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Profits Per Partner By Location

  Rounded PPP # lawyers # Eq Ps > 1 tier
International
White & Case $775,000 1,008 189 *
Baker & McKenzie $590,000 2,721 566  
Coudert Brothers $390,000 484 137 *
National
McDermott, Will & Emery $850,000 840 269 *
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue $775,000 1,298 291 *
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker $775,000 654 174 *
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius $705,000 999 230 *
Dechert $645,000 582 183 *
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae $645,000 726 180 *
Greenberg Traurig $635,000 634 194 *
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld $605,000 889 227 *
Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe $560,000 743 200 *
Seyfarth Shaw $420,000 474 187  
Arter & Hadden $285,000 412 123 *
Atlanta
King & Spalding $820,000 568 146 *
Alston & Bird $685,000 463 126 *
Kilpatrick Stockton $395,000 462 138 *
Boston
Bingham Dana $855,000 366 64 *
Hale and Dorr $835,000 390 132 *
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault $825,000 364 78  
Ropes & Gray $800,000 368 149  
Goodwin Procter $755,000 408 93 *
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Pope $710,000 351 62 *
Chicago
Kirkland & Ellis $1,400,000 662 128 *
Winston & Strawn $730,000 721 154 *
Mayer, Brown & Platt $725,000 853 324  
Sidley & Austin $680,000 797 193 *
Katten Muchin Zavis $645,000 405 96 *
Jenner & Block $410,000 342 168 *
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal $370,000 458 121 *
Cleveland
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey $460,000 682 167 *
Baker & Hostetler $340,000 479 145 *
Dallas
Jenkens & Gilchrist $535,000 474 124 *
Locke Liddell & Sapp $435,000 360 176 *
Houston
Vinson & Elkins $655,000 690 281  
Baker Botts $650,000 547 201 *
Fulbright & Jaworski $455,000 760 312  
Kansas City, Missouri
Shook, Hardy & Bacon $600,000 518 88 *
Los Angeles
Latham & Watkins $990,000 951 288 *
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $975,000 647 215  
O'Melveny & Myers $705,000 708 212 *
Milwaukee
Foley & Lardner $470,000 703 283 *
Minneapolis
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi $2,790,000 220 63 *
Dorsey & Whitney $370,000 601 256 *
New York
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz $3,285,000 146 72  
Cravath, Swaine & Moore $2,245,000 344 80  
Davis Polk & Wardwell $1,740,000 535 138  
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett $1,740,000 533 127  
Sullivan & Cromwell $1,715,000 495 127  
Cahill Gordon & Reindel $1,610,000 203 53 *
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $1,600,000 1,441 302  
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy $1,450,000 419 91 *
Shearman & Sterling $1,350,000 805 163 *
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton $1,250,000 550 145  
Debevoise & Plimpton $1,225,000 413 92  
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison $1,210,000 410 98  
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson $1,045,000 463 127  
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft $1,040,000 351 76 *
Dewey Ballantine $1,035,000 474 113 *
Weil, Gotshal & Manges $1,025,000 750 170 *
Willkie Farr & Gallagher $1,015,000 392 111  
Chadbourne & Parke $940,000 277 67 *
Proskauer Rose $915,000 491 131  
Schulte Roth & Zabel $875,000 248 56 *
Kelley Drye & Warren $840,000 300 59 *
Kaye Scholer $795,000 361 108 *
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan $685,000 290 95  
Brown & Wood $675,000 368 84 *
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker $270,000 484 119 *
Palo Alto
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $930,000 812 133  
Cooley Godward $905,000 583 129 *
Fenwick & West $800,000 248 65  
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich $525,000 380 91 *
Philadelphia
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley $420,000 368 153 *
Duane, Morris & Heckscher $390,000 364 146 *
Pepper Hamilton $365,000 373 99 *
Pittsburgh
Buchanan Ingersoll $515,000 434 86 *
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart $405,000 521 169 *
Reed Smith $335,000 594 190 *
Richmond
Hunton & Williams $475,000 702 230 *
McGuireWoods $380,000 515 138 *
Rochester
Nixon Peabody $410,000 488 197 *
San Francisco
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison $1,170,000 724 146 *
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe $750,000 532 124 *
Morrison & Foerster $665,000 809 193 *
Pillsbury Madison & Sutro $615,000 517 102 *
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe $560,000 440 138 *
Thelen Reid & Priest $500,000 383 98 *
Seattle
Preston Gates & Ellis $435,000 323 133 *
Perkins Coie $405,000 475 141 *
St. Louis
Bryan Cave $400,000 565 152 *
Tampa
Holland & Knight $395,000 928 366 *
Washington, D.C.
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman $850,000 312 66 *
Howrey Simon Arnold & White $770,000 435 94 *
Arnold & Porter $670,000 484 190  
Covington & Burling $655,000 399 139  
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering $575,000 331 102  
Hogan & Hartson $555,000 744 189 *
Shaw Pittman $555,000 371 109  
Winston-Salem
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice $455,000 341 129 *

(The American Lawyer, July 2001)


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