The 125th Anniversary of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP
April 2008 Special Edition

The Pattishall law firm began in a thunderstorm. The decisive moment came in 1898, when Edward S. Rogers, a third year at the University of Michigan law school, ducked into a classroom to get out of the downpour. At the lectern was Frank F. Reed, the leading trademark and copyright lawyer from Chicago. But let William T. Woodson, later a name partner, tell the story...