Thompson Hine LLP

Managing Partner: Deborah Z. Read

Number of partners: 204

Number of other lawyers: 179

Firm Overview:

Thompson Hine LLP, a full-service business law firm with approximately 400 lawyers in eight offices (Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, New York, Washington, DC), is widely recognized for its innovative, value-driven approach to delivering legal services. The firm’s groundbreaking SmartPaTH^TM program was created to respond to clients’ needs for a more predictable, efficient and transparent service experience. It combines legal project management, value-based pricing, flexible staffing and process efficiency to align service delivery with clients’ business goals. Thompson Hine has made significant investments in talent, proprietary technology and processes, and infrastructure to increase efficiency and provide greater value.

As part of its ongoing efforts to innovate service delivery, Thompson Hine continually collects feedback from in-house counsel about what innovations align best with clients’ needs and has conducted three formal analyses of the state of innovation in the legal market. The firm commissioned detailed surveys and interviews of in-house counsel and other senior executives and published its findings in comprehensive reports. These surveys aim to monitor developments in the corporate legal market and identify opportunities to further refine its delivery of efficient, predictable and transparent legal solutions.

Thompson Hine has long guided clients on furthering their efforts toward sustainability, diversity and social stewardship. At this critical juncture when ESG criteria are increasing in importance as priorities for businesses, their boards and investors, the firm is counseling clients on ESG strategies focused on preserving value and mitigating risk. Thompson Hine’s ESG Collaborative, a multidisciplinary team of lawyers with practical legal and business knowledge, helps develop, implement and fine-tune strategies to incorporate ESG criteria into clients’ business models to satisfy internal and external stakeholders. The group uses proprietary SmartPaTH tools, significant investments in technology and strategies such as legal project management, flexible staffing and value-based pricing to help clients achieve their objectives while providing enhanced value and predictability. In late 2022, the ESG Collaborative issued its second survey report, “ESG: An Intensifying Focus,” which in-house counsel and senior corporate executives will find a useful benchmark against which to measure their programs and progress. The report takes a deeper dive into the ESG areas and protocols that are actionable and imminently on the minds of companies’ management teams. It also offers valuable benchmarking and analysis in a space that seems to shift daily.

Thompson Hine. Always Innovating.

www.thompsonhine.com/innovation

Main Areas of Practice:

·Admiralty & Maritime

·Antitrust, Competition & Distribution

·Art Law

·Automotive & Mobility

·Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

·Business Litigation

·Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy

·Cannabis Industry

·Climate Change & Sustainable Business Solutions

·Commercial & Public Finance

·Construction

·Corporate Transactions & Securities

·COVID-19 Task Force

·Distressed M&A

·Emerging Technologies

·Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

·Energy

·Environmental

·ERISA Litigation

·ESG Collaborative

·FCPA & Other Antibribery Laws

·Fund Formation

·Government Contracts

·Government Enforcement, Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense

·Health Care

·Immigration

·Insurance

·Intellectual Property

·International

·International Arbitration

·International Trade

·Investment Management

·Labor & Employment

·Life Sciences

·New Ventures

·Personal & Succession Planning

·Privacy & Cybersecurity

·Product Liability Litigation

·Real Estate

·Securities & Shareholder Litigation

·Site Selection

·Supply Chain Management

·Tax

·Tax Credit Finance

·Telecommunications

·Transportation

·Water Technology, Finance & Regulation