History
The law firm of Venable, Baetjer & Howard was formed in 1900 when Maj. Richard Venable, an attorney who had been practicing and teaching law in Baltimore, formed a partnership with two of his former law students, Edwin Baetjer and Charles McHenry Howard. The firm grew slowly at first, but between 1951 and 1991 expanded from 12 lawyers to over 220. Venable was the first major law firm to establish a website in March of 1994.
A Baltimore-based firm since its founding, in 1999 Venable merged with Washington, D.C.-based Tucker Flyer and subsequently moved its headquarters to Washington, D.C. Venable established a presence in New York City in 2005 through the integration of litigation boutique Heard & O'Toole, and in Los Angeles in 2006 with the integration of Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff LLP and Gorry, Meyer & Rudd LLP.
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