Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson trace its origins back to the turn of the twentieth century to Riegelman & Bach, Riegelman Hess & Strasser, and Strasser Spiegelberg Fried and Frank, which were predecessor firms. In 1971, the firm took its current form with name partners Walter Fried, Hans Frank, Sam Harris, Sargent Shriver and Leslie Jacobson.

Fried Frank has five offices. It opened a Washington, D.C. office in 1949. Fried Frank also opened a Los Angeles office in 1986, but closed it in 2005. In 1970, Fried Frank opened a London office. A Paris satellite office followed in 1993 and has since closed. It opened in Frankfurt in 2004. In December 2006, the firm opened its Hong Kong office, recruiting the greater China managing partner of Simmons & Simmons and other key partners. The firm officially launched a Shanghai office in October 2007. In January 2015, Fried Frank announced it was closing its offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

In 2002, Fried Frank engaged in merger talks with Ashurst Morris Crisp, which did not result in a transaction. Fried Frank later hired Ashurst's former managing partner, Justin Spendlove.

As of the fiscal year ended February 2020, the firm had a gross revenue of $776 million, up from $684.8 million the year before. Revenue per lawyer rose 8.2 percent, to $1.442 million, while its profits per partner jumped 16 percent, to $3.79 million.

In November 2023, amid a wave of antisemitic incidents at elite U.S. law schools, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson was one of a group of major law firms that sent a letter to top law school deans warning them that an escalation in incidents targeting Jewish students would have corporate hiring consequences. The letter said, "We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses."