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July/August 2007 Volume 10, Number 4 boardmember.com CIAL SUE IS SPE AMERICA’STHE TOP 20 • THE WINNERS IN 25 METROPOLITAN AREAS BEST THE 2007 CORPORATE BOARD MEMBER/FTI CONSULTING SURVEY GOING GLOBAL: THE LEGAL PERILS MULTIPLY WHAT MAKES A CLIENT GREAT TOUGHER RULES FOR E-EVIDENCE PLUS: IN-HOUSE LAWYERS ON THEIR JOBS, THEIR BOARDS, AND THEIR OWN LEGAL WORRIES 2007 LOCAL CORPORATE LAW FIRMS VOTED ONE OF PORTLAND’S BEST LOCAL CORPORATE LAW FIRMS Corporate Board Member and FTI surveyed the directors of publicly traded U.S. corporations to determine the top PORTLAND 1 (TIE). SCHWABE WILLIAMSON & WYATT 20 corporate law firms in America and schwabe.com 503-222-9981 the best firms in 25 major cities. 2006 rank: 2 (tie) Total lawyers: 166 Representative clients: Columbia Forest Products, Evraz Oregon Steel Mills, Kryptiq Corp. STOEL RIVES LLP Garvey Schubert Barer was selected stoel.com 503-224-3380 by corporate directors as one of the best 2006 rank: 1 Total lawyers: 353 law firms in Portland, OR. They are featured Nike, Precision Castparts, Tektronix 3. TONKON TORP LLP in the 2007 Special Legal Issue of Corporate tonkon.com 503-221-1440 Board Member. 2006 rank: 5 (tie) Total lawyers: 74 Greenbrier Cos., Nike, Stimson Lumber 4. ATER WYNNE LLP aterwynne.com 503-226-1191 2006 rank: 5 (tie) Total lawyers: 47 FLIR Systems, Northwest Pipe Co., Planar Systems 5 (TIE). GARVEY SCHUBERT BARER gsblaw.com 503-228-3939 2006 rank: — Total lawyers: 124 InFocus, LaCrosse Footwear, Nautilus PERKINS COIE LLP perkinscoie.com 503-727-2000 2006 rank: 4 Total lawyers: 650 Eleventh Floor • 121 SW Morrison Street • Portland, Oregon 97204 Columbia Sportswear, Endeavour Capital, Integra Telecom Tel: (503) 228.3939 • Website: www.gsblaw.com COVER STORY WINNERS IN 25 METRO AREAS Five of last year’s runners-up vaulted to first place in the 2007 metropolitan-area rankings, according to the Corporate Board Member/FTI Consulting survey, and another five climbed into ties with the 2006 local leaders. Standing alone as top-ranked law firms in their respective areas are newly anointed Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, Holland & Hart in Denver, Baker Botts in Houston, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis in Pittsburgh. Firms deadlocked with last year’s leaders for ATLANTA No. 1 are Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, which tied with O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles; 1. ALSTON & BIRD LLP Quarles & Brady, with Foley & Lardner in alston.com Milwaukee; Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, 404-881-7000 with Stoel Rives in Portland; Armstrong 2006 rank: 1 (tie) Total lawyers: 750 Teasdale, with Bryan Cave in St. Louis; and Representative clients: Nokia, UPS, Wachovia Latham & Watkins, with Cooley Godward Kronish in San Diego. 2. KING & SPALDING kslaw.com Skadden Arps, the seven-time national 404-572-4600 leader, held on to the top spot in the New 2006 rank: 1 (tie) York area. And though it shares the lead in Total lawyers: 800 2007, Milwaukee’s Foley & Lardner is one Chevron, Coca-Cola, GE Real Estate of 10 firms that have consistently ranked 3. TROUTMAN SANDERS LLP No. 1 among directors asked to name the troutmansanders.com outfits in their areas that they would want 404-885-3000 2006 rank: 3 to represent them in general legal matters. Total lawyers: 610 The others are Jones Day in Cleveland, Chick-fil-A, Southern Co., Turner Broadcasting System Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease in Columbus, 4. KILPATRICK STOCKTON LLP Greenberg Traurig in Miami, Dorsey & kilpatrickstockton.com Whitney in Minneapolis, Bass Berry & Sims 404-815-6500 in Nashville, Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, 2006 rank: 4 Stoel Rives in Portland, Bryan Cave in Total lawyers: 500 DuPont, Equifax, Reynolds American St. Louis, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in San Francisco. 