A SUPPLEMENT TO THE LEGAL INTELLIGENCER 2 0 1 1 ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LEGAL PROFESSION PaLAWAn Publication $35 PENNSYLVANIA’S 100 LARGEST LAW FIRMS Sixteenth Annual Managing Partners Survey Firm Financials Largest Awards & Settlements Where Will Law Firm Growth Come From? PaLAW 2011 1 2 0 1 1 ANNUALP aREPORTL ON THEA LEGALW PROFESSION Editor’s Note 7 Largest PA Public Corporations 34 Welcome to PaLAW 2011: Our 18th The legal departments of the 100 Annual Report on the Legal Profession. largest public companies based in Pennsylvania. Largest Awards & Settlements 9 A ranking of Pennsylvania’s largest Law Firms Identified 50 awards and settlements from by Corporate Clients 53 Aug. 1, 2010 through Aug. 1, 2011, Which law firms are called upon most as reported in The Legal Intelligencer often to represent Pennsylvania’s and Pennsylvania Law Weekly. public corporations? Most Requested Opinions 14 Survey of Pennsylvania A list of the most popular Pennsylvania Managing Partners 54 state and federal court cases from The focus is on the economic Aug. 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011, as gauged by environment in our 16th annual lawyers’ requests for opinions through the Managing Partners Survey. Pennsylvania Instant Case Service. 100 Largest Law National Statistics 16 Firms in Pennsylvania 61 How Pennsylvania law firms compare Our 18th ranking of the largest PA to firms nationwide. law firms, with comprehensive tables on firm growth, women and minority County-by-County Statistics 18 percentages and geographical Pennsylvania’s attorney-to-population presence. ratio and license numbers. Law Firm Growth 87 Largest Public Law Firms in PA 20 Tracking which firms are fastest- Pennsylvania’s public law offices, ranked growing and fastest-shrinking. by number of attorneys. Female and Minority Percentages 89 PA-Area Law School Statistics 22 How the 100 largest firms performed The essential information about the in diversity. region’s law schools. Strategies in a PA Minority- & No-Growth Economy 94 Women-Owned Law Firms 25 Altman Weil consultant Ward Bower’s An alphabetical listing of firms identifying analysis of where law firm growth will themselves as minority firms. come from in 2012. PA Public Interest Law Firms 29 Firm Financials 2010 96 Pennsylvania agencies that serve the Our review of how firms did public interest, listed by annual budget. financially last year. PaLAW 2011 5 Editor’s Note elcome to the 18th installment There is one big change to the publica- of PaLAW: Annual Report on the tion this year. We are sad to say that Jaime Legal Profession. In this space Bochet, our magazines and supplements W Copyright © 2011. ALM Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. last year, we spoke of the publication’s new editor, has moved on for a new and excit- Further duplication without permission is prohibited design and continued commitment to pro- ing career endeavor. We can’t thank Jaime U.S.P.O. No. 309260 Published daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. viding accurate, detailed and informative enough for her work in shaping PaLAW data on as many facets of the legal profes- 2011 and the several editions before it. We 1617 JFK Blvd., Suite 1750 Philadelphia, PA 19103 sion as we could fit in these pages. promise that her dedication is one en- Phone: 215-557-2300 / Fax: 215-557-2301 www.thelegalintelligencer.com Our hope is that you can clearly see trenched in the institution’s culture — one e-mail: [email protected] those efforts again bore fruit in this latest we hope will remain visible on the coming [email protected] edition, which has tracked a legal commu- pages and in future editions as we con- Publisher Hal M. Cohen nity in recovery. As we have focused our stantly work to improve the end product. Associate Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Hank Grezlak efforts in the last year on collecting data To that end, we welcome our new mag- Senior Staff Reporter about private law firms, public corpora- azines and supplements editor, Ben Seal, & Special Projects Editor Gina Passarella tions and public interest firms, to name a who joins us from the sports desk of The IT Director Brian R. Harris few things, the legal profession has been Trentonian with the same ability to juggle Managing Editor Michael A. Riccardi, Esq. focused on how to emerge from a reces- projects and fine-tune a product that has Production Director Dave Umfer sion that has drastically altered some ways driven the success of this publication in Art Director Karen Leddy of doing business while allowing other old previous years. Graphic Designers Louis Bartella, Bunne Baum, Mike Jackson habits to creep back to the fore. This publication and its many moving Advertising Director Donald Chalphin Layoffs and hiring reductions continue parts could not have been pulled together Account Managers Matt Hartman, Jayne Overturf to recede while rate and salary increases without the help of some very dedicated, Law Firm Account Manager Lana J. Ehrlich are on the rise. Firms continue to function detail-oriented colleagues. Art Director with fewer attorneys — in Pennsylvania, at Karen Leddy painstakingly lays out each least. Reed Smith again topped the 100 of the charts, graphs and articles, adding Largest Law Firms in Pennsylvania list her own refined style that hopefully makes with 311 full-time attorneys in the state, these pages easy to read as well as easy 212-457-9400 compared to the 323 lawyers that gar- on the eyes. 