DLA Piper

DLA Piper is a global law firm with offices throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The firm has 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries and 76 offices. The firm was founded by Thomas Townend Dibb and Sir Charles Lupton OBE.

Dibb was the son of a physician born in Leeds in 1807. He studied at Leeds Grammar School and became a partner of Atkinson Bolland & Atkinson, a well-established practice of the time.

Lupton was educated att Rugby school and then Trinity College in Cambridge. He qualifies as a solicitor in 1881, practicing at Dibb & Co.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with offices throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The firm has 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries and 76 offices.