| Rank By Revenue |
Firm |
Location |
Gross Revenue, Fiscal Year 2002-03 |
| 1 |
Clifford Chance |
International (U.K.) |
$1,467,000,000 |
| 2 |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
New York |
$1,310,000,000 |
| 3 |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
International (U.K.) |
$1,200,000,000 |
| 4 |
Linklaters |
International (U.K.) |
$1,080,000,000 |
| 5 |
Baker & McKenzie |
International (U.S.) |
$1,060,000,000 |
| 6 |
Allen & Overy |
International (U.K.) |
$970,500,000 |
| 7 |
Jones Day |
National (U.S.) |
$908,000,000 |
| 8 |
Latham & Watkins |
National (U.S.) |
$906,000,000 |
| 9 |
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood |
National (U.S.) |
$831,000,000 |
| 10 |
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw |
National (U.S.) |
$705,000,000 |
| 11 |
Shearman & Sterling |
New York |
$700,000,000 |
| 12 |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
New York |
$688,000,000 |
| 13 |
White & Case |
International (U.S.) |
$675,000,000 |
| 14 |
McDermott, Will & Emery |
National (U.S.) |
$628,000,000 |
| 15 |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
New York |
$624,000,000 |
| 16 |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Chicago |
$611,000,000 |
| 17 |
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
National (U.S.) |
$575,000,000 |
| 18 |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
New York |
$570,000,000 |
| 19 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
Los Angeles |
$569,000,000 |
| 20 |
O'Melveny & Myers |
Los Angeles |
$565,000,000 |
| 21 |
Lovells |
International (U.K.) |
$562,500,000 |
| 22 |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
National (U.S.) |
$557,500,000 |
| 23 |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
New York |
$543,500,000 |
| 24 |
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton |
New York |
$531,000,000 |
| 25 |
Holland & Knight |
National (U.S.) |
$514,500,000 |
| 26 |
Morrison & Foerster |
San Francisco |
$505,000,000 |
| 27 |
Foley & Lardner |
Milwaukee |
$489,500,000 |
| 28 |
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker |
National (U.S.) |
$488,000,000 |
| 29 |
Hogan & Hartson |
Washington, D.C. |
$480,000,000 |
| 30 |
Greenberg Traurig |
National (U.S.) |
$465,000,000 |
| 31 |
Vinson & Elkins |
Houston |
$456,500,000 |
| 32 |
Piper Rudnick |
National (U.S.) |
$455,000,000 |
| 33 |
Winston & Strawn |
Chicago |
$442,000,000 |
| 34 |
Bingham McCutchen |
National (U.S.) |
$433,500,000 |
| 35 |
Eversheds |
National (U.K.) |
$427,350,000 |
| 36 |
Pillsbury Winthrop |
San Francisco |
$416,000,000 |
| 37 |
Arnold & Porter |
Washington, D.C. |
$415,000,000 |
| 38 |
Fulbright & Jaworski |
Houston |
$412,500,000 |
| 39 |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
New York |
$409,500,000 |
| 40 |
Hunton & Williams |
Richmond |
$406,000,000 |
| 41 |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe |
San Francisco |
$400,000,000 |
| 42 |
King & Spalding |
Atlanta |
$387,000,000 |
| 42 |
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
Palo Alto |
$387,000,000 |
| 44 |
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy |
New York |
$381,000,000 |
| 45 |
Dechert |
National (U.S.) |
$372,500,000 |
| 46 |
Baker Botts |
Houston |
$365,000,000 |
| 47 |
Slaughter and May |
London |
$364,500,000 |
| 47 |
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey |
National (U.S.) |
$364,500,000 |
| 49 |
Herbert Smith |
London |
$361,500,000 |
| 50 |
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe |
San Francisco |
$354,000,000 |
| 51 |
Dewey Ballantine |
New York |
$350,000,000 |
| 52 |
DLA |
National (U.K.) |
$349,500,000 |
| 53 |
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae |
National (U.S.) |
$346,000,000 |
| 54 |
Debevoise & Plimpton |
New York |
$344,000,000 |
| 55 |
Proskauer Rose |
New York |
$343,500,000 |
| 56 |
Bryan Cave |
National (U.S.) |
$337,000,000 |
| 57 |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
New York |
$329,500,000 |
| 58 |
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
New York |
$328,000,000 |
| 59 |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
New York |
$320,000,000 |
| 59 |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher |
New York |
$320,000,000 |
| 61 |
Alston & Bird |
Atlanta |
$314,500,000 |
| 62 |
Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman |
National (U.S.) |
$314,000,000 |
| 62 |
Reed Smith |
National (U.S.) |
$314,000,000 |
| 64 |
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft |
New York |
$313,000,000 |
| 65 |
Kaye Scholer |
New York |
$311,000,000 |
| 66 |
Howrey Simon Arnold & White |
Washington, D.C. |
$310,000,000 |
| 67 |
Dorsey & Whitney |
Minneapolis |
$307,000,000 |
| 68 |
Hale and Dorr |
Boston |
$306,500,000 |
| 69 |
Norton Rose |
International (U.K.) |
$306,000,000 |
| 70 |
Cooley Godward |
Palo Alto |
$301,000,000 |
| 71 |
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering |
Washington, D.C. |
$296,500,000 |
| 72 |
Jenkens & Gilchrist |
Dallas |
$296,000,000 |
| 73 |
Ashurst Morris Crisp |
London |
$295,500,000 |
| 74 |
Covington & Burling |
Washington, D.C. |
$291,500,000 |
| 75 |
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal |
Chicago |
$287,500,000 |
| 76 |
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart |
National (U.S.) |
$282,000,000 |
| 77 |
Ropes & Gray |
Boston |
$278,000,000 |
| 78 |
Shook, Hardy & Bacon |
Kansas City, Missouri |
$273,500,000 |
| 79 |
Goodwin Procter |
Boston |
$270,000,000 |
| 80 |
Denton Wilde Sapte |
London |
$265,500,000 |
| 81 |
Simmons & Simmons |
International (U.K.) |
$265,350,000 |
| 82 |
CMS Cameron McKenna |
London |
$261,000,000 |
| 83 |
Nixon Peabody |
National (U.S.) |
$259,500,000 |
| 84 |
Coudert Brothers |
International (U.S.) |
$251,500,000 |
| 85 |
Perkins Coie |
Seattle |
$244,000,000 |
| 86 |
McCarthy Tétrault |
National (Canada) |
$242,309,464 |
| 87 |
McGuireWoods |
Richmond |
$241,000,000 |
| 88 |
Seyfarth Shaw |
National (U.S.) |
$238,000,000 |
| 89 |
Mallesons Stephen Jaques |
National (Australia) |
$236,203,800 |
| 90 |
Baker & Hostetler |
Cleveland |
$229,500,000 |
| 91 |
Minter Ellison Legal Group |
National (Australia) |
$226,080,780 |
| 92 |
Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky |
Washington, D.C. |
$223,000,000 |
| 93 |
Freehills |
National (Australia) |
$220,456,880 |
| 94 |
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo |
Boston |
$220,000,000 |
| 95 |
Kilpatrick Stockton |
Atlanta |
$214,000,000 |
| 96 |
Chadbourne & Parke |
New York |
$211,000,000 |
| 97 |
Jenner & Block |
Chicago |
$209,500,000 |
| 98 |
Thelen Reid & Priest |
San Francisco |
$209,000,000 |
| 99 |
Hammonds1 |
National (U.K.) |
$205,650,000 |
| 100 |
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich |
Palo Alto |
$205,000,000 |
| 1Hammonds was previously known as Hammond Suddards Edge. |
| (The American Lawyer, November 2003.
) |
