Clients include energy companies, banks, manufacturers, health care companies, technology companies, institutions of higher education, transportation companies, and even governments. They are large enough to ably represent Fortune 500 companies, but small enough to play a strategic role in the vision of middle market and smaller companies. Company owners, CEOs, GCs, boards, and executive managers turn to them, in good times and bad, for help in achieving their strategic business goals. They know the team understands their businesses and are personally invested in their success.

Starting? Expanding? Dominating? Surviving? They advise clients across the business life cycle and through thick and thin. The corporate and transactional team provides guidance on a full range of issues from business structure, initial capitalization and financing, to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and real estate. The goal is to develop long-term relationships with clients and serve as trusted strategic advisors on legal and business issues before, during, and after the deal.

The company understand that clients’ most valuable assets are often their employees. To help navigate the complex maze of labor and employment statutes, Steptoe & Johnson has been recognized as having one of the largest labor and employment law practices in the United States within a multiservice firm. They represent businesses in all aspects of labor relations, from union avoidance, strikes, and workplace safety to discrimination cases, contract negotiations, and employee relations counseling. With deep experience in every facet of employment law, their team provides innovative solutions to deliver exceptional results for clients.

When conflicts arise, Steptoe & Johnson litigators fight for clients in courts all over the country, before state and federal agencies, and in arbitration. Their trial skills and experience also help them achieve cost-effective, early resolution of many lawsuits—after all, it is easier to get a good settlement when your opponent knows you will go to the mat in litigation. Their experience in litigation of all types also helps the company protect the clients’ litigation budgets through effective case evaluation, budgeting, and project management. Firm litigators have built a strong record in complex cases, including class actions and bet-the-company litigation, and they partner with our clients to control risk, delivering exemplary service. They also represent white collar criminal defendants with their team of former federal prosecutors.

The company has been called an energy powerhouse. It was founded more than 100 years ago to advance and protect the interests of clients in the oil, natural gas, and coal industries. Their attorneys provide integrated legal services to the energy industry across the firm’s major practices. Industry insiders with both operating and legal backgrounds bring real-world experience to the practice as well as deep shale development knowledge and advocacy, particularly in the Marcellus and Utica shales.  Today, the firm continues to expand their energy reach with clients in renewable energy, including wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric, and cogeneration projects. The firm has been top listed in the nation in Energy Law by The Best Lawyers in America® since 2017.