Talk:List of largest law firms by revenue

2017 Data

If possible, Wikipedia should try to create a master list of law firms by revenue, including other metrics such as profits per partner, profit margin, revenue per lawyer, profit per lawyer, and leverage. Then, the global list can be divided by jurisdiction (US, CA, UK, EU, CN, etc.). --

Hey, in 2006

Hey! Where did this article go? Did the big, bad deletionists kill it? --Nelson Ricardo 21:38, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes they did. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of law firms --Legis (talk - contributions) 20:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Legis. I see there was no consensus, which by Wikipedia guidelines mean the article stays. Unfortunately some deletionist admin with an itchy trigger finger has ignored the will of the people. --Nelson Ricardo 20:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, my error in posting the link. It was listed twice - first time was "no conensus", result of second discussion was "delete", see - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of law firms (2nd nomination). But I think that the decision was a judgment on the development of the page as much as anything (although there was also concern with overlap with Category:Law firms. I think if the new page is kept under control nobody would object too much to it being recreated (see List of largest UK law firms which survived a AfD nomination). Last time the page just got overwhelmed by lawyers posting spam links, and every tiny firm of Sue, Grabbit & Runne trying to post an article about themselves. --Legis (talk - contributions) 16:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. Those were some very weak arguements for deletion on that page. --Nelson Ricardo 20:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't Delete

This is not the same article that was previously deleted (in bad faith and for specious reasons, I might add). The firms listed in this article are from a reputable source. They are listed because they meet certain criteria. The deleted article was a mish mosh that included advertising links and firms at random. --Nélson Ricardo 11:30, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

As an admin, I reviewed the article and I don't think it fits the {{db-repost}} (CSD G4) as designed. No prejudice against a new AfD. Duja► 11:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

DLA Piper

The DLA Piper result looks wrong - this appears to be the USA only results as opposed to their world-wide revenues. If some firms are being taken only in their US context and others in the context of their worldwide operations, then this list is completely inaccurate and misleading. Thom2002 23:11, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

DLA Piper is listed at both positions 14 and 28. They are apparently separate entities or treated as such for the Am Law Global 100 survey. —Nricardo 05:06, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

A disclaimer at the bottom of http://www.dlapiper.com/ says, "DLA Piper is a global legal services organisation, the members of which are separate and distinct legal entities." —Nricardo 05:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Also of interest is http://www.dlapiper.com/global/termsconditions/structure/. While many law firms have multiple partnerships due to local law or tax benefits, they usually are fairly cohesive. DLA Piper seems to strive to keep the entities separate. —Nricardo 05:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

It seems so, but Baker & McKenzie is also a series of separate entities, but they seem to consolidate its revenues. That may be because it doesn't divide up quite so neatly. --Legis (talk - contribs) 14:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I think almost all international legal firms are separate legal entities (eg Skadden are "Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP" in Britain), the difference being how they report and share revenues. I'm not sure that this is a strong basis for a "List of 100 largest law firms". Would number of lawyers make more sense? I don't have the base data for that though.Thom2002 18:23, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Absolutely true, but how many of these firms make such a strident effort to display a public face of separation rather than of "one firm" mentality? I'm sure there are few such firms beyond DLA Piper. —Nricardo 18:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's a source of # of attorneys: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1163066718029 (free reg. req.). The numbers appear to be worldwide, but only for U.S.-based firms. I'm sure there's a global list somewhere. —Nricardo 18:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

DLA Piper

Not to sound too geocentric, but wouldn't it be more appropriate to list these rankings in USD? -Niro5 03:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The source the information for the table comes from quotes revenue figures in GBP. Seems silly to change it to USD especially given that exchange rates will be different etc.

I'd imagine most people using the English version of this site would be able to do a basic conversion between the two currencies in their heads. Psidogretro (talk) 10:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I highly doubt that Psidogretro, most people don't know what the exchange rate is when they read it or they may have a very outdated idea of what the exchange rate is, I myself remember the exchange rate of USD to GDP being 1.6 and now it is almost 2 to 1 -- Gudeldar (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

If people don't know off the top of their heads, is it too much to ask that they check? 20 seconds' googling will be enough time to convert between any currencies. But I take your point: some people don't know. Is there a wikipedia standard for this kind of thing? If there is, it doesn't seem to be widely adhered to. GBP is a major and powerful world currency, widely traded and accepted. I don't see why it should change given that the source is in GBP. Psidogretro (talk) 21:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Poor methodology/bullshit

The American Lawyer has managed to make a mockery of these rankings. The Baker & McKenzie figures are for the year ended June 30, 2008. Everyone else is through December 31, 2007. There is no reason they should not have used the same figure as in the AmLaw 100 (http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?&id=1208947716661). Clearly, someone wants to screw over Skadden and Latham. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.187.183 (talk) 12:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Or they can only get figures from a company when its fiscal year ends. I'm pretty sure that The Lawyer isn't specifically trying to screw over Skadden and Latham. (Morethan3words | talk) 16:02, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Update to 2012 figures

To do: amend table with figures for 2012:

http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202571228982

Number 99 and 100

I find it highly suspicious that the revenue of the 99th ranked firm, is $349.0m, while the 100th ranked firm "Maher Milad Iskander" is $6.3m. Are there no other law firm in the world with revenues falling within the range of $350m and $7m?? Obviously some joker was trying to be sneaky here.

