Talk:Lewis Roca Rothgerber

COI
The COI is being discussed at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. Rees11 (talk) 23:43, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I apologize for not following the proper procedures I was only looking to update the page and had no intentions of creating any sort of conflict. If acceptable I would like to recommend the following modifications:

Slogan - Law. From a Business Point of View Notable lawyers and alumni - John P. Frank Offices - Silicon Valley External Link - Remove LawPeriscope profile

Thank you for your consideration in these edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JillD1771 (talk • contribs) 23:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

There in fact is no discussion of the Lewis and Roca page at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. Moreover I see no difference in tone or content between the Lewis and Roca page, which is flagged with the COI, and the page for another Phoenix law firm, Snell & Wilmer [Snell_%26_Wilmer]. The COI flag should be removed. 68.227.248.156 (talk) 02:00, 15 July 2009 (UTC) 14 July 2009.


 * The discussion has been archived. The article still needs sources but the content contributed by the COI user seems to have been reverted so I will remove the tag. Rees11 (talk) 11:30, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Requested edit
[NOTE: The firms Lewis and Roca and Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons combined in September, 2013. Lewis and Roca no longer exists as an entity. The new firm name is Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP. Pursuant to the combination, the proposed edits below are requested to correct facts and/or add factual history and relevant detail.]

Page name and header: Please replace “Lewis and Roca” with “Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP”
 * ✅ Except we don't typically include LLP, Inc., etc. in article titles. CorporateM (Talk) 05:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

No. of offices: Please replace “6” with “9”
 * ✅ This appears to already be the case. CorporateM (Talk) 05:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

No. of attorneys: Please replace “214” with “250”, replace “(2007)” with “(2014)”
 * ✅ This appears to already be the case. CorporateM (Talk) 05:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Major practice areas: Please replace “General practice” with “Litigation, real estate, banking, bankruptcy, business transactions, intellectual property, gaming, energy and utilities, and labor and employment”
 * A long list of markets served is promotional. CorporateM (Talk) 05:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Key people: Please add: “James Lyons, Partner [2]”
 * Typically only the "CEO" is included. CorporateM (Talk) 05:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Please add “Frederick J. Baumann, Executive Committee Chairman [3]”
 * Typically only the "CEO" is included. CorporateM (Talk) 05:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Date founded: Please add: “Legacy Lewis and Roca (1950)”, and “Legacy Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons (1903)”
 * Please provide a source CorporateM (Talk) 05:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Please delete: “Slogan: Focus Forward.” [The firm does not have a slogan]
 * ✅ It was un-cited so I removed it. CorporateM (Talk) 05:07, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Website: Please replace “lrlaw.com” with “LRRLaw.com” [New url]
 * ✅ CorporateM (Talk) 05:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Summary: Please replace “a large law firm” with “one of the largest law firms based in the Western U.S., headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with approximately 250 attorneys across nine cities including Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, Reno, Albuquerque, Silicon Valley and Casper.”
 * The current article text is more neutral. We should avoid listing individual offices and the number of attorneys is redundant with the infobox. CorporateM (Talk) 05:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Please replace “In 2007, The National Law Journal ranked the firm the 175th largest in the United States and second-largest in the state of Arizona (behind Snell & Wilmer).” with “In 2014, The American Lawyer ranked Lewis Roca Rothgerber the 183rd largest in the United States based on gross revenue in its annual AmLaw 200 list.” [NOTE: The firm size increased substantially per the combination and this is the most up to date ranking.]
 * Please provide a source. CorporateM (Talk) 05:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

History

Please add: “On September 1, 2013, Lewis and Roca LLP and Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP officially combined forces to become Lewis Roca ‎Rothgerber LLP. ‎ Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons was established in 1903 in Denver, Colorado, by classmates Ira Rothgerber and Walter Appel. Rothgerber was one of 15 graduates of the University of Colorado School of Law class of 1901; Appel graduated the following year.

Rothgerber & Appel, as the firm was originally named, remained a two-person firm for more than 30 years until Ira Rothgerber Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps in 1935. A year later, Rothgerber Jr. served in the war in the South Pacific. During his military career, he rose to the rank of colonel and was awarded the Bronze Star. He also represented an American soldier in a celebrated court martial that later became the subject of the major motion picture, Death of a Soldier. Rothgerber’s work in the case ultimately contributed to the development of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. [4]

In 1959, the firm hired Bill Johnson, who succeeded in securing IRS letter rulings exempting bank holding companies from personal holding company status, launching a new structure for community bank ownership that is now widely used by banks nationwide.

Jim Lyons, who joined the firm in 1971, was added to the firm marquee in 1998 in recognition for tremendous contributions to the firm’s commercial litigation practice, as well as his service as Special Advisor to the President of the United States and the Secretary of State for Economic Initiatives in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

In 2009, Lyons was appointed Ireland's Honorary ‎Consul in the Denver Metropolitan area by Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Micheál ‎Martin T.D.” [NOTE: these additions account for the significant historical milestones of legacy Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons.]

After “Miranda v. Arizona” please add: “which resulted in the Miranda rule, a warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings. The warning prevents self-incrimination in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

Please add: “served as” after “In 1971, the firm also…”

Please remove citation “[2]” – this is an outdated page that is no longer live on our website.

