Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

The firm has twenty-two[2] offices, including U.S. offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington State, and the District of Columbia, and has presence via international offices in Japan, Beijing,[3] Shanghai, and Sweden.

[6] In 1997, the firms Kilpatrick & Cody (founded, 1874 in Atlanta), and Petree Stockton (founded 1918 in Winston-Salem), merged to form Kilpatrick Stockton LLP.

[10][11][12][13] In 2011, the firm assisted Sony in its lawsuit against George Hotz and some people associated with the group fail0verflow for "jailbreaking" the PlayStation 3.

This included the attempted subpoena of Hotz's webhost to gather information about visitors to the site, as well as attempted subpoenas of YouTube, Twitter, Blogger and PayPal.