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How information was compiled for the survey BY jesse Rothman most mentioned firms by category o find out which law firms represent America’s largest corporations, we do Corporate Transactions Employment and Labor Litigation the research. We went through public Cleary Gottlieb...... 11 Littler Mendelson...... 2322 recordsT to find information on the Fortune Skadden...... 11 Ogletree Deakins...... 19 100 for five different practice areas: corporate Morgan Lewis...... transactions; commercial law and contracts Wachtell...... 10 15 litigation; torts and negligence; employment Davis Polk...... 8 Seyfarth Shaw...... 15 and labor litigation; and intellectual property Blake Cassels...... 7 McGuireWoods...... 10 litigation and patent prosecution. Hogan & Hartson...... 7 Jackson Lewis...... 9 To find the firms for litigation in each of Sullivan & Cromwell...... 7 Akin Gump...... 6 these areas, we turned to Thomson Reuters’ Allens Arthur...... 6 Hunton & Williams...... 6 Monitor Suite, which compiles information Baker & McKenzie...... about lawyers, law firms, roles, represen- 6 IP Litigation and Patent Prosecution Jones Day...... 6 tation and parties from legal documents. Baker Botts...... 9 Cases include court dockets filed in the U.S. Pinheiro Neto Advogados...... 6 Fish & Richardson...... 9 circuit courts of appeals; U.S. district court Simpson Thacher...... 6 Foley & Lardner...... 9 dockets on active and inactive civil and crim- Weil Gotshal...... 6 inal cases; and federal case law decisions K&L Gates...... 9 Freshfields Bruckhaus...... from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. courts 5 Cantor Colburn...... 8 of appeals, U.S. district courts, the Court of Alston & Bird...... 7 Commercial Law and Federal Claims, Tax Court, related federal Contracts Litigation Howrey...... 7 courts and military courts. King & Spalding...... 7 Reed Smith...... At the time of our research in May 2009, 6 Kirkland & Ellis...... 7 the database also contained information Morgan Lewis...... 5 Morrison & Foerster...... 7 on 30 state dockets, although law firms are Kirkland & Ellis...... 4 identified in only 19 of those states. Of those, Robinson & Cole...... 4 10 did not cover all the counties in the state. Stein & Rotman...... We also used Monitor Suite to find out 4 which firms represented the Fortune 100 for Torts and Negligence patent prosecution in the fields of grants, applications and assignments. The database Watkins & Eager...... 7 utilizes documents filed with the U.S. Patent King & Spalding...... 5 and Trademark Office. Baker Donelson...... 4 most mentioned corporate transactions Barfield & Associates...... 4 Bryan Cave...... firms in survey For corporate transactions, we also turned 4 to Monitor Suite, which contains legal-rep- Campbell Campbell Edwards...... 4 Morgan Lewis...... 27 resentation data for securities transactions, Forman Perry...... 4 Littler MendelsonMendelson...... 2423 Frost Brown...... 