Practice areas: Please add “national” before “practices” and “litigation” before “bankruptcy.”

Please remove “and zoning.”

Please replace the “&” with “and” in “labor & employment”.

Please update the citation number to [5].

Notable lawyers and alumni: Please add a section named “Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP”

Please add the following notable lawyers and alumni:

“Ira C. Rothgerber, Sr. (Firm Co-founder, 1903)

Walter Appel – (Firm Co-founder, 1903)

Ira Rothgerber, Jr. (Partner, 1935)

Bill Johnson, (Partner) - Secured IRS letter rulings exempting bank holding companies from personal holding company status, launching a new structure for community bank ownership that is now widely used by banks nationwide.

James M. Lyons (Partner) - Special Advisor to the President of the United States and the Secretary of State for Economic Initiatives in Ireland and Northern Ireland; appointed Ireland's Honorary ‎Consul in the Denver Metropolitan area by Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Micheál ‎Martin T.D.

Richard K. Clark (Partner) – Served as general counsel to the Consulate General of Japan since 1999.

Michael J. Sullivan, (Partner) - Former two-term Wyoming Governor and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.”

Please add a section named “Lewis & Roca LLP”

Please add the following notable lawyers and alumni:

“Orme Lewis (Firm Co-founder) - Assistant Secretary of the Interior under President Eisenhower.

Paul Roca (Firm Co–founder) - Responsible for drafting a new Arizona insurance code in 1955, leading to the creation of Arizona’s revised statutes.

John P. Frank (Partner) - Represented Ernesto Miranda in Miranda v. Arizona, the nationally known case that secured protection of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

José Cardenas (Former Managing Partner) - First Hispanic Managing Partner of a major law firm in the Western United States. Currently Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Arizona State University.

Gerald Smith (Partner) - Former Deputy Director of the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States, which produced the first draft of the current U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Monroe McKay (Partner) - Nominated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Jimmy Carter, serving as Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit from 1991-1993.”

Mary M. Schroeder - Please replace “judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit” with “(Partner) - One of the first female law firm partners in the Western U.S.; appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1975; later appointed Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.” [Adds specificity and detail]

Janet Napolitano - Please replace “former Governor of Arizona and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security was a partner in the firm” with “(Partner) - Appointed United States Attorney for the District of Arizona by President Bill Clinton in 1993; elected Attorney General of Arizona in 1998; elected Arizona’s 21st Governor in 2003; nominated by President Barack Obama for Secretary of Homeland Security in 2008.

Offices

Please reorder to be consistent with list alphabetized by state, then city:

Phoenix, Arizona Tucson, Arizona Silicon Valley, California Colorado Springs, Colorado Denver, Colorado Albuquerque, New Mexico Las Vegas, Nevada - Please delete “(2 offices)” [Inaccurate] Reno, Nevada

References

1. Van Winkle's attorney profile – Please link to: http://www.lrrlaw.com/kenneth-vanwinklejr/

2. Please add: “Lyon’s attorney profile” – Please link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lyons_(lawyer)

3. Please add: “Baumann’s attorney profile” – Please link to: http://www.lrrlaw.com/baumann/

4. Please delete “Timeline of firm history” [Per note above: this is an outdated page that is no longer live on our website.]

5. Please add: “Rothgerber’s representation of Eddie Leonski” – Please link to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski#cite_note-2

6. Full list of practice areas – Please link to: http://www.lrrlaw.com/services/xprServiceListLR.aspx?xpST=ServiceList

External links

Please replace “Lewis and Roca” with “Lewis Roca Rothgerber homepage” – Please link to: http://www.lrrlaw.com/

Please delete: “Vault.com profile” [No profile established at this site]

Please add: Benchmark Litigation Profile – Please link to: http://www.benchmarklitigation.com/firms/1407-lewis-roca-rothgerber-firm?history=1

Profile from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell – Please update link to: http://www.martindale.com/Lewis-Roca-Rothgerber-LLP/158740329-law-firm-office.htm

Please add: “Denver Post “Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons combining with Phoenix law firm”” – Please link to: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23721867/rothgerber-johnson-amp-lyons-combining-phoenix-law-firm

Please add: “The American Lawyer’s 2014 AmLaw 200 List” – Please link to: http://www.nationallawjournal.com/law-firm-profiles-result/id=1401988400644/182-Lewis-Roca-Rothgerber

Categories

Law firms established in - Please replace “1950” with “1903”

Please add “Largest law firms in the U.S.”

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Remington21 (talk) 20:56, 20 October 2014 (UTC) Stephanie Walkenshaw, PR & Media Specialist, Lewis Roca Rothgerber


 * I've closed out the Request Edit for now, as it looked like most of the remaining items were not edits I was going to make. It's important to keep in mind that the article is about the firm, not its employees individually. Rankings and lists should be avoided in most cases per WP:ORGAWARDs, except one prominent market-share ranking, as is already in the article. Everything in the article needs to be supported by a source, typically a credible, independent one, but most of the proposed content does not have a source offered. CorporateM (Talk) 05:14, 30 October 2014 (UTC)