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Revenue Per Lawyer By Location

  Revenue Per Lawyer # Lawyers # Equity Partners
International  
White & Case* $485,000 1,008 189
Coudert Brothers* $400,000 484 137
Baker & McKenzie $345,000 2,721 566
 
National  
McDermott, Will & Emery* $600,000 840 269
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker* $595,000 654 174
Greenberg Traurig* $545,000 634 194
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue* $520,000 1,298 291
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius* $515,000 999 230
Dechert* $490,000 582 183
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld* $485,000 889 227
Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe* $475,000 743 200
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae* $470,000 726 180
Seyfarth Shaw $415,000 474 187
Arter & Hadden* $375,000 412 123
 
Atlanta  
King & Spalding* $525,000 568 146
Alston & Bird* $480,000 463 126
Kilpatrick Stockton* $380,000 462 138
 
Boston  
Hale and Dorr* $665,000 390 132
Ropes & Gray $650,000 368 149
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault $620,000 364 78
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo* $600,000 351 62
Bingham Dana* $570,000 366 64
Goodwin Procter* $490,000 408 93
 
Chicago  
Kirkland & Ellis* $710,000 662 128
Mayer, Brown & Platt $625,000 853 324
Sidley & Austin* $595,000 797 193
Jenner & Block* $535,000 342 168
Katten Muchin Zavis* $525,000 405 96
Winston & Strawn* $515,000 721 154
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal* $450,000 458 121
 
Cleveland  
Baker & Hostetler* $395,000 479 145
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey* $335,000 682 167
 
Dallas  
Jenkens & Gilchrist* $525,000 474 124
Locke Liddell & Sapp* $485,000 360 176
 
Houston  
Baker Botts* $570,000 547 201
Vinson & Elkins $560,000 690 281
Fulbright & Jaworski $450,000 760 312
 
Kansas City, Mo.  
Shook, Hardy & Bacon* $415,000 518 88
 
Los Angeles  
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $725,000 647 215
Latham & Watkins* $675,000 951 288
O'Melveny & Myers* $565,000 708 212
 
Milwaukee  
Foley & Lardner* $515,000 703 283
 
Minneapolis  
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi* $1,185,000 220 63
Dorsey & Whitney* $425,000 601 256
 
New York  
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz $2,170,000 146 72
Cravath, Swaine & Moore $1,105,000 344 80
Sullivan & Cromwell $1,045,000 495 127
Davis Polk & Wardwell $980,000 535 138
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett $940,000 533 127
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton $835,000 550 145
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $800,000 1,441 302
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison $790,000 410 98
Cahill Gordon & Reindel* $755,000 203 53
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy* $745,000 419 91
Shearman & Sterling* $735,000 805 163
Debevoise & Plimpton $705,000 413 92
Chadbourne & Parke* $690,000 277   67
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson $680,000 463 127
Weil, Gotshal & Manges* $675,000 750 170
Willkie Farr & Gallagher $670,000 392 111
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft* $660,000 351 76
Kaye Scholer* $655,000 361 108
Dewey Ballantine* $645,000 474 113
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan $615,000 290 95
Proskauer Rose $600,000 491 131
Schulte Roth & Zabel* $585,000 248 56
Brown & Wood* $525,000 368 84
Kelley Drye & Warren* $525,000 300 59
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker* $300,000 484 119
 
Palo Alto, Calif.  
Fenwick & West $595,000 248 65
Cooley Godward* $590,000 583 129
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $555,000 812 133
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich* $500,000 380 91
 
Philadelphia  
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley* $445,000 368 153
Duane, Morris & Heckscher* $430,000 364 146
Pepper Hamilton* $390,000 373 99
 
Pittsburgh  
Buchanan Ingersoll* $415,000 434 86
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart* $415,000 521 169
Reed Smith* $325,000 594 190
 
Richmond, Va.  
Hunton & Williams* $455,000 702 230
McGuireWoods* $410,000 515 138
 
Rochester, N.Y.  
Nixon Peabody* $400,000 488  197  
 
San Francisco  
Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison* $660,000 724 146
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe* $600,000 532 124
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe* $595,000 440 138
Pillsbury Madison & Sutro* $570,000 517 102
Morrison & Foerster* $540,000 809 193  
Thelen Reid & Priest* $470,000 383 98
 
Seattle  
Preston Gates & Ellis* $460,000 323 133
Perkins Coie* $455,000 475 141
 
St. Louis  
Bryan Cave* $395,000 565 152
 
Tampa, Fla.  
Holland & Knight* $390,000 928 366
 
Washington, D.C.  
Arnold & Porter $640,000 484 190
Covington & Burling $595,000 399 139
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering $575,000 331 102
Howrey Simon Arnold & White* $555,000 435 94
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman* $490,000 312 66
Shaw Pittman $445,000 371 109
Hogan & Hartson* $430,000 744 189
 
Winston-Salem, N.C.  
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice* $480,000 341 129
*An asterisk indicates the firm has more than one partnership tier.

(The American Lawyer, July 2001)


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