Let’s shape the future.

Successful businesses think ahead. At Lathrop GPM, we make it our business to help you anticipate trends and plan for challenges. Working together, we build exciting futures.

Lathrop GPM serves a client base whose businesses form the backbone of our economy. Our clients run factories, build skylines, cure diseases, create jobs and power our world. And we work alongside them the entire way – immersing ourselves in our clients’ organizations and partnering with them to understand the big picture, so we can think past the day-to-day and help our clients anticipate future challenges. From the research lab to the factory floor, from oil fields to skyscrapers – we work as one integrated team to help our clients achieve their most important objectives.

Lathrop GPM was formed in 2020 through the combination of two 100+-year firms, both with strong Midwestern cores – Lathrop Gage (established in Kansas City in 1873) and Gray Plant Mooty (established in Minneapolis in 1866). In 2024 Hopkins Carley joined Lathrop GPM to solidify the firm’s presence in Northern California while simultaneously expanding the firm’s capabilities across multiple service areas but particularly Private Client Services, Construction Litigation and Employment & Labor. Our nearly 360 attorneys and other legal professionals practice in 13 offices nationwide, located from coast to coast – allowing us to quickly respond to clients’ needs at the local, state or national levels.

Clients are at the heart of everything we do. At Lathrop GPM, we help businesses, organizations, and individuals grow and succeed. Our work helps them seize opportunities, solve problems and dominate market spaces. With deep industry experience in health care and life sciences, franchise and distribution, agribusiness, manufacturing, and higher education, our commitment is to long-term relationships, not just transactions.

We want to lead the future of your legal services, together.

Firm Awards & Recognition

Lathrop GPM, Insurance Recovery Practice and Eight Attorneys Recognized by Benchmark Litigation
Franchise & Distribution Practice Group ranked as one of the world’s top franchise legal practices in 2024 edition of Chambers Global

Lathrop GPM Named 2024 Best Franchise Law Firm by Global Franchise Magazine
Lathrop GPM Recognized as 2023 Top Performer and Compass Award Winner by Leadership Council for Legal Diversity
In the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023 Corporate Equality Index – the national benchmarking survey for inclusive LGBTQ+ workplace policies and practices, Lathrop GPM earned a score of 95 out of 100.

Seven Lathrop GPM Attorneys Named Lawyer of the Year, 92 Ranked as The Best Lawyers in America©
Best Lawyers Recognizes Lathrop GPM as a 2025 ‘Best Law Firm’


Lathrop GPM Named a 2022 Tipping the Scales Firm in Recognition of Diversity and Gender Parity
36 Lathrop GPM Attorneys and 14 Practice Groups Ranked in Chambers USA 2024
Lathrop GPM Recognized as a 2024 Leading Law Firm for Women and Diversity by Seramount
Ten Lathrop GPM Attorneys Recognized as Franchise Legal Eagles
Lathrop GPM Achieves Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certification Plus


In December 2020, Lathrop GPM achieved Women in Law Empowerment Forum’s “gold standard” certification for women’s prominence in the legal industry.
Chambers High Net Worth 2024 Legal Guide Ranks Lathrop GPM and 14 Attorneys
Lathrop GPM Attorneys Named 2024 Minnesota Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Lathrop GPM Attorneys Named 2024 Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Lathrop GPM Attorney Nancy Sher Cohen Named Southern California Super Lawyer

Four Lathrop GPM Attorneys Named 2024 Colorado Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Three Lathrop GPM Attorneys Named 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers Recognizes Two Lathrop GPM Attorneys
Recognized as a 2020 “Midsize Heavyweight” by BTI Consulting Group, Lathrop GPM was one of only 37 midsize firms named by nationwide clients as uber-responsive, quick to embrace new approaches, and inspiring the same level of confidence and reliability as larger firms. According to BTI, “Clients report these firms bring industry understanding and the most important factor – an unfailing commitment to help.”