Barnes & Thornburg LLP

With nearly 540 legal professionals throughout offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., Barnes & Thornburg LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States, offering clients virtually all the areas of concentration one would expect in a large, full-service law firm.

Whether your business is local, regional, national or international in scope, Barnes & Thornburg offers all of our clients an advantage that we consider to be both valuable and distinctive. Due to the firm's value-focused business model, we are able to deliver comparable quality at a greater value, as well as a combination of sophisticated services and client-attention that other firms may simply be unable to provide. Simply put, we deliver the services that clients need, with a value-driven approach. Today, this is more important than ever.

To all of our clients, we offer integrity, reliability, and personal commitment. We take the time to learn about our clients and their businesses in order to help them realize their objectives. We view our performance in terms of our clients' success. To that end, we focus our efforts on a combination of innovative problem-solving with good old-fashioned hard work. It is a heritage of which we are proud, and one that we have enjoyed for decades.

The attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg serve clients from more than 50 dedicated practice and industry areas. The firm's main areas of practice include litigation, intellectual property, labor and employment, white collar crime, business law, governmental services and finance, energy, telecommunications, transportation and utilities, environmental, healthcare and creditors' rights.

Within these areas, we strive to help clients achieve solutions that span national borders. We represent many of the world's largest companies in U.S. legal matters, and assist a broad array of U.S. companies operating abroad to achieve their international business objectives. We enjoy large Pacific Rim and immigration practices. We are members of TerraLex, a highly selective, international network of more than 155 independent law firms located in nearly 100 countries with more than 15,000 attorneys, and TechLaw Group, Inc., an international association of 20 law firms that focuses on technology companies and technology issues. The firm also is a member of the State Capital Group, an association of nearly 120 independent law firms in all 50 U.S. state capitals and in capital cities, business markets and financial centers throughout the world. Through these relationships, we offer our clients access to top legal professionals around the globe.

We invite you to learn more about the firm's other diverse practice and industry areas, which include financial institutions, trade associations, transportation and global logistics, aviation, E-commerce, foreign trade and customs, higher education and many more. You can find a description of each of these areas, as well as additional information on the firm's commitment to diversity and pro bono policy, by visiting the firm's Web site at www.BTLaw.com.

Whether your legal needs are local, national or international, we invite you to discover the advantages of working with Barnes & Thornburg.

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