Cooley, Palo Alto, California

Cooley has delivered another strong year of financial growth, exceeding the $1 billion benchmark for gross revenue in 2017.

The firm saw that metric hit $1.07 billion last year, an increase of 10.1 percent from the $974 million that Cooley took in the year before. Revenue per lawyer rose 4.8 percent in 2017, to almost $1.2 million, while profits per equity partner jumped 6.2 percent, to $2.08 million.