Gordon & Rees has opened a Birmingham, Ala. office, its 33rd U.S. location since the firm was founded 40 years ago. The Birmingham office strengthens the firm’s presence in the Southeastern United States, following Gordon & Rees’s expansion into Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Charleston, and Raleigh. Gordon & Rees's Birmingham office serves clients in commercial litigation, toxic and mass tort, transportation and trucking, premises, employment, and other legal sectors.
Gordon & Rees’s growth across the country is part of its long-term plan to open offices in strategic locations of importance to clients. Over the past 10 years, Gordon & Rees has more than doubled in size, added 27 new offices, and has a major office in eight of the 10 largest cities in the United States. Birmingham marks the third office Gordon & Rees has opened in the past 12 months.
One of the fastest-growing firms in the country, Gordon & Rees is a national litigation and business transactions firm with more than 600 attorneys and 33 offices in 21 states. In 2014, The National Law Journal ranked the firm 89th on its list of the largest U.S. firms and The American Lawyer ranked the firm at No. 131 on the Am Law 200 and at No. 26 on its Diversity Scorecard. Gordon & Rees has been recognized on the “BTI Client Service A-Team” survey for the past three years and has been honored as a 2014 "Go-To Law Firm" for Fortune 500 companies as well as selected for inclusion on Corporate Counsel magazine’s 2014 “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies” list.