The percentage of the firm’s work attributable to matters generated in one office and performed in one or more other firm offices increased from 26.3 percent in 2011 to 27.5 percent in 2012. In 2012, 467 of the firm’s 500 largest clients used lawyers from two or more firm offices, and 15 of the firm’s 20 largest clients used lawyers in 10 or more firm offices.
The average number of offices engaged on projects by the firm’s 20 largest clients in 2012 was 15.3. For the firm’s 100 largest clients in 2012, which generated 34.4 percent of 2012 revenues, the average number of offices engaged was 10.3, the firm said.
K&L Gates said no client accounted for more than 5 percent of the firm’s revenues in either 2011 or 2012.
K&L Gates 2012 financial metrics do not reflect the firm’s January 1, 2013, merger with Australian firm Middletons, which gave the firm an additional 287 attorneys across four cities
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