And what the hell is "American Law Corp"? Sounds like a fifth-grader's fictitious law firm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.2.45 (talk) 15:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Bullshit Statistics

Where's Sullivan and Cromwell? They brought in well over a billion in 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.108.125.200 (talk) 23:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 22 April 2015

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No consensus for the proposed moves. bd2412 T 16:39, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

• List of 100 largest law firms by revenue → List of the 100 largest law firms by revenue
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– As per other pages starting "List of the largest ...". As per grammar example "Everest is the highest mountain in the world." As per Ngrams for "list of the largest,list of largest". Please also note other requested content changes in the last two articles listed. To be pedantic the employers do not employ the United Kingdom. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2015 (UTC) GregKaye 08:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

• Support, with redirects to catch any page links which this move will leave behind. Randy Kryn 11:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose. This is a solution looking for a problem. There is nothing ungrammatical about the ellipses of title-style syntax being used for article titles (and it's more of a style than a grammar issue), and as User:Iryna Harpy notes here, these mass proposals are borderline disruptive. —  AjaxSmack  03:17, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Not a particularly strong opinion on it, but "List of largest" reads awkwardly. Mcgrubso (talk) 14:14, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support per Mcgrubso. —BarrelProof (talk) 19:10, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
• Comment It had also been suggested that an appropriate way to approach the grammar issue more generally would be to start an RfC to address it and this is now posted at WT:THE. GregKaye 01:35, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
• Support; it just reads better, plain and simple. Kharkiv07^Talk 22:28, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:CONCISE and WP:THE. There is absolutely no need to include "the" in the title, it is not supposed to be a sentence, just a description of what the list is. It reads better as is.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
• Weak oppose per Amakuru. The proposed titles read a bit better, but I don't think this is worth such a large amount of effort. --BDD (talk) 13:40, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose, also per WP:CONCISE and WP:THE. In addition, "list of large bridges" is grammatically irreproachable; there's no reason "list of largest bridges" should be grammatically questionable; the superlative doesn't necessarily demand a definite article. I agree with AjaxSmack, this is a solution to a "problem" that (a) doesn't need fixing and (b) will eat up time that would be more usefully spent elsewhere. Thefamouseccles (talk) 15:52, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose per AjaxSmack and Amakuru. --В²C ☎ 16:44, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Post-RM discussion

While the opposers above are correct that using title style for, um, titles is not "ungrammatical", and we have WP:CONCISE policy for a reason, the claim that "these mass proposals are borderline disruptive" is patently false. {{Rm}} has features for mass listings, also for a reason. WP:RM recommends consolidating moves of the same sort, that do not raise unique issues, into multi-page RMs; it is standard operating procedure to do so. They're the exact opposite of disruptive, neatly resolving in a single discussion a matter that might have wasted inordinate amounts of editorial time (in this case, about 40 pointless duplicate discussions, and some mass RMs, like mass WP:CFDs, affect hundreds of instances of the same thing).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  07:53, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

This article needs a new name

Resolved

 – "100" removed from article title.

The list only features 14 firms, not 100!

Not sure who left the above comment, or when, but I agree with it as of today. Seems like we need to go through and list the remaining 84 or so firms.jlcoving (talk) 08:30, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

100 or 14? The title of the article ["List of 100 largest law firms by revenue"] suggests that there ought to be 100 law firms listed, but currently there are only 14. I suggest that either the list be fleshed out to 100 (or another readily available round number) or, barring that, that the name of the article be changed to "List of 14 largest law firms by revenue"

There have not been 100 in a long time, and no one appears inspired to rebuild such a long list, so I've moved this to a name that is not blatantly incorrect, then retargeted most of its redirects (the ones that did not specifically include "by revenue") to the longer and more useful list at List of law firms by profits per partner.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  07:46, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Table Sorting Problem

There's an error when sorting by "Revenue". For example, the table treats $2.01b as less than $900.5m as it's not making the distinction between billions and millions. I'm not sure about the best way to solve this issue, though. Thefataone (talk) 21:00, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 13 December 2018

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The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. If other lists are appropriate to create, that can be done by editors outside of the move request process. Dekimasuよ! 00:50, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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List of largest law firms by revenue → List of largest law firms – To match the title format of the regional lists (i.e. US, UK, Europe, Canada, China, Japan Gins98n1 (talk) 04:31, 13 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Iffy★Chat -- 11:40, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

• @Gins98n1 and 65.94.40.222: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:26, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment that's not at all clear. The regional lists seem to use different criteria to determine "largest" -- 65.94.40.222 (talk) 05:33, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
  • Object to speedy move number of lawyers are used in some of the regional lists. All the lists should be moved to "by X" where the criterion used to determine "largest" is explicitly stated. (total revenue, number of lawyers, total clients, total cases, etc.) -- 65.94.40.222 (talk) 05:39, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
    • Agree that all the pages should be consistent. For clarity, all of the pages should be moved to "by X". Other than the Japan page, all of them are ranked by revenue, which is industry standard. Unfortunately, revenue information is not available for Japan-based law firms. The ultimate goal would be to include revenue, lawyer head count, profit, and profit margin data for all of the firms on the lists. Gins98n1 (talk) 01:15, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
      • The US list is ordered by number of lawyers, not revenue. There is revenue listed, but that is not the ordering ctriterion. So both USA and Japan lists are largest by number of lawyers -- 67.70.34.69 (talk) 05:19, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
        • Given there are two main methodologies, it is proposed that two sets of lists be created: one "by revenue" and the other "by head count." The data for both is available from the American Lawyer and the Lawyer for the global, US, China, Canada, and UK/EU lists. There is also a separate head count list for Japan. Therefore, the current largest law firms by revenue page can remain and an additional largest law firms by head count page can be created. Gins98n1 (talk) 00:03, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

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Update

This is basically two years outdated now. Is global 100 public online anywhere? Awbfiend (talk) 00:49, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

I add list sort by profit per partner, same/similar but sorted differently, latest data. List of largest law firms by profits per partner Ppep wing (talk) 21:27, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

I've updated it with the latest rankings, which were released in late September. Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 05:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Legal help

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