Winston & Strawn LLP

• Throughout its history, Winston & Strawn has handled many significant, high-profile matters for its clients, including its organizing the Union Stockyard and Transit Company in 1894; challenging the War Powers Act in 1944 on behalf of department store Montgomery Ward; and representing the Atlanta Bravesbaseball franchise in 1966 litigation involving its relocation from Milwaukee to Atlanta.
• Some of the more recent significant cases are:
• Defending General Electric in its much-publicized industrial diamond price-fixing case.
• Representing Luxottica Group S.p.A. in myriad acquisitions, including its $1.6 billion hostile takeover of U.S. Shoe Corporation, owner of LensCrafters, in 1995 and its recent $2 billion acquisition of Oakley.
• Assisting Barr Laboratories to invalidate a key patent on Prozac in a case Fortune magazine labelled "the mother of all patent challenges.
• Achieving a decisive victory for Microsoft Corporation in the remedy phase of its battle against federal and state antitrust claims.
• Representing the New York Stock Exchange in the Grasso compensation investigation and subsequent litigation.
• Assisting Lear Corporation in connection with the recent bid for the company by Carl Icahn.

Winston & Strawn LLP practices law in the following areas and works with its clients to provide the best possible legal solutions.

Winston & Strawn is consistently ranked among the leading law firms in each of its core practice areas. Additionally, its lawyers are consistently recognized as industry leaders and ranked among the best practitioners worldwide.

Other notable recent awards include:

The latest edition of The Best Lawyers in America includes 86 Winston & Strawn attorneys in 43 separate categories. The listing is based on a rigorous national survey involving more than four million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Winston & Strawn's George Lombardi, based in the firm's Chicago office, was named American Lawyer's "Litigator of the Week".
Winston & Strawn is ranked as having a top practice in 26 categories by Chambers USA 2012.
Winston & Strawn's Julie Bauer, Mike Bess, Dan Pozdol, and Joanna Wade were honored at the 61st Annual Meeting of the 7th Circuit Bar Association & Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit in May 2012 for outstanding pro bono work.
Winston & Strawn earned a 100 percent rating in the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) 2012 Corporate Equality Index survey. This is the fourth consecutive year that the firm has earned top ratings.
The 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America includes 76 Winston & Strawn attorneys in 48 separate categories. The listing is based on a rigorous national survey involving more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Diversity and inclusiveness are core values at Winston & Strawn. Diversity involves a commitment to understand and value differences. It believes everyone benefits from a culture that recognizes and respects an inclusive workforce.

Winston & Strawn has a firmwide Diversity Committee that monitors the plans on an ongoing basis to regulate activities and enhance the firm's diversity-related efforts.

To encourage diversity within the law school pipeline, each year the firm awards multiple $10,000 scholarships to qualified students. Through this scholarship program, the firm strives to mentor and expand the law school minority population, and also interest candidates in working at Winston & Strawn after graduation.

To support the next generation of lawyers, Winston actively participates in pipeline programs providing internship opportunities to minority high school and college students, and hosting career events for young students. To help retain and mentor attorneys, the firm has developed and supported internal affinity groups for minorities and women, ensured that EEO and non-discrimination policies address gender identity and persons with disabilities, strengthened its formal mentoring program, and enacted a gender-neutral parental leave policy.

Many of the firm's partners and associates also have served in leadership capacities for other organizations, including the Black Women Lawyers Association, the Hispanic Lawyers Scholarship Fund of Illinois, the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations, and the Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women.

Each office of the firm develops its own summer associate program, which varies in terms of activities and hands-on training. Regardless of the office, the associate will have opportunities to learn about a wide range of Winston practice areas and the specialized skills each one demands.

Department Presentations allow summer associates to meet lawyers from specific practice groups who describe what they do in their daily practice. The 'Firm Highlights Lecture Series,' gives an inside look at some of the most publicized, interesting, and complex cases that it has handled in the past year.

It offers a Practical Training component in most offices that provides hands-on experience in drafting a legal research memorandum, negotiating a deal, drafting an IPO document, taking a deposition, and trying a case in a mock trial. Associates will learn from veteran Winston attorneys with years of experience and insight, who can make the law come alive through examples, personal experience, and anecdotes.

The firm's culture distinguishes it from other large law firms. It's a culture well-known for outstanding client service, superb legal work, ongoing professional development, and generous community involvement. At Winston & Strawn the atmosphere is professional and civic-minded-where a diverse and talented group of people can enjoy the practice of law and work in teams to serve clients.

The firm's standing, reputation, resources and culture attracts and retains some of the best lawyers in the profession.

Work will be in a collegial environment and new comers will be given a lot of responsibility early on, with tremendous visibility. The work is high-profile, intellectually challenging, interesting, and varied.

Working at Winston and Strawn will provide the associate an opportunity to work alongside ambitious, talented colleagues who are often amongst the acknowledged leaders in their field.