Atlanta now hosts almost one-quarter of the nation's 200 highest-grossing law firms.

Reflecting the increasingly competitive legal market, there are 49 Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms in Atlanta, with local offices ranging from several hundred lawyers at homegrown giants King & Spalding and Alston & Bird to outposts with only a handful.

Two-thirds of those 49 firms are Am Law 100, including five Atlanta-based ones, and the others are Second Hundred, with four based in Atlanta.