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The Dismal Decline Continues
Why, once again, has the record increase in Am Law 100 revenue been accompanied by a per capita decline in pro bono commitment? Am Law pro bono scores result from weighting and combining two factors: average pro bono hours per lawyer accounts for two-thirds, and the percentage of lawyers with more than 20 hours makes up one-third. Calculations are based on lawyers in U.S. offices only and do not include pro bono work done in non–U.S. offices. Some firms track only some of the pro bono information used in our scoring. Firms that did not disclose any pro bono information received a score of zero and a rank of 100.

Pro Bono
Rank Am Law Pro Bono Score Firm Total Pro Bono hours Number of Lawyers with more than 20 hours Average Pro Bono Hours Per Lawyer Percent of Lawyers with more than 20 hours Total Lawyers Percent U.S. Lawyers
1 101.3 Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering 34,127 192 118.67 66.76 331 87
2 99.3 Jenner & Block 38,627 247 112.94 72.22 342 100
3 86.1 Arnold & Porter 44,870 305 96.49 65.59 484 96
4 84.9 Covington & Burling 35,572 214 97.97 58.94 399 91
5 77.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 33,710 161 93.82 44.81 413 87
6 73.3 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 32,500 180 86.16 47.72 410 92
7 68.6 White & Case 32,700 260 73.73 58.62 1,008 44
8 68.4 Davis Polk & Wardwell 37,868 199 81.31 42.73 535 87
9 66.0 Hunton & Williams 40,202 461 62.96 72.20 702 91
10 62.2 Latham & Watkins 63,239 406 70.74 45.42 951 94
11 60.5 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 30,097 182 69.80 42.21 440 98
11 60.5 Morrison & Foerster 51,321 325 68.95 43.67 809 92
13 59.1 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 28,930 210 65.09 47.25 463 96
14 56.6 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 33,334 176 67.25 35.51 533 93
15 54.6 Coudert Brothers 11,469 80 60.76 42.38 484 39
16 54.3 Sidley & Austin 3 41,231 370 56.23 50.46 797 92
17 53.7 Dorsey & Whitney 31,145 297 54.55 52.02 601 95
18 52.6 Alston & Bird 25,763 216 55.64 46.65 463 100
19 51.1 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 20,891 122 59.35 34.66 550 64
20 48.9 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 18,262 115 55.88 35.19 344 95
21 46.8 Vinson & Elkins 33,116 269 50.01 40.62 690 96
21 46.8 Hale and Dorr 21,300 122 54.62 31.28 390 100
23 46.7 Schulte Roth & Zabel 10,500 138 42.34 55.65 248 100
24 45.8 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 69,692 430 52.57 32.44 1,441 92
25 45.4 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 16,136 126 49.00 38.27 392 84
26 43.2 Howrey Simon Arnold & White 22,950 105 52.76 24.14 435 100
27 41.9 McGuireWoods 22,300 196 43.74 38.44 515 99
28 40.1 Hogan & Hartson 31,172 183 46.55 27.33 744 90
28 40.1 Shearman & Sterling 25,257 154 46.14 28.13 805 68
30 39.9 Sullivan & Cromwell 17,591 152 41.81 36.13 495 85
31 39.8 Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe 30,105 285 40.52 38.36 743 100
32  39.7 Bryan Cave 22,934 167 43.65 31.78 565 93
33 38.0 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 39,250 200 45.52 23.19 889 97
34 37.9 Holland & Knight 30,147 452 32.50 48.73 928 100
35 37.8 Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 26,200 95 48.02 17.41 682 80
36  37.4 O'Melveny & Myers 28,333 205 41.26 29.85 708 97
37 37.3 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 11,480 95 39.59 32.76 290 100
38 36.5 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 23,228 224 37.01 35.69 647 97
39 35.3 Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi 7,901 75 35.91 34.09 220 100
40 35.2 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 22,600 175 38.14 29.54 750 79
41 34.8 Bingham Dana 13,019 115 36.26 32.03 366 98
42 33.9 Goodwin Procter 14,000 135 34.31 33.09 408 100
42 33.9 Chadbourne & Parke 8,433 82 34.21 33.26 277 89
44 33.8 Winston & Strawn 24,480 213 35.37 30.77 721 96
45 33.1 Proskauer Rose 16,593 146 34.52 30.37 491 98
46 32.6 LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae 21,134 182 34.25 29.49 726 85
47 31.0 Mayer, Brown & Platt 27,803 206 33.95 25.16 853 96
48 30.2 Greenberg Traurig 18,500 205 29.18 32.33 634 100
49 30.0 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 14,500 123 31.66 26.86 458 100
50 29.9 Kaye Scholer 11,141 95 31.49 26.85 361 98
51 29.8 Pepper Hamilton 10,737 119 28.79 31.90 373 100
52 29.3 Shaw Pittman 11,859 79 32.95 21.95 371 97
53 29.0 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo 10,500 96 29.91 27.35 351 100
53 29.0 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 5,700 61 28.36 30.35 203 99
55 28.9 Perkins Coie 13,899 114 30.80 25.26 475 95
55 28.9 Dechert 12,994 114 30.17 26.47 582 74
55 28.9 Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman 9,324 84 29.92 26.95 312 100
58 28.6 Foley & Lardner 24,200 120 34.42 17.07 703 100
59 27.8 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 29,144 218 30.40 22.74 999 96
60 27.5 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy 10,809 85 29.65 23.32 419 87
60 27.5 Cooley Godward 18,109 119 31.07 20.42 583 100
62 26.8 Preston Gates & Ellis 7,552 101 24.12 32.26 323 97
63 26.6 Dewey Ballantine 10,829 120 25.67 28.45 474 89
64 26.2 Katten Muchin Zavis 11,536 88 28.48 21.73 405 100
65 24.7 Reed Smith 15,000 140 25.25 23.57 594 100
66 24.2 Buchanan Ingersoll 15,000 - 36.38 - 434 95
67 24.0 McDermott, Will & Emery 18,284 192 23.66 24.84 840 92
68 23.8 Ropes & Gray 9,559 72 25.98 19.57 368 100
69 23.7 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker 14,786 155 23.31 24.43 654 97
70 22.7 Kirkland & Ellis 16,264 112 25.33 17.44 662 97
70 22.7 Fulbright & Jaworski 19,857 115 26.39 15.28 760 99
72 22.6 Pillsbury Madison & Sutro 11,388 123 22.03 23.79 517 100
73  22.5 Baker & Hostetler 11,110 101 23.19 21.09 479 100
74 22.1 Kelley Drye & Warren 6,914 57 23.52 19.39 300 98
75 21.4 Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison 16,066 144 22.19 19.89 724 100
76 20.2 Kilpatrick Stockton 8,000 117 17.49 25.58 462 99
77 19.9 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 10,505 89 21.01 17.80 532 94
78 15.7 Fenwick & West 4,208 33 16.97 13.31 248 100
79 15.3 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 14,280 88 17.59 10.84 812 100
79 15.3 Shook, Hardy & Bacon 8,327 62 16.75 12.47 518 96
81 15.2 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 4,835 59 14.18 17.30 341 100
82 15.1 Baker Botts 8,062 80 15.13 15.02 547 97
83 14.5 Locke Liddell & Sapp 4,993 57 13.87 15.83 360 100
84 14.0 Thelen Reid & Priest 5,074 60 13.25 15.67 383 100
85 13.7 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 5,134 54 13.51 14.21 380 100
86 12.1 Arter & Hadden 7,500 - 18.20 - 412 100
87 11.8 Seyfarth Shaw 5,127 66 10.82 13.92 474 100
87 11.8 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart 5,616 72 10.78 13.82 521 100
89 10.3 Jenkens & Gilchrist 4,500 57 9.49 12.03 474 100
90 9.8 Brown & Wood 2,750 39 8.59 12.19 368 87
91 8.9 Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault - 97 - 26.65 364 100
92 8.7 Baker & McKenzie 7,133 0 13.11 0.00 2,721 20
93 7.7 Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue 8,378 95 7.42 8.41 1,298 87
94 4.5 Duane, Morris & Heckscher 1,434 20 4.01 5.60 364 98
95 1.2 Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley 337 6 0.92 1.63 368 100
100 - Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft - - - - 351 100
100 - King & Spalding - - - - 568 100
100 - Nixon Peabody - - - - 488 100
100 - Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - - - - 146 100
100 - Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker - - - - 484 100
Percent of lawyers in the U.S. for each firm is from the most recent NLJ 250 survey ( The National Law Journal, December, 2000).

(The American Lawyer, July 2001)


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