Winston & Strawn cracked the billion-dollar revenue mark in 2019 through a focused push to transition from a litigation-heavy firm to one that’s evenly split between litigation and transactional practices.

The Chicago-based firm has been investing heavily in its transactional practices, to the point where approximately 50% of the $1.012 billion the firm generated in 2019 came from shepherding corporate deals, said chairman Thomas Fitzgerald.