4 issuers, underwriters, and mergers and Ogletree Deakins...... 22 acquisitions. Halloran & Sage...... 4 For our research, we looked at data from Miles & Stockbridge...... 4 Kirkland & Ellis...... 19 Jan. 1, 2008, to Dec. 31, 2008. We listed the Page Mannino...... 4 Jones Day...... 17 top 10 firms with two or more mentions in Tucker Ellis...... 4 K&L Gates...... 17 litigation and the top 10 firms with one or more mentions for corporate transactions. King & Spalding...... 17 For patent prosecution, we listed the top McGuireWoods...... 17 three firms with one or more mentions in Seyfarth Shaw...... 17 each of the three areas. “N/A” was used if no data were available. Hunton & Williams...... 16 Law firm names are shortened for space. n the nlj client list – Who represents corporate america
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2 Wal-Mart Hogan & Hartson; Baker Hostetler; Baker Donelson; DeCaro Barnes & Thornburg; Boult Cummings; Bryan Cave; Stores Inc. Pinsent Masons; Dinsmore & Doran; Delashmet & Dowd Bennett; Ford & Eisenberg, Tanchum & Levy; Foley & White & Case Shohl; Gignilliat, Marchand; Halloran Harrison; Geary Porter; Lardner; Husch Blackwell; K&L Gates; Savitz & Bettis; & Sage; Haynsworth Kutak Rock; Lane Powell; Kenyon & Kenyon; Priest & Goldstein; Littler Mendelson; Sinkler Boyd; McCranie Lawrence & Russell; Quinn Emanuel; Troutman Sanders; McGuireWoods Sistrunk; McDonnell Littler Mendelson; WilmerHale; Wood, Herron & Evans & Associates; McLain McDonnell & Associates; & Merritt; Richard D. McGlinchey Stafford; Millet; Phillips, Spallas Phillips; Roetzel & & Angstad Andress; Waller Lansden; Wyatt Tarrant
5 General Allen & Overy; Benanti & Associates; Barfield & Associates; Bond Schoeneck; Armstrong Teasdale; Cantor Colburn; Electric Co. Ashurst; Clifford Capehart & DLA Piper; Forman Davis Wright; Davis Wright; Foley & Lardner; Chance; de Scatchard; Coston Perry; Gallop Johnson; Littler Mendelson; Hartman & Hartman; Howrey; J. Gaulle Fleurance; & Rademacher; Halloran & Sage; Ice McGuireWoods; Ogletree Andrew Coombs; Jenner & Block; King Hengeler, Muller; Daigle Fisse; Davis Miller; Page Mannino; Deakins; Paul Hastings; & Spalding; Latham & Watkins; Levine Hogan & Hartson; Wright; Deily, Sedgwick Detert; Sidley Quarles & Brady; Seyfarth Sullivan; McNees Wallace; Mitchell Hunton & Mooney & Glastetter; Austin Shaw; Wyatt Tarrant Silberberg; Munger Tolles; Nixon & Williams; Latham Eichenbaum & Vanderhye; Pryor Cashman; Rottenberg & Watkins; Stylianou; Hemar, Lipman Rich; Stewart, Estes & Donnell; Nagashima Rousso & Heald; Ward & Smith Ohno; SJ Berwin; Meyer & Njus; Nanis Slaughter and & Rinaldi; Peretore & May; Stikeman Peretore; Reed Smith; Elliottt; Weil Wong Fleming Gotshal
