DLA was the result of the merger between more than two UK firms .
DLA Piper was formed in 2005 by a merger between three firms : San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP , Chicago-based Piper Rudnick LLP and London-based DLA LLP.DLA itself had been the result of a mid-90s merger between two UK firms , Dibb Lupton and Alsop Wilkinson , while Piper Rudnick had been the product of a 1999 merger between Baltimore-based Piper & Marbury and Chicago-based Rudnick & Wolfe .
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