Microsoft Corp. has a new list of preferred legal providers — and K&L Gates, the firm named for Bill Gates’ father, is nowhere on it.
Microsoft carried over to the firm after Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis merged with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham in 2007. At the time, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith welcomed the merger as a positive step for both firms and its clients. Yet following an extensive review of the firms it uses, Microsoft announced a new list of legal providers sans K&L Gates and others, including Sullivan & Cromwell and Arnold & Porter.
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