6 General Allens Arthur; Bernard, Cassisa, Bernard, Cassisa, Elliott Dinsmore & Shohl; Banner & Witcoff; Brooks Kushman; Motors Cleary Gottlieb; Elliott & Davis; & Davis; Campbell Eckert Seamans; Foster Cichosz & Cichosz; Emch Schaffer; Corp. Wachtell Bingham McCutchen; Campbell Edwards Swift; Hardy, Lewis & Gordon & Jacobson; Harness Dickey; Bowman and Brooke; & Conroy; Dykema Page; Kirkland & Ellis; Hoeger, Stellrecht; Howrey; K&L Conti Fenn; Faegre & Gossett; Eckert Lathrop & Gage; Littler Gates; Kenyon & Kenyon; Killworth, Benson; Honigman Seamans; Eldridge Mendelson; Seyfarth Gottman; Kirkland & Ellis; Potter Miller; Jones Day; Cooper; Hartline Dacus; Shaw; Vorys Sater Minton; Quinn Law Group; Ostrolenk Kirkland & Ellis; Lavin Hanson Marek; King & Faber; Vivacqua Law; Wuesthoff & O’Neil; Taft Stettinius Spalding; Lavin O’Neil; Wuesthoff Ogletree Deakins; Watkins & Eager
7 Ford Motor Blake Cassels; Baker Hostetler; Baker Donelson; Baker Hostetler; Berkowitz Alleman Hall; Axley Brynelson; Co. Hogan & Cooksey, Toolen; Campbell Campbell Oliver; Dickie, McCamey Brooks Kushman; Crowell & Moring; Hartson; Lovells; Farr Burke; Freeborn Edwards & Conroy; & Chilcote; Dickinson Dickinson Wright; Howard, Phillips Machado, Meyer; & Peters; William Carroll Bufkin; Huie, Wright; Gibson Dunn; & Andersen; Howrey; Ladas & Parry; NautaDutilh; A. Ingraham, Jr.; Femambucq & Stewart; Kienbaum Opperwall; Shook Hardy Schonherr MacDowell & McKenna Long; Ogletree Lewis Wagner; Littler Barfuss; Tozzini Associates; Morgan, Deakins; Roberts & Mendelson; Miller Freire Bornstein; Nair & Bishop; Rocap Witchger; Canfield; Seyferth Levin; Nelson & Snell & Wilmer; Watkins Blumenthal & Harris; Kennard; Stark & & Eager Sutherland Asbill; Turner, Stark Keal & Dallas; Waller Lansden
8 AT&T Inc. Sullivan & Ciulla & Donofrio; Adorno & Yoss; Butler Day Pitney; Hardy, Baker Botts; Brinks Hofer; Baker Cromwell; Torys Coleman & Horowitt; Snow; Ciulla & Donofrio; Lewis & Page; & McKenzie; Bell Nunnally; Cantor Cornerstone Law; Cooney, Scully and Lindner & Marsack; Colburn; Greenblum & Bernstein; Drinker Biddle; Franke Dowling; Crowell & Littler Mendelson; Hoover Hull; Hope Baldauff; Fulbright Greenhouse List & Moring; Johnston McGuireWoods; Paul & Jaworski; Jackson Walker; Lippitt; Ken Felker; Barton; Jones Walker; Hastings; Ogletree Kilpatrick Stockton; Moazzam & Lang, Richert & Kenny & Brimmer; Deakins; Titus,Hillis Associates; Potter Minton; Robinson Patch; Sidley Austin; Mayer Brown; Pillsbury Bradshaw; Sayles Werbner; Sidley Tierney, Watson & Winthrop; Pomeranz, Austin; Sonnenschein Nath; Sullivan Healy Drayton; Tierney, Zullo & Cromwell; Toler & Hanrahan; Torys; Weinick & Associates; Womble Carlyle the nlj client list – Who represents corporate america
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9 Hewlett- Baker & McKenzie; Baker Hostetler; Conkle, Kremer & Engel; Baker Hostetler; Bartlit Beck; Bingham McCutchen; Packard Cleary Gottlieb; Morgan Lewis; Phelps Morgan Lewis Bennington Johnson; Boehmert & Boehmert; Buchanan Co. Freshfields Dunbar Gibson Dunn; Littler Ingersoll; DLA Piper; Fenwick & Bruckhaus; Paul Mendelson; Morgan West; Fish & Richardson; Fulbright Weiss; Perez Lewis & Jaworski; Gibson Dunn; Gillam & Alati, Grondona; Smith; Goodwin Procter; Hogan & Simpson Thacher; Hartson; Ladas & Parry; Lee & Hayes; Weil Gotshal; Morgan Lewis; Munck Carter; Scheel & Willkie Farr Stone; Schwegman Lundberg; Whyte Hirschboeck; Williams Morgan; Wilson Sheehy
