BakerHostetler history

Two years later the firm added its first office outside of Cleveland when it merged with Washington, D.C.'s Frost, Towers, Hayes & Beck, a five-lawyer practice that dated back to 1923.

According to the Baker firm's history, in 1924 the United States Supreme Court 'ruled in favor of the Euclid ordinance in a landmark decision that opened the way nationally for widespread zoning.'

They began representing the owners of the Cleveland Indians baseball team, and in 1927 lawyers Baker and Hostetler became minor owners of the team.

In 1928 Baker & Hostetler attorneys wrote the reorganization agreement and charter for the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, and since then the firm has continued to represent corporations, professional sports teams, and organizations in Cleveland and throughout the nation.

Cold Metal Process Company (Baker's client) filed in 1943.

In 1947 the Baker firm's clients, a group of plumbing supply companies, were granted an acquittal by the trial judge in a case where the federal government tried in vain to prove a general distribution antitrust conspiracy.

In 1949 it brought in over $1 million in fees for the first time in its history.

Started in 1951, the Brazilian firm of 36 lawyers served mainly corporate client based in Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

1973: The firm reestablishes a Washington, D.C. office.

The Baker law firm played a role in resolving Ohio's savings and loan (S & L) crisis that began in 1985 when Cincinnati's Home State Savings Bank collapsed after losing $144 million.

1988: The firm closes its Winter Park office and moves its Orlando office to the SunBank Center.

The firm merged with McCutchen Black Verleger & Shea of Los Angeles in 1990, giving it access to West Coast legal business.

In 1995 the firm's Cleveland office, with approx.

1997: Firm opens a Cincinnati office.

Baker & Hostetler was also not listed in the world's 50 largest law firms in a survey in the November 1998 issue of the American Lawyer.