Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle history

In 1838, the firm admitted partner William Curtis Noyes, the son of a state Supreme Court justice, and the name was changed to Graham, Noyes & Wood.

The firm merged in 1852 with another legal partnership established by a member of the Curtis family and moved to new premises on Wall Street.

William E. Curtis Jr., the son of founding member and namesake William Edmond Curtis, joined Stearns & Curtis (as the firm was then known) in 1877.

In March 1883, James Addison Reavis, a Civil War deserter, put forth a petition (including Spanish-language documentation) claiming rights to the territory covering much of present-day New Mexico and Arizona.

In 1887, Severo Mallet-Prevost represented a Mexican national in the Supreme Court in an extradition case brought under a treaty between the United States and Mexico.

As a consequence of the Shearman Silver Purchase Act of 1889, the United States Treasury Department was required to purchase silver each month, using notes redeemable in gold.

Thankfully, Curtis Jr. was not – in 1893 he traveled back to the city on a mission to woo influential financiers.

By February 1895, the Treasury was losing nearly US$2 million in gold each day.

John G. Carlisle, a renowned Supreme Court advocate, joined the firm in 1897 after his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury.

In 1899, Severo Mallet-Prevost joined the firm.

In January 1901, W.F. Kingsbury Curtis—of counsel at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt—walked into the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol and argued before the Supreme Court in Huus v.

Curtis Partner Frederic K. Seward, Sr. (great nephew of Secretary of State William Seward) represented several third-class passengers on a pro bono basis in what became an estimated US$2.5 million class action lawsuit against the White Star Line, operator of the Titanic, which sank in April 1912.

She joined Curtis in October 1918 a full two years prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which granted women suffrage.

Edna was also one of the first charter members of the Kansas Women Lawyers’ Association, which was established in 1919 to urge women to “take up law as a profession.”

When Henry Mosle became a name partner in 1925 the firm’s current name was adopted.

In 1938, she was invited to join the partnership.

According to the New York Women’s Bar Association, the first woman to make partner at a Wall Street law firm was Soia Mentschikoff at Spence, Windels, Walser, Hotchkiss & Angell in 1944.

Safely back in New York, Campbell joined Curtis as a junior associate in 1952.

Ten years later, the 1962 United States War Claims Act created special provisions for religious structures and small businesses, paving the way for war damage claims.

In 2008, Curtis established new offices in Almaty, Nur-Sultan, Dubai and Milan, and maintained offices for several years in Istanbul and Ashgabat.

The firm formalized its alliance with Argentinian law firm Fernandez Quiroga Ayarragaray & Ocampo in 2011, thereby establishing an office in Buenos Aires.

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