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THE AM LAW 100
| 2001 Rank |
2000 Rank |
Firm |
City |
Gross Revenue |
Number Of Lawyers |
| 1 |
1 |
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
New York |
$1,225,000,000 |
1,602 |
| 2 |
2 |
Baker & McKenzie |
International
(Chicago, IL) |
$1,000,000,000 |
3,031 |
| 3 |
3 |
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue |
National
(Cleveland, OH) |
$790,000,000 |
1,481 |
| 4 |
4 |
Latham & Watkins |
National
(Los Angeles, CA) |
$769,500,000 |
1,165 |
| 5 |
— |
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 1 |
National
(Chicago, IL) |
$715,000,000 |
1,276 |
| 6 |
5 |
Shearman & Sterling |
New York |
$619,500,000 |
1,039 |
| 7 |
13 |
White & Case |
International
(New York, NY) |
$603,000,000 |
1,315 |
| 8 |
10 |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
New York |
$581,000,000 |
845 |
| 9 |
9 |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
National
(Philadelphia, PA) |
$574,500,000 |
1,083 |
| 10 |
6 |
Mayer, Brown & Platt 2 |
Chicago |
$573,000,000 |
893 |
| 11 |
7 |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
New York |
$570,000,000 |
594 |
| 12 |
8 |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
New York |
$568,000,000 |
596 |
| 13 |
11 |
McDermott, Will & Emery |
National
(Chicago, IL) |
$562,500,000 |
874 |
| 14 |
21 |
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld |
National
(Washington, D.C.) |
$553,000,000 |
949 |
| 15 |
17 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
Los Angeles |
$537,000,000 |
709 |
| 16 |
16 |
Kirkland & Ellis |
Chicago |
$530,000,000 |
725 |
| 17 |
12 |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
New York |
$516,000,000 |
588 |
| 18 |
18 |
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton |
New York |
$492,000,000 |
610 |
| 19 |
20 |
Morrison & Foerster |
San Francisco |
$490,000,000 |
889 |
| 19 |
22 |
O’Melveny & Myers |
Los Angeles |
$490,000,000 |
738 |
| 21 |
27 |
Holland & Knight |
Tampa |
$466,500,000 |
1,094 |
| 22 |
23 |
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker |
National
(Los Angeles, CA) |
$455,500,000 |
722 |
| 22 |
24 |
Vinson & Elkins |
Houston |
$455,500,000 |
777 |
| 24 |
28 |
Foley & Lardner |
Milwaukee |
$452,500,000 |
907 |
| 25 |
14 |
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison |
San Francisco |
$447,000,000 |
792 |
| 26 |
— |
Pillsbury Winthrop 3 |
San Francisco |
$444,000,000 |
733 |
| 27 |
19 |
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
San Francisco/Palo Alto |
$438,000,000 |
708 |
| 28 |
30 |
Greenberg Traurig |
National
(Miami, FL) |
$419,500,000 |
763 |
| 29 |
26 |
Winston & Strawn |
Chicago |
$411,000,000 |
777 |
| 30 |
37 |
Hunton & Williams |
Richmond |
$386,500,000 |
804 |
| 31 |
35 |
Hogan & Hartson |
Washington, D.C. |
$385,000,000 |
761 |
| 32 |
34 |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
New York |
$384,500,000 |
445 |
| 33 |
25 |
Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
New York |
$382,500,000 |
389 |
| 34 |
29 |
Piper Rudnick |
National
(Chicago, IL) |
$382,000,000 |
782 |
| 35 |
42 |
Arnold & Porter |
Washington, D.C. |
$372,000,000 |
589 |
| 36 |
32 |
Fulbright & Jaworski |
Houston |
$370,000,000 |
740 |
| 37 |
35 |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe |
San Francisco |
$365,000,000 |
568 |
| 38 |
40 |
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy |
New York |
$360,000,000 |
443 |
| 39 |
30 |
Cooley Godward |
Palo Alto |
$354,000,000 |
628 |
| 40 |
44 |
King & Spalding |
Atlanta |
$352,000,000 |