5. POWELL GOLDSTEIN LLP Along with the listings of top law firms in pogolaw.com 404-572-6600 the 25 metro areas, we show how some 2006 rank: 5 denizens of these cities take their individual Total lawyers: 269 bites out of life. Bank of America, Kimberly-Clark, Theragenics Source: Corporate Board Member/FTI BOSTON 1. ROPES & GRAY LLP ropesgray.com 617-951-7000 2006 rank: 1 Total lawyers: 794 CHARLOTTE Representative clients: AstraZeneca, Bain Capital, Genzyme 1. MOORE & VAN ALLEN PLLC 2. WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE & mvalaw.com DORR LLP 704-331-1000 wilmerhale.com 2006 rank: 1 (tie) 617-526-6000 Total lawyers: 268 2006 rank: 2 Representative clients: Bank of America, Nucor, Wachovia Total lawyers: 1,162 Analog Devices, Staples, Thermo Fisher Scientific 2. KENNEDY COVINGTON LOBDELL & HICKMAN LLP 3. GOODWIN PROCTER LLP kennedycovington.com goodwinprocter.com 704-331-7400 617-570-1000 2006 rank: 3 2006 rank: 3 Total lawyers: 210 Total lawyers: 725 Bank of America, Crosland, Wachovia Citizens Financial Group, Citrix Systems, TA Associates 3 (TIE). PARKER POE ADAMS & BERNSTEIN LLP 4. MINTZ LEVIN COHN FERRIS GLOVSKY parkerpoe.com & POPEO PC 704-372-9000 mintz.com 2006 rank: 4 617-542-6000 Total lawyers: 208 2006 rank: 5 Duke Energy, Sonic Automotive/Speedway Motorsports, Total lawyers: 475 Wachovia CVS, Qiagen, UnitedHealth Group ROBINSON BRADSHAW & HINSON PA 5. BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN LLP rbh.com bingham.com 704-337-2536 617-951-8000 2006 rank: 1 (tie) 2006 rank: 4 Total lawyers: 120 Total lawyers: 950 Allied Capital Corp., SPX, Wachovia Bank of America, McKesson Corp., Merrill Lynch 5. HELMS MULLISS & WICKER PLLC hmw.com 704-343-2000 2006 rank: 5 Total lawyers: 129 Bank of America, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, NASCAR STOP CALLING IT BEANTOWN OR I’LL NIP YOU. OOD W 37 Source: Corporate Board Member/FTI TT MA C ORPORATE BOARD MEMBER/SPECIAL ISSUE: LAWYERS JULY/AUGUST 2007 METRO 25 WINNERS CHICAGO 1. KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP kirkland.com 312-861-2000 2006 rank: 2 COLUMBUS Total lawyers: 1,266 Representative clients: Bain Capital, General Motors, Morgan Stanley 1. VORYS SATER SEYMOUR & PEASE LLP vssp.com 2. SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP 614-464-6400 sidley.com 2006 rank: 1 312-853-7000 CLEVELAND Total lawyers: 389 2006 rank: 1 Representative clients: Abercrombie & Fitch, Honda Total lawyers: 1,744 1. JONES DAY Manufacturing of America, Limited Brands AT&T, General Electric, Merrill Lynch jonesday.com 2. PORTER WRIGHT MORRIS & ARTHUR LLP 3 (TIE). MAYER BROWN ROWE & MAW LLP 216-586-3939 porterwright.com mayerbrownrowe.com 2006 rank: 1 614-227-2000 312-782-0600 Total lawyers: 2,216 2006 rank: 2 2006 rank: 3 Representative clients: Dana Corp., IBM, Sherwin-Williams Total lawyers: 280 Total lawyers: 1,500 2. BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP AEP, Huntington Bancshares Inc., Ohio State University AT&T, Bank of America, Procter & Gamble bakerlaw.com 3. SQUIRE SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP WINSTON & STRAWN LLP 216-621-0200 ssd.com winston.com 2006 rank: 2 614-365-2700 312-558-5600 Total lawyers: 620 2006 rank: 3 (tie) 2006 rank: 4 Developers Diversified Realty, KeyCorp, Progressive Corp. Total lawyers: 800 Total lawyers: 895 3. SQUIRE SANDERS & DEMPSEY LLP Advanced Drainage Systems, Cardinal Health, Abbott Laboratories, Altria Group, JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase ssd.com 216-479-8500 4 (TIE). BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 5 (TIE). BAKER & MCKENZIE 2006 rank: 3 bakerlaw.com bakernet.com Total lawyers: 800 614-228-1541 312-861-8800 Cedar Fair, Eaton Corp., Goodrich 2006 rank: 5 2006 rank: — 4. THOMPSON HINE LLP Total lawyers: 620 Total lawyers: 3,411 Cardinal Health, Ford Motor, OhioHealth Corp. Abbott Laboratories, Bemis Co., Eaton Corp. thompsonhine.com 216-566-5500 BRICKER & ECKLER LLP KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN LLP 2006 rank: 5 bricker.com kattenlaw.com Total lawyers: 374 614-227-2300 312-902-5200 CH Energy Group, KeyCorp/KeyBank, Solvay 2006 rank: 3 (tie) 2006 rank: — Pharmaceuticals Total lawyers: 150 Total lawyers: 633 5. CALFEE HALTER & GRISWOLD LLP Nationwide Financial, OCLC Online Computer Library AIG, Bausch & Lomb, Career Education Corp. Center, OhioHealth Corp. calfee.com 216-622-8200 2006 rank: 4 Total lawyers: 182 FirstEnergy, Invacare Corp., RPM International 38 Source: Corporate Board Member/FTI CORPORATE BOARD MEMBER/SPECIAL ISSUE: LAWYERS JULY/AUGUST 2007 METRO 25 WINNERS BIG D SPELLS BIG STEAKS. DETROIT 1. HONIGMAN MILLER SCHWARTZ & COHN LLP honigman.com 313-465-7000 2006 rank: 1 Total lawyers: 229 Representative clients: General Motors, Ramco- DALLAS DENVER Gershenson Properties Trust, Taubman Centers 2 (TIE). DYKEMA 1. HAYNES & BOONE LLP 1. HOLLAND & HART LLP dykema.com haynesboone.com hollandhart.com 313-568-6800 214-651-5000 303-295-8000 2006 rank: 2 (tie) 2006 rank: 1 2006 rank: 3 Total lawyers: 342 Total lawyers: 458 Total lawyers: 350 Bayer, Ford Motor, General Motors Representative clients: AMR, RadioShack, Representative clients: Newmont Mining, Time Warner, Trinity Industries UPS MILLER CANFIELD PADDOCK & STONE PLC 2. HOLME ROBERTS & OWEN LLP millercanfield.com 2 (TIE). AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & 313-963-6420 FELD LLP hro.com 2006 rank: 2 (tie) akingump.com 303-861-7000 Total lawyers: 350 214-969-2800 2006 rank: 2 Comerica Bank, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor 2006 rank: 2 Total lawyers: 245 Total lawyers: 945 Anschutz, Newmont Mining, Visa U.S.A. 4. DICKINSON WRIGHT PLLC Cinemark, Clear Channel Communications, Mannatech 3 (TIE). DAVIS GRAHAM & STUBBS LLP dickinson-wright.com 313-223-3500 THOMPSON & KNIGHT LLP dgslaw.com 2006 rank: 2 (tie) tklaw.com 303-892-9400 Total lawyers: 230 214-969-1700 2006 rank: 1 AT&T, Ford Motor, JPMorgan Chase 2006 rank: — Total lawyers: 115 Total lawyers: 434 BP, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Wyeth 5 (TIE). BODMAN LLP Direct Energy, Neiman Marcus Group, Petroleo Brasileiro SHERMAN & HOWARD LLC bodmanllp.com 313-259-7777 4. VINSON & ELKINS LLP sah.com 2006 rank: — velaw.com 303-297-2900 Total lawyers: 130 214-220-7700 2006 rank: 4 (tie) Comerica Bank, Lear Corp., Saga Communications 2006 rank: 5 Total lawyers: 153 Total lawyers: 734 Charter Communications, East West Partnership, BUTZEL LONG Blockbuster, Exco Resources Inc., HM Capital Partners Qwest Communications International butzel.com 5.