For more than 30 years, this newspaper has surveyed Washington-area law firms about their lawyer head count. In the 2009 Legal Times 150 survey, firms were asked to provide data for each office in the Washington metropolitan area—including the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland, and Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.
The head count numbers are as of April 1, 2009. They do not include contract attorneys, patent agents or summer associates. And the firms were asked to tally full-time equivalents.
Mari Mullane, a former Legal Times staffer, helped collect the numbers. National Law Journal reporters also contacted firms to obtain and verify the data.
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BY THE NUMBERS
D.C. metro area's largest law offices
The Legal Times 150 lists the largest law offices in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland.
D.C. area's largest branch offices
The top 25 firms founded outside the Washington metro area maintained a big presence in a difficult year.
D.C. area's largest home-grown firms
The top 25 firms that got their start in Washington saw growth stagnate as the national economy faltered.
Largest firms in the D.C. suburbs
The largest law offices in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia.
D.C. metro area's 150 largest law offices from A to Z
From Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to Zuckerman Spaeder, here are the 150 largest law offices in the Washington metro area.