651 |
| 41 |
48 |
Dechert |
National
(Washington, D.C.) |
$344,000,000 |
674 |
| 42 |
33 |
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae |
National
(New York, NY) |
$343,000,000 |
720 |
| 43 |
60 |
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey |
National
(Cleveland, OH) |
$337,500,000 |
750 |
| 44 |
41 |
Baker Botts |
Houston |
$333,500,000 |
584 |
| 45 |
45 |
Proskauer Rose |
New York |
$331,000,000 |
542 |
| 46 |
50 |
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe |
San Francisco |
$330,500,000 |
500 |
| 47 |
43 |
Dewey Ballantine |
New York |
$327,000,000 |
501 |
| 47 |
38 |
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
New York |
$327,000,000 |
173 |
| 49 |
47 |
Debevoise & Plimpton |
New York |
$326,000,000 |
445 |
| 50 |
54 |
Jenkens & Gilchrist |
Dallas |
$312,000,000 |
589 |
| 51 |
39 |
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson |
New York |
$311,000,000 |
511 |
| 52 |
52 |
Hale and Dorr |
Boston |
$297,000,000 |
455 |
| 53 |
49 |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher |
New York |
$293,000,000 |
442 |
| 54 |
55 |
Howrey Simon Arnold & White |
Washington, D.C. |
$292,500,000 |
501 |
| 55 |
53 |
Dorsey & Whitney |
Minneapolis |
$288,500,000 |
653 |
| 56 |
63 |
Alston & Bird |
Atlanta |
$282,000,000 |
550 |
| 57 |
58 |
Kaye Scholer |
New York |
$272,000,000 |
402 |
| 58 |
76 |
Reed Smith |
Pittsburgh |
$268,000,000 |
633 |
| 59 |
59 |
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft |
New York |
$266,000,000 |
404 |
| 60 |
57 |
Covington & Burling |
Washington, D.C. |
$262,500,000 |
435 |
| 61 |
56 |
Ropes & Gray |
Boston |
$261,000,000 |
393 |
| 62 |
64 |
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart |
National
(Pittsburgh, PA) |
$259,000,000 |
601 |
| 63 |
66 |
Shook, Hardy & Bacon |
Kansas City, Missouri |
$256,500,000 |
567 |
| 64 |
70 |
Bingham Dana 4 |
Boston |
$251,500,000 |
432 |
| 64 |
62 |
Bryan Cave 5 |
St. Louis |
$251,500,000 |
594 |
| 66 |
72 |
Goodwin Procter |
Boston |
$250,000,000 |
457 |
| 67 |
74 |
Nixon Peabody |
National
(Rochester, NY) |
$244,000,000 |
534 |
| 68 |
71 |
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal |
Chicago |
$240,500,000 |
480 |
| 69 |
65 |
Perkins Coie |
Seattle |
$240,000,000 |
510 |
| 70 |
79 |
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering/font> |
Washington, D.C. |
$234,500,000 |
394 |
| 71 |
68 |
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo |
Boston |
$229,000,000 |
424 |
| 72 |
73 |
Seyfarth Shaw |
National
(Chicago, IL) |
$226,500,000 |
482 |
| 73 |
81 |
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich |
Palo Alto |
$224,500,000 |
448 |
| 74 |
69 |
McGuireWoods |
Richmond |
$220,000,000 |
535 |
| 75 |
75 |
Coudert Brothers |
International
(New York, NY) |
$216,500,000 |
521 |
| 76 |
67 |
Katten Muchin Zavis 6 |
Chicago |
$212,000,000 |
399 |
| 77 |
83 |
Thelen Reid & Priest |
San Francisco |
$202,000,000 |
392 |
| 78 |
79 |
Baker & Hostetler |
Cleveland |
$201,500,000 |
507 |
| 79 |
86 |
Kilpatrick Stockton |
Atlanta |
$201,000,000 |
492 |
| 80 |
82 |
Jenner & Block |
Chicago |
$197,500,000 |
339 |
| 81 |
61 |
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault |
Boston |
$196,000,000 |
370 |
| 82 |
88 |
Shaw Pittman |
Washington, D.C. |
$192,500,000 |
413 |
| 83 |
78 |
Chadbourne & Parke |
New York |
$189,000,000 |
271 |
| 84 |
87 |
Locke Liddell & Sapp |
Dallas/Houston |
$188,000,000 |
360 |
| 85 |
89 |
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley |
Philadelphia |
$181,500,000 |
383 |
| 86 |
92 |