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271 nered the firm the top spot in 2010. Director of Information Technology As Ward Bower points out in his article Brian Harris generates the surveys you are ALM Senior Management all nice enough to fill out as well as com- President/CEO on page 94, firms have little left to cut in William L. Pollak the way of expenses, making revenue piles the data we receive from a number Senior Vice President/Chief Legal Officer generation a tough prospect in 2012. One of different sources. Super-intern Brooke Allison C. Hoffman way to garner more revenue, he points McDonald has helped with editing every Senior Vice President/Chief Financial Officer out, is through a merger, but fewer respon- step of the way, further ensuring the data Eric F. Lundberg dents to this year’s Managing Partners you see is as accurate as possible. Senior Vice President/Legal Division Kevin Vermeulen Survey said they were actively seeking a As much of the data you are about to Senior Vice President/Chief Technology Officer merger partner. read is a snapshot of where firms currently Jeffrey K. Whittle One area that may still have room for stand, we welcome your ideas for how we Vice President/Real Estate some trimming is the partner ranks — can look ahead and provide you with the Michael Desiato the fastest way, consultants have said, most useful information. As the practice of Group Vice President/Substantive Law Sara Diamond to improve the bottom line. Though firms law evolves, so too should this publication. are not rushing to cut or de-equitize part- We look forward to hearing you insights ners in any dramatic fashion, they are and suggestions in the coming year. looking at doing so at an increased rate from last year. That and a number of other interesting Find us on Facebook ... Follow us on Twitter. takeaways can be found from the analysis Catch up with The Legal ’s reporters of the survey, including some impressive and editors, learn of latest breaking news and financial results for law firms in the last Gina Passarella gain access to exclusive content! two years. And reporter Zack Needles has Senior Staff Reporter and facebook.com/legalintelligencer a roundup of specific financial results from Special Projects Editor twitter.com/thelegalintel 2010 for the state’s largest law firms. [email protected] PaLAW 2011 7 Largest Awards & Settlements in PA Rank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date 1. Mack Trucks Inc. v. UAW $525 million Employment U.S. District Thomas J. Bender and Robert C. Drake of Littler Mendelson; Andrew 5/12/2011 (settlement) Court, E.D. Pa. Nickelhoff and Marshall J. Widick of Sachs Waldman; William T. Josem of Cleary & Josem. 2. United States v. Novartis $422 million Consumer U.S. District Assistant U.S. Attorneys Karen Marston, Frank Costello, Marilyn May, 9/30/2010 Pharmaceuticals Corp. (settlement) Fraud, Whistle- Court, E.D. Pa. Jacqueline Romero and Paul Kaufman; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney blower Catherine Votaw; Department of Justice Office of Consumer Litigation Trial Attorney Patrick Jasperse; U.S. Department of Justice Civil Frauds Division Trial Attorney Jessica Champa; Karen F. Green of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; Evan R. Chesler of Cravath Swaine & Moore; Ronald H. Levine of Post & Schell. 3. Allegheny Energy Supply Co. $104.1 million Breach of C.P. Allegheny Patricia Dodge, Andrew Noble and Russell J. Ober Jr. of Meyer Unkovic 5/2/2011 v. Wolf Run Mining Co. (verdict) Contract & Scott; Jeff A. Woods of Wyatt Tarrant & Combs; David G. Ries of Thorp Reed & Armstrong. 4. Commonwealth of $51.85 million Consumer Commonwealth Barry R. Eichen of Eichen Crutchlow & McElroy; Donald E. Haviland Jr. of 12/7/2010 Pennsylvania v. Johnson & (verdict) Fraud Court Haviland Hughes. Johnson 5. Estate of Torres v. Wachovia $46.16 million Wrongful Death C.P. Berks Jay N. Abramowitch and Kenneth Millman of Leisawitz Heller Abramow- 11/16/2010 Bank, N.A. (verdict) itch Phillips. 6. Commonwealth of $27.6 million Consumer Commonwealth Donald E. Haviland Jr. of Haviland Hughes; Barry R. Eichen of Eichen 9/10/2010 (tie) Pennsylvania v. Bristol-Myers (verdict) Fraud Court Crutchlow & McElroy; Mike Moore of SNR Denton; Steven M.