[4] The firm's current name, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, resulted from personnel changes over 1978–1983, including Nickerson leaving to join the federal bench of the Eastern District of New York, Lou Lowenstein leaving to join the faculty of Columbia Law School, and Ezra G. Levin and former Southern District of New York judge Marvin E. Frankel each becoming name partners, as did Gary P. Naftalis, a decade later.

[5] In April 2012, anti-Muslim author Robert Spencer was scheduled to speak at the Kramer Levin offices about his book Did Muhammad Exist?

An Inquiry Into Islam's Obscure Origins, but the firm canceled the event in response to pressure by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

[9] In September 2011, Kramer Levin opened its Silicon Valley office in Menlo Park, California, expanding its intellectual property practice.

[9] The firm served with Lambda Legal as co-counsel to petition the New York Court of Appeals to recognize the rights of same-sex couples to marry.

[citation needed] In 2013, in response to a suggestion by special counsel Brendan Schulman, Kramer Levin began to practice drone law.

[15] One of the first clients of the firm's unmanned aircraft systems practice was Raphael Pirker, who was fined $10,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for allegedly flying his drone too low and too close to people while making an aerial video.

Coffey had attracted the firm's attention with his "aggressive" defense of Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre in a Manhattan case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.