Unlike most American firms landing blinking in the City, one problem that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges will not have is standing out. After all, these self-consciously combative trial lawyers extraordinaire manage to stand out in their home town, having grown at staggering speed from their 1986 launch to become a top 100 US practice in just two decades.

But it’s far more than startling growth that the Los Angeles-based upstart is known for. It remains one of the very few law firms of any significance to focus exclusively on litigation, a stance that the firm has turned to its advantage by freeing itself from conflicts, both legal and the hassle of having to compete with transactional departments for resources.

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