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To learn more about how your firm can hire BU Law graduates, please contact: Office of Career Development & Public Service www.bu.edu/law/employers Phone: 617-353-3141 Email: [email protected] FROM THE PUBLISHER To our readers: Welcome to Lawyers Weekly’s annual review of the state’s Largest Law Firms. We have been surveying the 100 largest firms in Massachusetts for more than a decade and are proud to bring you this year’s edition. is directory is being mailed to all subscribers of Massachu- 100 LARGEST setts Lawyers Weekly; we estimate that roughly 30,000 lawyers LAW FIRMS will have it available to them as a reference. It’s also being sent out to more than 3,000 readers of New England In-House. 2013 at means we anticipate that this guide will be on the desks of thousands of corpo- rate decision-makers, available to them whenever they consider what law firm they wish to retain. 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LARGEST LAW FIRMS 1 ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY FIRM NAME – A – Goodwin Procter LLP . .4 – O – Ablitt Scofield . .69 Goulston & Storrs, PC . .13 Outside GC LLC . .59 Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. .50 Governo Law Firm LLC . .68 – P – Anderson & Kreiger LLP . .55 Greenberg Traurig LLP . .25 Peabody & Arnold LLP . .28 – B – – H – Pepper Hamilton LLP . .41 Bacon Wilson, P.C. .33 Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. .27 Pierce, Davis & Perritano, LLP . .62 Bartlett Hackett Feinberg P.C. .59 Hemenway & Barnes . .39 Posternak Blankstein & Lund LLP . .27 Bernkopf Goodman LLP . .56 Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP . .26 Prince Lobel Tye LLP . .26 Bingham McCutchen . .8 Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP . .64 Proskauer Rose, LLP . .22 Bowditch & Dewey, LLP . .24 Holland & Knight LLP . .16 Boyle, Shaughnessy & Campo, P.C. .35 – J – – R – Brown Rudnick LLP . .22 Jackson Lewis LLP . .45 Rackermann, Sawyer & Brewster . .30 Bulkley, Richardson and Gelinas, LLP . .30 Jones Day . .45 Rich May, P.C. .53 Burns & Levinson LLP . .19 Riemer & Braunstein LLP . .23 – K – Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. .68 – C – K&L Gates . .20 Campbell, Campbell, Edwards & Conroy, P.C. .50 Robinson & Cole LLP . .39 Keches Law Group, P.C. .58 Casner & Edwards, LLP . .36 Keegan Werlin LLP . .68 Ropes & Gray LLP . .3 Cetrulo LLP . .36 Kopelman and Paige, P.C. .30 Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C. .54 Choate Hall & Stewart LLP . .12 Kotin, Crabtree & Strong, LLP . .66 Rubin and Rudman LLP . .23 Collora LLP . .56 Krokidas & Bluestein . .67 Rudolph Friedmann LLP . .62 Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford, LLP . .51 Cooley LLP . .37 – L – – S – Cooley Manion Jones LLP . .27 Lando & Anastasi, LLP . .40 Sally & Fitch LLP . .63 Cushing & Dolan, P.C. .65 Lawson & Weitzen, LLP . .31 Seyfarth Shaw LLP . .23 LeClairRyan . .40 – D – Sherin and Lodgen LLP . .33 Davis, Malm & D’Agostine, P.C. .32 Littler Mendelson . .59 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP . .28 Day Pitney LLP . .39 Looney & Grossman LLP . .60 Sloane and Walsh, LLP . .39 Dechert LLP . .38 Lynch & Lynch . .65 Smith & Brink, P.C. .48 Denner Pellegrino LLP . .65 – M – Smith Duggan Buell & Rufo LLP . .66 DLA Piper . .26 Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, PC . .43 Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C. .49 Doherty, Wallace, Pillsbury & Murphy P.C. .57 Martin, Magnuson, McCarthy & Kenney . .70 Sullivan & Worcester LLP . .18 Donoghue Barrett & Singal, P.C. .59 McCarter & English, LLP . .23 Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP . .46 Donovan & O’Connor, LLP . .68 McDermott Will & Emery . .24 Donovan Hatem LLP . .38 Melick & Porter, LLP . .48 – T – Duane Morris LLP . .42 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Tarlow Breed Hart & Rodgers, P.C. .64 Tentindo, Kendall, Canniff & Keefe LLP . .47 – E – Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. .7 Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP . .10 Mirick, O’Connell, Demallie, & Lougee, LLP . .26 Thornton & Naumes, LLP . .64 Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC . .52 Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP . .40 Todd & Weld LLP . .37 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP . .42 – F – – V – Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Morrison Mahoney LLP . .21 Verrill Dana, LLP . .61 Garrett & Dunner . .47 Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, PC . .34 – W – Fish & Richardson . .24 Murphy & King, PC . .45 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP . .30 Fletcher Tilton PC . .29 Murphy & Riley, P.C. .66 Foley & Lardner LLP . .23 Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP . ..