We want to be flexible for our clients. Bitcoin is an easy and secure way to transfer funds, and we embrace it.
— John Quinn, founding partner of Quinn Emanuel, commenting on the firm’s recent decision to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment for legal services. Less than a handful of other Biglaw firms (e.g., Perkins Coie, Steptoe & Johnson, and Frost Brown Todd) have publicly announced accepting payment via cryptocurrency.
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