Daily Report Dozen Scorecard

     2001 Rank/ 2002 Rank Revenue in Millions (% Change) Net Income in Millions (% Change) Profit Margin Lawyers1/Equity Partners (Total Census Change) Leverage2 Revenue per Lawyer RPL Change (2000-2001) Profit per Equity Partner PPEP Change (2000-2001) Am Law Profit. Index3 Total Partners/ Nonequity Compensation4 for all Partners
King & Spalding 1/1 $352 (+17.7%) $137 (+14.2%) 38.90% 651/153 (83) 4.25 $540,707 $14,298 $895,425 $73,507 1.66 204/51 $731,569
Alston & Bird 2/2 $282 (+26.5%) $98.5 (+13.9%) 34.90% 550/140 (87) 3.93 $512,727 $31,086 $703,571 $17,063 1.37 231/91 $549,652
Kilpatrick Stockton 3/3 $201 (+13.9%) $57.5 (+5.5%) 28.60% 492/127 (30) 3.87 $408,537 $26,502 $452,756 $57,828 1.11 212/85 $359,434
Troutman Sanders 4/6 $179.5 (+77.7%) $58 (+68.1%) 32.30% 469/149 (188) 3.15 $382,729 $23,299 $389,262 $1,621 1.02 207/58 $321,256
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 5/4 $136.5 (+12.8%) $56 (+12.0%) 41% 301/109 (24) 2.76 $453,488 $16,665 $513,761 $18,712 1.13 126/17 $463,425
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy 6/5 $123 (+10.3%) $43.5 (+8.8%) 35.40% 292/112 (2) 2.61 $421,233 $36,750 $388,393 $18,022 0.92 159/47 $330,686
Morris, Manning & Martin 7/7 $78 (+16.4%) $29.5 (+7.3%) 37.80% 155/47 (3) 3.3 $503,226 $62,436 $627,660 $2,660 1.25 58/11 $564,834
Long Aldridge & Norman5 8/8 $74 (+12.1%) $24 (+26.3%) 32.40% 162/47 (17) 3.45 $456,790 $1,618 $510,638 $58,257 1.12 74/27 $406,419
Smith, Gambrell & Russell 9/9 $66.5 (+14.7%) $24 (+11.6%) 36.10% 168/59 (22) 2.85 $395,833 -$1,427 $406,780 $1,119 1.03 86/27 $347,326
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart 10/10 $61 (+10.9%) $22.5 (+2.3%) 36.90% 158/77 (21) 2.05 $386,076 -$15,384 $292,208 -$26,633 0.76 92/15 $272,709
Arnall Golden Gregory 11/11 $51 (-3.8%) $21.5 (-4.4%) 42.20% 119/50 (-10) 2.38 $428,571 $17,719 $430,000 -$11,176 1 66/16 $370,000
Fisher & Phillips 12/12 $46.5 (+20.8%) $19 (+18.8%) 40.90% 153/66 (22) 2.32 $303,922 $10,028    $287,879 $41,725    0.95 66/0 $287,879

1 Headcount as of Aug. 31, 2001.
2 Leverage: total lawyers divided by equity partners.
3 Am Law Profitability Index: profit per equity partner divided by revenue per lawyer. An API of 1.00 is considered passing—a one-to-one relationship between the dollars the average equity partner puts in and the amount that partner takes out.
4 Compensation for all partners: net income plus salaries of nonequity partners, divided by the number of lawyers using the title “partner”.
5 On June 1, the firm became McKenna Long & Aldridge.

(Fulton County Daily Report, July 2002)


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