Perkins Coie Names Bruce V. Spiva Managing Partner in Washington, D.C.
Bruce V. Spiva has been named managing partner of Perkins Coie’s Washington, D.C. office. He succeeds William Malley, who led the office since 2010 and will become firmwide managing partner of Perkins Coie on July 1. Spiva is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
In a release, the firm said Spiva has tried cases and argued appeals in areas as diverse as congressional redistricting and voting rights (seven cases in the past three years), civil rights, First Amendment, class actions and antitrust law. He has also argued appeals in U.S. Courts of Appeals and in state supreme courts across the country.
Spiva serves on the board of directors of the DC Bar Foundation, which funds organizations and attorneys who provide access to justice for low-income people in the District of Columbia. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and the American Antitrust Institute. In addition, he is the former chair of the board of directors of DC Vote and also served as the co-chair of the D.C. Bar Litigation Section Steering Committee.
