Atlanta continues to be a hot location for national firms seeking an entree into the Southeastern legal market.

The city has gained six Am Law firms since the beginning of 2018. (But another, Sherman & Howard, closed its two-lawyer outpost here.)

Atlanta is now home to 48 Am Law 100 and Second Hundred firms, The American Lawyers' designation for the 200 highest-grossing firms in the country, with local offices ranging from several hundred lawyers at homegrown giants King & Spalding and Alston & Bird to outposts with just a handful.

Of those, two-thirds are Am Law 100 (including five Atlanta-based firms) and the others are Second Hundred.

That said, the Daily Report's chart displaying 2018 financials for the city's Am Law firms shows only the 47 firms that had an Atlanta office last year. The 48th, the Midwest's Shook Hardy & Bacon (No. 103 in the Am Law ranking), just arrived on the scene on June 8, launching an Atlanta location with three product liability partners from Alston & Bird.