13 Berkshire Allen & Overy; Joseph T. Calabria; Bernstein, Chackman; Barnes & Thornburg; Baker & Daniels; Jones Day; Hathaway Baker & Cassidy, Mazza; Karen A. Besok; Greenberg Traurig; Kramer Levin; Gray Plant; Needle Inc. McKenzie; Blake William A.L. Eckstein; Joseph T. Calabria; Hoffman Hart; & Rosenberg; St. Onge Steward Cassels; Dechert; Gibson, Robb; Hudson Cassidy, Mazza; Arvid Littler Mendelson; Johnston & Reens; The H.T. Than DLA Piper; & Kelley; John D. Nord; Freeborn & McGuireWoods; Law Group; Womble Carlyle Linklaters; Munger Kennedy; Law Offices Peters; Michael A. Swerdlow Florence Tolles; Nishimura of Jay I. Lazerowitz; Griott; Johnson Smith; & Partners; Norr Levenfeld Pearlstein; John F.X. Kennedy; Stiefenhofer; Locke Lord; Neal McNamara and Kenney Thorne Grodnik; & Harwell; Pullin, Wachtell; Willkie Fowler; Stein McGuire; Farr Law Office of Maria Trenzado
19 CVS Davis Polk; Hogan N/A Cramer, Alissi; Dickie, Edwards Angell; Littler Barlow, Josephs Caremark & Hartson; Mintz McCamey & Chilcote; Mendelson; Ogletree Corp. Levin Edwards Angell; Deakins; Sheppard Mullin Galloway, Johnson; Pyatt Silvestri; Riccio & Beletsky; Swanson, Martin; Tydings & Rosenberg
22 The Kroger N/A N/A Bell, Orrock; Brady, Beirne & Wirthlin; Bullard Beyer Weaver; Brinks Hofer; D. Co. Vorwerck; Borton Smith; Butler Snow; Peter Hochberg; K&L Gates; Kohn Petrini; Guynn, Epstein Becker; Littler & Associates; Lahive & Cockfield; Memmer; Luckett Tyner; Mendelson; Luckett Langlotz Patent; Lerner David; Darell Menges & Molzahn; Tyner; Miller Nash; R. Matlock, Jr.; Morrison & Foerster; Spicer Flynn; Stone, Sherman & Howard; Taft Nixon Peabody; Schmeiser, Olsen; Rosenblatt; The Peavler Stettinius Thompson Hine; Townsend and Group; Uloth & Peavler; Townsend; Wood, Herron & Evans; Wesierski & Zurek; Young Basile Woodward, Hobson
25 The Home N/A Bondurant, Mixson & Anderson, Coe; Akin Gump; Ashe, N/A Depot Inc. Elmore; Hill Wallack; Chartwell; D’Amato Rafuse; Davis, Brown; Keesal, Young & & Lynch; Jenkins Ford & Harrison; Hale Logan; King & Goodman; Lewis Friesen; Jones Walker; Spalding; Kirkland & Brisbois; McVey & Lane Powell; Littler Ellis; McKenna Long; Parsky; Plunkett Mendelson; Ogletree Morris, Manning; Cooney; Purcell & Deakins; Paley Rothman; Ogletree Deakins; Wardrope; Shipman & Payne & Fears; Smith Payne & Fears; Goodwin; Law Offices of Sovik Purcell & Wardrope; Arthur K. Smith Rothschild, Barry; Shook Hardy; Law Offices of Arthur K. Smith; Sterns & Weinroth; Wargo & French the nlj client list – Who represents corporate america
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26 Amerisource N/A Buchanan Ingersoll; LeClairRyan Littler Mendelson; Walker & Jocke Bergen Corp. Burr & Forman; Clark Morgan Lewis Hill; Fultz Maddox; Klehr, Harrison
