Legal Business

Global London 2016 – The Main Table

  • Legal Business

    • Firm name Date founded Total fee-earners % change on previous year Total partners English qualified lawyers in office Other qualified lawyers in office Partner promotions in latest round (as % of total London partners) Change in London lawyer headcount 10-15
    White & Case 1971 420 19% 89 314 106 8 9% 26%
    Dentons 1788 366 n/a 121 340 26 1 1% n/a
    Baker & McKenzie 1961 391 -2% 87 381 10 3 3% 7%
    Reed Smith 2001 351 -6% 115 341 10 6 5% 22%
    King & Wood Mallesons 1982 346 n/a 91 312 34 3 3% n/a
    Latham & Watkins 1990 310 5% 67 196 114 4 6% 61%
    Mayer Brown 1974 253 1% 87 239 14 2 2% -17%
    Jones Day 1986 222 2% 62 209 13 2 3% 25%
    Shearman & Sterling 1972 192 16% 42 120 72 5 12% 76%
    Kirkland & Ellis 1994 174 17% 62 143 31 8 13% 96%
    Squire Patton Boggs 1991 166 n/a 61 157 9 7 11% n/a
    Weil, Gotshal & Manges 1996 160 0% 31 150 10 3 10% 38%
    Ropes & Gray 2009 133 37% 32 79 54 2 6% n/a
    K&L Gates 2005 129 0% 48 123 6 3 6% 1%
    Dechert 1972 127 -9% 39 107 20 1 3% 41%
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1988 125 0% 27 102 23 1 4% 5%
    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1971 117 -3% 23 96 21 0% 26%
    Debevoise & Plimpton 1989 110 7% 17 92 18 2 12% 20%
    Sidley Austin 1974 108 -6% 35 99 9 1 3% -3%
    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy 1979 106 8% 23 78 28 1 4% 147%
    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1978 106 14% 19 67 39 3 16% 152%
    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 1997 97 15% 36 75 22 3 8% 234%
    Paul Hastings 1997 91 42% 27 73 18 1 4% 102%
    Covington & Burling 1988 86 -1% 22 70 16 1 5% 46%
    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 1998 81 27% 27 74 7 1 4% 19%
    Sullivan & Cromwell 1972 77 -1% 21 38 39 0% 8%
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 1972 76 9% 7 21 55 0% 58%
    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 1979 69 30% 22 56 13 0% 50%
    Cooley 2015 66 20% 24 65 1 n/a
    Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1981 62 -2% 33 62 0% 77%
    Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1997 56 17% 11 44 12 0% 155%
    Davis Polk & Wardwell 1972 54 4% 9 30 24 0% 64%
    King & Spalding 2003 53 13% 22 46 7 1 5% 130%
    Proskauer Rose 2007 51 26% 18 42 9 1 6% n/a
    Brown Rudnick 1997 50 -2% 25 50 2 8% 92%
    Greenberg Traurig Maher 2009 48 2% 20 48 1 5% 30%
    Morrison & Foerster 1980 46 2% 14 44 2 1 7% -13%
    Arnold & Porter 1997 44 5% 16 39 5 0% 24%
    Vinson & Elkins 1971 43 0% 13 38 5 0% 39%
    Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1985 43 13% 5 43 0% 95%
    Bryan Cave 1982 42 11% 16 38 4 0% 31%
    McDermott Will & Emery 1998 41 0% 20 35 6 0% -27%
    McGuire Woods 2009 37 -8% 16 31 6 1 6% -20%
    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 1970 36 9% 12 34 2 0% -5%
    Locke Lord 2012 34 6% 11 25 9 0% n/a
    Baker Botts 1998 34 0% 12 33 1 0% n/a
    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan 2008 32 7% 14 27 5 1 7% n/a
    Gide Loyrette Nouel 2003 32 -16% 8 23 9 0% -22%
    Goodwin Procter 2008 31 n/a 11 20 11 1 9% n/a
    O’Melveny & Myers 1986 29 4% 7 29 0% 16
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