Howard & Howard
A business law firm founded in 1869, with offices in Michigan, Illinois, Nevada and California, providing integrated cross-disciplinary legal services to businesses and business owners.
Howard & Howard is a full-service business law firm founded in 1869, when it opened above a blacksmith shop in Michigan. It provides integrated, cross-disciplinary legal services to businesses and business owners across diverse industries, combining corporate law and other practice areas within multifunctional teams. The firm has offices in Michigan, Illinois, Nevada and California, and describes its practice as nationally and internationally recognised.
For lawyers and business professionals, the firm's distinguishing feature is its workforce profile: more than one-third of its attorneys pursued business careers before entering law, and are positioned as counsellors offering entrepreneurial and real-world insight. Its stated approach is to assemble cross-disciplinary teams that bring creativity, practicality and cost-conscious strategies to client matters, drawing on independent thinking and accumulated experience.
Internally, Howard & Howard emphasises a collaborative team culture and an efficient, entrepreneurial mode of operation, alongside a stated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and to a workplace reflecting the clients and communities it serves. Employees fund the Howard & Howard Community Reinvestment Fund, an annual charitable trust directed at the local communities where the firm's offices are located. More than 150 years after its founding, the firm continues to counsel commercial enterprises and business owners across the United States and internationally.