution, service and other businesses.

In 1949, Jim Ellis joined the firm Preston, Thorgrimson & Horowitz, and was integral in involving the firm in public service projects for the city of Seattle, and opened the firm's Washington, D.C. office in 1973. Ellis eventually became a name partner in the firm, which was known in the 1980s as Preston Thorgrimson Ellis & Holman.

In 1990, Shidler McBroom Gates and Lucas merged with Preston Thorgrimson Ellis & Holman to form Preston Thorgrimson Shidler Gates & Ellis, renamed in 1997 as Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP.

The firm's Washington, D.C. office is known as Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP. When it was opened in 1973, partners included Emanuel Rouvelas, former counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee, and former Congressman Lloyd Meeds (D-WA). Among its major clients is Microsoft, which paid PGE over $1,380,000 for lobbying various federal government institutions. During that time, the chairman of the firm was William Neukom, who was employed by Microsoft as head of its legal department.

References

  1. Jones, Ashby (December 15, 2006). "Introducing . . . K&L Gates!". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
  2. "William H. Gates Sr., Co-Chair". Archived from the original on March 4, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
  3. A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of The City of Seattle and County of King, Washington (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1903), pages 118-120.
  4. ^ Preston|Gates|Ellis LLP:Firm Profile::Our History Archived 2005-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed on February 12, 2006.
  5. http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/major/mtc-00030631_ex10.pdf

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