Shook, Hardy & Bacon
| Headquarters | Crown Center Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
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| No. of offices | 17 |
| No. of attorneys | 500+ |
| No. of employees | 1,400 |
| Major practice areas | Product liability, tort, business litigation, intellectual property, environmental and toxic tort, labor, and employment |
| Key people | Madeleine M. McDonough, Chair |
| Revenue | $353.52 M (2019) |
| Date founded | 1889 |
| Founder | Frank P. Sebree |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | shb |
Shook, Hardy & Bacon (SHB), L.L.P. (previously Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell and Bacon) is a U.S. law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2012, The National Law Journal ranked the firm as the 87th largest in the United States. The firm has offices in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Boston.
The firm is notable for its representation of five of the six major U.S. tobacco companies, and for its involvement in hiding the health risks of tobacco. The firm inspired the fictional firm of Smoot, Hawking in the satirical novel Thank You for Smoking. In 2023, it was announced that Bill Corrigan, a former judge, a one-time president of the Missouri Bar, and former deputy attorney general of Missouri was joining the firm as the managing partner of the firm's St. Louis office.