Duane Morris |
Philadelphia |
$181,000,000 |
394 |
| 86 |
85 |
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
New York |
$181,000,000 |
285 |
| 88 |
145 |
Troutman Sanders |
Atlanta |
$179,500,000 |
469 |
| 89 |
107 |
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner |
Washington, D.C. |
$175,000,000 |
255 |
| 90 |
89 |
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |
Winston-Salem |
$174,000,000 |
429 |
| 91 |
84 |
Buchanan Ingersoll |
Pittsburgh |
$173,500,000 |
392 |
| 92 |
98 |
Schulte Roth & Zabel |
New York |
$172,500,000 |
289 |
| 93 |
94 |
Cahill Gordon & Reindel |
New York |
$171,000,000 |
225 |
| 94 |
105 |
Venable |
Baltimore |
$169,500,000 |
360 |
| 95 |
101 |
Haynes and Boone |
Dallas |
$167,000,000 |
373 |
| 96 |
95 |
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman |
Washington, D.C. |
$165,000,000 |
288 |
| 97 |
114 |
Cozen O’Connor |
Philadelphia |
$164,500,000 |
430 |
| 98 |
128 |
Andrews & Kurth |
Houston |
$164,000,000 |
325 |
| 99 |
116 |
Steptoe & Johnson |
Washington, D.C. |
$161,500,000 |
320 |
| 100 |
123 |
Quarles & Brady |
Milwaukee |
$161,000,000 |
410 |
Definitions: Figures for gross revenue and net operating income are rounded to the nearest $500,000. Figures for revenue per lawyer, profits per equity partner, and partner compensation are rounded to the nearest $5,000. Firms that tied in the rankings are listed alphabetically. In most instances, our results are based on the accounting method used by the firm; if a firm offered us both cash- and accrual-method figures, we chose the former. Revenue figures include paralegal billings but not revenue from ancillary businesses, equity investments, or charges for disbursements. Revenue per lawyer is gross revenue divided by the number of lawyers; profits per equity partner is net operating income—minus aggregate compensation for all nonequity partners, if any—divided by the number of equity partners.
Average partner compensation is the net operating income plus the aggregate salary of all nonequity partners divided by the number of equity and nonequity partners. Profitability index is the ratio of profits per partner to revenue per lawyer. Firm size: For firms whose fiscal year ended between September 1, 2001, and February 28, 2002, the numbers of lawyers and partners are stated as of August 31, 2001. For firms whose fiscal year ended between March 1 and August 31, 2001, numbers are stated as of the end of the fiscal year. We asked for "full-time equivalent" lawyer numbers, which were rounded to the nearest whole number. Only full equity partners are counted as partners. Firms marked with an asterisk have more than one partnership tier.
1 Before their merger in 2001, Sidley & Austin ranked 15th, and Brown & Wood ranked 76th.
2 Merged in 2002 with Rowe & Maw; now known as Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.
3 Before their merger in 2001, Pillsbury Madison & Sutro ranked 45th, and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts ranked 124th.
4 Merged in 2002 with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen; now known as Bingham McCutchen.
5 Merged in 2002 with Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman; now known as Bryan Cave in all offices except New York, where its name is Bryan Cave Robinson Silverman.
6 Merged in 2002 with Rosenman & Colin; now known as Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman.
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(The American Lawyer, July 2002) |
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