Dow Lohnes

{{Short description|Former Washington DC law firm}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2017}}

{{Infobox Law Firm

| firm_name = Dow Lohnes

| firm_logo = 225px

| headquarters = Washington, D.C.

| num_offices = 3

| num_attorneys = 200+

| revenue = $95,500,000

| key_people = |

| date_founded = 1918

| company_type = PLLC

| dissolved = 2014 – merged with Cooley LLP{{Cite news|title=Cooley law firm to absorb D.C.-based Dow Lohnes|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/cooley-law-firm-to-absorb-dc-based-dow-lohnes/2013/10/15/0023f464-35af-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html}}{{Cite web|title= Cooley LLP expands in Washington, D.C. with Dow Lohnes lawyers|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2013/10/16/cooley-llp.html|access-date=2020-07-07|website=www.bizjournals.com}}

}}Dow Lohnes PLLC was an AmLaw 200 American law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.,[http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202494336963/ "The Am Law 200 2011"] founded as Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in 1918.{{cite news|title=Planes Collide over Cobb County|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADA3A8AAD9BFC8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=December 15, 2011|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=April 6, 1998}}

In 1928, Fayette B. Dow encouraged his partner Horace Lohnes to investigate the regulation of radio transmitters under the newly-established Federal Radio Commission, and the potential to develop a clientele engaged in broadcasting.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Final Rites Held for Horace Lohnes |magazine=Broadcasting Telecasting |location=Washington, DC |date=January 3, 1955 |page =68}}

Fred W. Albertson represented FM radio pioneer Edwin Armstrong, as well as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. He and Lohnes built the firm's practice of representing companies with interests in both television and radio.{{Cite web|title= Broadcasting+Cable: Obituaries|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/obituaries-95453|access-date=August 3, 2021|website=nexttv.com}}

By 1990 the firm had 200 lawyers and grew to more than 400 lawyers over the next decade.{{cite news|last=Torry|first=Saundra|title=Congress's Revolving Door and the Question of Ethics|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72634501.html?dids=72634501:72634501&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+03%2C+1990&author=Saundra+Torry&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Congress%27s+Revolving+Door+and+the+Question+of+Ethics&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131162224/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72634501.html?dids=72634501:72634501&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+03,+1990&author=Saundra+Torry&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Congress's+Revolving+Door+and+the+Question+of+Ethics&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|access-date=December 15, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=December 3, 1990}}

Dow Lohnes Sports and Entertainment LLC was established in 2003 as a division within Dow Lohnes PLLC.[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/new-nfl-tv-deals-could-hurt-smaller-cable-channels.html "New NFL TV deals could hurt smaller cable channels"] Los Angeles Times December 23, 2011

In January 2014, Dow Lohnes merged with Cooley LLP.{{cite news|title=Cooley's DC office to grow following Dow Lohnes merger|url=http://whoswholegal.com/news/community/article/31038/cooleys-dc-office-grow-following-dow-lohnes-merger/|access-date=February 6, 2014|newspaper=WhosWhoLegal|date=November 25, 2013}}