Albert Henry Loeb was retained to draft the reorganization documents giving equal ownership to Rosenwald and Nusbaum with Richard Warren Sears, and incorporating the company in Illinois.

In 1929, Lucy Mae Viner, one of the earliest women lawyers in the city, became an associate, and[9] then in 1934 the firm's first woman partner, listed as L. M.

[19] (Zenith Radio Corporation v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.) In the 1970s, one of this country's largest and most complex antitrust suits began when an antitrust and dumping suit was filed in 1972 in New Jersey by National Union Electric Corp. against many of its Japanese competitors alleging a conspiracy to destroy the United States television industry.

[20] In 1974, Zenith Radio Corporation filed a similar suit seeking $900,000,000.00 in Philadelphia federal court against the same defendants and added Motorola and Sears as co-conspirators.

The suit first made legal history in 1980 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a plaintiff does not have an absolute right to a trial by jury in a civil case.

[25] In 1977, the firm handled a case involving regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act that went as far as the Supreme Court of the United States.

[31] In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on New Year's Eve in 1986, 97 people perished and over 200 were injured in a fire which spread through the hotel and casino after being set by disgruntled employees in a vacant ballroom.

The judicial panel for Multidistrict Litigation transferred these related cases to San Juan, Puerto Rico, for discovery and subsequently for trial against approximately 230 defendants.

[38] Over objection by the defendants, the court allowed live satellite testimony beamed into the courtroom from various locations in the United States.

Plaintiffs claimed that Johnson Controls sold and installed an energy management system which failed to give an early warning of the fire.