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The year 2016-2017 witnessed increase in revenue of law firms and expansion in
offices longwith new partners. United States bags no.1 rank for maximum law firms in
Top 100. The maximum lawfirms engaged in corporate cases are seen to have more
revenue which has been increased manyfold times from previous data.
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THE TOP 100 LAW FIRMS OF THE WORLD (2016-17)
The Top 100 Law Firms of World Ranking are here. The rankings have been finalized on the basis
of Annual revenue of these firms. The Ranking chart provides number of offices, profit margin and
profit per lawyer. As United States of America is, naturally, by far the largest jurisdiction for these
firms, employing a total of 40,376 partners stands first in country. The UK is second, with 6,929
partners, while Canada comes third with 2,252 partners.
The following is a list of the world's 100 largest law firms by revenue as of September 2016
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6 Clifford $2.11b UK 36 1987 (by 36% $251,000
Chance (London) (10 merger of
Upper Bank two London-
Street) based law
firms,
Clifford
Turner and
Coward
Chance)
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12 Sidley Austin $1.86b United 20 1866 38% $397,000
States
(Chicago, IL)
(One South
Dearborn)
5
the "Silver
Circle" of
leading UK
law firms,
and
Freehills,
one of the
"Big Six" law
firms in
Australia)
6
Cutler &
Pickering
7
shortened to
K&L Gates.)
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38 Squire Patton $929.1m United 46 2014 (by 13% $86,000
Boggs States merger of
(Cleveland, Cleveland-
OH) (Key headquarter
Tower) ed Squire
Sanders with
D.C.-based
Patton
Boggs)
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(Eleven
Times
Square)
10
56 Baker Botts $704.5m United 14 1840 43% $422,000
States
(Houston,
TX) (One
Shell Plaza)
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64 Arnold & $650m United 9 1946 44% $424,000
Porter States
(Washington,
DC)
12
Tower Lord Bissell
(Dallas)) & Brook,
forming
Locke Lord
Bissell &
Liddell)
13
76 Littler $506.5m United 70 1942 32% $167,000
Mendelson States (San
Francisco,
CA)
14
84 Nixon $461m United 16 1999 (by 29% $214,000
Peabody States merger of
(Boston, MA) New York-
(100 based
Summer Nixon,
Street) Hargrave,
Devans &
Doyle LLP
and Boston-
based
Peabody &
Brown)
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93 Schulte Roth & $405m United 3 1969 49% $558,000
Zabel States (New
York, NY)
(919 Third
Avenue)
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100 Fidal $384m France 90 1922 7% $21,000
(Paris)
Research References:
Joanne Harris (23 June 2016). "Revealed: Global 200 deliver 81bn revenue in 2015". (access
requires subscription)
http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/index.php/global-100-2016
"Latham & Watkins posts record high revenue and PEP for 2014". Legalweek. Retrieved
2015-08-23.
Will White (2016-08-22). "BAKER & MCKENZIE ANNOUNCES GLOBAL REVENUES OF US$2.62
BILLION". www.bakermckenzie.com. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
Jump up ^ The Lawyer; Legal Business (2014-08-11). "DLA Piper revenue tops $2.5 billion,
but profits sag". www.legalisglobal.com. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
http://www.thelawyer.com/analysis/the-lawyer-management/financial-insight/magic-circle-
growth-combined-global-revenue-hits-514bn-in-2014/15/3037077.article
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