Credit: Kevin Fales Faced With a Fractured Economy, the Am Law 200 Not Only Survived—They Grew
In a year of incredible uncertainty that brought greater challenges to the Second Hundred than the Am Law 100, this diverse group of firms made it through the wilderness.
May 18, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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A Midwest powerhouse in its first year after a blockbuster merger. A single-office elite litigation boutique. A sprawling insurance defense legacy firm that's expanded into transactional work and beyond. An IP specialty shop. And a firm that's placed a bet on multidisciplinary practice, with a growing number of consultants working alongside lawyers.
What data are you leveraging to sell strategy internally? Get the interactive Am Law 200 data exclusively with Legal Compass. This sampling of five entirely different business models found within just the first 10 spots in the Second Hundred is a microcosm of the diversity of the group. And yet, as varied as these firms are, there's an argument to be made that there's more analytical value in looking at them collectively than there is in applying the same exercise to the Am Law 100.
After all, the $261 million gap in revenue between 2020's No. 101 firm, Taft Stettinius & Hollister (the Midwest merger product), and No. 200 Hinckley, Allen & Snyder is minuscule compared to the nearly $4 billion separating No. 1 Kirkland & Ellis and No. 100 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.
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4 minute readLaw Firms Mentioned
- Taft Stettinius & Hollister
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- Choate, Hall & Stewart
- Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard
- Lathrop Gage
- Thompson Knight
- Herrick Feinstein
- Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis
- Arent Fox
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Hinckley Allen Snyder
- Schiff Hardin
- Offit Kurman
- Briggs and Morgan
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.
- Kobre Kim
- Irell & Manella
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