In its first incarnation in 1868, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory promised to furnish readers with the address of at least one reliable law firm in each city in the United States. Today’s directory lists far more than that, with profiles of lawyers and firms filling more than a dozen hardbound volumes.
Part of the Lexis-Nexis group of Anglo-Dutch publishing conglomerate Reed Elsevier, Martindale says the directory has biographical information on more than 1 million lawyers and that 95 percent of large firms pay for a directory profile. But those firms no longer include some of the biggest names in the profession. In the last year alone, megafirms Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; Dechert and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal all dropped out of Martindale-Hubbell. Indeed, of the firms listed in the Am Law 100 survey of the nation’s top-grossing law firms, nine no longer have Martindale-Hubbell profiles.
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