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This is a list of the world's largest law firms based on the AmLaw Global 200 Rankings. [1] Firms marked with "(verein)" are structured as a Swiss association.
List of largest law firms by revenue; List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner; List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Japan-based law firms by head count
Firms marked with "(verein)" are structured as a Swiss association. These are estimates and equity partners can make vastly different salaries inside the same firm. [2] For more up-to-date information on the US firms in this list, please refer to Largest US Law Firms Ranked by Profits Per Equity Partner.
As of 2024, K&L Gates is ranked #49 in the Top 100 "most prestigious law firms in the country based on the assessments of lawyers at peer firms" by Vault.com. [18] For three consecutive years (2017–2019) U.S. News has ranked K&L Gates as the top law firm in the U.S. for environmental litigation ("Law Firm of the Year - Environmental Litigation").
It was founded in 1993 by three former Harvard Law School classmates (’82), Michael K. Kellogg, [3] Peter W. Huber, [4] and Mark C. Hansen. Practice areas include commercial litigation, appellate litigation, antitrust litigation, telecommunications law, and governmental investigations.
The firm was founded in 1948 in New York by Marshall Skadden, John Slate, and Les Arps. [7] Joseph Flom was hired the same year as the firm's first associate. In 1959, William R. Meagher joined the firm and Elizabeth Head, the firm's first female attorney, was hired. In 1960, the firm's name became Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. [7]
Nelson Mullins has over 1000 attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals across 33 offices serving clients in more than 100 practice areas. In 2023, the American Lawyer ranked the firm as the 68th largest law firm in the nation based on 2022 gross revenue. It is the largest law firm in South Carolina by number of lawyers. [3]
Law firms are typically organized around partners, who are joint owners and business directors of the legal operation; associates, who are employees of the firm with the prospect of becoming partners; and a variety of staff employees, providing paralegal, clerical, and other support services. An associate may have to wait as long as 11 years ...