Salomon Lipschutz & Co. has been one of the largest and leading law firms in Israel since it was founded in 1923, engaging with over nine decades of largescale and diversified legal activity. Clients of the Firm enjoy comprehensive legal advice in commercial, civil and public law.
Our worldview rests on customer needs. Understanding that changes currently occur faster and more frequently than in the past, we make sure to maintain daily contact with out clients and operate out of flexible thinking and speedy response.
We understand that the definition of success changes from one person to another and from one company to another. Therefore, we make sure to be updated with the actual activity of the companies and businesspersons we represent and get to know their business goals in order to provide the best legal service – out of genuine understanding of the needs in a way that is compatible with the strategy of each and every client.
We Know that Business is done between people. Therefore, the human capital is our cutting edge and is based on attorneys who have specialized and developed in the Firm and help maintain the family character of our relationship in handling clients and in professional conduct. The joy of creation, dedication, creativity and specialty of Salomon Lipschutz & Co. attorneys are among our most prominent hallmarks. The unique combination of the professional team’s young and energetic feature and the adherence to the guidance and leadership of the veteran associates and partners is a winning combination for our clients.
We believe that the name of the game is professionalism, credibility and
reliability, which is our guiding principle. Our professional team is thorough, pays attention to every detail and is uncompromisingly dedicated to providing clients with personal treatment. The Firm’s partners are highly involved in each case and emphasize rendering reliable, thorough and comprehensive service. There is no wonder we hold prominent legal achievements, forming milestones in Israeli law and winning long-term recognition by Israeli rating guides such as BDI, Duns 100 and international rating guides such as Legal 500 and IFLR.
We are proud of our clientele; those who walk with us for decades as well as those who have joined us along the years and are already part of the family of Salomon Lipschutz & Co. Our long-term clients include commercial and industrial corporations prominent in the Israeli economy, banks and financial institutions, energy corporations, real estate companies, industrial plants, high-tech and biotechnology companies, transport companies, infrastructure companies and public companies, municipal corporations and cooperatives.
The extensive legal activity of Salomon Lipschutz & Co. is also expressed in contacts we maintain with the global community, being the exclusive Israeli representative of the ABL (Alliance of Business Lawyers) chain, incorporating renowned law firms worldwide.
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Born 1905 (fifth generation to founders of the new settlement in Israel builders of Jerusalem quarters and founders of Petah Tikva).
He graduated from London law school (first and second degree) cum laude, where he was also admitted to the Bar at Gray’s Inn Chambers. In 1929, following the pogroms, Yaacov returned to Israel from the USA and joined Harry Sacher’s office in Jerusalem.
In 1930 Yaacov founded his first independent office in Haifa and then joined S.
Horowitz & Co. as a partner. Later on, with Naftali Lipschutz, he co-founded the partnership Yaacov Salomon, Lipschutz & Co.
Throughout the years of his work and activity, Yaacov Salomon was interested in the political events in Israel before and since the establishment of the State.
He was involved as a barrister in many sensational affairs including, among other things, his intensive activity during the “Black Sabbath” days in Yagur, the espionage trial of
British Silvester who was working for the IEC in Jerusalem, Isser Be’ery’s trial following the execution of Meir Tobianski, representing (senior officer) Binyamin Gibli as part of the “Lavon Affair”, the espionage trial of scientist Kurt Sita, the “Cherbourg Ships Project” and many more.
As part of his public activity Yaacov Salomon served as a member of the Board of
Trustees and Board of Directors of the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa; chairman of the supervisory committee of the Military Academy next to the Reali School; one of the founders of the Israel Maritime League and then the Naval Officers School, and co-
founder of the Israel National Maritime Museum.
Yaacov Salomon taught and inspired generations of first-rate lawyers and judges in Israel, and was considered by many as one of the greatest litigators ever appearing in Israeli courts.
Yaacov Salomon passed away in 1980.
Born in Lviv 1908; his father, Rabbi Eliezer Meir (REM) Lipschutz, was a known author, member of the Hebrew Language Committee and first director of the Mizrachi Teachers Seminary in Jerusalem.
In 1926 Naftali Lipschutz was enrolled as a student in London University’s UCL College Faculty of Law, where he graduated in 1930 and was admitted to the Bar in 1931.
In 1935 Naftali returned to Israel and in 1938 was admitted to the Jerusalem Bar Association. On January 1, 1940 he joined S. Horowitz & Co. as a partner. The other partners at that time were advocates Yaacov Salomon and Abraham Levin. Later he founded jointly with Yaacov Salomon the partnership Yaacov Salomon, Lipschutz & Co.
Not only was Naftali Lipschutz intensely involved in his profession and acting as one of the most brilliant lawyers and litigators in the State of Israel, he was also appointed by David Ben Gurion as the first supervisor of absentee property in Haifa and the vicinity.
Naftali Lipschutz founded “Carmel” elementary school in Haifa, today a large and prosperous state religious school, as well as the religious high school for girls in Haifa.
Naftali Lipschutz served as a member of the Technion’s Board of Governors, member of the Technion’s Executive Committee, member of the Executive Committee of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, member of the Bar Ilan University’s Executive Committee and later also a member of the Board of Trustees and Founders Committee of this University.
As an intellectual and man of letters, Naftali Lipschutz was involved in writing and editing the memoirs of, inter alia, Yoel Zussman, former President of the Supreme Court, Yitzhak Kahan, former President of the Supreme Court, and the book in honor of another Supreme Court president “Shimon Agranat, Octogenarian”. Naftali Lipschutz was a renowned collector and owner of one of the largest and most valued private libraries in Israel.
Naftali Lipschutz’s son, Adv. Moshe Lipschutz, was following his father’s footsteps in the law firm and served as a partner for many years until his retirement.
Naftali Lipschutz passed away in 1997.
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