Supporting innovation at the heart of the legal world Bird & Bird can trace its origins back to the 1830's when William Frederick Wratislaw Bird came down to London from the English West Midlands to qualify as a solicitor. ###>Les origines de Bird & Bird remontent aux années 1830 lorsque William Frederik Wratislaw Bird est arrivé à Londres du West Midlands anglais pour exercer en tant qu’avocat.