34 The Boeing Mallesons Perkins Coie Bryan Cave; Campbell Dechert; Figari & Alston & Bird; Harness Dickey; Lee & Co. Campbell Edwards Davenport; Foulston Hayes; Macpherson Kwok; Ostrager & Conroy; Modrall Siefkin; Law Offices Chong; Yee & Associates Sperling; Perkins Coie; of Holmes Weddle; White and Williams; Littler Mendelson; Wilson Elser McGuireWoods; Ogletree Deakins; Payne & Fears; Perkins Coie; Robblee Brennan
36 Walgreen Bryan Cave; Bryan Cave; Kirkland Arnstein & Lehr; Blue Bryan Cave; Crowe Marshall, Gerstein; Potter Minton Co. Kirkland & Ellis; & Ellis; McDermott Williams; Coughlin & Dunlevy; Littler Sidley Austin; Weil Will; Wright, Lindsey Duffy; David, Goodman; Mendelson; Modrall Gotshal Johnson & Bell; Sperling; Seyfarth Shaw; Knightlinger; McDermott Sweeney & Sheeham; Will; Modrall Sperling; Thompson, Sizemore, Regnier, Taylor; Gonzalez & Hearing Saalfield, Shad; Stutz Artiano; Taylor, Reams; Tucker Ellis; Williams Montgomery
42 Wells Fargo Cadwalader; Anglin, Flewelling; Ackerson & Yann; Baker Hostetler; Cozen Baker & McKenzie; Cantor Colburn; & Co. Cravath; Davies Bish, Butler; Coleman Coleman & Horowitt; O’Connor; Dorsey & Edwards Angell; Foley & Lardner; Ward; Dechert; & Horowitt; Hodges, Covington & Burling; Whitney; Faegre & Glenn Patent Group; Goldberg Kohn; Fasken Martineau; Avrutis; Levitan & Frilot; Hunt Leibert; King Benson; Lane Powell; Greenberg Traurig; Hoffmann & Freshfields Frieland; Mulvaney, & Spalding; McLaughlin Littler Mendelson; Baron; Keker & Van Nest; Morgan Bruckhaus; McKee Kahan; Nair & & McCaffrey; Middleton McGuireWoods; Munger Lewis; Paul Hastings Nelson; Stroock & Levin; Prenovost, Reutlinger; Rajkovich, Tolles; Ogletree Deakins; Stroock; Sullivan Normandin; Quarles Williams; Severson Rohm and Haas; Seyfarth & Cromwell; & Brady; Severson & Werson; Schnader Shaw Wachtell & Werson; Suppa, Harrison; Schuckit & Trucchi Associates; Ward Norris; Weltman, Weinberg; Wyatt Tarrant
49 Sears N/A Arnstein & Lehr; Aultman Tyner; Circuit The Bennett Law Firm; Davis & Gilbert; Greenberg Traurig; Holdings Bryan Cave; Foley & McKellogg; Godfrey & Doerner, Saunders; Fisher Kaufman & Canoles Corp. Lardner; Godfrey & Kahn; King & Spalding; & Phillips; Frilot; Jackson Kahn; McLaughlin & Law Office of Bohdan Lewis; Keller Thoma; McCaffrey; Powers Neswiacheny; Lightfoot, Littler Mendelson; & Frost; Ramey & Franklin; Miles & Ogletree Deakins; Seeley, Flock; Reed Smith; Stockbridge; Musick, Savidge; Sugarman, Robinson, Wettre; Peeler; Nokes & Quinn; Rogers; Vedder Price; Trotta, Trotta & Trotta Pond North; Trotta, Wolff & Samson Trotta & Trotta
50 Safeway N/A N/A Grunsky, Ebey; Latham Dillingham & Murphy; Pricket Jones Inc. & Watkins; Laughlin, Holland & Hart; Littler Falbo; McGuireWoods; Mendelson; Payne & Miles & Stockbridge; Fears; Seyfarth Shaw Reilly, Janiczek; Spigelman & Cecere; Tate & Associates
52 PepsiCo Blake Cassels; Proskauer Rose; Gordon, Muir; Hand Ballard Spahr; Kilpatrick Banner & Witcoff; Carstens & Cahoon; Inc. Chadbourne & Susman Godfrey Arendall; Milano & Stockton; Littler Campero & Becerra; Haynes and Parke; Matheson, Wanat; Whiteford Taylor Mendelson; Ogletree Boone; Jondle & Associates; Patishall, Ormsby; McCarthy Deakins; Sheppard Mullin McAuliffe; Ryndak & Suri; Womble Tétrault Carlyle the nlj client list – Who represents corporate america
