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 three UK firms , Dibb Lupton Broomhead , Alsop Stevens , and Wilkinson Kimbers , 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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