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From its very inception, Schiff Hardin's focus has been on counseling and growing with business and corporate clients. We began counseling many of our current banking and industrial clients in the 1870s and 1880s. It is this dedication to our clients coupled with our understanding of the law that allows us to build the lasting client relationships that we are known for.
Throughout the last half-century, Schiff Hardin has helped shape the basic rules of law in a number of United States Supreme Court and Circuit Courts of Appeals cases, including landmark decisions in the fields of utility rate jurisdiction, antitrust, state taxation, finance, and the obligations of former employees to their former employers. Today, litigation — including a particular emphasis on complex, toxic tort, insurance class actions, and reinsurance disputes — is our largest practice group.
Our law firm has changed and grown a lot in the past 148 years. We now have attorneys in offices located in Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Chicago, Lake Forest, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. One thing remains unchanged — our commitment to our clients.
Timeline
1864 — Abraham Lincoln was President, Chicago was barely 27 years old, and a new law firm was formed — Hitchcock & Dupee.
1872 — As counsel for the Chicago City Railway Company, we successfully overcame opposition to the conversion from horse-drawn trolleys to new cars pulled by steam-powered cables. After consolidation of the Chicago public transit system, Schiff Hardin is proud to act as counsel for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) with respect to labor and employment, real estate and construction matters, particularly with respect to light rail operations.
1889 — When the Illinois State Auditor refused to grant a charter to the organizers of The Northern Trust Company, we persuaded the Illinois Supreme Court to order the Auditor to issue the charter. We continue to represent The Northern Trust Company to this day.
1902 — Predecessors of our firm organized American Steel Foundries, now known as Amsted Industries, and still a Schiff Hardin client.
1920s — Our firm became synonymous with expertise in financing and corporate organization for energy companies and public utilities. Today, that practice remains one of our largest.
1940s — Schiff Hardin created innovative air rights techniques that permitted the construction of the Prudential Building. Now we represent some of the foremost real estate developers in Chicago and nationwide.
1940s-1970s — We counseled Bill Veeck in his ownership of the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. Now, our winning tradition in sports representations includes our role as counsel for the Chicago Bears, including the complex financing and governmental relations work needed for the complete renovation of Soldier Field.
1973 — We completed four years of complex work necessary to create and obtain regulatory approval for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Prior to this time, there was no organized marketplace where securities options could be traded. In 2010, we represented the CBOE in its approximately $3 billion demutualization, and we represented its new parent company, CBOE Holdings, Inc., in its $390 million initial public offering.
1974 — Our Chicago office relocates to the recently-completed Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) — the world's tallest building for 25 years from 1973-1998.
1977 — Our Washington office opens. Initially focusing on energy and market regulation work, it has subsequently grown to include a wide range of corporate and litigation practices.
1979 — Our Chicago-area attorneys begin working with the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS) Foundation in one of their storefront legal clinics in a neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago. We continue to sponsor the same clinic and actively participate in Foundation matters.
1980-1990s — We helped make new law in the areas of trademarks, trade dress and trade secrets.
1991 — Our New York office opens establishing significant practices in an increasing array of key legal services. Furthermore, our New York office serves as a focal point of our representation of overseas clients.
2000s — Schiff Hardin continues to represent longtime clients such as NiSource Inc. and Newell Rubbermaid Inc. in implementing their ongoing merger and acquisition strategies to achieve the goal of market leadership. This included NiSource's $8.5 billion acquisition of Columbia Energy Group, and Newell's acquisition of the worldwide stationery products businesses of The Gillette Company, which has annual sales of nearly $800 million. We also represented NiSource in its 2003 dispositions of Columbia Energy Resources, Inc. and most of Primary Energy Inc. in two separate transactions totaling $665 million.
2002 — Our Lake Forest office opens, expanding our Illinois presence into the Chicago suburbs. The Lake Forest office provides a wide range of services to domestic and foreign businesses and individuals, including major clients with national and international operations.
2002-2003 — Schiff Hardin works with our longtime clients The Chicago Bears on the renovation of Soldier Field. This involved negotiating a private/public partnership effort unmatched in Chicago history.
2003 — Our Atlanta office opens, expanding our services nationally and regionally.
2004 — We adopted a new name — Schiff Hardin LLP.
2007 — We combined with San Francisco-based Morgenstein & Jubelirer to open our first West coast office.
2012 — We opened our new Ann Arbor office significantly expanding our antitrust and sports law capabilities.
2013 — We combined with Washington, D.C.-based Bruder, Gentile & Marcoux, L.L.P., expanding our national energy regulation practice and with New York City-based Mazur Carp & Rubin, expanding our national construction, as well as our private clients, trusts, and estates practices.
Change continues to be a constant at our firm as we embrace growth and new ways of achieving practice excellence.

In 1897, Herbert Tress established a legal practice in Pitt Street, Sydney. The Firm became Tress & Cocks in 1920 when George Cocks joined as a Partner. John Maddox also joined the Firm in 1920, becoming a Partner in 1929 but it wasn’t until 1935 that the Firm changed its name to Tress Cocks & Maddox.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr Cocks was a solicitor for the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales. It is not surprising then, that the Firm acted for the State Bank throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
The Firm has a long association with the Australian Medical Association (AMA) which dates back to 1897, when Herbert Tress acted for the NSW Branch of what was then known as the British Medical Association (BMA). John Maddox continued to advise the BMA for nearly 60 years and his relationship with the BMA, its evolution into the AMA, and the drafting of the Articles of Association for the Federal AMA was a significant part of the practice. The health industry is still a core business of the Firm and the AMA has remained a client.
Peter Thompson founded our entertainment practice in 1978, at a time when the sector was hardly recognised as an area of legal practice. The Firm now has one of the nation’s largest entertainment and media practices and has received many accolades.
By the 1980s the Firm had tripled in size and in the 1990s, Tress Cocks & Maddox opened two interstate offices. The Melbourne office was formed in 1992 with a strong commercial focus, and the Brisbane office opened in 1997 to service existing health sector clients. Since that time, the Brisbane office has achieved widespread recognition as one of Queensland’s premier health law practices and expanded into a range of other areas of law. The highly regarded Brisbane firm Macrossans Lawyers was incorporated into our Brisbane team in October 2012, and we moved into our new premises in Creek Street. In the same year we opened an office in Canberra as a result of our increasing Commonwealth Government client base. In May 2013, after more than 20 years at our King Street address, we moved our Sydney office to the iconic MLC Centre in Martin Place.
The Firm was rebranded in 2004 to what we know today as TressCox Lawyers. We have expanded into many other key sectors to reflect the needs of our clients and have an impressive track record in areas such as corporate and commercial, government, insurance, finance and financial services, litigation and dispute resolution.