Heller Ehrman

About Heller Ehrman

Heller Ehrman LLP is an international law firm of more than 650 attorneys working across 14 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Heller Ehrman was founded in San Francisco in 1890 and has additional offices located in most of the major financial centers around the world including New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., London, Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Heller Ehrman had its beginning in 1890 when Emanuel S. Heller opened his law practice at 124 Sansome Street, Room 30, in San Francisco, California. Heller was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and passed the California Bar in 1889. In 1896, Francis H. Powers joined with Heller and the partnership named changed to Heller & Powers. In 1905, Sidney M. Ehrman, also a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, entered into partnership with Heller and Powers, forming Heller Powers & Ehrman. In 1921, Jerome White and Florence McAuliffe join the partnership after the death of Francis Powers, establishing the firm as Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP. The firm retained this name for more than 84 years until the name was shortened in 2005.

Between the years of 1974 to 2007, Heller Ehrman realized an exponential increase in business, causing the firm to branch out from the west coast with an additional 12 offices in locations ranging from London to Singapore. In 1986 the San Francisco headquarters was moved to a new skyscraper at 333 Bush Street. By 1991 the firm had 370 lawyers, over 3.5 times what it had employed just ten years earlier.