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Rankings: Law360 400

  • March 23, 2016

    Morgan Lewis Sheds Over 100 Attorneys After Bingham Deal

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has seen its U.S.-based attorney headcount drop by 108 in the past year, which sources tell Law360 is a combination of losses tied to the firm's mass acquisition of Bingham McCutchen LLP laterals and BigLaw's increasing trend of associate-level attrition.

  • March 23, 2016

    5 Firms On The Rise In 2016

    While the firms on the Law360 400 only grew modestly as a whole last year, a handful stood out, each expanding its U.S. headcount by more than 10 percent. Here, Law360 names five firms worth watching as they move up the ranks of the largest U.S. firms.

  • March 23, 2016

    The Firms That Lost The Most Ground This Year

    Faced with contracting markets and increasing competition, five midsize and boutique firms on the Law360 400 shrank their attorney headcounts by 12 percent or more last year, according to data compiled by Law360.

  • March 23, 2016

    Greenberg Traurig On Track To Become Biggest US Firm

    Greenberg Traurig LLP’s ranks swelled again in 2015 through a number of high-profile lateral acquisitions, and though the firm’s leader said that growth for its own sake is not a sound strategy, the firm is poised to top next year’s Law360 400.

  • March 31, 2015

    Fla. Firms See Sunny Future As Cuba Relations Thaw

    With steady growth in the Florida real estate sector expected to continue and the prospect of increased business with Cuba, the 17 Florida-based firms that made the Law360 400 list are bullish on their prospects for the coming years.

  • March 31, 2015

    Law Firms Find Strong Footing In Minneapolis Market

    With an unusually high concentration of Fortune 500 companies, a relatively low cost of doing business and a wealth of cultural and educational opportunities, it's no surprise that Minneapolis is among the top 10 cities that law firms in the Law360 400 have chosen to call home and, in many instances, have been able to thrive in for more than a century.

  • March 30, 2015

    McCarter & English Tops List Of Firms That Call NJ Home

    Recent combinations with energy and technology-centric law firms have helped McCarter & English LLP to keep the number one spot on the list of the biggest firms based in New Jersey, according to the Law360 400.

  • March 30, 2015

    Pa. Firms Safe At Home And Gunning For National Growth

    With strong foundations built on a stable legal market in the state, many of the more than two dozen Pennsylvania-based firms in the Law360 400 have turned their eyes in the past year toward expanding their footprint in other cities across the United States.

  • March 27, 2015

    DC Legal Boom Set To Continue Amid Regulatory Demand

    An increasing number of Law360 400 firms are placing their flagship offices in Washington, D.C., but this is only the tip of the iceberg for the vibrant legal market in the capital, industry experts say, as firms seek to meet growing demand for regulatory guidance.

  • March 27, 2015

    Calif. Firms Pick Up Speed From Startup, Tech Boom

    Nearly three dozen law firms with California headquarters landed on the Law360 400, with San Francisco's Littler Mendelson PC once again topping the list, and experts say the intellectual property, employment and transactional needs of booming startups and technology businesses like Snapchat Inc. and Hulu LLC are creating opportunities for firms to reach new heights.

  • March 26, 2015

    Texas Firms Branch Out While Doubling Down At Home

    Bolstered by a strong statewide economy and a thriving legal market, Texas is home to nearly two dozen firms on the Law360 400, and even as those firms expand nationally and internationally, they continue to find great value in their Texas roots.

  • March 25, 2015

    NY Loses Ground To DC In Flagship Office Count

    New York still reigns supreme as the city with the most flagship law firm offices in the Law360 400, but the Big Apple's total shrank by 14 percent as several firms grew their offices in other U.S. cities.

  • March 25, 2015

    Deep-Pocketed Outsiders Challenge Wall Street Firms In NY

    The hegemony of so-called Wall Street firms in New York is under threat from firms founded elsewhere in the U.S. that are using record-high compensation packages as a cudgel to steal elite lateral talent, clients and market share, according to Law360 data and industry insiders.

