About The Firm
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP is Arkansas’s largest full-service law firm, with more than 90 attorneys and 100 support professionals serving clients across the state and nationwide. For more than 150 years, we have built a reputation for devoted leadership, excellence, and a steadfast focus on client needs. Today, our attorneys counsel businesses, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, government entities, and high-net-worth individuals in more than 50 areas of the law from our offices in Little Rock (headquarters) and Rogers.
The firm is led by Managing Partner Price C. Gardner, who also chairs the Management Committee, together with Vice Chairman William Mell Griffin III and 15 additional partners.
Friday, Eldredge & Clark proudly represents a diverse range of industries and clients, from Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurs and governmental entities, advising on complex litigation, transactions, and regulatory matters with practical, client-focused solutions. As Arkansas’s largest law firm, we often serve as local or regional counsel alongside some of the nation’s most respected firms. Through our memberships in the Meritas Global Alliance, Employment Law Alliance, IR Global, and the Southern Law Network, we give clients seamless access to leading law firms across the U.S. and worldwide, ensuring comprehensive support wherever their business takes them.
Known for our rich history, breadth of services, and commitment to excellence, we remain focused on growth both within the firm and throughout our community, continuing a tradition where clients are our focus, every day.
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Our History
Friday, Eldredge & Clark traces its roots to 1871, when attorneys George E. Dodge and Benjamin S. Johnson formed a partnership representing the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad—one of Arkansas’s first major corporate clients.
What began as a small firm focused on serving the railroad industry steadily evolved into a practice with a much broader reach. Over time, the firm became the first in Arkansas to develop specialized practice groups dedicated to taxation, bonds, securities, litigation, commercial law, and labor law. This innovation eventually expanded into more than 50 practice areas, enabling the firm to represent clients in virtually every industry.
Throughout its history, the firm has been guided by enduring values: a commitment to learning our clients’ industries, maintaining the highest standards of legal excellence, and serving both the profession and our communities. These principles remain at the heart of our identity and continue to shape the way we practice law.
A Legacy of Leadership
Leadership has always played a defining role in the firm’s growth and character. Notable managing partners include Herschel Friday (1974–1994), William H. Sutton (1994–2005), Byron Eiseman, Jr. (2005–2012), and J. Shepherd Russell III (2012–2018). Both Eiseman and Russell remain active in the practice today.
Today, under the leadership of Managing Partner Price C. Gardner, Friday, Eldredge & Clark continues its tradition of client service with more than 90 attorneys and 100 staff professionals working from offices in Little Rock and Rogers.
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