Talk:K&L Gates

message: I am an employee of K&L Gates, and wanted to request a few changes and updates to the page. 
-Can you please update number of offices in information box to 37, consistent with addition of Brussels office in list of locations?
-I believe the "notable employees include..." reference that follows "notable lawyers" section of text had previously been deleted based on what constitutes "notable" - can this "notable employees" reference please again be removed?
Thank you for your assistance.
Steelphantomrider (talk) 19:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, done. Please add new sections to discussions to the bottom of the page next time. --Gnom (talk) 06:09, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Edit request deactivated, looks like it was done a month ago. Monty845 17:24, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Request edit 1

message: My name is Mike Rick and I am an employee of the law firm K&L Gates. I am writing to bring the community's attention to a few updates to the information currently included in this K&L Gates article, which I have outlined below. Please let me know if you have questions or you would like further information.
-In the introductory paragraph, the firm is now ranked as the ninth largest law firm in the U.S. by the National Law Journal and 11th largest worldwide by The American Lawyer based on headcount and 16th largest by revenue http://www.klgates.com/about/ourfirm/ "About K&L Gates," K&L Gates, Accessed December 1, 2010.
-In the second paragraph, can you please add San Diego (noted at end of first paragraph as a result of Bell Boyd merger) and Singapore offices http://asia.legalbusinessonline.com/site-search/kandl-gates-acquires-dla-piper-partner-for-singapore-launch/34019?keyword=K%26L "K&L Gates acquires DLA Piper partner for Singapore launch," Asia Legal Business, March 3, 2009 to the listing of offices, which will then show all of the 36 offices noted in the information box?
Many thanks for your assistance.
:Note: the tld|Request edit template means the request has been answered.--DThomsen8 (talk) 01:09, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Request edit 2

message: Steelphantomrider (talk) 21:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ThemFromSpace 09:06, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I am an employee of K&L Gates and am writing to request a few updates, outlined below:
* The latest rankings of law firms by the National Law Journal and American Lawyer show us as 8th largest in US  National Law Journal, "The NLJ 250," http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?germane=1202489565842&id=1202546739310  and 13th globally  The American Lawyer, "The 2011 Global 100: Most Lawyers," http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202514395108  , respectively.
* We now have 41 offices total, if that can be updated in quick info box and Charleston  Charleston Post and Courier, "Region now part of firm's global net," http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20111213/PC05/312139985  added to the list of cities in which we have offices.; please note that the firm has no official headquarters location, if that can also be changed in both the info box and text.
* Under History section, Preston Gates & Ellis' founding date should be 1883  Metropolitan News, "Former Congressman, Judge James Rogan joins Orange County firm," http://www.metnews.com/articles/2005/roga110305.htm  and the complete name of the firm formed through the 2007 combination (last sentence of first paragraph) should be Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis (currently missing the Ellis)  Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Preston Gates & Ellis OKs merger,"
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Preston-Gates-Ellis-OKs-merger-1222485.php  
Thanks as always for your assistance.
Steelphantomrider (talk) 16:26, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide reliable sources for the 1883 date and the post-2007 name. Please remove the tld| characters when done. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! Woz2 (talk) 02:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have updated the article per your sources but didn't modify the headquarters information.  I don't know a lot about the company, but I did find this which lists the Pittsburgh location as the headquarters.  A google search for K&L Gates Headquarters lists Pittsburgh at the top of the screen (not in a search).  Still, it is listed as the Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Headquarters, was something changed in the merge?  Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:42, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Request edit 4

message: - While Pittsburgh was the firm's founding office, often leading parties to describe us as Pittsburgh-based, the firm does not declare a headquarters location  The Am Law Daily, "K&L Gates's New Citadel Prominent Part of Steel City Skyline," http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2010/03/klgates.html 
- The description of the firm as a lobbying firm in the statement associated with current footnote 3 is somewhat misleading, as we are both a law firm and lobbying firm.  The Washington Post, "Post 200, The 2011 guide to the region's top businesses," http://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/top-dc-companies/2011/company/kl-gates/641/ 
- Under Notable lawyers and alumni, please consider adding former ABA President, Microsoft chief counsel, S.F. Giants Managing Partner, and Preston Gates/K&L Gates partner Bill Neukom:  ABA Journal, "ABA President to Replace Magowan as Managing Partner of San Francisco Giants," http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/aba_president_to_replace_magowan_as_managing_partner_san_francisco_giants/ 
Thanks for your assistance.
Steelphantomrider (talk) 19:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Request edit 6

message: The quote "a lobbying firm that represents the high-tech and energy sectors" is taken out of context so it can be used as a wp:peacock in the intro. The source uses the phrase to identify the possible conflict of interest of congressman now working for a law firm which, amongst other things, works for the industries he helped pass subsidies for (this is the the opinion of the article, not necessarily my personal opinion). The quote's use in the implies to the reader that K&L is the (sole or major) representative of these industries. This is not the intention of the original quote, therefore this sentence of the intro should be removed. 1292simon (talk) 04:07, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've adjusted the sentence text to more closely reflect the cited material. Mr Wave (Talk - Contribs) 05:38, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: In information box, please update number of offices to 46 following recent addition of Seoul office  "K&L Gates to Open South Korea Office," Law.com, November 19, 2012, 
http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202578722318&thepage=1 , as well as four offices included in Middletons combination  "K&L Gates joins Aussie rush with Middletons merger," The Lawyer, December 4, 2012, http://www.thelawyer.com/kl-gates-joins-aussie-rush-with-middletons-merger/1015865.article , which also brings our total number of lawyers to more than 2,000 if that can please be updated in the information box.
In first sentence of text description, please add Australia to list of the firm's locations: http://www.klgates.com/places/ 
Finally, under the newly-added corporate governance section, please note that Mr. Kalis has been chairman of the firm since 1997  "Kalis elected to fifth terms as head of K&L Gates," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 25, 2012, http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/kalis-elected-to-fifth-terms-as-head-of-kl-gates-654825/ , so perhaps we can change the "As of 2012," reference, which might read to some as he was just elected at that time. 
Many thanks for your assistance.
Steelphantomrider (talk) 20:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate your caution in editing the article directly, but making minor, factual adjustments aren't ever going to be contentious, and therefore - in my opinion, anyway - present no conflict of interest: once the facts are in the article, it's in everyone's best interests to keep the information current. -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 05:20, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 2013 edit request