  • March 24, 2015

    16 US Law Firms Keep Partnership Club Elite

    Law360's ranking of the 400 largest U.S. law firms confirms that top-billing Wall Street firms tend to keep partner concentrations extremely low, helping to boost the all-important profits-per-partner metric.

  • March 24, 2015

    Top 3 Employment Boutiques Gain As Rivals See Drop-Off

    The country's biggest labor and employment boutiques are getting bigger, according to this year's Law360 400, a trend lawyers say is fueled by clients increasingly turning to firms that specialize in labor and employment work as opposed to their general practice brethren.

  • March 23, 2015

    Lateral Mania Fuels Growth For Opportunistic Firms

    Law firms experienced minor attorney headcount growth in 2014, but growth-hungry, opportunistic firms saw their number of U.S. attorneys increase by more than 10 percent thanks to strategic attorney acquisitions and office expansions, according to the Law360 400.

  • March 23, 2015

    Client Happiness Drove BigLaw Mergers In 2014

    The BigLaw mergers that made headlines in 2014 — 12 U.S. partnerships of at least 20 lawyers were scooped up by firms in the Law360 400 list — were driven more by answering corporate clients' legal needs than by short-term profit growth and client buying, industry leaders told Law360.

  • March 23, 2015

    The Law360 400

    There's a new leader of the pack for BigLaw. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP leapfrogged eight competitors to become the largest law firm in America and now holds the top spot in the Law360 400, our annual ranking of the largest U.S. law firms. Morgan Lewis took over the top spot from Jones Day in November when it added more than 750 lawyers, including hundreds in the U.S., from Bingham McCutchen LLP.

  • March 20, 2015

    Litigation Firms Make Cuts Amid Work Slowdown

    The trend among U.S. companies to end litigation as quickly and cheaply as possible has left many litigation-focused firms with a work shortfall, and some have been forced to cut their associate ranks, according to industry watchers and Law360 data.

  • March 20, 2015

    Law360 Reveals Largest IP Boutiques

    Boston-based Fish & Richardson PC has retained its top spot among the largest IP boutiques, and while IP specialty firms bring an army of top talent to the legal market, experts say they still need to define their mission and adapt to a changing market to keep up with general practice firms.

  • March 20, 2015

    Is MegaLaw Just Big Enough To Fail?

    Globalization and the lure of lucrative cross-border transaction work are driving the emergence of a new class of international megafirms, but experts say the advantages of size may be offset by ballooning overhead costs and the inevitability of client conflicts.

  • March 20, 2015

    Law360 Reveals 400 Largest US Firms

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has leapfrogged eight competitors to become the largest law firm in America and now holds the top spot in the Law360 400, our annual ranking of the largest U.S. law firms.  

  • March 18, 2015

    Holland & Knight Cuts Equity Ranks To Make Way For Laterals

    Holland & Knight LLP is trimming its equity partner ranks by de-equitizing some partners and transitioning others to senior nonequity roles to clear a path for new rainmakers, according to the firm and Law360 data.

  • March 16, 2015

    White & Case Sees 10% Atty Drop As Profits Come To Focus

    In the past year, White & Case LLP's U.S. attorney head count dropped by about 10 percent, marking at least four straight years of slimdowns by Law360's count. But rather than indicating a malignancy within the firm, former partners and industry experts say the dip is a symptom of a "get lean" strategy that is bringing in better revenues.

  • March 15, 2015

    MoFo Sees Atty Drop In 2014 As Big Cases Wrap Up

    Morrison & Foerster LLP saw a nearly 8 percent drop in its U.S.-based attorney headcount in 2014, according to this year's Law360 400 survey, as the firm's work on high-profile cases like the Residential Capital LLC bankruptcy and an Apple-Samsung smartphone patent war drew to a close.

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