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54 Lockheed Clayton Utz; Paul Hastings Kilpatrick Stockton; DLA Piper; Elarbee Birch, Stewart; Buchanan Ingersoll; Martin Davis Polk; Venable; Weiner Thompson; Holme Burns & Levinson; DeMont & Breyer; Corp. Hogan & Hartson; Lesniak; Windle Hood Roberts; Littler Duane Morris; Graybeal Jackson; O’Melveny & Mendelson; McCranie Kilpatrick Stockton; McDermott Will; Myers Sistrunk; Paul Hastings Miles & Stockbridge; Venable
59 FedEx Corp. N/A Abrams & Abrams; Kiesler & Berman Honigman Miller; Littler Finnegan Henderson; Richards Layton Akerman Senterfitt; Mendelson; Morgan, Behar, Gutt; Blank Brown & Joy; Morgan Rome; Hudson & Lewis; Spotswood Kelley; Morgan Lewis; Sansom; Venable Newman Myers; Phillips Cantor; Seals & Tenenbaum; Spector & Bennett; Weinstock & O’Malley
69 Northrop Sheppard Mullin Sheppard Mullin Haight Brown; Hunton Hunton & Williams; Alston & Bird; Andrews Kurth; Grumman & Williams; Elzufon Jackson Lewis; Littler A. Robert Stevenson; MacMillan, Corp. Austin; Wells, Moore Mendelson Sobanski; Stetina Brunda; Patti, Hewitt; Rothwell, Figg; Tarolli, Sundheim
95 3M Co. Cleary Gottlieb; N/A Baker Donelson; Brown Keating, O’Gara; Larson Baker Hostetler; Carlson, Caspers; Freshfields & Buchanan; Butler King; Littler Mendelson Chalker Flores; Christie Parker; Bruckhaus; Snow; Gordon & Rees; Crowell & Moring; Edwards Angell; McCarthy Tétrault Hill Fulwider; Horvath Fish & Richardson; Fulbright & & Lieber; Larson Jaworski; Hunton & Williams; King; Lavin O’Neil; Mueting, Raasch; Vossius & Partner; Page Mannino; Segal Wolf, Greenfield McCambridge; Susman Heffner
99 The Davis Polk; Baker & Miller; Chubbuck, Smith; Warren H. Britt; Hedrick Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton; Travelers Richards Layton; Bullivant Houser; Burr Halloran & Sage; Gardner; The Law Office Tressler, Soderstrom; WilmerHale Cos. Inc. Simpson Thacher & Forman; Halloran Hinshaw & Culbertson; of Joseph M. Jagielski; & Sage; Hinshaw Law Office of Joseph M. Littler Mendelson; & Culbertson; Jagielski; Lugenbuhl, Perkins Thompson London & London; Wheaton; Maisel & Marshall Dennehey; Associates; Pierce Robinson & Cole; Couch; The Law Offices Seyfarth Shaw; of William E. Staehle Slater, Tenaglia; Starnes & Atchinson; Updike, Kelly; Vezina, Lawrence; Watt, Tieder; Wolf, Horowitz; Wolkin Curran
100 Rite Aid Skadden Duane Morris; Kelly, Bacon, Thornton; Boyle, Anderson, Coe; Ashe, N/A Corp. Hockel; WolfBlock Morrissey; Howd & Rafuse; Bullard Smith; Ludorf; Jackson Kelly; Gibbons; Kelly, Hockel; Kelly, Hockel; London Littler Mendelson; Fisher; Manning Pepper Hamilton; Post & & Marder; Pepper Schell; Roetzel & Andress Hamilton; Phillips Lytle; Raven & Kolbe; Roetzel & Andress; Ungarino & Eckert
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