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Compensation, All Partners, By Location

  Rounded CAP # Equity Partners # Nonequity Partners
International
White & Case* $715,000      189    41
Baker & McKenzie $590,000      566     0  
Coudert Brothers* $355,000      137    26
National
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker* $765,000      174      6
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius* $635,000      230    68
Dechert* $600,000      183    20
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue* $595,000      291  143
McDermott, Will & Emery* $590,000      269  210
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae* $585,000      180    37
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld* $545,000      227    66
Greenberg Traurig* $500,000      194  105
Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe * $445,000      200  132
Seyfarth Shaw $420,000      187     0  
Arter & Hadden* $235,000      123    81
Atlanta
King & Spalding* $675,000      146    45
Alston & Bird* $540,000      126    72
Kilpatrick Stockton* $335,000      138    71
Boston
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault $825,000       78     0  
Hale and Dorr* $805,000      132      9
Ropes & Gray $800,000      149     0  
Goodwin Procter* $640,000       93    34
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo* $560,000       62    73
Bingham Dana* $545,000       64    97
Chicago
Kirkland & Ellis* $890,000      128  124
Mayer, Brown & Platt $725,000      324     0  
Sidley & Austin* $515,000      193  189
Winston & Strawn* $475,000      154  168
Katten Muchin Zavis* $465,000       96    95
Jenner & Block* $405,000      168      7
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal* $325,000      121    66
Cleveland
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey* $350,000      167    96
Baker & Hostetler* $320,000      145  103
Dallas
Jenkens & Gilchrist* $425,000      124    73
Locke Liddell & Sapp* $405,000      176    21
Houston
Vinson & Elkins $655,000      281     0  
Baker Botts* $650,000      201      1
Fulbright & Jaworski $455,000      312     0  
Kansas City, Missouri
Shook, Hardy & Bacon* $455,000       88    60
Los Angeles
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $975,000      215     0  
Latham & Watkins* $915,000      288    40
O'Melveny & Myers* $705,000      212      1
Milwaukee
Foley & Lardner* $425,000      283    73
Minneapolis
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi* $1,765,000       63    48
Dorsey & Whitney* $360,000      256    18
New York
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz $3,285,000       72     0  
Cravath, Swaine & Moore $2,245,000       80     0  
Davis Polk & Wardwell $1,740,000      138     0  
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett $1,740,000      127     0  
Sullivan & Cromwell $1,715,000      127     0  
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $1,600,000      302     0  
Cahill Gordon & Reindel* $1,485,000       53      6
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy* $1,365,000       91    12
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton $1,250,000      145     0  
Debevoise & Plimpton $1,225,000       92     0  
Shearman & Sterling* $1,220,000      163    24
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison $1,210,000       98     0  
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson $1,045,000      127     0  
Willkie Farr & Gallagher $1,015,000      111     0  
Weil, Gotshal & Manges* $950,000      170    30
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft* $945,000       76    13
Dewey Ballantine* $930,000      113    22
Proskauer Rose $915,000       131     0  
Schulte Roth & Zabel* $855,000       56      2
Chadbourne & Parke* $850,000       67    13
Kaye Scholer* $770,000      108      8
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan $685,000       95     0  
Kelley Drye & Warren* $630,000       59    43
Brown & Wood* $575,000       84    35
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker* $225,000      119    70
Palo Alto
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $930,000      133     0  
Cooley Godward* $880,000      129      7
Fenwick & West $800,000       65     0  
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich* $430,000       91    46
Philadelphia
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley* $380,000      153    37
Duane, Morris & Heckscher* $335,000      146    57
Pepper Hamilton* $295,000       99    67
Pittsburgh
Buchanan Ingersoll* $395,000       86    80
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart* $370,000      169    41
Reed Smith* $305,000      190    52
Richmond
Hunton & Williams* $450,000      230    34
McGuireWoods* $345,000      138  108
Rochester
Nixon Peabody* $360,000      197    66
San Francisco
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison* $1,030,000      146    42
Morrison & Foerster* $610,000      193    38
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe* $590,000      124    69
Pillsbury Madison & Sutro* $510,000      102    93
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe* $500,000      138    38
Thelen Reid & Priest* $380,000       98    80
Seattle
Preston Gates & Ellis* $395,000      133    30
Perkins Coie* $380,000      141    37
St. Louis
Bryan Cave* $340,000      152    74
Tampa
Holland & Knight* $290,000      366  240
Washington, D.C.
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman* $700,000       66    25
Arnold & Porter $670,000      190     0  
Covington & Burling $655,000      139     0  
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering $575,000      102     0  
Howrey Simon Arnold & White* $570,000       94    71
Shaw Pittman $555,000      109     0  
Hogan & Hartson* $460,000      189  111
Winston-Salem
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice* $380,000      129    49

(The American Lawyer, July 2001)


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