A Guide To Our Methodology Gross Revenue By Location Firm Gross Revenue # lawyers # equity partners International   Baker & McKenzie $940,000,000 2,721 566 White & Case* $491,000,000 1,008 189 Coudert Brothers* $193,500,000 484 137 National Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue* $675,000,000 1,298 291 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius* $515,500,000 999 230 McDermott, Will & Emery* $503,000,000 840 269 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld* $430,000,000 889 227 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker* $388,500,000 654 174 Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe* $353,500,000 743 200 Greenberg Traurig* $345,000,000 634 194 LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae* $340,000,000 726 180 Dechert* $285,500,000 582 183 Seyfarth Shaw $197,000,000 474 187 Arter & Hadden* $155,500,000 412 123 Atlanta King & Spalding* $299,000,000 568 146 Alston & Bird* $223,000,000 463 126 Kilpatrick Stockton* $176,500,000 462 138 Boston Hale and Dorr* $259,000,000 390 132 Ropes & Gray $240,000,000 368 149 Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault $225,000,000 364 78 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo* $210,500,000 351 62 Bingham Dana* $208,500,000 366 64 Goodwin Procter* $200,000,000 408 93 Chicago Mayer, Brown & Platt $533,500,000 853 324 Sidley & Austin* $473,000,000 797 193 Kirkland & Ellis* $470,000,000 662 128 Winston & Strawn* $370,500,000 721 154 Katten Muchin Zavis* $212,500,000 405 96 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal* $205,500,000 458 121 Jenner & Block $182,500,000 342 168 Cleveland Squire, Sanders & Dempsey* $230,000,000 682 167 Baker & Hostetler* $190,500,000 479 145 Dallas Jenkens & Gilchrist* $249,000,000 474 124 Locke Liddell & Sapp* $175,000,000 360 176 Houston Vinson & Elkins $386,500,000 690 281 Fulbright & Jaworski $343,000,000 760 312 Baker Botts* $311,500,000 547 201 Kansas City, Mo. Shook, Hardy & Bacon* $214,500,000 518 88 Los Angeles Latham & Watkins* $642,500,000 951 288 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $469,000,000 647 215 O'Melveny & Myers* $400,500,000 708 212 Milwaukee Foley & Lardner* $363,000,000 703 283 Minneapolis Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi* $261,000,000 220 63 Dorsey & Whitney* $254,000,000 601 256 New York Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $1,154,000,000 1,441 302 Shearman & Sterling* $590,000,000 805 163 Davis Polk & Wardwell $525,000,000 535 138 Sullivan & Cromwell $516,500,000 495 127 Weil, Gotshal & Manges* $505,500,000 750 170 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett $500,000,000 533 127 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton $460,000,000 550 145 Cravath, Swaine & Moore $380,000,000 344 80 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison $324,500,000 410 98 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz $317,000,000 146 72 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson $315,000,000 463 127 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy* $312,500,000 419 91 Dewey Ballantine* $306,500,000 474 113 Proskauer Rose $295,000,000 491 131 Debevoise & Plimpton $291,000,000 413 92 Willkie Farr & Gallagher $262,000,000 392 111 Kaye Scholer* $236,000,000 361 108 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft* $231,000,000 351 76 Brown & Wood* $193,000,000 368 84 Chadbourne & Parke* $191,000,000 277 67 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan $178,000,000 290 95 Kelley Drye & Warren* $157,500,000 300 59 Cahill Gordon & Reindel* $153,500,000 203 53 Schulte Roth & Zabel* $145,000,000 248 56 Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker* $144,500,000 484 119 Palo Alto, Calif. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati $450,000,000 812 133 Cooley Godward* $345,000,000 583 129 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich* $190,000,000 380 91 Fenwick & West $148,000,000 248 65 Philadelphia Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley* $164,000,000 368 153 Duane, Morris & Heckscher* $156,500,000 364 146 Pepper Hamilton* $145,000,000 373 99 Pittsburgh Kirkpatrick & Lockhart* $216,500,000 521 169 Reed Smith* $193,000,000 594 190 Buchanan Ingersoll* $179,500,000 434 86 Richmond, Va. Hunton & Williams* $318,000,000 702 230 McGuireWoods* $210,000,000 515 138 Rochester, N.Y. Nixon Peabody* $196,000,000 488 197 San Francisco Brobeck, Phleger & HarrisonBrobeck, Phleger & Harrison* $476,000,000 724 146 Morrison & Foerster* $437,000,000 809 193 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe* $320,000,000 532 124 Pillsbury Madison & Sutro* $295,000,000 517 102 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe* $261,500,000 440 138 Thelen Reid & Priest* $180,000,000 383 98 Seattle Perkins Coie* $216,000,000 475 141 Preston Gates & Ellis* $149,000,000 323 133 St. Louis Bryan Cave* $223,500,000 565 152 Tampa, Fla. Holland & Knight* $363,500,000 928 366 Washington, D.C. Hogan & Hartson* $320,000,000 744 189 Arnold & Porter $310,000,000 484 190 Howrey Simon Arnold & White* $241,000,000 435 94 Covington & Burling $237,000,000 399 139 Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering $190,500,000 331 102 Shaw Pittman $165,500,000 371 109 Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman* $152,000,000 312 66 Winston-Salem, N.C. Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice* $164,000,000 341 129 * An asterisk indicates the firm has more than one partnership tier. (The American Lawyer, July 2001) ----------------------------------------------------------- Note: Law firms with hypertext links paid a fee to participate in law.com's law firm marketing program. Whether or not a firm participates in that program in no way influences whether the firm appears in the survey, or its ranking. ----------------------------------------------------------