Dorsey & Whitney
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Dorsey & Whitney LLP (or "Dorsey") is a large law firm, with over 600 lawyers in nineteen offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Its headquarters is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has been since its inception. Its lawyers have included a few prominent politicians, such as former U.S. Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun and former Vice President Walter Mondale (who still works there actively); and Amy Klobuchar, now the county attorney of Hennepin County, Minnesota and by far the front-runner in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) primary for the US Senate election 2006. . It also included legal scholar William Prosser, author of the most important book in American tort law, Prosser On Torts.
Dorsey was founded in 1912 by William Lancaster, a director of First National Bank of Minneapolis (now part of U.S. Bank), and David Simpson, a judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court. The following year, they hired James Dorsey as their first associate. Dorsey left the firm in the 1920s to become an investment banker, but returned to the firm a few years after the 1929 stock market crash. Dorsey led the firm until his death in 1959. The name of the firm continued to change for most of its history, until it was shortened into its current, permanent name in 1981.
Dorsey is led by a managing partner, who is currently Peter S. Hendrixson.
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