Rogers & Wells was an international law firm founded in New York City in 1873. After several name changes, it was renamed for William P. Rogers and John A. Wells. Firms that merged with it include Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey of New York.^[1]

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Rogers & Wells

Headquarters	New York City
No. of offices	7
No. of attorneys	400
Major practice areas	General practice
Date founded	1873
Company type	Limited liability partnership (LLP)
Dissolved	2000 (merged with Clifford Chance)

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The firm was well known for its litigation arm (second-largest in New York City after white shoe establishment firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett). It also had an active capital markets and international finance practice, where its main client was Merrill Lynch. The firm at its peak embraced approximately 400 attorneys and maintained offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Frankfurt.

In 2000, the firm merged with London-based Clifford Chance. The firm practiced as Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells in the Americas until 2003, when the use of the legacy U.S. firm's name was discontinued. Just before and immediately after the merger, some high-profile partners decamped for other firms including New York rival Kaye Scholer. The Paris outpost joined Kramer Levin.

• Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express
• William P. Rogers, US Secretary of State, 1969–1973
• Kenneth C. Royall, US Secretary of the Army, 1947–1949
• William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence, 1981-1987
• Roberta Karmel (born 1937), Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and first female commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission