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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MANAGING PARTNERS SURVEY • FIRM FINANCIALS • LARGEST AWARDS & SETTLEMENTSANALYSIS BY TOM CLAY OF ALTMAN WEIL

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PENNSYLVANIA’S 100 LARGEST LAW FIRMS

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Editor’s Note 7 Welcome to PaLAW 2010: Our 17th Annual Report on the Legal Profession.

Largest Awards & Settlements 9A ranking of Pennsylvania’s largest 50 awards and settlements from Aug. 1, 2009 through Aug. 1, 2010, as reported in The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

Most Requested Opinions 16A list of the most popular Pennsylvania state and federal court cases from Aug. 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010, as gauged by lawyers’ requests for opinions through the Pennsylvania Instant Case Service.

National Statistics 18How Pennsylvania law firms compare to firms nationwide.

County-by-County Statistics 20Pennsylvania’s attorney-to-population ratio, and license numbers.

Largest Public Law Firms in PA 22Pennsylvania’s public law offices, ranked by number of attorneys.

PA-Area Law School Statistics 24The essential information about the region’s law schools.

PA Minority- & Women-Owned Law Firms 27An alphabetical listing of firms identifying themselves as minority firms.

PA Public Interest Law Firms 29Pennsylvania agencies that serve the public interest, listed by annual budget.

Largest PA Public Corporations 34The legal departments of the 100 largest public companies based in Pennsylvania.

Law Firms Identified by Corporate Clients 43Which law firms are called upon most often to represent Pennsylvania’s public corporations?

Survey of Pennsylvania Managing Partners 44The focus is on the economic environment in our 15th annual Managing Partners Survey.

100 Largest Law Firms in Pennsylvania 51Our 17th ranking of the largest PA law firms, with comprehensive tables on firm growth, women and minority percentages, and geographical presence.

Law Firm Growth 78Tracking which firms are fastest- growing and fastest-shrinking.

Female and Minority Percentages 80How the 100 largest firms performed in diversity.

Uncertain Transition 92Altman Weil consultant Tom Clay’s analysis of what lies ahead for 2011.

Firm Financials 2009 94Our roundup of articles on the business of law in Pennsylvania.

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elcome to the 17th annual PaLAW: Annual Report on the Legal Profes-sion. Last year in this space I spoke

about the changes that had been made to the publication, our methods of collecting data, and the rankings in our list of 100 Larg-est Law Firms in PA.

As before, we have continued to hone both our data collection processes and the way we deliver the data to you. PaLAW also has a fresh new look, but the biggest changes are in what the information inside tells us.

This has been a year of recovery. Layoffs and pay cuts seem to be receding into the rearview mirror, but we are left with a new landscape, and firms are forced to find their own ways of navigating it. One glance at our 100 Largest Law Firms chart reveals one im-portant change: the biggest firms are smaller than ever.

The “big three” have flip-flopped again, with Reed Smith taking over the top slot from Pepper Hamilton, and once again the numbers are down from last year. Whereas in 2009 Pepper topped the list with 331 full-time attorneys, this year Reed Smith has tak-en over, with only 323. Pepper is now down to 302, and Morgan Lewis & Bockius, occupying the third-place spot for the second year in a row, has 299.

Last year, in the wake of layoffs and later-als, we also saw just two firms with over 300 PA-based attorneys, but to get to similar lev-els again, you have to go back to 2005. With firms still reeling from the recession, it will be interesting to see if and when they start climbing the 300+ ladder.

The changes continue to be reflected in our editorial content, as well. In addition to our 15th annual Managing Partners Survey, the results of which can be found on page 44, we’ve also invited Altman Weil principal consultant Tom Clay to give us his take on what lies ahead for the profession. We were excited that he did not shy away from telling the hard, honest truth. To read Tom’s insight-ful piece, turn to page 92.

Additionally, we have overhauled our Firm Financials section, consolidating multiple re-ports into one longer piece, with the charts accompanying the data for each firm.

While change is something we’ve all had to adapt to in the last couple of years — and as Tom says in his article, the changes are far from over — comfort may be found in what has not changed: our commitment to deliver-

ing comprehensive, insightful data to serve as a resource for you all year. This includes information on public law firms, corporate law departments and legal public interest groups based in the commonwealth, as well as county, state, national and law school sta-tistics that we update for you each year.

You’ll also still find the list of the year’s 50 largest verdicts and settlements, as well as the year’s most-requested opinions, accord-ing to information gathered from The Legal Intelligencer.

Finally, one of the most noticeable chang-es, both for us and for you readers, is that we have a new Art Director who complete-ly revamped the style and structure of the magazine. Karen Leddy spent many hours redesigning the tables, charts and graphics that color these pages with great care, and we hope you enjoy the fruits of her labor as much as we do.

Director of Information Technology Brian Harris generated the surveys and then com-piled all the data we received. Reporter Zack Needles compressed a handful of financial reports into a single comprehensive piece. Wonder-intern Fiona McCrone helped gather information over the phone and online, as-sisted with data entry and generally helped us fill in the blanks.

And of course, last but far from least, senior staff reporter Gina Passarella again served as my right hand and better half, helping with just about every aspect of pro-duction from start to finish, from reviewing the surveys to proofreading pages, as well as writing the story on page 44 analyzing the results of the Managing Partners Survey.

With these changes, we have tried to shift the purpose of this magazine slightly. Of course, the data we print is a snapshot of the past — even as we go to print the information is changing. But we also hope to make this publication a tool for looking forward. They say hindsight is 20-20, and with any luck, you will take what you see before you now and keep it in mind as you not only navigate this new legal landscape, but build upon it.

Jaime L. BochetEditor, Magazines and [email protected]

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Largest Awards & Settlements in PARank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date

1. United States ex rel. Wetta v. AstraZeneca

$520 million (settlement)

Whistleblower U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Stephen A. Sheller and Brian J. McCormick Jr. of Sheller PC; Michael Mustokoff, Mark Lipowicz and Teresa Cavenagh of Duane Morris; John C. Dodds of Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

4/27/2010

2. Miller v. Santilli $100 million (settlement)

Fraud C.P. Philadelphia

Timothy C. Russell of Spector Gadon & Rosen; Kevin H. Marino of Marino Tortorella & Boyle; Steven B. Feirson of Dechert; Douglas Curtis of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; Steven M. Coren of Kaufman Coren & Ress.

10/9/2009

3. Pridgen v. Avco Corp. $88.7 million (verdict)

Personal Injury, Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Arthur A. Wolk, Bradley Stoll and Cynthia Devers of The Wolk Law Firm; James Robinson and Sara Anderson Frey of Cozen O’Connor.

4/7/2010

4. Barton v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.

$78.746 million (verdict)

Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Lauren E. Handler of Porzio Bromberg & Newman; Zoe Littlepage and Rainey C. Booth of Littlepage Booth; Samuel Abloeser of Williams Cuker Berezofsky; George E. McDavid of Reed Smith; Matthew V. Johnson of Williams & Connolly.

10/26/2009

5. Bro-Tech Corp. t/a The Purolite Co. and Purolite International Ltd. v. Thermax Inc.


Intellectual Property

U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Sidney L. Gold of Sidney L. Gold & Associates; Joseph J. McGovern and Shari Shapiro of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel; Jonathan E. Minsker of Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman; David Zaslowsky; Grant Hanessian and Jacob M. Kaplan of Baker & McKenzie.

2/24/2010

6. In re Riverwalk Fire Cases $36.25 million (settlement)

Insurance, Fire Mediation Robert J. Mongeluzzi and Patrick Howard of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky; Christopher Konzelmann of White & Williams; Marc B. Zingarini of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby; Kelly Grimes Pietrangelo & Vakil; Philip D. Priore of McCormick & Priore; Elizabeth Horneff of Margolis Edelstein; F. Warren Jacoby, Julie Negovan, Mark E. Opalisky and Elliott R. Feldman of Cozen O’Connor.

12/17/2009

7. Kendall v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.


Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage Booth; Gita F. Rothschild of McCarter & English; Ronald Rosenkranz of Finkelstein & Partners; Tobias L. Millrood of Pogust Braslow & Millrood; Michael T. Scott and Barbara R. Binis of Reed Smith; Charles P. Goodell Jr. of Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann.

11/23/2009

8. Donald C. Frederick, et al v. Range Resources-Appalachia


Breach of Contract

U.S. District Court, W.D. Pa.

Joseph E. Altomare of the Law Office of Joseph E. Altomare; Daniel J. Sponseller of the Law Office of Daniel J. Sponseller; David W. Hardymon of Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease.

7/20/2010

9. Graham Co. v. Haughey $18.9 million (verdict)

Copyright Infrigement


David J. Wolfsohn, Aleksander J. Goranin and John F. Murphy of Woodcock Washburn; Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon & Reindel.

3/19/2010

10. Nelson v. Crane Co. $14.5 million (verdict)

Asbestos, Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

John DiDonato, David Halpern and Steven Cooperstein of Brookman Rosenberg Brown & Sandler; Jeffrey S. King of K&L Gates; Christopher Santoro of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin; Kurt Rasmussen of Rasmussen Willis Dickey & Moore.

3/9/2010

11. Thompson v. Lasko Products Inc.


Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Robert A. Burke, Matthew T. D’Annunzio, Ryan P. Stewart, Lev Kalman and Sheila E. Branyan of Blank Rome; John P. Freedenberg, Robert M. Hanlon and Suzanne M. Bachovin of Goldberg Segalla.

10/14/2009

12. Davis v. Davis $12.59 million (decision)

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

C.P. Chester George Zumbano of Gawthorp Greenwood; Robert C.F. Willson of Lentz Cantor & Massey.

9/10/2009

Source: As reported in The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Aug. 1, 2009 to Aug. 1, 2010.

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Largest Awards & Settlements in PARank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date

13. Rice v. 2701 Red Lion Road Associates


Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Thomas J. Duffy Jr. and Kenneth F. Fulginiti of Duffy & Partners; Robert M. Hanlon Jr. and Matthew R. Shindell of Goldberg Segalla; Teresa Ficken Sachs of Post & Schell.

2/23/2010

14. State Farm v. Lincow $12.1 million (verdict)

Civil RICO U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Cy Goldberg, Richard M. Castagna and Matthew A. Moroney of Goldberg Miller & Rubin; Joel W. Todd of Dolchin Slotkin & Todd.

6/3/2010

15. (tie)

Calgon Carbon Corp. v. ADA-ES Inc.

$12 million (verdict)

Breach of Contract


John R. Gotaskie Jr., Christopher R. Kinkade, Matthew S. Payne and Amy Kerr Parker of Fox Rothschild; Thomas E. Birsic, Andrew R. Stanton and Jennifer J. Froehlich of K&L Gates.

7/29/2010

15. (tie)

VanTassel v. Alfa Laval Inc. $12 million (verdict)

Asbestos, Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Chris Panatier of Simon Eddins & Greenstone; O’Connell Tivin Miller & Burns.

3/9/2010

17. McKinney v. PHA $11.6 million (settlement)

Civil Rights U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Michael Trunk and Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter; Abbe F. Fletman and Rachel E. Licausi of Flaster Greenberg.

5/3/2010

18. Dolby as the administratrix of the Estate of Omega Leach III v. Universal Health Services Inc. et al.

$10.5 million (settlement)

Wrongful Death U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Thomas R. Kline, David K. Inscho and Mark Alan Hoffman of Kline & Specter; Daniel J. Sherry, Kate S. McGrath and Joseph J. Santarone Jr. of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin.

2/2/2010

19. Lazabeck v. Pruchnitzky $10.25 million (decision)

Wrongful Death C.P. Allegheny David C. Martin Jr. of Martin & Lerda; David K. Trautman of Trautman & Associates; Gerard J. Cipriani of Cipriani & Werner; James Moore III, pro se.

11/5/2009

20. (tie)

Davis et al v. SOH Distribution Co. Inc. and Hagris et al v. G&A Snack Distributing Inc.


Employment U.S. District Court, M.D. Pa.

Joseph J. Gigliotti of Gigliotti & Gigliotti; D. Halunen of Halunen & Associates; Daniel C. Levin, Arnold Levin and Charles E. Schaffer of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman; Ira Spiro of Spiro Moss; Shawn J. Wanta of Halunen & Associates; Adam M. Shienvold, Jeremy L.S. Samek and Joel L. Lennen of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott.

3/29/2010

20. (tie)

Potsko v. Oshkosh Truck Corp $10 million (settlement)

Wrongful Death C.P. Philadelphia

Matthew A. Casey and Shanon S. Levin of Ross Feller Casey; Dennis J. Valenza and Kimberly K. Heuer of Morgan Lewis & Bockius; John J. Snyder and William J. Carr of Rawle & Henderson.

3/17/2010

20. (tie)

Schroeder v. Anchor Darling Valve Co.


Asbestos C.P. Philadelphia

Aaron J. DeLuca, Barrett Naman and Rick Nemeroff of DeLuca & Nemeroff; Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center.

2/19/2010

23. Singleton v. Wyeth $9.45 million (verdict)

Products Liability

C.P. Philadelphia

Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage Booth; Samuel Abloeser of Williams Cuker Berezofsky; Heidi Hubbard of Williams & Connolly; David Dukes of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.

2/22/2010

24. (tie)

Estate of Paulin v. A.C.I. Chesterton Co.


Toxic Torts, Asbestos

C.P. Philadelphia

Denyse F. Clancy and Chris Norris of Baron & Budd; Howell K. Rosenberg of Brookman Rosenberg Brown & Sandler; Christopher O. Massenburg of Swetman Baxter Massenburg; Joseph M. Toddy of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer & Toddy; Jeffrey S. King of K&L Gates.

12/11/2009

24. (tie)

Kolar v. Buffalo Pumps Inc. $8.5 million (verdict)


Denyse F. Clancy of Baron & Budd; Christopher O. Massenburg of Swetman Baxter Massenburg; Jeffrey S. King and Michael J.R. Schalk of K&L Gates; Joseph M. Toddy of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy.

12/11/2009

26. Goodman v. T.H. Properties $8.2 million (settlement)

Construction Accident

Mediation Michael O. Pansini and Steven M. Mezrow of Pansini & Mezrow; Joseph F. Van Horn of Bodell Bove Grace & Van Horn; Philip D. Priore and Brian J. Callahan of McCormick & Priore.

1/1/2010


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Rank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date

27. Tavares v. Mega Construction $7.9 million (settlement)

Construction Accident

C.P. Philadelphia

Ara R. Avrigian and Robert J. Mongeluzzi of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky; Robert G. Devine of White & Williams; Grant S. Palmer of Blank Rome; Fred B. Buck of Rawle & Henderson; Andrew R. Benedict and Christine Benedum of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby.

7/2/2010

28. Plevretes v. LaSalle University $7.5 million (settlement)

Negligence C.P. Philadelphia

Jeremy D. Mishkin, Carmon M. Harvey and Steven E. Pachman of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads; Shanin Specter, Charles L. Becker, Michael A. Trunk and Garabet M. Zakeosian of Kline & Specter; Donald N. Camhi of Post & Schell.

11/25/2009

29. Russell v. AW Chesterton Inc. $7 million (verdict)


Aaron J. DeLuca, Barrett Naman and Rick Nemeroff of DeLuca & Nemeroff; Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center.

2/19/2010

30. Powell v. Keystone Freight Corp.


Motor Vehicle C.P. Philadelphia

Jason A. Daria and John M. Dodig of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig; Joseph M. Toddy and Joseph Longo of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy.

8/4/2009

31. Smith v. Sandals Resorts International Ltd.



Douglas C. Broeker of Sweetapple Broeker & Varkas; Peter D. Friday of Friday Porta Cox & Ward; Michael E. Greenspan and Leon J. Greenspan of Greenspan & Greenspan; Edward D. Ohlbaum of Law Office of Edward D. Ohlbaum; Steven J. Sheldon and David B. Newman of Day Pitney.

4/19/2010

32. (tie)

Lanpher v. Alfa-Laval Inc. $6.5 million (verdict)

Wrongful Death C.P. Philadelphia

Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center; Troyce G. Wolf and Demetrios T. Zacharopoulos of Waters & Kraus; Bernard L. Levinthal of Goldfein and Joseph.

3/5/2010

32. (tie)

MFS Inc. v. Thomas A. DiLazaro et al.



Wayne C. Stansfield of Reed Smith; Thomas J. Zagami; Douglas G. White of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Randall J. Henzes of the Office of the Attorney General.

3/3/2010

34. Marcus v. PQ Corp. $6.2 million (verdict)

Age Discrimination


Katie R. Eyer and Scott B. Goldshaw of Salmanson Goldshaw; Elizabeth A. Malloy and Peter J. Ennis of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

11/10/2009

35. (tie)

Blango v. Jeanes Hospital Inc. $6 million (verdict)

Nursing Home Mass Tort

C.P. Philadelphia

Churchill Huston and Steven R. Maher of The Maher Law Firm; Daniel E. Dias and Kari Leigh Aasheim of Mancuso & Dias; J. Kurt Straub of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel.

3/17/2010

35. (tie)

Collins v. Grover $6 million (settlement)

Motor Vehicle C.P. Philadelphia

Heather A. Herrington and John J. Snyder of Rawle & Henderson; Daniel S. Weinstock and Carolyn M. Chopko of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig.

8/5/2009

35. (tie)

Katz v. Westfall Township $6 million (settlement)

Breach of Contract

U.S. District Court, M.D. Pa.

J. Gregg Miller of Pepper Hamilton. 8/25/2009

38. Boone v. Philadelphia $5.9 million (settlement)


Daniel C. Levin of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman; Shelley R. Smith and Craig Straw of the City of Philadelphia Law Department.

11/5/2009

39. Golini v. Alfa Laval Inc. $5.65 million (verdict)


Benjamin Shein of the Shein Law Center; William R. Adams of Dickie McCamey & Chilcote.

4/29/2010

40. Thomas v. Coady $5.15 million (verdict)

Medical Malpractice


Bradley T. Beckman and Alisa P. Marion of Beckman & Marion; Eileen Lampe of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott; James P. Kilcoyne and Jacqueline R. Drygas of Kilcoyne & Nesbitt.

12/29/2009


Largest Awards & Settlements in PA

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Rank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date

41. Estate of McCoy v. George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania


Negligent Supervision


Arthur W. Hankin and Mark R. Zolfaghari of Blank Rome; Michael P. O’Connor of O’Connor Kimball; Robert F. Englert and Jonathan M. Cohen of Kline & Specter.

8/25/2009

42. (tie)

Mason v. Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19


School Abuse U.S. District Court, M.D. Pa.

Dennis C. McAndrews and Gabrielle C. Sereni of McAndrews Law Offices; Edwin A. Abrahamsen Jr. and James J. Conaboy of Abrahamsen Conaboy & Abrahamsen; Lawrence J. Moran of Lenahan & Dempsey; Christina A. Coury; John E. Freund III of King Spry Herman Freund & Faul.

6/1/2010

42. (tie)

Sollman v. Renninger $5 million (settlement)


Joshua E. Karoly, John P. Karoly III, Joseph E. Welsh and John P. Karoly Jr. of Karoly Law Offices; Brian J. McMonagle of McMonagle Perri McHugh & Mischak; David J. MacMain and Timothy J. Kepner of Lamb McErlane; Edward J. Easterly and Steven E. Hoffman of Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino; James J. Dodd of Thomas Thomas & Hafer.

11/6/2009

44. FTC v. Magazine Solutions Inc. $4.78 million (decision)

Consumer Fraud


Dana C. Barragate of the Federal Trade Commission; Martin A. Dietz. 3/23/2010

45. Koeberle v. Alfa Laval Inc. $4.5 million (verdict)


Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center; Troyce G. Wolf and Demetrios T. Zacharopoulos of Waters & Kraus; Benjamin J. Pucci of O’Connell Tivin Miller & Burns; William Adams of Dickey McCamey & Chilcote.

6/15/2010

46. DiPietro v. DiPietro $4.3 million (settlement)

Premises Liability, Dram Shop

C.P. Philadelphia

David R. Cherry and Kevin R. Marciano of Cherry Fieger & Marciano; Gaetano Mercogliano of Sweeney & Sheehan; John J. Snyder of Rawle & Henderson; Patrick S. Mintzer of Buckley Brion McGuire Morris & Sumner; Walter H. Swayze of Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney.

4/9/2010

47. (tie)

Grossi v. Travelers Insurance Co.


Underinsured Motorist

Mediation Daniel T. Moskal of Law Office of Joseph S. Weimer; Dale Fouse, Keith R. McMillen and Laura Tocci of McMillen Urick Tocci Fouse & Jones.

8/6/2009

47. (tie)

Iatarola v. Campbell’s Auto Express Inc.


Auto Accident C.P. Philadelphia

Michael O. Pansini and Steven M. Mezrow of Pansini & Mezrow; James D. Hilly of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin; John R. Brown of Ryan Brown Berger & Gibbons.

6/22/2010

47. (tie)

Mente Chevrolet Oldsmobile Inc. v. GMAC


Breach of Contract


Mary Grace Maley of Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio; Steven Ginsburg and Charles M. Tatelbaum of Adorno & Yoss; Kenneth A. Jacobsen of Law Offices of Kenneth A. Jacobsen.

11/19/2009

47. (tie)

Schlier v. Captain John G. Rice and Schlier v. Lt. David Dougalas and Wreckers International v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Police


First Amendment

U.S. District Court, M.D. Pa.

Michael T. Sweeney, Cletus P. Lyman and Michael S. Fettner of Lyman & Ash; Sarah C. Yerger of the State Office of Attorney General; R. H. Hawn Jr. of the Pennsylvania State Police Chief Counsel’s Office.

2/1/2010

Largest Awards & Settlements in PA


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Most Requested Opinions Most Requested Opinions

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Rank Case Name PICS No. Court Date Judge Holding

1. Orlowski v. Jimmy Magg’s Inc.

09-1822 C.P. Beaver Oct. 27, 2009 Kwidis A person has a duty to look where he or she is walking and see that which is obvious. The court granted summary judgment to defendant bowling alley.

2. Kolar v. Preferred Unlimited

10-2361 C.P. Philadelphia July 18, 2010 Bernstein Even though the state Supreme Court has agreed to take a second crack at determining whether attorney-client privilege applies to communications from the attorney to the client, a Philadelphia Common Pleas judge had to rely on a Superior Court opinion that found it doesn’t when he denied more than 300 claims of privilege.

3. Brooks v. Fattaroli 09-1709 C.P. Lebanon Oct. 5, 2009 Charles Plaintiff’s expert does not have the right to access defendant’s electronic data systems in order to retrieve electronically stored information.

4. (tie)

Bradish-Klein v. Kennedy and State Farm Insurance Company

09-2059 C.P. Beaver Oct. 27, 2009 Kwidis The court found it was permissible to join an underinsured motorists claim with the underlying tort claim despite the rule prohibiting admission of evidence of insurance against defendant to establish his liability or the damages.

4. (tie)

Carra-Cielski v. Scrimalli

09-1650 C.P. Lackawanna Aug. 18, 2009 Minora Finding a claim could be made for negligent entrustment against the guardian of a young man who caused an accident with driving intoxicated, the court denied summary judgment to defendant.

6. Murray v. Dollar Tree Stores Inc.

09-1532 U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

Sept. 10, 2009 Kelly In a slip-and-fall case, plaintiff must provide some proof as to the length of time a spill existed on a store’s floor in order to show constructive notice.

7. Zeidman v. Fisher 09-1385 Pa. Superior Aug. 13, 2009 Cleland A man hit by a golf ball can have his day in court.

8. Target National Bank v. Danette I. Greiner

09-1970 C.P. Lancaster Sept. 30, 2009 Ashworth A credit card debt collection action required a signed, original credit application as well as sufficient proof of the transaction history of the card.

9. Zappala v. The James Lewis Group

09-1533 Pa. Superior Sept. 11, 2009 Donohue The rules of venue give plaintiffs freedom to shop among various proper venues, so the phrase “forum shopping” alone is not enough to end an inquiry into the propriety of a particular venue.

10. Harlan Jr. v. Pennsylvania State Police

10-1506 C.P. Lawrence March 4, 2010 Cox In this motor vehicle accident case, the court reviewed the evidence and concluded that reasonable minds could differ as to whether plaintiff suffered a serious injury as a result of the accident. Therefore, partial summary judgment in favor of defendants was inappropriate.

11. Harhai v. The Travelers Cos.

09-1286 C.P. Philadelphia Aug. 1, 2009 Bernstein An automobile insurer may have acted in violation of the Bad Faith Statute when its claim representative failed to inform a customer that his claims qualified for uninsured motorist coverage above and beyond his no-fault, personal injury protection coverage.

12. (tie)

Righter v. Walter 09-2146 C.P. Carbon March 12, 2009 Nanovic Although defendant did not offer a medical expert, plaintiff’s evidence of injury was contested through cross-examination and plaintiff’s own testimony and the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s zero damages award.

12. (tie)

American Express Centurion v. Decker

09-1711 C.P. Centre Sept. 17, 2009 Kistler The court reiterated its position that a credit card issuer was required to attach the signed agreement between the issuer and cardholder to sue on the credit card debt, and sustained defendant cardholder’s preliminary objections.

Source: Pennsylvania Instant Case Service Statistics, Aug. 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010. Ranked by number of times requested.Source: Pennsylvania Instant Case Service Statistics, Aug. 1, 2009 — July 31, 2010. Ranked by number of times requested.

Rank Case Name PICS No. Court Date Judge Holding

14. (tie)

Rivero v. Timblin 10-1943 C.P. Lancaster March 16, 2010 Ashworth Plaintiffs may pursue common law negligence claims against a liquor licensee that allegedly sold liquor to a visibly intoxicated patron where the Pennsylvania Dram Shop Act did not provide the exclusive remedy for such claims.

14. (tie)

Veltri v. Travelers Commercial Insurance Co.

09-1653 C.P. Lackawanna Sept. 20, 2009 Minora A party can make a claim both for bad faith against an insurance carrier and a violation of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (MVFRL).

14. (tie)

Stidd v. Fry 09-1905 C.P. Centre Nov. 10, 2009 Kistler A release signed by plaintiffs absolved defendants from liability despite the fact that defendants were not named in the release.

17. (tie)

Hower v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

09-1026 U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa.

June 16, 2009 Surrick Absent evidence of the time the spilled liquid remained on the floor prior to plaintiff’s slip-and-fall accident, plaintiff was unable to establish that defendant had constructive notice of the floor’s dangerous condition.

17. (tie)

George v. Frederick Jr. 09-1136 C.P. Adams July 7, 2009 George The opinion of plaintiff’s medical expert on the cause of plaintiff’s fibromyalgia was subject to the Frye test, which requires a showing that the medical community has generally accepted the principle upon which the expert has based his opinion.

19. (tie)

Target National Bank v. Kilbride

10-1198 C.P. Centre Feb. 5, 2010 Lunsford Something more than simply failing to respond to statements received in the mail is required to establish defendant’s assent to a debt.

19. (tie)

Squicquero v. Ross 10-2160 C.P. Lawrence March 24, 2010 Motto Defendants were found negligent for a tree on defendants’ property that fell onto plaintiff’s automobile, causing serious injury to plaintiff’s left arm.

19. (tie)

Vail v. Leonard S. Fiore Inc.

10-1789 C.P. Centre April 28, 2010 Lunsford Where plaintiff voluntarily and intelligently chose to step around a rolled-up carpet, with the awareness of the risk of potentially falling, she was barred from recovery under doctrine of assumption of risk.

19. (tie)

Albert Heston v. Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment Inc.

09-1410 C.P. Philadelphia Aug. 17, 2009 Abramson A slip-and-fall case brought by a patron of the Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack in Bensalem, Pa., should be transferred to the Bucks County courts instead of Philadelphia.

19. (tie)

Six v. Phillips 09-1100 C.P. Beaver June 30, 2009 Kwidis Evidence of insurance may be permissible in an action where underinsured motorists claims and third-party claims are joined.

24. (tie)

Segal Wolf Berk Gaines & Liss PA v. Arleen Wolf et al.

09-1515 C.P. Philadelphia Aug. 25, 2009 Sheppard To challenge the competency of evidence under the Dead Man’s Act, a party must show the decedent had an interest in the matter at issue, which was adverse to the interest of the witness, and a party of record has succeeded to the decedent’s interest. As these three elements exist here, the firm cannot introduce testimony about the terms of the agreement.

24. (tie)

Gustine Uniontown Associates v. Antony Crane Rental

09-1123 C.P. Allegheny June 24, 2009 Wettick There is no justification for the adoption of a rule compelling a settling defendant to attend a trial in which it has no interest in the outcome of the case.

18 PaLAW 2010

National Statistics

Source: Survey of Law Firm Economics, 2010 Edition published by The National Law Journal and ALM Legal Intelligence

How PA Law Firms Compare To Firms Nationwide (2009 Data)

Category PA Law Firms General Practice Law Firms Nationally

Gross Receipts $393,997 $409,671

Overhead (excluding all lawyer compensation) $118,709 $156,894

Firm Income (including all lawyer compensation) $275,288 $252,778

Debt at Year-End $50,805 $45,684

Partner Permanent Cash Basis Capital at Year-End $11,664 $9,932

Value of Unbilled Time at Year-End $92,163 $102,788

Value of Fees Receivable at Year-End $71,295 $78,165

Partner Billable Hours 1,660 1,608

Associate Billable Hours 1,789 1,762

6 to 10 Years Experience $300 $275


Over 20 Years Experience $390 $355

Under 2 Years Experience $180 $180



Over 10 Years Experience $285 $275

6 to 10 Years Experience $207,316 $187,484


Over 20 Years Experience $347,754 $315,036

Under 2 Years Experience — $118,218



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22 PaLAW 2010

Largest Public Law Firms in PARank Organization No. of Attorneys Growth Chief Legal Officer, Title Year Took Office State/County

1. Office of General Counsel † 479 -1 Barbara Adams, General Counsel 2005 State

2. Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office 312 12 R. Seth Williams, District Attorney 2010 County

3. Defender Association of Philadelphia 210 -30 Ellen T. Greenlee, Defender 1990 State

4. Office of the Attorney General 206 6 Thomas Corbett, Attorney General* 2005 State

5. Philadelphia City Solicitor 174 3 Shelley R. Smith, City Solicitor 2008 County

6. Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office 115 3 Stephen A. Zappala Jr., District Attorney 1998 County

7. (tie) Erie County District Attorney’s Office 89 74 Jack Daneri, District Attorney 2009 County

7. (tie) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 89 4 Marcia Mulkey, Regional Counsel 2009 Federal

9. Allegheny County Public Defender’s Office 83 -4 Michael J. Machen, Chief Public Defender 2004 County

10. Department of Environmental Protection † 66 -5 Susan Shinkman, Chief Counsel 2004 State

11. Pennsylvania Department of State — Office of Chief Council 63 0 Steven V. Turner, Chief Counsel 2009 State

12. Department of Labor & Industry † 56 26 Jane Pomerantz, Chief Counsel 2008 State

13. Delaware County Public Defenders Association 55 9 Spiros E. Angelos, Chief Public Defender 2004 County

14. Delaware County District Attorney’s Office 50 3 G. Michael Green, District Attorney 2004 County

15. Department of Transportation † 49 -4 Andrew S. Gordon, Chief Counsel 1995 State

16. Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office 45 3 Risa Vetri Ferman, District Attorney 2008 County

17. (tie) Chester County District Attorney’s Office 38 3 Joseph W. Carroll, District Attorney 2002 County

17. (tie) Montgomery County Public Defenders Association 38 0 Stephen Heckman, Chief Public Defender 2008 County

19. Department of Public Welfare † 35 -1 Allen C. Warshaw, Chief Counsel 2006 State

20. (tie) Berks County District Attorney’s Office 32 -2 John T. Adams, District Attorney 2008 County

20. (tie) Bucks County District Attorney’s Office 32 -2 David Heckler, District Attorney 2010 County

22. Public Defender of Chester County 31 1 John R. Merrick, Public Defender 1972 County

23. (tie) Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 30 0 Nicholas J. Staffieri, General Counsel 2000 State

23. (tie) Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office 30 3 Jacqueline Musto Carroll, District Attorney 2008 County

25. Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office 29 1 Craig Stedman, District Attorney 2008 County

26. (tie) Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office 25 2 Edward M. Marsico, Jr., District Attorney 2000 County

26. (tie) Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office 25 1 James B. Martin, District Attorney 1998 County

28. Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office 24 0 Andrew J. Jarbola III, District Attorney 2000 County

29. (tie) Department of Corrections † 22 3 Suzanne Hueston, Chief Counsel 2006 State

29. (tie) Westmoreland County District Attorney’s Office 22 0 John W. Peck, District Attorney 1994 County

31. (tie) Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office 21 -2 Basil G. Russin, Chief Public Defender 1980 County

31. (tie) Northampton District Attorney’s Office 21 0 John M. Morganelli, District Attorney 1992 County

31. (tie) Office of Bucks County Public Defender 21 0 Stephen H. Shantz, Chief Public Defender 1980 County

34. (tie) Department of Revenue † 19 -1 Jeffery Snavely, Acting Chief Counsel 2010 State

34. (tie) Erie County Public Defenders 19 -5 Darrel J. Vandeveld, Chief Public Defender 2010 County

34. (tie) Lehigh County Public Defender’s Office 19 1 Charles F. Smith Jr., Chief Public Defender 2006 County

37. Northampton County Public Defenders Office 17 0 Michael F. Corriere, Public Defender 2006 County

38. (tie) Department of Education † 16 1 Judy Shopp, Chief Counsel 2007 State

38. (tie) Department of General Services † 16 0 Michael F. Eichert, Chief Counsel 2007 State

38. (tie) Pennsylvania State Police † 16 0 Barbara L. Christie, Chief Counsel 1996 State

41. (tie) City of Pittsburgh Law Department 14 -1 Daniel D. Regan, City Solicitor 2010 City

41. (tie) Department of Health † 14 0 Christine S. Dutton, Chief Counsel 2005 State

41. (tie) Department of Insurance † 14 1 Amy Griffith Daubert, Chief Counsel 2009 State

44. (tie) Department of Community & Economic Development † 13 -2 Steven J. Fishman, Chief Counsel 2005 State

44. (tie) Westmoreland County Public Defenders Office 13 2 Dante G. Bertani, Chief Public Defender 1969 County

46. State Employees’ Retirement System † 10 0 Samuel S. Yun, Acting Chief Counsel 2009 State

† State agencies that report to Office of General Counsel and are included in that office’s total * Governor-elect Corbett will step down as AG Jan. 18, 2011. Successor TBD.

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PA-Area Law School Statistics

School, Address, Phone/Fax, Website Dean200975%/25% LSAT†

2009Median GPA†

July 2010 Bar Pass Rate*

Feb. 2010 Bar Pass Rate* Application Deadline/Fee

Full-Time Tuition In-State/Out-of-State Full-Time Students Part-Time Students

Percent Full-Time Minority Students

Percent Full-Time Women Students

Full-Time Faculty Fall/Spring

Part-Time Faculty Fall/Spring Student/Faculty Ratio

Drexel University — Earle Mack School of Law 3320 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-571-4815 / 215-571-4763 www.drexel.edu/law

Roger J. Dennis 163/156 3.42 81.32% 75% May 1No fee

$32,921/Same 422 0 19.9% 53.1% 19/15 18/16 17.1:1

Duquesne University School of Law 201 Hanley Hall 900 Locust St., Pittsburgh, PA 15282 412-396-6296 / 412-396-1073 www.law.duq.edu

Ken Gormley 154/150 3.42 86.47% 85.71% April 1 — Day Division May 1 — Evening Division June 1 — Part-time Day Division $60

$30,866/Same 446 258 6.3% 51.4% 26/27 34/41 19.5:1

Pennsylvania State University — Dickinson School of Law 150 S. College St., Carlisle, PA 17013 717-240-5207, 800-840-1122 / 717-240-3503 www.law.psu.edu

Philip J. McConnaughay

160/157 3.48 83.64% 57.14% March 1 $60

$34,462/Same 586 11 20.1% 40% 52/52 14/21 9.4:1

Rutgers University School of Law-Camden 217 N. Fifth St. Camden, NJ 08102 856-225-6102 / 856-969-7903 www.camlaw.rutgers.edu

Rayman L. Soloman

162/158 3.46 77.85% 70.59% March 15 $65

$23,860/$34,360 619 191 20.7% 40.5% 50/50 41/58 11.8:1

Temple University — James E. Beasley School of Law 1719 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19122 215-204-7861 / 215-204-1185 www.law.temple.edu

JoAnne Epps 163/159 3.41 92.34% 88.24% March 1 $60

$17,226/$29,516 784 192 23.2% 46.2% 56/58 90/125 13:1

University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-898-7481 / 215-573-2025 www.law.upenn.edu

Michael A. Fitts 171/166 3.82 92.86% 57.14% Dec. 1 — Early Decision Feb. 15 — Regular Notification $75

$46,514/Same 790 1 28% 47.2% 60/61 39/51 10.7:1

University of Pittsburgh School of Law 3900 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 412-648-1400 / 412-648-1318 www.law.pitt.edu

Mary A. Crossley 161/157 3.42 86.93% 80% March 1 $55

$25,098/$33,094 682 0 15.8% 45.6% 43/45 46/61 12.9:1

Villanova University School of Law 299 N. Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085 610- 519-7000 / 610-519-6472 www.law.vill.edu

John Gotanda** 163/160 3.44 89.87% 81.82% March 1 $75

$35,250/Same 754 0 17.2% 44% 36/36 48/65 17.3:1

Widener University School of Law — Harrisburg 3800 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA 17106 717-541-3902 / 717-541-3999 www.law.widener.edu

Linda L. Ammons

152/148 3.20 87.67% 82.35% May 15 $60

$33,540/Same 358 103 11.7% 47.9.% 19/16 15/23 19.4:1

Widener University School of Law — Delaware 4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803-0474 302-477-2100 / 302-477-2282 www.law.widener.edu

Linda L. Ammons

154/150 3.13 82.61% 72.73% May 15$60

$33,540/Same 612 363 12.6% 44.2% 40/34 46/48 18.6:1

† Full-time students only * First-time test takers of the PA Bar Exam only** Taking Office Jan. 1, 2011

Sources: ABA-LSAC 2010 Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools and the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Statistics Reports. Sources: ABA-LSAC 2010 Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools and the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners Statistics Reports.

PaLAW 2010 27

PA Minority- & Women-Owned Law FirmsFirm, Address, Phone/Fax, E-Mail/Website Managing Partner(s) No. of Attorneys Practice Areas

Allegheny Law Associates 1034 Fifth Ave., Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-4420 / 412-471-0710

Marvin Abrams 1 Personal Injury, Family Law, Wills, Bankruptcy, Workers’ Compensation, Unemployment, Social Security

Ann C. Lebowitz The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St., Suite 600 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-893-4976 / 215-790-0723 [email protected]

Ann C. Lebowitz 1 Appellate

Bagia & Associates The Bourse, 111 S. Independence Mall East, Suite 592 Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-922-5354 / 215-922-5713 [email protected] / www.bagiaimmigration.com

Jay Bagia 4 All areas of U.S. Immigration

Brown Stone Nimeroff Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market St., Suite 3420 Philadelphia, PA 19103 267-861-5330 / 267-350-9050 [email protected] / www.bsnlawyers.com

Mary Kay Brown, Antoinette R. Stone and Jami B. Nimeroff

4 Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy

Cohen Fluhr & Gonzalez 1608 Walnut St., Suite 1108 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-854-0060 / 215-854-0097 [email protected] / www.cfg-law.com

Sanjuanita Gonzalez 5 Social Security/SSI Disability, Immigration & Nationality Law

Harper & Paul 140 W. Maplewood Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19144 215-844-4848 / 215-844-0464 [email protected] / www.harperandpaul.com

Ronald J. Harper 3 Real Estate, Litigation/Personal Injury, Corporate, Domes-tic, Wills, Estates, General Practice

Hing Cheng 123 N. Ninth St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-568-0400 / 215-568-5560 [email protected] / www.hingcheng.com

Glenn F. Hing 4 Real Estate, Zoning and Land Use, Commercial Transactions, Complex Commercial Litigation, Landlord/Tenant Matters, Liquor Licensing, Wills, Trusts & Estates, Immigration

Hwang & Haas 550 Township Line Road, Suite 400 Blue Bell, PA 19422 610-680-2300 / 610-680-2319 [email protected] / www.hwanglegal.com

Sam Y. Hwang 2 Business, Corporate, Banking, Real Estate, Civil & Commercial Litigation

Law Office of Dolores Rocco Kulp 2300 Chestnut St., Suite 340 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-468-5444 / 215-468-5443 [email protected] / www.drkulplaw.com

Dolores Rocco Kulp 3 Civil Litigation, Transit Liability, Insurance Defense, FELA

Law Office of Jettie D. Newkirk 3600 Conshohocken Ave., Suite 2001 Philadelphia, PA 19131 215-877-4546 / 215-877-4547 [email protected]

Jettie D. Newkirk 1 Probate, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Real Estate and Nonprofits and Small Business Representation

Nattiel Seay & Humble The Philadelphia Building, 1315 Walnut St., Suite 732 Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-545-7778 / 215-545-0893 [email protected] / www.nattiel1law.com

Willie Lee Nattiel Jr. Brian Humble

13 Litigation (civil and criminal), Corporate (small businesses and non-profits), Labor, Domestic Relations, Entertainment, Personal Injury (plaintiffs), Wills, Trusts & Estates, Limited Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy

Source: Survey of Minority- and Women-Owned Law Firms

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PA Public Interest Law FirmsPA Minority- & Women-Owned Law FirmsFirm, Address, Phone/Fax, E-Mail/Website Managing Partner(s) No. of Attorneys Practice Areas

Robinson & Geraldo 2505 N. Front St., Second Floor, P.O. Box 5320 Harrisburg, PA 17110 717-232-8525 / 717-232-5098 [email protected] / www.robinson-geraldo.com

Gerald Robinson 4 Family Law, Criminal, Estate Planning, Immigration, Personal Injury, Employment, Discrimination, Business

The Smyler Firm 109 S. 22nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-568-6090 / 215-568-6091

Denise Joy Smyler 8 Civil Defense Litigation, Public and Municipal Finance & Transactions

Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards 1717 Arch St., Suite 3838 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-731-9004 / 215-731-9044 [email protected] / www.trrlaw.com

Kenneth I. Trujillo 7 Antitrust, Commercial Litigation, International Litigation, Securities, Government, Education and Social Sector

Tucker Law Group 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1700 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-875-0609 / 215-875-8143 [email protected] / www.tlgattorneys.com

Joe H. Tucker Jr. 10 Complex Civil Litigation, Employment Discrimination, Civil Rights, Catastrophic Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice, Public Finance

Verdell Dean & Associates Allegheny Building, 429 Forbes Ave., Suite 1609 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-3327 / 412-471-0118 [email protected]

Verdell Dean 2 Family, Personal Injury and General Litigation

Source: Survey of Minority- and Women-Owned Law Firms

Source: Survey of Public Interest Organizations Listed by Annual Budget NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)

Organization, Address, Phone/Fax, E-Mail/Website

Top Staff Member/Title Annual Budget Core Services

Area Served

Full-Time Attorneys

Full-Time Paralegals

Other Full-Time Staff

Volunteer Attorneys/Paralegals & Students

Cases Opened from 7/09 to 7/10

Community Legal Services Inc. 1424 Chestnut St., 3638 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19140 215-981-3700 / 215-981-0434 NA / www.clsphila.org

Catherine C. Carr Executive Director

$9.8 million Provides civil legal services in a broad range of areas to all indigent residents of Philadelphia.

County 53 37 35 10/20 11,739

MidPenn Legal Services Inc. 213A N. Front St. Harrisburg, PA 17101 717-234-0492 / 717-234-0496 [email protected] www.midpenn.org

Rhodia D. Thomas Executive Director

$7.7 million Provides legal representation to low-income individuals in civil legal matters and survivors of domestic violence.

Regional 44 19 33 1,146/26 11,085

Mazzoni Center 21 S. 12th St., Eighth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-563-0657 / 215-563-0748 [email protected] www.mazzonicenter.org

Nurit Shein Executive Director

$7.5 million Provides a broad continuum of LGBT-focused health and wellness services.

Regional 1 0 0 2/29 436

North Penn Legal Services 507 Linden St., Suite 300 Scranton, PA 18503 610-317-8757 / 610-317-8778 [email protected] www.northpennlegal.org

Victoria Coyle Executive Director

$5.5 million Provides civil legal services to low-income people in the 20-county, Northeast Pennsylvania region.

Regional 32 18 30 166/19 10,303

Neighborhood Legal Services Association 928 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-255-6700 / 412-355-0168 [email protected]/www.nlsa.us

Robert V. Racunas Executive Director

$5.1 million Provides free legal services to low-income residents in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties in civil matters.

Regional 32 5 22 300/45 12,195

Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center 42 S. 15th St., Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-981-3800 / 215-981-3860 [email protected] www.philalegal.org

Anita Santos-Singh Executive Director

$3.5 million Provides federally funded legal services in family law, public benefits and consumer housing to Philadelphia’s indigent community, as well as legal services in employment and housing to Pennsylvania’s migrant farmworker population.

County 12 20 11 0/50 10,640

Laurel Legal Services Inc. 306 S. Pennsylvania Ave. Greensburg, PA 15601-3066 724-836-2211 / 724-836-3680 [email protected] www.laurellegalservices.org

Cynthia A. Sheehan Executive Director

$2.5 million Provides a full range of legal services from advice and brief services to administrative and court representation and appeal in civil non-fee generating cases within program priorities for those of low income who meet eligibility requirements.

County 17 1 16 3/5 5,000

PaLAW 2010 3130 PaLAW 2010

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Area Served

Full-Time Attorneys





Juvenile Law Center 1315 Walnut St., Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-625-0551 / 215-625-2808 [email protected] www.jlc.org

Robert G. Schwartz Executive Director

$2.2 million Ensures that the child welfare, juvenile justice and other public systems provide vulnerable children with the protection and services they need to become happy, healthy and productive adults.

State 10 2 5 10/12 4

Regional Housing Legal Services2 S. Easton RoadGlenside, PA 19038-7615215-572-7300 / [email protected] www.rhls.org

Mark SchwartzExecutive Director

$1.9 million Provides innovative project and policy solutions that help create sustainable communities offering decent, safe and affordable housing for lower-income Pennsylvanians.

State 13 1 2 0/3 50

Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Second Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-627-7100 / 215-627-3183 [email protected] www.pilcop.org

Jennifer Clarke Executive Director

$1.2 million Improves the well-being and life prospects of the Philadelphia region’s most vulnerable populations by providing legal services that assure that they have access to the conditions for equality: the resources and services that all of us need to lead our lives.

State 6 0 4 4/0 60

Pennsylvania Health Law Project Lafayette Building 437 Chestnut St., Suite 900 Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-625-3663 / 215-625-3879 [email protected] www.phlp.org

Laval Miller-Wilson Executive Director

$1.2 million Assisting low-income and elderly individuals and persons with disabilities gain access to quality health care, publicly funded health insurance or services, through direct legal counsel and representation, as well as public education and policy work.

State 5 3 3 0/6 3,673

SeniorLAW Center 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810 Philadelphia, PA 19110 215-988-1244 / 215-988-1243 [email protected] www.seniorlawcenter.org

Karen C. Buck Executive Director

$1.2 million Protects the legal rights of older Pennsylvanians, providing free legal services, community education and advocacy for elders facing housing, consumer, family law, elder abuse, advance planning, financial exploitation and other legal crises and problems.

County 11 2 2 100/15 3,723

Women’s Law Project 125 S. Ninth St., Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-928-9801 / 215-928-9848 [email protected] www.womenslawproject.org

Carol E. Tracy Executive Director

$1 million Seeks to advance the legal, social and economic status of women through litigation, public policy advocacy, public education and individual counseling.

State 4 0 6 30/0 6



Area Served

Full-Time Attorneys





Education Law Center 1315 Walnut St., Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-238-6970 / 215-772-3125

429 Fourth Ave., Suite 1901 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1910 412-258-2120 / 412-391-4496 [email protected] / www.elc-pa.org

Len Reiser Executive Director

$1 million Helps low-income and disadvantaged families, students and community organizations with problems involving access to public education and quality of education services.

State 7 1 4 10/5 700

AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania1211 Chestnut St., Suite 600Philadelphia, PA 19107215-587-9377 / [email protected] www.aidslawpa.org

Ronda GoldfeinExecutive Director

$935,000 Provides free legal services to Pennsylvanians affected by the AIDS epidemic.

State 5 5 2 20/13 1,955

CASA of Allegheny County 564 Forbes Ave., Suite 902 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-594-3606 / 412-594-3607 [email protected] www.pgh-casa.org

Melissa Protzek Executive Director

$710,000 Provides advocacy for abused and neglected children per juvenile court order by researching cases and making recommendations for the best interest of the child.

County 1 0 7 12/8 93

Friends of Farmworkers 42 S. 15th St., Suite 605 Philadelphia, PA 19102-2205 215-733-0878 / 215-733-0876 [email protected] www.friendsfw.org

Gisselle Guerrero Executive Director

$650,000 Provides legal services to improve the living and working conditions of indigent farmworkers, mushroom workers, food processing workers, and workers from immigrant and migrant communities.

State 4 1 1 10/10 500

Legal Clinic for the Disabled 1513 Race St. Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-587-3214 / 215-587-3166 [email protected] www.legalclinicforthedisabled.org

Linda Peyton Executive Director

$405,000 Provides free legal services to low-income persons with physical disabilities in the five-county Philadelphia area.

Regional 6 0 2 38/2 213

Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts Three Parkway 1601 Cherry St., Suite 1320 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-569-1150 / 215-569-9153 [email protected] www.pmconline.org

Lynn A. Marks Executive Director

$400,000 Works to improve and strengthen the justice system by reforming the judicial selection system; fostering judicial independence; improving the jury system and combating bias in the courts.

State 2 0 1 0/0 0

Mental Health America Allegheny County 100 Sheridan Sq., Second Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15206-3042 412-661-7860 / 412-661-7865 [email protected] www.mhaac.net

Frank Cecchetti Attorney

$60,000 Provides consultation and representation to individuals in Allegheny County receiving services in the public mental health systems — on civil matters only.

County 0 0 0 1/0 0

Source: Survey of Public Interest Organizations Listed by Annual Budget NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)Source: Survey of Public Interest Organizations Listed by Annual Budget NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)

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Full-Time Attorneys





KidsVoice 437 Grant St., Suite 700 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-391-3100 / 412-391-3588 [email protected] www.kidsvoice.org

Scott Hollander Executive Director

WND Provides multidisciplinary advocacy and legal representation for abused, neglected and at-risk children.

County 19 0 40 10/12 39

Northwestern Legal Services Renaissance Centre 1001 State St., Suite 700 Erie, PA 16501 814-452-6949 / 814-452-3734 [email protected] / www.nwls.org

Robert A. Oakley Executive Director

WND Provides civil legal services to low-income individuals in the areas of family, health care and education law, as well as government and housing benefits.

Regional 17 4 14 153/6 5,739

SafeNet Legal Clinic — PFACS P.O. Box 1436 Erie, PA 16512 814-455-1774 / 814-459-6512 [email protected] www.safeneterie.org

Linda King Executive Director

WND Provides free legal representation to domestic violence victims, protection from abuse orders and civil cases related to abuse.

County 1 1 50 0/4 50

American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania P.O. Box 40008 Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-592-1513 / 215-592-1343 [email protected] / www.aclupa.org

Nancy Hopkins Executive Director

WND Through advocacy, education and litigation, works to preserve and defend civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

State 4 0 13 80/24 75

HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia 2100 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-832-0900 / 215-832-0919 [email protected] / www.hiaspa.org

Judith Bernstein-Baker Executive Director

WND Provides immigration services, including family unification, violence against women self-petitions, removal defense, asylum, adjustment of status and refugee resettlement services.

Regional 6 5 7 38/0 1,447

Homeless Advocacy Project 42 S. 15th St., Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-523-9595 / 215-981-3866 [email protected] www.homelessadvocacyproject.org

Marsha I. Cohen Executive Director

WND Provides free civil legal services to homeless individuals and families in 25 Philadelphia homeless shelters and soup kitchens through the use of volunteer attorneys, paralegals and law students.

County 7 4 3 325/75 3,000

Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project42 S. 15th St., Fourth FloorPhiladelphia, PA 19102215-523-951 1/ [email protected] / www.philalegal.org

Mary Anne LuceyExecutive Director

WND Provides debt counseling and assistance with Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

County 1 1 1 30/20 410

Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania 625 Swede St. Norristown, PA 19401 610-275-5400 / 215-275-5406 [email protected], [email protected] www.lasp.org

Harvey F. Strauss and Elizabeth W. Fritsch Co-Executive Directors

WND Provides free civil legal services to low-income people and victims of domestic violence in suburban Southeastern Pennsylvania counties (Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties).

Regional 27 8 17 600/25 10,000



Area Served

Full-Time Attorneys





Nationalities Service Center 1216 Arch St., Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-893-8400 / 215-735-9718 [email protected] www.nationalitiesservice.org

Dennis Mulligan Executive Director

WND Provides educational and social services, and legal representation for immigrants and refugees. Provides interpretation and translation services for business and nonprofit clients.

Regional 4 3 28 5/24 936

Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project 718 Arch St., Suite 304 South Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-925-2966 / 215-925-5337 [email protected]/www.pailp.org

Angus Love Executive Director

WND Provides free civil legal assistance to eligible institutionalized persons in Pennsylvania.

State 3 1 1 1/4 200

Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts 200 S. Broad St., Suite 700 Philadelphia, PA 19102-3896 215-790-3836 / 215-790-3888 [email protected] www.artsandbusiness.org/pvla

Miriam K. Hohag Director of Legal Services

WND Provides legal assistance and educational programming for low-income individual artists and arts and cultural organizations in southeastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey.

Regional 1 0 1 199/30 736

Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program 42 S. 15th St., Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-523-9550 / 215-564-0845 [email protected] / www.phillyvip.org

Sara Woods Executive Director

WND Provides low-income individuals equal access to the legal system in civil matters by referring them to volunteer lawyers, para-legals and others who provide legal assistance free of charge.

County 5 5 4 1,076/200 985

Support Center for Child Advocates 1900 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 267-546-9200 / 267-546-9201 [email protected] www.advokid.org

Frank P. Cervone Executive Director

WND Provides legal and social service advocacy for child victims of abuse and neglect, teaming volunteer attorneys with staff social workers and attorneys.

County 7 0 17 345/12 368

Women Against Abuse Legal Center 100 S. Broad St., Fifth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19110 215-686-7082 / 215-686-7041 NA / www.womenagainstabuse.org

Molly Callahan Executive Director

WND Provides free advocacy and legal representation in family law cases to domestic violence victims in Philadelphia County.

County 4 2 8 5/5 207

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network 118 Locust St. Harrisburg, PA 17101 717-236-9486 / 717-233-4088 [email protected] www.palegalaid.net

Sam Milkes Executive Director

WND Provides civil legal aid to low-income clients in certain priority areas.

State 266 112 161 948/103 69,478

Disability Rights Network of PA 1315 Walnut St., Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-238-8070 / 215-772-3126 [email protected]/www.drnpa.org

Ilene Shane Chief Executive Officer

WND Provides legal and policy advocacy to expand and protect the rights of persons with disabilities.

State 18 2 40 1/0 45

Source: Survey of Public Interest Organizations Listed by Annual Budget NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)Source: Survey of Public Interest Organizations Listed by Annual Budget NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)

PaLAW 2010 3534 PaLAW 2010

Largest PA Public CorporationsLargest PA Public Corporations

Rank Public Corporation/Address

2009 Revenue (In Millions) Chief Legal Officer Title

Year Named

No. of In-House Attorneys Major Law Firms Used

1. AmerisourceBergen Corp. 1300 Morris Drive Chesterbrook, PA 19087

$70,189.73 John G. Chou Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2007 18 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia

2. Comcast Corp. One Comcast Center 1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd. Philadelphia, PA 19103

$35,756 Arthur R. Block Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2000 75 Davis Polk & Wardwell; Wilkie Farr & Gallagher; Davis Wright Tremaine; Drinker Biddle & Reath; Ballard Spahr

3. Sunoco Inc. 1735 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103-7583

$31,312 Stacy L. Fox Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2010 27 Beveridge & Diamond, Washington, D.C.; Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia

4. Alcoa Inc. 201 Isabella St. Alcoa Corporate Center Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5858

$18,439 Nicholas J. DeRoma Executive V.P., Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

1997 85 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York; K&L Gates, Pittsburgh; Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York; Hunton & Williams

5. CIGNA Corp. Two Liberty Place, 1601 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19192-1550

$18,414 Carol Ann Petren Executive V.P. & General Counsel

2006 WND DLA Piper; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker; Morgan Lewis & Bockius; Jenner & Block

6. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. One PNC Plaza, 249 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15222

$16,200 Helen P. Pudlin Executive V.P. & General Counsel

2009 WND WND

7. PPG Industries Inc. One PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15272

$12,239 Glenn E. Bost II Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2010 28 WND

8. U.S. Steel Corp. 600 Grant St. Pittsburgh, PA 15219

$11,048 James D. Garraux Senior V.P. — Corporate Affairs & General Counsel

2007 49 WND

9. H.J. Heinz Co. One PPG Place, Ste. 3100 Pittsburgh, PA 15222

$10,011.33 Theodore N. Bobby Executive V.P. & General Counsel

2006 WND WND

10. Lincoln National Corporation 150 N. Radnor Chester Road, Suite A305 Radnor, PA 19087

$8,499 Nicole S. Jones Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2010 WND WND

11. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. 7201 Hamilton Blvd. Allentown, PA 18195

$8,256.20 John Stanley Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2009 30 WND

12. Crown Holdings Inc. One Crown Way Philadelphia, PA 19154-4599

$7,938 William T. Gallagher Senior V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

2000 10 Dechert, Philadelphia; Law Offices of Michael J. Stack, Philadelphia; Elliott Greenleaf & Seidzikowski, Blue Bell, Pa.

13. UGI Corp. 460 N. Gulph Road King of Prussia, PA 19406

$5,737.80 Robert H. Knauss V.P., General Counsel & Assistant Secretary

2003 12 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Foley & Lardner, Washington, D.C.; Nelson Kinder Mosseau & Saturley, Manchester, N.H.; Reed Smith, Chicago; Blank Rome, Philadelphia

14. The Hershey Co. 100 Crystal A Drive Hershey, PA 17033

$5,298.67 Burton H. Snyder Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2001 10 WND



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15. Universal Health Services Inc. Universal Corporate Center 367 S. Gulph Road King of Prussia, PA 19406-0958

$5,202.38 Matthew D. Klein V.P. & General Counsel 2008 3 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh; Fulbright & Jaworski, New York and Houston; Cotkin & Collins, Orange County; Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans; Pepper Hamilton

16. Mylan Laboratories Inc. 1500 Corporate Drive, Suite 400 Cannonsburg, PA 15317

$5,092.78 Kristin A. Kolesar Senior V.P. & Global General Counsel

2010 25 Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti; Cravath Swaine & Moore

17. WESCO International Inc. 225 W. Station Square Drive, Suite 700 Pittsburgh, PA 15219

$4,623.95 Diane E. Lazzaris V.P. Legal Affairs 2010 3 K&L Gates, Pittsburgh; Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Cohen & Grigsby, Pittsburgh

18. CONSOL Energy Inc. 1000 CONSOL Energy Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317

$4,621.88 P. Jerome Richey Executive V.P. — Corporate Affairs & Chief Legal Officer

2009 WND WND

19. Unisys Corp. Unisys Way Blue Bell, PA 19424

$4,597.70 Nancy Straus Sundheim

Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2001 86 WND

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)


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20. Airgas Inc. 249 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Suite 100 Radnor, PA 19087-5240

$4,349.45 Robert H. Young Jr. Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2007 4 WND

21. Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. 300 Industry Drive, RIDC Park West Pittsburgh, PA 15275

$4,130.13 David I. Mossé Senior V.P. — Legal, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2010 6 Jones Day; Buchanan Ingersoll

22. Allegheny Energy Inc. 800 Cabin Hill Drive Greensburg, PA 15601

$3,426.80 David M. Feinberg V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2006 WND WND

23. Allegheny Technologies Inc. 1000 Six PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222

$3,054.90 Jon D. Walton Executive V.P. — Human Resources, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, General Counsel & Secretary

1996 7 WND

24. Harsco Corp. 350 Poplar Church Road Camp Hill, PA 17011

$2,990.58 Mark E. Kimmel Senior V.P., Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2004 13 Jones Day, Cleveland; Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh; Nixon Peabody, Buffalo, NY; McNees Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg

25. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. 77 Hot Metal St. Pittsburgh, PA 15203

$2,998.87 Neil Bulman Jr. V.P. & General Counsel 2000 5 Wood Herron & Evans, Cincinnati, Ohio; Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio; Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Rutan & Tucker, Costa Mesa, Calif.; Kilpatrick & Stockton, New York

26. FMC Corp. 1735 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103

$2,826.20 Andrea E. Utecht V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2001 12 Dechert, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Blank Rome, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Swanson Martin & Bell, Chicago

27. Armstrong World Industries Inc. P.O. Box 3001 Lancaster, PA 17604

$2,780 Jeffrey D. Nickel Senior V.P., General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2008 10 Weil Gotshall & Manges; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice; Sandler Travis & Rosenberg; Thompson & Knight; Stevens & Lee

28. Charming Shoppes Inc. 450 Winks Lane Bensalem, PA 19020

$2,474.90 Colin D. Stern Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

1989 5 WND

29. Penn National Gaming Inc. Wyomissing Professional Ctr. 825 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 200 Wyomissing, PA 19610

$2,369.28 Jordan Savitch Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2002 WND WND

30. Amerigas Partners 460 N. Gulph Road King of Prussia, PA 19406

$2,260.09 Robert H. Knauss V.P., General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of the General Partner

2003 12 WND

31. Cephalon Inc. 41 Moores Road P.O. Box 4011 Frazer, PA 19355

$2,192.31 Gerald J. Pappert Executive V.P., General Counsel & Company Secretary

2008 18 WND

32. Dentsply International Inc. Susequehanna Commerce Center 221 W. Philadelphia St. York, PA 17405-0872

$2,159.92 Brian M. Addison V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

1998 6 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Pittsburgh; McNees Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg; Woodcock Washburn, Philadelphia; Goodell DeVries, Baltimore



Year Named


33. Ametek Inc. 37 N. Valley Road, Building Four P.O. Box 1764 Paoli, PA 19301

$2,098.36 Robert S. Feit Senior V.P. & General Counsel

2007 1 WND

34. Vishay Intertechnology Inc. 63 Lancaster Ave. Malvern, PA 19355-2120

$2,042.03 Avner Z. Lahat Director of Legal Services

2004 5 WND

35. Kennametal Inc. 1600 Technology Way P.O. Box 231 Latrobe, PA 15650

$1,999.86 David W. Greenfield V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

2001 9 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh; Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C.; Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.; Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir, Pittsburgh

36. EnerSys 2366 Bernville Road Reading, PA 19605

$1,972.87 Joseph Lewis V.P., General Counsel & Assistant Secretary

2009 3 WND

37. Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack 3111 W. Allegheny Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19132

$1,927.79 Brian D. Zuckerman Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2003 4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; DLA Piper, Philadelphia; Reed Smith, Philadelphia; Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg & Ellers, Philadelphia

38. Urban Outfitters Inc. 5000 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19112

$1,834.62 Glen A. Bodzy General Counsel & Secretary

1999 WND WND

39. Teleflex Inc. 155 S. Limerick Road Limerick, PA 19468

$1,890.06 Laurence G. Miller Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2004 6 WND

40. Buckeye Partners Five TEK Park, 9999 Hamilton Blvd. Breinigsville, PA 18031

$1,770.37 William H. Schmidt Jr.

V.P., General Counsel & Secretary of General Partner

2007 2 Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis; Duane Morris, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Vincent & Elkins, Houston; Baker & Daniels, Washington, D.C.

41. Toll Brothers Inc. 250 Gibraltar Road Horsham, PA 19044

$1,755.31 John K. McDonald Senior V.P., General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

2010 14 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Duane Morris, Philadelphia

42. Atlas Energy Inc. 1550 Coraopolis Heights Road Moon Township, PA 15108

$1,587.60 Lisa Washington Senior V.P., Chief Legal Officer & Secretary

2005 1 Ledgewood Law, Philadelphia

43. Central European Distribution Corp. Two Bala Plaza, Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19004

$1,507.14 WND WND WND WND Dewey & LeBoeuf

44. Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. 100 Endo Blvd. Chadds Ford, PA 19317

$1,460.84 Caroline B. Manogue Executive V.P., Chief Legal Official & Secretary

2004 9 Arnold & Porter; Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom; Drinker Biddle & Reath; Dechert

45. Wabtec Corp. 1001 Air Brake Ave. Wilmerding, PA 15148

$1,401.62 David M. Seitz V.P., Senior Counsel & Assistant Secretary

2000 3 Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; The Webb Law Firm, Pittsburgh

46. Carpenter Technology Corp. P.O. Box 14662 Reading, PA 19612

$1,362.30 Oliver C. Mitchell Jr. Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2007 3 WND

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose) Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)

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47. Radian Group Inc. 1601 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103

$1,313.38 Edward J. Hoffman Senior V.P., General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2008 9 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia; Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia; Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Boston; White & Williams, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia

48. EQT Corp. 225 North Shore Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15212

$1,269.83 Lewis B. Gardner V.P. & General Counsel 2008 12 WND

49. Triumph Group Inc. 1550 Liberty Ridge Drive, Suite 100 Wayne, PA 19087

$1,240.38 John B. Wright II V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2004 2 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia; Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, Philadelphia; Ogletree Deakins, Phoenix; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia

50. P.H. Glatfelter Co. 96 S. George St., Suite 500 York, PA 17401

$1,197.34 Thomas G. Jackson V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2008 2 Ballard Spahr; Shearman & Sterling; Kilpatrick Stockton; Dilworth Paxson; Barley Snyder

51. Federated Investors Inc. Federated Investors Tower 1001 Liberty Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15222

$1,175.95 John W. McGonigle Vice Chairman, Executive V.P., Chief Legal Officer & Secretary

1998 WND Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh; K&L Gates, Pittsburgh

52. Koppers Holdings Inc. 436 Seventh Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219

$1,124.40 Steven R. Lacy Senior V.P. — Administration, General Counsel & Secretary

2004 WND WND

53. SEI Investments Co. One Freedom Valley Drive Oaks, PA 19456

$1,060.55 N. Jeffrey Klauder Executive V.P. & General Counsel

2004 23 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Matheson Ormsby & Prentice, Dublin, Ireland; Simmons & Simmons, London; Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia

54. West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. 101 Gordon Drive, P.O. Box 645 Lionville, PA 19341

$1,055.70 John R. Gailey III V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

1991 WND WND

55. Black Box Corp. 1000 Park Drive Lawrence, PA 15055

$999.55 Christopher H. Gebhardt

General Counsel WND 3 WND

56. Harleysville Group Inc. 355 Maple Ave. Harleysville, PA 19438

$980.62 Robert A. Kauffman Senior V.P., Compliance Officer, General Counsel & Secretary

2004 38 Blank Rome, Philadelphia; Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia

57. GSI Commerce Inc. 935 First Ave. King of Prussia, PA 19406

$966.93 Arthur H. Miller Executive V.P. & General Counsel

1999 9 WND

58. Fulton Financial Corp. One Penn Square P.O. Box 4887 Lancaster, PA 17604

$959.22 George R. Barr Jr. Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2001 5 Barley Snyder, Lancaster, Pa.; Caldwell & Kearns, Harrisburg; Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; McNees Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg

59. Mine Safety Appliances Co. 121 Gamma Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15238

$915.85 Douglas K. McClaine V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

2002 3 Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Dillon McCandless King & Coulter, Saxonburg; Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C.



Year Named


60. CDI Corp. 1717 Arch St., 35th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-2768

$884.95 Joseph R. Seiders Senior V.P. & Chief Legal Officer

1987 5 Dechert, Philadelphia

61. Penn Virginia Corp. Three Radnor Corporate Center 100 Matsonford Road, Suite 300 Radnor, PA 19087

$815.14 Nancy M. Snyder Executive V.P., Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2008 4 Vinson & Elkins, New York and Houston

62. Matthews International Corp. Two Northshore Center Pittsburgh, PA 15212

$780.91 Brian D. Walters V.P. & General Counsel 2005 1 Reed Smith, Philadelphia; Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh; Beirne Maynard & Parsons, Houston

63. Knoll Inc. 1235 Water St. East Greenville, PA 18041

$780.03 Michael A. Pollner V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2007 WND WND

64. Liberty Property Trust 500 Chesterfield Parkway Malvern, PA 19355

$744.26 James J. Bowes Secretary & General Counsel

1996 3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia

65. Healthcare Services Group Inc. 3220 Tillman Dr., Suite 300 Bensalem, PA 19020

$692.70 WND WND WND 0 WND

66. Aqua America Inc. 762 W. Lancaster Ave. Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

$670.54 Roy H. Stahl Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel & Secretary

1984 3 Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco, Paoli, Pa.; Saul Ewing, Philadelphia

67. Constar International Inc. One Crown Way Philadelphia, PA 19154

$638.37 David J. Waksman Senior V.P. — Human Resources, General Counsel & Secretary

2003 2 Dechert, Philadelphia; Woodcock Washburn, Philadelphia

68. Orleans Homebuilders Inc.† One Greenwood Square 3333 Street Road, Suite 101 Bensalem, PA 19020

$583.28* Larry Dugan General Counsel 2008 2 Blank Rome; Jacobowitz & Gubits

69. Brandywine Realty Trust 555 E. Lancaster Ave. Radnor, PA 19087

$582.22 Brad A. Molotsky Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

1997 2 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Sirlin & Lesser; DLA Piper, Baltimore & Chicago; Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, Philadelphia

70. PMA Capital Corp. 380 Sentry Parkway Blue Bell, PA 19422

$531.72 Steven L. Kibblehouse

Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2008 20 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; White & Williams, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia

71. Destination Maternity Corp. 456 N. Fifth St. Philadelphia, PA 19123

$531.25 Ron Masciantonio Senior V.P. — Law & General Counsel

2006 3 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Duane Morris, Philadelphia; Paul Hastings, San Diego; Holland & Knight, Boston

72. Dollar Financial Corp. 1436 Lancaster Ave., Suite 300 Berwyn, PA 19312

$527.85 Roy W. Hibberd Senior V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2005 WND WND

73. NutriSystem Inc. 300 Welsh Road, Building 1, Suite 100 Horsham, PA 19044

$527.73 Donna Davidson WND WND WND Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)† In bankruptcy since March 2010 *2008 Data


40 PaLAW 2010 PaLAW 2010 41




Year Named


74. ANSYS Inc. 275 Technology Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317

$516.88 Sheila S. DiNardo V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2004 WND WND

75. CSS Industries Inc. 1845 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19103

$482.42 William G. Kiesling V.P. — Legal & Human Resources & General Counsel

2006 WND WND

76. Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19102

$463.09 Bruce Goldman Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2000 8 Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia; Blank Rome, Philadelphia

77. RAIT Financial Trust 2929 Arch St., 17th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104

$461.70 Raphael Licht Chief Operating Officer 2010 3 Dechert, Philadelphia; Duane Morris, Philadelphia; Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Ledgewood Law, Philadelphia

78. Quaker Chemical Corp. One Quaker Park 901 Hector St. Conshohocken, PA 19428

$451.49 D. Jeffry Benoliel V.P. — Global Strategy, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2001 2 Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia; Baker McKenzie, London, Amsterdam & Milan; Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia; Irell & Manella, Los Angeles

79. Michael Baker Corp. Airside Business Park 100 Airside Drive Moon Township, PA 15108

$445.18 H. James McKnight Executive V.P., Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary

1995 5 Reed Smith, Philadelphia

80. Calgon Carbon Corp. P.O. Box 717 Pittsburgh, PA 15230

$411.91 Richard D. Rose V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

2009 1 Cohen & Grigsby, Pittsburgh; K&L Gates, Pittsburgh; Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Pittsburgh; Meyer Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh

81. RTI International Metals Inc. Westpointe Corporate Center One 1550 Coraopolis Heights Road, Fifth Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15108

$407.98 Chad Whalen V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

2007 2 WND

82. Technitrol Inc. 1210 Northbrook Drive, Suite 385 Trevose, PA 19053

$398.80 WND WND WND WND WND

83. L.B. Foster Co. 415 Holiday Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15220

$381.96 David L. Voltz V.P., Secretary & General Counsel

1986 1 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh

84. Dorman Products Inc. 3400 E. Walnut St. Colmar, PA 18915

$377.38 Thomas Knoblauch V.P., General Counsel & Assistant Secretary

2005 1 Blank Rome, Philadelphia; Volpe & Koenig, Philadelphia

85. Entercom Communications Corp. 401 City Ave., Suite 809 Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

$372.43 John C. Donlevie Executive V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

1984 6 Lerman Senter, Washington, D.C.; Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.

86. C&D Technologies Inc. 1400 Union Meeting Road Blue Bell, PA 19422

$369.54 James D. Dee V.P., Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel & Secretary

2005 2 WND



Year Named


87. ViroPharma Inc. 397 Eagleview Blvd. Exton, PA 19341

$310.45 J. Peter Wolf III V.P., General Counsel & Secretary

WND WND WND

88. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. 600 Grant St., Suite 4600 Pittsburgh, PA 15219

$299.18 Robert F. Schultz V.P. — Industrial Relations & Senior Counsel

WND 1 WND

89. Interdigital Inc. 781 Third Ave. King of Prussia, PA 19406

$297.40 Steven W. Sprecher General Counsel & Secretary

2007 15 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Dechert; Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young; Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis; The Hoyle Law Firm

90. II-VI Inc. 375 Saxonburg Blvd. Saxonburg, PA 16056

$292.22 NA NA NA 0 Sherrard German & Kelly, Pittsburgh

91. Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. 1005 Virginia Drive Ft. Washington, PA 19034

$225.24 David J. Anderson V.P. & General Counsel 2004 2 Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia

92. Nobel Learning Communities 1615 West Chester Pike, Suite 200 West Chester, PA 19382

$220.10 NA NA NA 1 Pepper Hamilton; Morgan Lewis & Bockius

93. Horsehead Holding Corp. 300 Frankfort Road Monaco, PA 15061

$216.53 Ali Alavi V.P. — Corporate Adminstration, General Counsel & Secretary

1996 WND WND

94. iGate Corp. 1000 Commerce Drive, Suite 500 Pittsburgh, PA 15275

$193.10 Mukund Srinath V.P. — Legal & Company Secretary

2008 2 Reed Smith, Philadelphia

95. StoneMor Partners 311 Veterans Highway, Suite B Levittown, PA 19056

$181.20 NA NA NA WND Blank Rome

96. Tasty Baking Co. Navy Yard Corporate Center 3 Crescent Drive, Suite 200 Philadelphia, PA 19112

$180.56 Laurence Weilheimer

Senior V.P., General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

2006 2 Stradley Ronon; Cozen O’Connor; Blank Rome

97. Auxilium Pharmaceuticals 40 Valley Stream Parkway Malvern, PA 19355

$164.04 Jennifer Evans Stacey

Executive V.P., General Counsel — Human Resources & Secretary

2006 WND WND

98. Kenexa Corp. 650 E. Swedesford Road, Second Floor Wayne, PA 19087

$157.67 WND WND WND WND WND

99. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. 600 Mayer St. Bridgewille, PA 15017

$124.91 Paul A. McGrath V.P. — Administration, General Counsel & Secretary

1996 WND WND

100. Lannett Co. 9000 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136

$119 WND WND WND WND Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose) Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose)

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Law Firms Identified by Corporate ClientsRank Firm No. of Corporations Clients

1. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 16 AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Brandywine Realty Trust; Buckeye Partners; Calgon Carbon Corp.; CIGNA Corp.; Dentsply International Inc.; Destination Maternity Corp.; FMC Corp.; Liberty Property Trust; Nobel Learning Communities; Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack; Radian Group Inc.; SEI Investments Co.; Sunoco Inc.; Triumph Group Inc.; UGI Corp.

2. Reed Smith 11 American Eagle Outfitters Inc.; Calgon Carbon Corp.; Federated Investors Inc.; iGate Corp.; Matthews International Corp.; Michael Baker Corp.; Mine Safety Appliances Co.; Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack; UGI Corp.; Wabtec Corp.; WESCO International Inc.

3. Pepper Hamilton 10 AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Brandywine Realty Trust; Destination Maternity Corp.; FMC Corp.; Internet Capital Group Inc.; Kenexa Corp.; Nobel Learning Communities; PMA Capital Corp.; Sunoco Inc.; Universal Health Services Inc.

4. (tie) Ballard Spahr 8 Comcast Corp.; Fulton Financial Corp.; Harleysville Group Inc.; P.H. Glatfelter Co.; PMA Capital Corp.; Sunoco Inc.; Toll Brothers Inc.; Triumph Group Inc.

4. (tie) Blank Rome 8 Dorman Products Inc.; FMC Corp.; Harleysville Group Inc.; Orleans Homebuilders Inc.; Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust; StoneMor Partners; Tasty Baking Co.; UGI Corp.

4. (tie) Dechert 8 CDI Corp.; Constar International Inc.; Crown Holdings Inc.; Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc.; FMC Corp.; Interdigital Inc.; Internet Capital Group Inc.; OraSure Technologies Inc.

7. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 7 AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc.; Federated Investors Inc.; Kennametal Inc.; L.B. Foster Co.; Triumph Group Inc.; Universal Health Services Inc.

8. Drinker Biddle & Reath 6 Comcast Corp.; Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc.; Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc.; Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust; Quaker Chemical Corp.; Radian Group Inc.

9. K&L Gates 4 Alcoa Inc.; Calgon Carbon Corp.; Federated Investors Inc.; WESCO International Inc.

10. (Tie) DLA Piper 3 Brandywine Realty Trust; CIGNA Corp.; Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack

10. (Tie) Duane Morris 3 Buckeye Partners; Destination Maternity Corp.; Toll Brothers Inc.

10. (Tie) Fox Rothschild 3 Harleysville Group Inc.; Lannett Co. Inc.; Quaker Chemical Corp.

10. (Tie) McNees Wallace & Nurick 3 Dentsply International Inc.; Fulton Financial Corp.; Harsco Corp.

10. (Tie) Stradley Ronon 3 Interdigital Inc.; Tasty Baking Co.; Triumph Group Inc.

15. (tie) Baker & McKenzie 2 Kennametal Inc.; Quaker Chemical Corp.

15. (tie) Barley Snyder 2 Fulton Financial Corp.; P.H. Glatfelter Co.

15. (tie) Cohen & Grigsby 2 Calgon Carbon Corp.; WESCO International Inc.

15. (tie) Cravath Swaine & Moore 2 Alcoa Inc.; Mylan Laboratories Inc.

15. (tie) Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2 CIGNA Corp.; Interdigital Inc.

15. (tie) Jones Day 2 Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc.; Harsco Corp.

15. (tie) Kilpatrick Stockton 2 American Eagle Outfitters Inc.; P.H. Glatfelter Co.

15. (tie) Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg

2 Brandywine Realty Trust; Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack

15. (tie) Ledgewood 2 Atlas Energy Inc.; Resource America Inc.

15. (tie) Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis

2 Interdigital Inc.; Radian Group Inc.

15. (tie) Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

2 Alcoa Inc.; Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc.

15. (tie) White & Williams 2 PMA Capital Corp.; Radian Group Inc.

15. (tie) Woodcock Washburn 2 Constar International Inc.; Dentsply International Inc.

Source: PaLAW Survey

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37.0% Grew slightly

GROWTH IN NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS JUNE 2009 TO JUNE 2010

7.4% Grew significantly

40.7% Stayed the same

7.4% Shrunk slightly

7.4% Shrunk significantly

69.2% Will grow slightly

PROJECTED GROWTH IN NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS JUNE 2010 TO JUNE 2011

3.8% Will grow significantly

19.2% Will stay the same

7.7% Will shrink slightly

0% Will shrink significantly

In 2009, 80 percent of respondents said they were able to increase gross rev-enue over the prior year, whereas only 46.2 percent said they were able to do so in their latest fiscal year. And while only 10 percent saw a reduction in revenues last year, 34.6 percent said they did this year.

When it comes to revenue per lawyer (RPL), 44.4 percent of respondents saw an increase, down from the 74.2 percent who said last year that they saw RPL rise year over year. Nearly 26 percent saw a decline in RPL this year, compared to 6.5 percent last year, and 29.6 percent said RPL stayed the same.

By Gina PassarellaOf the Legal Staff

he results from the 2010 Managing Partners Survey largely mirror what media reports have shown over the

last year: layoffs have subsided, younger associates are being hired in significantly smaller numbers, if at all, contract attor-neys are taking their place and the num-ber of firms that saw increases in either revenue or profits in the last year shrunk substantially.

But perhaps the most interesting find-ing from the survey is one that seems to go against the grain. When asked what actions they took to retain profitability levels between June 2009 and June 2010, 65.2 percent of respondents said they in-creased billing rates, up from 38 percent last year who said the same. And that was by far the biggest choice for controlling profitability, followed by the 48 percent of respondents who said they reduced entry-level hiring.

That comes as a bit of a surprise in a climate where clients are looking for non-

hourly fee arrangements and reductions in costs. With the reportedly wide use of discounting billable hours, the rate in-creases may just be a way to get rates at a high enough point that law firms don’t lose money when discounting them.

Results of the survey show that fewer clients are paying bills without a hassle, while many more are asking questions. When asked about how clients reacted to bills in the last year, 76.9 percent of re-spondents said clients sometimes ask for reductions, which was up from 64.3 per-cent who said so last year. On the other hand, only 19.2 percent said clients paid without much hassle, down from 32.1 per-cent who were able to say that in 2009. Fewer than 4 percent of respondents both this year and last year said clients always demand discounts.

The only other methods of maintaining profitability firms used more frequently this year as compared to last were reduc-ing lateral hiring, reducing entry-level hir-

ing and reducing marketing costs. Nearly 39 percent of respondents said they re-duced marketing costs and 34.8 percent cut lateral hiring.

Layoffs, de-equitizations, reductions in compensation and deferrals were all used less frequently than they were last year. And despite a prediction from consultants that equity partners would be next on the chopping block now that associates and non-equity partners were let go, fewer firms anticipate de-equitizing partners in the coming year. While 21.4 percent of respondents said they planned to de-eq-uitize partners between 2009 and 2010, only 8 percent said they planned to do so between 2010 and 2011.

Though the 29 respondents to this year’s survey only offer a snapshot into the world of law firm management, the responses give a good idea of what is hap-pening in Pennsylvania law firms. The bulk of respondents have more than 125 lawyers.

For all of their efforts, more firms were less successful in growing their revenue and profits. The majority of firms saw a de-crease in gross revenue, which largely mir-rors what happened nationally among Am Law 200 firms. But while many Am Law 200 firms were able to increase profits due to a number of cost-cutting measures, fewer of the Pennsylvania respondents to the Managing Partners Survey were able to do so.

Managing Partners SurveyManaging Partners Survey

Raising Rates Back in Vogue? Done with Layoffs, MPs Look to Revenue Generators (Ahem, Clients) to Maintain Profitability

MERGER POSSIBILITIES

14.8% Actively seeking merger opportunities

63.0% Would be open to merger opportunities

22.2% Has no interest in merging

DID YOUR FIRM HAVE NON-PARTNER TRACK ASSOCIATES FROM JUNE 2009 TO JUNE 2010?

29.6% Yes

70.4% No

FIRM COSTS

33.3% Increased

33.3% Decreased


DID YOUR FIRM HIRE CONTRACT ATTORNEYS LAST YEAR?

40.7% Yes

59.3% No

PROFITS PER PARTNER

37.0% Increased

29.6% Decreased


FIRM REVENUE

46.2% Increased

34.6% Decreased


FIRMNET PROFITS

55.6% Increased

29.6% Decreased


REVENUE PER LAWYER

44.4% Increased

25.9% Decreased


HAS YOUR FIRM DE-EQUITIZED ANY PARTNERS BETWEEN JUNE 2009 AND JUNE 2010?

12% Yes

88% No

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Percent of Managing Partners Who Selected Category 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 1000 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

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While there was an even split at 33.3 percent last year between those who saw costs increase, decrease or stay the same, this year saw 80 percent of respondents who had costs rise, 10 percent who saw decreasing costs and 10 percent who had costs stay the same.

Perhaps in response to all of the cost- cutting firms underwent, the bulk of firms at 55.6 percent saw net profits rise this year, but that is down from the 67.7 percent

who were able to say the same last year. In terms of profits per equity partner (PPP), only 37 percent of firms saw an increase in that metric, which is down from 64.5 per-cent the prior year. Of the remaining firms, 29.6 percent saw a decrease in PPP and 33.3 percent had PPP stay the same.

WHO’S GETTING HIRED?When it comes to growth in headcount, the bulk of firms, or 77.7 percent, stayed the same size in the past year or grew less

than 10 percent. More than 69 percent of respondents said they expect to grow less than 10 percent in the coming year, while 19.2 percent said they expect to stay the same size. That is about the same as last year’s predictions, though ultimately the predictions didn’t bear out.

It comes as no surprise that associates weren’t hired in nearly the same numbers as they had been in the past. The bulk of re-spondents, or 55.6 percent, said they hired


DOES YOUR FIRM REGULARLY USE CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEYS?

18.5% Yes

81.5% No

DOES YOUR FIRM HAVE A NON-LAWYER MARKETING DIRECTOR/CMO?

70.4% Yes

29.6% No

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WHAT ACTIONS HAS YOUR FIRM TAKEN TO RETAIN PROFITABILITY LEVELS?

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Nearly 26 percent of firms said they cut staff between June 2009 and June 2010, though that is down from the 33 percent who said in 2009 that they had cut staff in the prior year. Legal secretaries were the biggest target, with 85.7 percent of respondents who cut staff saying that group was affected. While 96.6 percent of respondents said in 2009 that they didn’t expect to lay off staff in the coming year, only 88.5 percent could say the same this year.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTSMore firms are planning on opening new offices in the coming year, with 20 percent of respondents saying they intended to do so, up from 7.1 percent last year.

Consultants continually preach the ben-efits of firms conducting client satisfac-tion surveys, but law firms don’t seem to be chomping at the bit on this one. Of the respondents, 81.5 percent said they still do not regularly use client satisfaction surveys. That is up from the 64.5 percent last year who said they didn’t conduct the surveys.

For all the talk of alternative fee ar-rangements, clients still seem to prefer hourly billing. More than 65 percent of managing partners said their clients still want hourly billing, and that was up from 53.8 percent last year. While 42.3 percent said in 2009 that clients were eager to hear about creative billing strategies, only

23 percent said the same this year.“[Clients] often say they want to ex-

plore creative fee proposals, but more often [they] just want a discount,” one re-spondent wrote in.

When it comes to the most effective marketing tools, the bulk of respondents again ranked the firm’s website as the best marketing tool. Entertaining and social events fell down the list in importance.

Most firms, with full support from the American Bar Association, are moving away from mandatory retirement policies. But in Pennsylvania, 44 percent of respon-dents said they had such a policy, which is up from the 33.3 percent who said so last year.

Fewer firms are providing leadership and business development training, which is perhaps a function of a bad economy and firms wanting to cut costs. When it comes to leadership training, 55.6 percent of firms said they provide it at some level, which is down from 67.7 percent last year.

More firms — 80.8 percent — offer business development training, but that too is down from last year’s 86.7 percent.

Despite scaling back associate sala-ries, the bulk of managing partners still feel first- and second-year associates are somewhat overpaid, with 58.3 percent of respondents answering that way. Of the respondents, 37.5 percent think junior law-yers are fairly compensated, and 4.2 per-cent find them grossly overpaid. No one thought the associates were underpaid.

Despite those feelings, 68.2 percent did nothing about the salary, keeping starting salaries the same this year. There was a jump, however, in the number of firms who decreased starting salaries, moving from 11.1 percent last year to 18.2 percent this year. More than 13.5 percent of respon-dents increased salaries this year.

While no firms had planned to change partner compensation models in 2009, 16 percent said they were planning on it now.

Of the respondents, 34.5 percent were with firms of 125 or more attorneys, 24 per-cent had between 26 and 50 lawyers. More than 65 percent of respondents were from Philadelphia firms, 20.7 percent were from Pittsburgh and 13.8 percent were from other parts of the state or at firms based in New Jersey. Fifty-seven percent charac-terize themselves as full-service firms, 25 percent have limited practices and about 18 percent were from boutiques.

no first-year associates for the fall of 2010. That is up from 38.7 percent who said the same in 2009. Just over 11 percent hired the same number of first-years, almost 15 percent hired fewer associates and 18.5 percent had larger first-year classes than the year before. That may be due, in part, to the fact that some firms reinstituted programs after taking a year off in 2009.

Deferring associates seems to be less en vogue this year. Of the respondents who did have fall 2010 classes, only 15.4 percent deferred their start dates, down from 26.3 percent who did so in 2009.

Contract attorneys have been used with increased frequency both in law depart-ments and law firms in the past year. While the bulk of Pennsylvania firms — 58.1 percent according to the survey — are still not hiring contract attorneys, those who have are hiring more. When asked if they hired more contract attorneys in the past year, 54.5 percent said they had, which was up from 38.5 percent who said the same in 2009.

Pennsylvania firms seem to be going against the trend of using staff attorneys, which, unlike contract attorneys who work project-to-project, are utilized as a normal partner-track associates but have no ex-pectation of partnership, are paid less and often work fewer hours.

Nearly 70.5 percent of respondents said

they had no non-partner track or staff-associate tier, up from 61.3 percent who didn’t have one in 2009. That may just be a function of the size of firms responding to the survey, but it does go against what many large firms are doing in an effort to combat client unwillingness to pay high rates for junior associates.

And when firms who didn’t have a staff attorney tier were asked if they planned on creating one in the coming year, only 10.5 percent said yes.

LAYING OFF LAYOFFSFrom the responses to the survey, it would seem layoffs have greatly subsided both in

terms of the past year and what can be ex-pected for the coming year. More than 85 percent of the respondents said they did not lay off any attorneys between June 2009 and June 2010. That is up from 73.3 percent who were able to say the same last year. And when it comes to layoffs in the next year, 96.3 percent of firms said they would not conduct any attorney layoffs, up from the 93.3 percent who predicted that in 2009.

These responses are in line with what is happening nationally as reports of layoffs have slowed to a near stop.

Staff hasn’t been quite as lucky in Penn-sylvania, however.


DOES YOUR FIRM EXPECT TO LAY OFF ANY ATTORNEYS IN THE NEXT YEAR?

3.7% Yes

96.3% No

IN THE PAST YEAR, HAS YOUR FIRM LAID OFF ANY ATTORNEYS DUE TO THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN?

14.8% Yes

85.2% No

WITH RESPECT TO FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATE SALARIES THIS YEAR, YOUR FIRM:

13.6% Increased salaries

68.2% Kept them the same

18.2% Decreased salaries

IN THE PAST YEAR, DID RFPS ASK FOR GENDER/MINORITY INFORMATION?

81.5% Yes

18.5% No

REGARDING FIRST-YEAR ASSOCIATES, WHAT DID YOUR FIRM HIRE FOR THE FALL OF 2010?

18.5% More first-year associates

11.1% Same amount

14.8% Fewer first-year associates

55.6% No first-year associates

CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE BILLING, CLIENTS PREFER:

75% Flat fee for projects

10% Fixed fee plus outcome-based bonus

15% Task-based billing

CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE BILLING, CLIENTS:

65.4% Still prefer hourly billing

23.1% Are eager to hear creative strategies

3.8% Come to us with creative strategies

7.7% Other

I BELIEVE FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR ASSOCIATES ARE:

4.2% Grossly overpaid

58.3% Somewhat overpaid

37.5% Fairly compensated

0% Underpaid


While no firms had planned to change partner

compensation models in 2009, 16 percent said they were planning on it now.

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100 Largest Law Firms in Pennsylvania

RankFirm, Address, Phone/Fax, E-Mail/Website, Other Offices

Total Full-Time Attorneys in PA

2009 Gross Revenue (millions)/ PPP/RPL Firm Management

First-Year Associate Salary Practice Areas Representative Clients

Rank 2009

1. Reed Smith Reed Smith Centre, 225 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-288-3131 / 412-288-3063 [email protected] www.reedsmith.com Philadelphia; Princeton, N.J.; New York; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Falls Church and Richmond, Va.; Wilmington, Del.; Oakland, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Century City, Calif.; Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE; London; Paris; Munich, Germany; Piraeus, Greece; Beijing and Hong Kong, China

323 $942 $1,000,000 $660,000

Gregory B. Jordan, Global Managing Partner; Ajay Raju, Office Managing Partner, Philadelphia; George L. Stewart, Office Managing Partner, Pittsburgh

$110,000, Pittsburgh

$117,500, Philadelphia

Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Taxation

Tenet Healthcare Corp.; Wells Fargo; Merck & Co. Inc.; The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.; Highmark Inc.; Federated Investors Inc.

2.

2. Pepper Hamilton 3000 Two Logan Square, 18th & Arch Sts. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-981-4000 / 215-981-4750 [email protected] www.pepperlaw.com Berwyn, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Princeton, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; New York; Boston; Detroit; Orange County, Calif.

302 $333 $716,000 $688,000

Robert E. Heideck, Executive Partner; Nina M. Gussack, Chairwoman of the Executive Committee

$105,000–$145,000

Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Products Liability, Taxation

Advent International Corporation; Eli Lilly and Company; Brandywine Realty Trust

1.

3. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1701 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-963-5000 / 215-963-5001 [email protected] www.morganlewis.com Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; New York; Princeton, N.J.; Chicago; Boston; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Irvine, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Los Angeles, Calif.; Miami; Minneapolis; London; Paris; Frankfurt, Germany; Brussells, Belgium; Beijing; Tokyo

299 $1,068 $1,234,249 $812,449

J. Gordon Cooney Jr., Philadelphia Office Managing Partner; Francis Milone, Chairman, Thomas J. Sharbaugh, Managing Partner for Operations

WND Antitrust, Business & Finance, Employee Benefits, Energy, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Investment Management, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Real Estate

ARAMARK; Hewlitt-Packard Development Co.; JPMorgan Chase & Co; SEI Investments

3.

4. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., 20th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-562-8800 / 412-562-1041 [email protected] www.buchananingersoll.com Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pa.; Newark and Princeton, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; New York; Washington, D.C.; Alexandria, Va.; San Diego and Temecula/The Inland Empire, Calif.; Aventura, Miami and Tampa, Fla.

272 $265 $590,000 $595,000

John A. Barbour, CEO & Board Chairman

WND Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Government Relations, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Taxation

AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Arkema Inc.; Catholic Health East; Motorola Inc.; PNC Bank, N.A.; Reliant Energy

4.

NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose) NR (Not Ranked) PPP (Profits Per Equity Partner) RPL (Revenue Per Lawyer) Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources (All data as of 6/10/10)

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5. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 1845 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-575-2600 / 215-575-0856 [email protected] www.marshalldennehey.com Bethlehem, King of Prussia, Doylestown, Erie, Harrisburg, Scranton, Williamsport and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cherry Hill and Roseland, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Akron, Ohio; New York; Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando, Fla.

238 WND Thomas A. Brophy, President, CEO; Peter S. Miller, Chairman of the Board & COO; Philip B. Toran, Chairman of Executive Committee

WND Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Health Care, Corporate & Securities, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Labor & Employment, Professional Liability

American Honda; ACE; Liberty Mutual; CNA Financial; Chartis; Zurich

6.

6. Cozen O’Connor 1900 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-665-2000 / 215-665-2013 [email protected] www.cozen.com Harrisburg and West Conshohocken, Pa.; Newark and Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; New York; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Seattle; San Diego and Los Angeles, Calif.; Houston and Dallas, Texas; Denver; Toronto; London

237 $290 $651,044.34 $575,622.58

Thomas A. Decker, President and Chief Executive Officer

$135,000 Commercial Litigation, Business & Finance, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Government Relations, Taxation, Real Estate, Insurance, Trusts & Estates

Dow/Rohm and Haas; ARAMARK Corp.; ACE; Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania; Comcast Spectacor; Liberty Property Trust

5.

7. (tie)

Blank Rome One Logan Square, 130 N. 18th St. Philadelphia, PA 19103-6998 215-569-5500 / 215-569-5555 [email protected] www.BlankRome.com Princeton, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Washington, D.C.; New York; Cincinnati; Boca Raton, Fla.; Los Angeles; Hong Kong; Houston

233 $322 $665,000 $655,000

Carl M. Buchholz, Managing Partner & CEO; Alan J. Hoffman and T. Michael Dyer, Co-Chairmen; Gary R. Goldenberg, Finance Partner

$130,000 Banking, Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Health Care, Corporate & Securities, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

SunGard Data Systems Inc.; Lyondell; Synthes; Lincoln National Corp.; DRA Advisors

8.

7. (tie)

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 600 Grant St., 44th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-566-6000 / 412-566-6099 [email protected] www.eckertseamans.com Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Canonsburg (Southpointe) and West Chester, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Washington, D.C.; White Plains, N.Y.; Boston; Charleston, W.Va.; Richmond, Va.

233 WND Timothy P. Ryan, CEO; Stephen R. Delinsky, Chairman of the Board of Directors

WND Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Energy, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Products Liability

WND 10.





Rank 2009

9. K&L Gates Henry W. Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-355-6500 / 412-355-6501 [email protected] www.klgates.com Harrisburg, Pa.; Newark, N.J.; New York; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, Raleigh and Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Chicago; Miami; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, San Diego and Palo Alto, Calif.; Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas; Seattle and Spokane, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Anchorage, Alaska; London; Berlin; Moscow; Warsaw, Poland; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris; Tokyo; Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China; Singapore; Taipei, Taiwan; Dubai, UAE

232 $1,034 $861,168 $606,766

Peter J. Kalis, Chairman & Global Managing Partner; Michael G. Zanic, Administrative Partner, Pittsburgh

WND Financial Services, ADR, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Government Relations, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Health Care, Real Estate

Allegheny Technologies; E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.; PPG Industries Inc.; Alcoa Inc.; Bank of America Corp.; Westinghouse Electric Co.

9.

10. Drinker Biddle & Reath One Logan Square, 18th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-988-2700 / 215-988-2757 [email protected] www.drinkerbiddle.com Berwyn, Pa.; Princeton and Florham Park, N.J.; New York and Albany, N.Y.; Wilmington, Del.; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; San Francisco and Los Angeles, Calif.; Milwaukee

221 $373 $605,000 $600,000

Andrew C. Kassner, Executive Partner; Alfred W. Putnam Jr., Chairman

$105,000 (increases to $130,000 after six months)

Bankruptcy, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Health Care, Real Estate

Johnson & Johnson; AT&T Mobility; Urban Outfitters; Agilent Technologies; General Electric Co.; Comcast Corp.

11.

11. (tie)

Dechert Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-994-4000 / 215-994-2222 [email protected] www.dechert.com Princeton, N.J.; New York; Boston; Hartford, Conn.; Charlotte, N.C.; Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Orange County, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Austin, Texas; Belgium; London; Dublin, Ireland; Hong Kong; Luxembourg; Munich, Germany; Paris; Beijing; Moscow

208 $713 $1,960,000 $910,000

Barton J. Winokur, Chairman & CEO

$145,000 Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Business and Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Criminal Defense, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment, Taxation

Merck & Co. Inc.; Crown Holdings Inc.; Endo Pharmaceuticals; Dean Foods Company; AstraZeneca; PIMCO

7.

11. (tie)

Fox Rothschild 2000 Market St., 20th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-299-2000 / 215-299-2150 [email protected] www.foxrothschild.com Exton, Blue Bell, Pittsburgh and Doylestown, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Atlantic City, Roseland and Princeton, N.J.; New York; Stamford, Conn.; Las Vegas; Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif.; West Palm Beach, Fla.

208 $216.95 $548,065 $512,896

Mark Silow, Administrative Partner; Abraham C. Reich, Co-Chairman; Phillip E. Griffin, Co-Chairman

$125,000 Family Law, Health Care, Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 13.



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13. Duane Morris 30 S. 17th St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-979-1000 / 215-979-1020 www.duanemorris.com Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill, Newark and Princeton, N.J.; Baltimore; New York; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Atlanta; Chicago; Boca Raton and Miami, Fla.; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, Calif.; Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam; Singapore; London

205 $387.5 $755,000 $635,000

John Soroko, Chairman $145,000 Litigation, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Business and Finance, E-Commerce & Technologies, Corporate & Securities, Health Care, Insurance, Labor & Employment, Real Estate

General Electric Co.; Pfizer; Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.; ExxonMobile; Wachovia Bank; Toll Brothers Inc.

14.

14. Ballard Spahr 1735 Market St., 51st Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599 215-665-8500 / 215-864-8999 www.ballardspahr.com Voorhees, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Bethesda and Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D.C.; Denver; Las Vegas; Salt Lake City; Phoenix; Los Angeles; Atlanta

189 $271 $430,000 $550,000

Lynn Rzonca, Philadelphia Managing Partner; Arthur Makadon, Chairman

WND Business & Finance, Labor & Employment, Litigation, White-Collar/Corporate Governance, Public Finance, Real Estate, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Intellectual Property, Health Care, Bankruptcy

DuPont; University of Pennsylvania; Sunoco Corp.; GlaxoSmithKline; Comcast Corp.; Temple University

12.

15. White & Williams One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., Suite 1800 Philadelphia, PA 19103-7395 215-864-7000 / 215-864-7123 www.whiteandwilliams.com Allentown, Berwyn, Pittsburgh and Conshohocken, Pa.; Cherry Hill and Paramus, N.J.; New York and Westchester, N.Y.; Wilmington, Del.; Boston

159 WND Guy A. Cellucci, Chairman, Executive Committee

WND Corporate & Securities, Health Care, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Litigation, Labor & Employment, Real Estate

ACE USA; Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania; Monsanto; Bank of America; Citizen’s Bank; Geisinger

15.

16. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 2005 Market St., Suite 2600 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-564-8000 / 215-564-8120 www.stradley.com Malvern and Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; Wilmington, Del.

152 WND William R. Sasso, Chairman; Jeffrey A. Lutsky, Managing Partner; Thomas J. Renehan Jr., Financial Partner

WND Business & Finance, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Banking, Real Estate, Government Relations, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Trusts & Estates

Archdiocese of Philadelphia; Franklin Templeton Group of Funds; Delaware Group of Funds; Travelers Insurance

17.

17. Stevens & Lee 111 N. Sixth St., P.O. Box 679 Reading, PA 19603 19603 610-478-2000 / 610-376-5610 [email protected] www.stevenslee.com Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lehigh Valley, Philadelphia, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Valley Forge and Williamsport, Pa.; New York; Cherry Hill and Princeton, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Charleston, S.C.

148 $108.5 $906,000 $636,000

Ernest Choquette, President; Joseph Harenza, Non-Executive Chairman; Joseph W. Marshall III, Vice Chairman

WND Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Government Relations, Health Care, Corporate & Securities, Business & Finance, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Litigation

PFM; EnerSys; Armstrong World Industries; Temple University/Temple University Health System; Wellspan Health; Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency

16.





Rank 2009

18. Post & Schell Four Penn Center 1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd., 13th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-2808 215-587-1000 / 215-587-1444 www.postschell.com Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Princeton, N.J.; Washington, D.C.

143 WND Brian M. Peters, President & CEO

WND Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, White-Collar/Corporate Governance, E-Commerce/Technology, Labor & Employment, Energy, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Insurance

Saint-Gobain Corp.; PPL Corp.; Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals; Duquesne Light; Turner Construction; DaVita

18.

19. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 1600 Market St., Suite 3600 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-751-2000 / 215-751-2205 [email protected] www.schnader.com Pittsburgh; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; New York; San Francisco; Wilmington, Del.

118 WND David Smith, Chairman; Nicholas J. LePore III, Managing Partner

WND Banking, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, White-Collar/Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Products Liability, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates

UPS Inc.; Liberty Property Trust; QVC Inc.; Global Aerospace; Wells Fargo/Wachovia; CBS Corp.

20.



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20. McNees Wallace & Nurick 100 Pine St. Harrisburg, PA 17101 717-232-8000 / 717-237-5300 [email protected] www.mwn.com Hazleton, State College and Lancaster, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; Washington, D.C.;

116 WND David M Kleppinger, Chairman; Brian F. Jackson, Member of Management Committee; Mark Van Blargan, Member of Management Committee

$90,000 Intellectual Property, Litigation, Environmental, Business & Finance, Taxation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Family Law

WND 23.

21. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote Two PPG Place, Suite 400 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-281-7272 / 412-392-5367 [email protected] www.dmclaw.com Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Steubenville, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Wheeling, W.Va.

115 WND Jeffrey T. Wiley, Managing Director & COO; James R. Miller, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board

WND Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Business & Finance, Litigation, Bankruptcy, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Medical Malpractice

WND 19.

22. Saul Ewing Centre Square West, 1500 Market St., 38th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-972-7777 / 215-972-7725 [email protected] www.saul.com Chesterbrook and Harrisburg, Pa.; Princeton and Newark, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; New York

112 $115.19 $435,000 $505,000

David S. Antzis, Managing Partner

$110,000 Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates

Waste Management Inc.; Willis; Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania; Johnson Matthey Inc.

21.

23. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel One Penn Center 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., 19th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-1895 215-665-3000 / 215-665-3165 [email protected] www.obermayer.com Altoona, Berwyn, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Denver

111 WND Robert I. Whitelaw, Managing Partner

WND Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Government Relations, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Family Law, Health Care, Real Estate, Litigation, Trusts & Estates

WND 22.

24. Cohen & Grigsby 625 Liberty Ave. Fifth Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-297-4900 / 412-209-0672 [email protected] www.cohenlaw.com Bonita Springs, Fla.

109 WND Jack W. Elliott, President; Charles C. Cohen, Chairman; Andrew M. Roman, Executive Vice President

WND Intellectual Property, Litigation, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, E-Commerce & Technology, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 24.





Rank 2009

25. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 123 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19109 215-772-1500 / 215-772-7620 [email protected] www.mmwr.com Berwyn, Pa.; Linwood and Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.

97 WND Richard L. Scheff, Chairman; Stephen A. Madva, Managing Partner; Louis A. Petroni, Vice Chairman

$100,000 Criminal Defense, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Business & Finance

Johnson & Johnson; Clear Channel Communications Inc.; Dun & Bradstreet; Microsoft Corp.; LaSalle University

25.

26. Rawle & Henderson The Widener Building One South Penn Square, 16th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-575-4200 / 215-563-2583 [email protected] www.rawle.com Harrisburg, Media and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Marlton, N.J.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Wilmington, Del.; New York

95 WND Thomas A. Kuzmick, Executive Committee; Timothy J. Abeel, Executive Committee; John H. McCarthy, Executive Committee

WND Bankruptcy, Insurance, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Commercial Litigation, Products Liability, Criminal Defense, Workers’ Compensation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

Honeywell; Erie Insurance; AIG Technical; Zurich; J.B. Hunt Transport Inc.; Apotex Corp.

27.



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27. Thorp Reed & Armstrong One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., 14th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1425 412-394-7711 / 412-394-2555 [email protected] www.thorpreed.com Philadelphia; Princeton, N.J.; Wheeling, W.Va.

91 WND Jeffrey J. Conn, Managing Partner

WND Bankruptcy, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Litigation, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Insurance

WND 26.

28. Swartz Campbell Two Liberty Place, 50 S. 16th St. Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-564-5190 / 215-299-4301 www.swartzcampbell.com Allentown, Harrisburg, Media, Pittsburgh, Scranton and West Chester, Pa.; Mount Laurel and Bedminster, N.J.; New York; Wilmington, Del.; Wheeling, W.Va.; Fort Meyers and Orlando, Fla.; Cleveland

86 WND Jeffrey B. McCarron, Managing Partner; James Haggerty, Managing Partner; G. Daniel Bruch Jr., Managing Partner

WND Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation,Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

Nationwide Insurance Co.; CAN; Honeywell Inc.; Westport; Erie Insurance; Argonaut Insurance

29.





Rank 2009

29. (tie)

Margolis Edelstein The Curtis Center, 601 Walnut St., Fourth Floor Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-922 1100 / 215-922 1772 [email protected] www.margolisedelstein.com Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Beaver, Scranton and Hollidaysburg, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Mount Laurel and Berkley Heights, N.J.

84 WND Michael P. McKenna, Managing Partner

WND Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Insurance, Litigation, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation

Erie Insurance Group; Sentry Insurance; Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.; Chartis Insurance Group; Pennsylvania National Insurance; Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.

28.

29. (tie)

Burns White Four Northshore Center, 106 Isabella St. Pittsburgh, PA 15212 412-995-3000 / 412-995-3300 [email protected] www.bwhllc.com West Consohocken, Pa.; Wheeling, W.Va.; Cherry Hill, N.J.

84 WND David B. White, Founding Member

WND Health Care, Banking, Insurance, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Labor & Employment, Workers’ Compensation, Environmental/Toxic Torts

Northfolk Southern Corp.; CSX Transportation Inc.; St. Paul Travelers Cos.; Health South; DPIC/XL Design Professionals; Citizens Bank

32.

31. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 260 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-568-6060 / 215-568-6603 www.klehr.com Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.

83 WND William A. Harvey, Managing Partner

WND Real Estate, Corporate & Securities, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

PREIT-Rubin; Sun Capital Partners; Thomas Jefferson University; Lubert-Adler Real Estate Opportunity Fund; The Goldenberg Group; BPG Properties Ltd.

31.

32. Dilworth Paxson 3200 Mellon Bank Center, 1735 Market St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-575-7000 / 215-575-7200 [email protected] www.dilworthlaw.com Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill and Neptune, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.

80 WND Stephen J. Harmelin, Managing Partner; Joseph H. Jacovini, Chairman

$110,000 Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Banking, Bankruptcy, Labor & Employment, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Business & Finance

SEPTA; Holt Logistcs; National Constitution Center; Aqua America; Crown Holdings

30.

33. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 280 King of Prussia Road Radnor, PA 19087 610-667-7706 / 610-667-7056 [email protected] www.btkmc.com San Francisco

78 WND Joseph H. Meltzer, Member, Management Committee

WND Corporate & Securities, Litigation, Antitrust, Intellectual Property

City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions & Retirement; Alameda County (California) Employees Retirement; Montgomery County Employees’ Retirement System (PA); State of New Jersey and its Division of Investment; Maine State Retirement System; PGGM (Dutch National Pension for Social Workers)

35.



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34. Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti One Oxford Centre, 38th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-263-2000 / 412-261-5295 [email protected] www.pietragallo.com Philadelphia, West Chester and Sharon, Pa.; Weirton, W.Va.; Steubenville, Ohio

74 WND William Pietragallo II, Managing Partner

WND Intellectual Property, Litigation, Workers’ Compensation, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Health Care, Criminal Defense, Products Liability, Labor & Employment, Insurance

WND 33.

35. Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir Two Gateway Center Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-394-5400 / 412-394-6576 [email protected] www.bccz.com State College, Pa.; Sewell, N.J.

72 WND Chester R. Babst III, Managing Partner

$100,000 Litigation, Real Estate, Business & Finance, Intellecutal Property, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Government Relations

Beazer East Inc.; Gen Tek Inc.; Crown Castle International Corp.; NOVA Chemical Inc.; PQ Corp.; Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

36.

36. (tie)

Tucker Arensberg 1500 One PPG Place Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-566-1212 / 412-594-5619 [email protected] www.tuckerlaw.com Harrisburg, Pa.

70 WND Thomas P. Peterson, Managing Shareholder

WND Bankruptcy, Banking, Corporate, Commercial Litigation, Environmental, Health Care, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Real Estate

WND 37.

36. (tie)

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby 2000 Market St., 13th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-972-7900 / 215-564-7699 www.wglaw.com Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa.; Newark and Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York; London

70 WND Warren L. Simpson Jr., Managing Partner

WND Insurance, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Workers’ Compensation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

WND 33.

38. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 305 N. Front St. Harrisburg, PA 17101 717-237-7100 / 717-237-7105 [email protected] www.tthlaw.com Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Baltimore

69 WND James K. Thomas, Managing Partner; Edward H. Jordan Jr., Managing Partner; Peter J. Speaker, Managing Partner

WND Medical Malpractice, Insurance, Real Estate, Workers’ Compensation, Health Care, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Labor & Employment

WND 41.

39. Barley Snyder 126 E. King St. Lancaster, PA 17602 717-299-5201 / 717-291-4660 [email protected] www.barley.com York, Reading, Berwyn and Hanover, Pa.

65 WND Timothy G. Dietrich, Managing Partner

WND Health Care, Banking, Intellectual Property, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Workers’ Compensation

WND 40.





Rank 2009

40. Berger & Montague 1622 Locust St. Philadelphia, PA 19103 800-424-6690 / 215-875-4604 [email protected] www.bergermontague.com

64 WND Daniel Berger, Managing Shareholder; H. Laddie Montague Jr., President

WND Litigation, Antitrust, Corporate & Securities, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Insurance, Products Liability

WND 39.

41. Woodcock Washburn Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St., 12th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-568-3100 / 215-568-3439 www.woodcock.com Atlanta; Seattle

59 WND Joseph Lucci, Policy Committee Member; Steven B. Samuels, Policy Committee Member; Steven J. Rocci, Policy Committee Member

$130,000 Intellectual Property Microsoft Corp.; Johnson & Johnson; Crown Cork; duPont; Cephalon Inc.; University of Pennsylvania

37.

42. Cipriani & Werner 650 Washington Road, Suite 700 Pittsburgh, PA 15228 412-563-2500 / 412-563-2080 [email protected] www.c-wlaw.com Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa.; Marlton, N.J.

57 WND Gerald J. Cipriani, President

WND Litigation, Workers’ Compensation, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Insurance

WND 43.



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43. Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 925 Harvest Drive Blue Bell, PA 19422 215-977-1000 / 215-977-1099 [email protected] www.elliottgreenleaf.com Harrisburg, Scranton, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.

53 WND John M. Elliott, Chairman; Henry F. Siedzikowski, President & Managing Partner; Bruce W. Kauffman, Co-CEO

$92,000 Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Business & Finance, Health Care, Insurance, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Family Law

Aetna Inc.; CBS; Pegasus Communications; 3M; Jefferson Health System; Philadelphia Media Holdings

47.

44. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman United Plaza, 30 S. 17th St., 19th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-564-1700 / 215-564-3066 NA / www.cohenseglias.com Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.

52 WND Roy S. Cohen, President; Edward Seglias, Vice President; John Greenhall, Managing Partner

$100,000 Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Health Care

WND 44.

45. (tie)

Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 1601 Market St., 16th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-2393 215-561-4300 / 215-561-6661 [email protected] www.bbs-law.com Blue Bell and Lancaster, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.

50 WND Louis E. Bricklin, Managing Partner

WND Insurance, Litigation, Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Medical Malpractice

WND 51.

45. (tie)

Jones Day 500 Grant St., Suite 4500 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-391-3939 / 412-394-7959 www.jonesday.com New York; Washington D.C.; Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago; Atlanta; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Irvine, Calif.; Taipei, Taiwan; London; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris; Tokyo

50 $1,520

$765,000

$615,000

Laura E. Ellsworth, Partner in Charge, Pittsburgh

WND Antitrust, Business & Finance, Litigation, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Real Estate, Taxation

WND 42.

47. (tie)

Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 190 Independence Mall West Sixth & Race Sts., Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19106 215-627-0303 / 215-627-2551 [email protected] www.lavin-law.com Mt. Laurel, N.J.; New York

49 WND Basil A. DiSipio, Chief Operating Officer

WND Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental/Toxic Torts

General Motors Corp.; Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.; Nissan North America Inc.; GlaxoSmithKline; 3M Company; Quest Diagnostics

44.

47. (tie)

Meyer Unkovic & Scott 1300 Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield St. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-456-2800 / 412-456-2864 [email protected] www.muslaw.com

49 WND Kevin F. McKeegan, Managing Partner

WND Intellectual Property, Litigation, Products Liability, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 46.





Rank 2009

47. (tie)

The Chartwell Law Offices 970 Rittenhouse Road, Suite 300 Eagleville, PA 19403 610-666-7700 / 610-666-7704 [email protected] www.chartwelllaw.com Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Scranton and Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; New York

49 WND Cliff Goldstein, CEO WND Banking, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Workers’ Compensation, Insurance Coverage/Property, Premises Liability, Subrogation

WND 49.

50. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin One Logan Square, 27th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-568-6200 / 215-568-0300 www.hangley.com Harrisburg and Norristown, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.

47 WND David Pudlin, President; William T. Hangley, Chairman

$125,000 Antitrust, Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Trusts & Estates, Environmental, Litigation, Family Law, Government Relations

WND 47.



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51. (tie)

Rhoads & Sinon One S. Market Square, M&T Building Harrisburg, PA 17101 717-233-5731 / 717-232-1459 www.rhoads-sinon.com

45 WND Charles J. Ferry, Chairman, Executive Committee; Thomas J. Nehilla, Todd J. Shill, Dean H. Dusinberre, Robert J. Tribeck, Members, Executive Committee

WND Finance, Banking, Real Estate, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Environmental

Amereda Hess Corp.; AT&T; Stabler Cos. Inc.; H.J. Heinz Co.; Associated Wholesalers Inc.; Farmers & Merchants Trust Company

49.

51. (tie)

Spector Gadon & Rosen 1635 Market St., Seventh Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-241-8888 / 215-241-8844 [email protected] www.lawsgr.com Moorestown, N.J.; St. Petersburg, Fla.

45 WND Paul R. Rosen, President & Chairman; Steven F. Gadon, Secretary & Treasurer

WND Family Law, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Trusts & Estates, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

WND 52.

53. MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton 100 State St., Suite 700 Erie, PA 16507 814-870-7600 / 814-454-4647 [email protected] www.macdonaldillig.com

43 WND Russell S. Warner, Managing Partner

WND Insurance, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Workers’ Compensation, Labor & Employment, Environ- mental/Toxic Torts

Erie Insurance Group; First National Bank of PA; State Farm Insurance; General Electric Co.; Plastek Industries Inc.; Erie Management Group

54.

54. Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 1818 Market St., 13th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-569-2800 / 215-569-1606 [email protected] www.zarwin.com Conshohocken and Bethlehem, Pa.; Marlton and Jersey City, N.J.

42 WND Mitchell Kaplan, President; Theodore M. Schaer, Vice President

WND Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Banking, Labor & Employment, Environmental, Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Workers’ Compensation

Korman Residential Properties; Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust; Comcast Spectacor Inc.; Conestoga Bank; The Bancorp Bank; Tornetta Properties

54.

55. (tie)

Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 518 Township Line Rd., Suite 300 Blue Bell, PA 19422 610-862-6500 / 610-862-6501 [email protected] www.nldhlaw.com Newark and Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York; Columbus, Ohio; London; Denver

41 WND Michael R. Nelson, Chairman

WND Insurance, Litigation Nationwide Insurance Cos.; Lloyds of London; Liberty Mutual Insurance; State Farm Fire and Casualty; Erie Insurance; Harleysville Insurance

61.

55. (tie)

Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett 120 W. 10th St. Erie, PA 16501 814-459-2800 / 814-453-4530 [email protected] www.kmgslaw.com North East and Cranesville, Pa.; Jamestown, N.Y.

41 WND Thomas A. Tupitza, President

WND Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Labor & Employment, Family Law, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Trusts & Estates, Workers’ Compensation, Real Estate, Government Relations

WND 56.





Rank 2009

57. (tie)

DLA Piper One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., Suite 4900 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-656-3300 / 215-656-3301 [email protected] / www.dlapiper.com Edison, N.J.; New York; Baltimore; Washington D.C.; Reston, Va.; Atlanta; Boston; Tampa, Fla.; Chicago; Austin and Dallas; Raleigh, N.C.; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego and Palo Alto, Calif.; Seattle

40 $1,014*

$1,230,000*

$810,000*

James M. Brogan, Philadelphia Managing Partner; Francis B. Burch Jr., Firm Joint CEO; Lee I. Miller, Firm Joint CEO

$130,000 Litigation, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Government Relations

UPS Inc.; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Chubb Insurance; Harley-Davidson; Pfizer

56.

57. (tie)

Gibbons 1700 Two Logan Square 18th and Arch Sts., Suite 1700 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-665-0400 / 215-636-0366 [email protected] www.gibbonslaw.com Newark and Trenton, N.J.; New York; Wilmington, Del.

40 $111 $720,641.03 $550,868.49

Patrick C. Dunican Jr., Chairman and Managing Director; Stephen Imbriglia, Administrative Director of Philadelphia Office

$135,000 Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Criminal Defense, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Government Relations, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Real Estate

WND 53.

59. Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 1880 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1200 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-564-6688 / 215-564-2526 [email protected] / www.mooclaw.com Pittsburgh; Pennsauken, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore; Elmsford, N.Y.

39 WND Kevin J. O’Brien, Managing Director

WND Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Health Care, Insurance, Products Liabilty, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

WND 66.

60. (tie)

Volpe & Koenig United Plaza, 30 S. 17th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-568-6400 [email protected] / www.volpe-koenig.com Princeton, N.J.

37 WND Jay Halt, President $130,000 Intellectual Property WND 59.

60. (tie)

Littler Mendelson 1601 Cherry St., Suite 1400 Philadelphia, PA 19102 267-402-3000 [email protected] / www.littler.com Pittsburgh; Newark, N.J.; New York, Rochester and Long Island, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; New Haven, Conn.; Providence, R.I.; Boston; Tyson’s Corner, Va.; Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; Birmingham and Mobile, Ala.; Atlanta; Chicago; Columbia, S.C.; Miami and Orlando, Fla.; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Phoenix; Albuquerque, N.M.; Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; Detroit; Indianapolis; Fayetteville, Ark.; Lexington, Ky.; Minneapolis; Milwaukee; Reno and Las Vegas, Nev.; Denver; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Fransisco, San Jose and Walnut Creek, Calif.

37 $370 $433,448 $496,783

Kristine Grady Derewicz, Office Managing Shareholder of Philadelphia Office; Marko Mrkonich, President & Managing Shareholder; John Cerilli, Office Managing Shareholder of Pittsburgh Office

WND Labor & Employment WND 61.

* U.S. operations only NA (Not Applicable) WND (Would Not Disclose) NR (Not Ranked) PPP (Profits Per Equity Partner) RPL (Revenue Per Lawyer) Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources (All data as of 6/10/10)






Rank 2009

62. (tie)

Conrad O’Brien 1515 Market St., 16th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-864-9600 / 215-864-9620 [email protected] www.conradobrien.com West Chester, Harrisburg and West Conshohocken, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.

36 WND Nicholas Centrella, Managing Shareholder; James J. Rohn, Chairman

WND Commercial Litigation, White-Collar/Corporate Governance, Products Liability, Medical Malpractice, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance

The Dow Chemical Company; The Vanguard Group; Exxon Mobile Corp.; Cephalon Inc.; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Teledyne Continental Motors

61.

62. (tie)

Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 1880 John F. Kennedy Blvd., 10th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-587-1600 / 215-587-1699 [email protected] www.cpmy.com Wilmington, Del.; Westmont, N.J.; New York; Boston

36 WND Ralph J. Luongo, Managing Shareholder

WND Litigation, Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

WND 69.

62. (tie)

Rubin Fortunato & Harbison MCS Building, 10 S. Leopard Road Paoli, PA 19301 610-408-2000 / 610-408-9000 [email protected] www.rubinfortunato.com

36 WND Gregory S. Rubin, Chairman

WND Labor & Employment WND 56.

65. Sherrard German & Kelly Two PNC Plaza, 28th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-355-0200 / 412-261-6221 www.sgkpc.com

35 WND Robert D. German, Managing Shareholder; Walter R. Bashaw II, Managing Shareholder

WND Insurance, Trusts & Estates, Banking, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Family Law, Real Estate, Taxation

WND 61.

66. (tie)

Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein Union Meeting Corporate Center 910 Harvest Drive, P.O. Box 3037 Blue Bell, PA 19422-0765 610-260-6000 / 610-260-1240 [email protected] www.kaplaw.com Philadelphia; Cherry Hill, N.J.

34 WND Maury B. Reiter, Managing Principal

WND Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Litigation

Toll Brothers; Stoltz Management; Pitcairn Properties Inc.; Chick-Fil-A; Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

68.

66. (tie)

McQuaide Blasko 811 University Drive State College, PA 16801 814-238-4926 / 814-234-5620 [email protected] www.mcquaideblasko.com Hershey and Hollidaysburg, Pa.

34 WND James M. Horne, Managing Partner

WND Litigation, Family Law, Health Care, Business & Finance, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 66.

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68. (tie)

Willig Williams & Davidson 1845 Walnut St., 24th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-656-3600 / 215-561-5135 [email protected] www.wwdlaw.com Harrisburg, Jenkintown and Media, Pa.; Haddonfield, N.J.

33 WND Deborah R. Willig, Managing Partner

WND Family Law, Litigation, Bankruptcy, Real Estate, Workers’ Compensation, Labor & Employment, Criminal Defense, Trusts & Estates

AFSCME; Philadelphia Federation of Teachers; Teamsters; United Food & Commercial Workers Union; International Association of Firefighters; Unite Here

69.

68. (tie)

Archer & Greiner One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., 32nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-963-3300 / 856-795-0574 [first initial and last name]@archerlaw.com www.archerlaw.com Haddonfield, Flemington and Princeton, N.J.; Wilmington and Georgetown, Del.

33 $65.305 $399,800 $435,400

James H. Carll, Chairman of the Board; Gary J. Lesneski, President

$110,000 Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Taxation, Trusts & Estates

Exxon Mobil Corp.; Keystone Foods; Pulte Home Corporation; Cybex International; City of Philadelphia; Delaware River Port Authority

72.

68. (tie)

Greenberg Traurig Two Commerce Square 2001 Market St., Suite 2700 Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-988-7800 / 215-988-7801 www.gtlaw.com Morristown, N.J.; New York, White Plains, and Albany, N.Y.; Boston; Chicago; Atlanta; Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton, Fla.; Houston and Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Denver; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Orange County, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Fancisco, Silicon Vally, Calif.; Tyson’s Corner, Va.; Washington, D.C.; Amsterdam; Shanghai, China; London

33 $1.173 $1,311,000 $687,000

Michael L. Lehr, Managing Partner; Robert M. Goldich, Philadelphia Operating Shareholder

WND Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Corporate & Securities, E-Commerce & Technology, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Government Relations, Health Care, Intellectual Property

Greystone & Co.; Penrose Properties; Shaw Environmental; Centerline Capital; Wilmington Trust Company; Goldman Sachs

79.

68. (tie)

Houston Harbaugh Three Gateway Center 401 Liberty Ave., 22nd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-281-5060 / 412-281-4499 [email protected] www.hh-law.com

33 WND Bradley J. Franc, Executive Committee Member; Michael J. Dempster, Executive Committee Member; Mary-Jo Rebelo, Executive Committee Member

WND Banking, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, E-Commerce & Technology, Labor & Employment, Health Care, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates

WND 79.



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Rank 2009

72. (tie)

Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 15 S. Franklin St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 570-826-5600 / 570-826-5640 [email protected] / www.rjglaw.com Hazleton and Scranton, Pa.

32 WND Joseph L. Persico, Managing Partner

WND Banking, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Corporate & Securities, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Workers’ Compensation

Guard Insurance Group; Wilkes University; Sordoni Construction Services Inc.; Diversified Information Technologies Inc.; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority

73.

72. (tie)

Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino Paragon Centre, 1611 Pond Road, Suite 300 Allentown, PA 18104 610-391-1800 / 610-391-1805 [email protected] www.thslaw.com New York; Bridgewater, N.J.

32 WND Matthew Sorrentino, Managing Partner of PA Office; Oldrich Foucek III, Senior Partner of PA Office; Timothy J. Siegfried, Administrative Partner of PA Office

WND Intellectual Property, Banking, Health Care, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Corporate & Securities

Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network; PNC Bank; Yuengling Brewery; Brown Daub Dealership; Lucent Technologies; City of Easton

60.

72. (tie)

The Webb Law Firm 700 Koppers Building 436 Seventh Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-8815 / 412-471-4094 [email protected] www.webblaw.com

32 WND Kent E. Baldauf, Chairman of the Management Committee; John W. McIlvaine, Management Committee; Kirk M. Miles, Management Committee

WND Intellectual Property WND 73.

75. (tie)

McGuire Woods EQT Plaza, 625 Liberty Ave., 23rd Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-3142 412-667-6000 / 412-667-6050 [email protected] www.mcguirewoods.com New York; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Charlottesville, Norfolk, Richmond and Tysons Corner, Va.; Charlotte, Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C.; Atlanta; Chicago; Jacksonville, Fla.; Los Angeles; Brussels, Belgium; London; Almaty, Kazakhstan

31 $509 $800,000 $595,000

Richard Cullen, Chairman; Thomas E. Cabaniss, Managing Partner; Nancy R. Little and Terrence M. Begley, Dep. Managing Partners

WND Intellectual Property, White-Collar, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Health Care, Products Liability, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Taxation

WND 69.

75. (tie)

Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo 475 Allendale Road, Suite 200 King of Prussia, PA 19406 610-354-9700 / 610-354-9760 [email protected] www.powelltrachtman.com Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.

31 WND Michael G. Trachtman, President; Gunther O. Carrle, Secretary-Treasurer; Paul A. Logan, Vice President

WND Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Products Liability, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates

WND 73.

75. (tie)

Zimmer Kunz 3300 U.S. Steel Tower Pittsburgh, PA 15219 15219-2702 412-281-8000 / 412-281-1765 [email protected] / www.zklaw.com Greensburg, Pa.; Morgantown, W.Va.

31 WND Jeffrey A. Ramaley, President & Managing Partner; Daniel E. Krauth, Treasurer; Christopher T. Yoskosky, Secretary

WND Litigation, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

WND 94.





Rank 2009

78. (tie)

Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky Four Gateway Center 444 Liberty Ave., Suite 2200 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 [email protected] / www.smgglaw.com Greensburg and New Brighton, Pa.

30 WND Reid B. Roberts, Co-Managing Partner; Harry F. Kunselman, Co-Managing Partner

WND Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Criminal Defense, Family Law, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Trusts & Estates, Real Estate, Workers’ Compensation

WND 73.

78. (tie)

Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 11 Stanwix St., 18th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-918-1100 / 412-918-1199 [email protected] www.metzlewis.com

30 WND LeRoy L. Metz II, President

WND Intellectual Property, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 73.

80. (tie)

CGA Law Firm 135 N. George St. York, PA 17401 717-848-4900 / 215-246-2144 [email protected] www.cgalaw.com East Berlin, Pa.

29 WND Sharon E. Myers, Managing Shareholder

WND Bankruptcy, Business, Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates

WND 83.

80. (tie)

MacElree Harvey 17 W. Miner St. West Chester, PA 19382 610-436-0100 / 610-429-4486 [email protected] www.macelree.com Kennett Square, Pa.; Centreville, Del.

29 WND Lance J. Nelson, Managing Partner

WND Family Law, Banking, Bankruptcy, Litigation, Real Estate, Corporate & Securities, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Business & Finance

WND 79.

82. (tie)

Curtin & Heefner 250 N. Pennsylvania Ave. Morrisville, PA 19067 215-736-2521 / 215-736-3647 [email protected] www.curtinheefner.com Doylestown, Pa.; Lawrenceville, N.J.

28 WND Frank S. Guarrieri, Managing Partner

WND Insurance, Banking, Business & Finance, Labor & Employment, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate, Litigation, Trusts & Estates, Bankruptcy

Allstate Insurance Co.; State Farm Fire & Casualty Ins. Co.; New Jersey Manufacturer’s Ins. Co.; Sovereign Bank; Lower Makefield Township; Wachovia Bank

83.

82. (tie)

Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck U.S. Steel Tower, 600 Grant St., Suite 4850 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-261-6600 / 412-471-2754 [email protected] www.mdbbe.com Greensburg, Pa.

28 WND Constantine J. Passodelis, Chairman, Executive Committee

WND Products Liability, Health Care, Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Litigation, Trusts & Estates, Criminal Defense, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Medical Malpractice

Cendant Mobility Services Corp.; County Commissioners Associa-tion of Pennsylvania; Donegal Mutual Insur-ance; Laidlaw Transit; Quest Diagnostics; Transportation Claims Inc.

83.



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Rank 2009

82. (tie)

Gross McGinley 33 S. Seventh St. Allentown, PA 18105 610-820-5450 [email protected] www.grossmcginley.com Easton, Pa.

28 WND Malcolm J. Gross, Founding Partner; Paul McGinley, Founding Partner

WND Banking, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Trusts & Estates, E-Commerce & Technology, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Taxation

Rodale; PPL Corp.; KidsPeace; Lehigh Valley Hospital; Viamedia; City of Allentown

88.

82. (tie)

Reger Rizzo & Darnall Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St., 13th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-495-6500 / 215-495-6600 [email protected] www.regerlaw.com West Chester, Pa.; Mount Laurel, N.J.; White Plains, N.Y.; Baltimore; Wilmington, Del.

28 WND Louis J. Rizzo Jr., Managing Partner; Richard M. Darnall, Partner

WND Trusts & Estates, Litigation, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Products Liability, Family Law, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Workers’ Compensation

WND 61.

82. (tie)

Kline & Specter 1525 Locust St., 19th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-772-1000 / 215-772-1359 www.klinespecter.com Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York

28 WND Thomas R. Kline, Managing Partner; Shanin Specter, Managing Partner

WND Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability

WND 83.

87. (tie)

Eastburn & Gray 60 E. Court St. Doylestown, PA 18901 215-345-7000 / 215-345-9142 [email protected] www.eastburngray.com Blue Bell, Pa.

27 WND D. Rodman Eastburn, President

WND Banking, Litigation, Business & Finance, Real Estate, Family Law, Criminal Defense, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment

WND 88.

87. (tie)

Goehring Rutter & Boehm Frick Building, 437 Grant St., 14th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-281-0587 www.grblaw.com Sewickley, Pa.

27 WND Daniel F. Gramc, President & Managing Director; Michael K. Parrish, Vice President, Robert J. Winters, Treasurer

WND Litigation, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Bankruptcy, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Labor & Employment, Family Law

WND 88.

87. (tie)

Grogan Graffam Four Gateway Center, 12th Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-553-6300 / 412-642-2601 www.grogangraffam.com

27 WND Dennis A. Watson, President

WND Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Business & Finance, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Workers’ Compensation

WND 91.







Rank 2009

87. (tie)

Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin 375 Morris Road, P.O. Box 1479 Lansdale, PA 19446-0773 215-661-0400 / 215-661-0315 [email protected] www.hrmml.com Limerick, Allentown, Perkasie and Harrisburg, Pa.

27 WND Steven Lupin, Managing Partner

WND Corporate & Securities, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Family Law, Litigation, Products Liability, Real Estate, Taxation, Trust & Estates

WND 79.

87. (tie)

Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd. Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-568-5116 / 215-568-2077 www.naulty.com Media, Pa.; Marlton, N.J.

27 WND William Cilingin, Managing Partner

WND Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Envrionmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Insurance, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation

WND 94.

87. (tie)

Edgar Snyder & Associates 600 Grant St., US Steel Tower, 10th FloorPittsburgh, PA 15219412-394-1000www.edgarsnyder.com Altoona, Ebensburg, Erie and Johnstown, Pa.

27 WND Edgar Snyder, Managing Partner

WND Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation

WND NR

93. (tie)

Wisler Pearlstine Office Court at Walton Point 484 Norristown Road, Suite 100 Blue Bell, PA 19422 610-825-8400 / 610-828-4887 www.wislerpearlstine.com

26 WND Kenneth A. Roos, Administrative Partner

WND Banking, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Labor & Employment, Family Law, Real Estate, Taxation, Trusts & Estates, Government Relations, ADR

Carr & Duff Inc.; Cheltenham Township; Continental Bank; The DePaul Group; Lower Gwynedd Township; Abington School District

94.

93. (tie)

Ratner Prestia 1235 Westlakes Drive, Suite 301 Berwyn, PA 19312 610-407-0700 / 610-407-0701 www.ratnerprestia.com Allentown, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.

26 WND Paul F. Prestia, Chief Executive Officer

WND Intellectual Property, Litigation

Panasonic; University of Delaware; ITT Industries; B. Braun Medical Inc.; Micron; Johnson & Johnson

91.

93. (tie)

Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers Centre Square 1500 Market St., Suite 4100 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-735-7200 / 215-735-1714 [email protected] www.defensecounsel.com Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Hicksville and New York, N.Y.; Tampa and Coral Gables, Fla.

26 WND Jay E. Mintzer, Managing Partner

WND Insurance, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, E-Commerce & Technology, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts

Western World Insurance Co.; J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.; National Indemnity Co.; Navigators Insurance Co.; Academy Bus

94.

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Rank 2009

93. (tie)

Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 221 E. Chestnut St. Lancaster, PA 17602 717-299-7254 / 717-299-3160 [email protected] www.hublaw.com

26 WND Mark Stanley, Managing Partner

WND Family Law, Banking, Government Relations, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Trusts & Estates

WND 100.

93. (tie)

Rothman Gordon 310 Grant St., Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-338-1100 / 412-281-7304 [email protected] www.rothmangordon.com

26 WND William E. Lestitian, Managing Shareholder

WND Real Estate, Workers’ Compensation, Trusts & Estates, Business & Finance, Commercial Litigation, Taxation, Labor & Employment, Mediation

WND 83.

98. (tie)

Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 540 Court St. Reading, PA 19603 610-777-5700 / 610-777-2499 [email protected] www.forryullman.com King of Prussia, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Scranton, Pa.

25 WND Lee E. Ullman, Chairman of Management Committee

WND Insurance, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Workers’ Compensation, Family Law

WND 73.

98. (tie)

German Gallagher & Murtagh 200 S. Broad St., Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19102 215-545-7700 / 215-732-4182 [email protected] www.ggmfirm.com Moorestown, N.J.

25 WND Dean F. Murtagh, Managing Partner

WND Commercial Litigation, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Torts, Health Care, Workers’ Compensation, Products Liability, Insurance, Medical Malpractice

WND 94.

100. (tie)

Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 1635 Market St., 11th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-2212 215-567-2010 / 215-751-1142 [email protected] www.crbcp.com

24 WND Manny D. Pokotilow, Managing Partner

WND Intellectual Property Wawa; QVC; Roper Industries; Air Products; Apotex; Checkpoint

91.

100. (tie)

Goldberg Persky & White 1030 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-3980 / 412-471-8308 [email protected] www.gpwlaw.com Greensburg and Johnstown, Pa.; Weirton, W. Va.; Saginaw and Allen Park, Mich.

24 WND Theodore Goldberg, President; Joel Persky, Vice President

WND Asbestos, Personal Injury, Elder Law, Insurance Litigation, Workers’ Compensation

WND 100.


Firm Rank Total Attorneys in PA

Archer & Greiner 68. (tie) 33

Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 35. 72

Ballard Spahr 14. 189

Barley Snyder 39. 65

Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 33. 78

Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 45. (tie) 50

Berger & Montague 40. 64

Blank Rome 7. (tie) 233

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 4. 272

Burns White 29. (tie) 84

Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 100. (tie) 24

CGA Law Firm 80. (tie) 29

Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 62. (tie) 36

Cipriani & Werner 42. 57

Cohen & Grigsby 23. 109

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 44. 52

Conrad O’Brien 62. (tie) 36

Cozen O’Connor 6. 237

Curtin & Heefner 81. (tie) 28

Dechert 11. (tie) 208

Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 21. 115

Dilworth Paxson 32. 80

DLA Piper 57. (tie) 40

Drinker Biddle & Reath 10. 221

Duane Morris 13. 205

Eastburn & Gray 87. (tie) 27

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 7. (tie) 233

Edgar Snyder & Associates 87. (tie) 27

Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 43. 53

Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 98 (tie) 25

Fox Rothschild 11. (tie) 208

German Gallagher & Murtagh 98. (tie) 25

Gibbons 57. (tie) 40

Goehring Rutter & Boehm 87. (tie) 27

Goldberg Persky & White 100. (tie) 24

Greenberg Traurig 68. (tie) 33

Grogan Graffam 87. (tie) 27

Gross McGinley 81. (tie) 28

Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin 87. (tie) 27

Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin 50. 47

Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 93. (tie) 26

Houston Harbaugh 68. (tie) 33

Jones Day 45. (tie) 50

K&L Gates 9. 232

Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein 66. (tie) 34

Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 31. 83

Kline & Specter 81. (tie) 28

Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett 55. (tie) 41

Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 47. (tie) 49

Littler Mendelson 60. (tie) 37

MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton 53. 43

Firm Rank Total Attorneys in PA

MacElree Harvey 80. 29

Margolis Edelstein 29. (tie) 84

Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 59. 39

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 5. 238

McGuire Woods 75. (tie) 31

McNees Wallace & Nurick 20. 116

McQuaide Blasko 66. (tie) 34

Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 78. (tie) 30

Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck 81. (tie) 28

Meyer Unkovic & Scott 47. (tie) 49

Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers 93. (tie) 26

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 25. 97

Morgan Lewis & Bockius 3. 299

Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 87. (tie) 27

Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 55. (tie) 41

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 22. 111

Pepper Hamilton 2. 302

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 34. 74

Post & Schell 18. 143

Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo 75. (tie) 31

Ratner Prestia 93. (tie) 26

Rawle & Henderson 26. 95

Reed Smith 1. 323

Reger Rizzo & Darnall 81. (tie) 28

Rhoads & Sinon 51. (tie) 45

Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 72. (tie) 32

Rothman Gordon 93. (tie) 26

Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 62. (tie) 36

Saul Ewing 21. 112

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 19. 118

Sherrard German & Kelly 65. 35

Spector Gadon & Rosen 51. (tie) 45

Stevens & Lee 17. 148

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 16. 152

Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 78. (tie) 30

Swartz Campbell 28. 86

Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 72. (tie) 32

The Chartwell Law Offices 47. (tie) 49

The Webb Law Firm 72. (tie) 32

Thomas Thomas & Hafer 38. 69

Thorp Reed & Armstrong 27. 91

Tucker Arensberg 36. (tie) 70

Volpe & Koenig 60. (tie) 37

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby

36. (tie) 70

White & Williams 15. 159

Willig Williams & Davidson 68. (tie) 33

Wisler Pearlstine 93. (tie) 26

Woodcock Washburn 41. 59

Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 54. 42

Zimmer Kunz 75. (tie) 31

Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only

PaLAW 2010 75

Total Attorneys Worldwide

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in All Offices

1. DLA Piper 3,500

2. Jones Day 2,469

3. K&L Gates 1,855

4. Greenberg Traurig 1,800

5. Reed Smith 1,562

6. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1,395

7. McGuire Woods 888

8. Dechert 818

9. Littler Mendelson 731

10. Duane Morris 714

11. Drinker Biddle & Reath 641

12. Cozen O’Connor 523

13. Blank Rome 505

14. Fox Rothschild 489

15. Pepper Hamilton 474

16. Ballard Spahr 469

17. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 452

18. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 418

19. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 331

20. Saul Ewing 237

21. Gibbons 230

22. White & Williams 224

23. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 198

24. Stevens & Lee 185

25. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 182

26. Archer & Greiner 177

27. Post & Schell 154

28. Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 147

29. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 138

30. (tie) Cohen & Grigsby 128

30. (tie) McNees Wallace & Nurick 128

30. (tie) Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 128

33. (tie) Margolis Edelstein 124

33. (tie) Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 124

35. Rawle & Henderson 114

36. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 111

37. Swartz Campbell 109

38. Dilworth Paxson 103

39. Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby 102

40. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 94

41. Burns White 91

42. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 83

43. Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 80

44. Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 78

45. (tie) Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 77

45. (tie) Woodcock Washburn 77

47. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 75

48. Tucker Arensberg 71

49. Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers 70

50. Berger & Montague 66

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in All Offices

51. Barley Snyder 65

52. Cipriani & Werner 64

53. (tie) Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 62

53. (tie) The Chartwell Law Offices 62

55. Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 60

56. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 58

57. (tie) Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 57

57. (tie) Spector Gadon & Rosen 57

59. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin 52

60. (tie) Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 51

60. (tie) Rhoads & Sinon 51

62. Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 50

63. Meyer Unkovic & Scott 49

64. (tie) Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 44

64. (tie) MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton 44

66. Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett 42

67. (tie) Conrad O’Brien 40

67. (tie) Reger Rizzo & Darnall 40

67. (tie) Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 40

70. Willig Williams & Davidson 39

71. Volpe & Koenig 38

72. Sherrard German & Kelly 37

73. Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein 35

74. (tie) Houston Harbaugh 34

74. (tie) McQuaide Blasko 34

74. (tie) Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 34

74. (tie) The Webb Law Firm 34

78. (tie) MacElree Harvey 32

78. (tie) Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 32

78. (tie) Zimmer Kunz 32

81. (tie) Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo 31

81. (tie) Ratner Prestia 31

83. (tie) CGA Law Firm 30

83. (tie) Curtin & Heefner 30

83. (tie) Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin 30

83. (tie) Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 30

83. (tie) Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 30

88. (tie) Edgar Snyder & Associates 28

88. (tie) Gross McGinley 28

88. (tie) Kline & Specter 28

88. (tie) Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck 28

88. (tie) Wisler Pearlstine 28

93. (tie) Eastburn & Gray 27

93. (tie) Goehring Rutter & Boehm 27

93. (tie) Grogan Graffam 27

96. (tie) German Gallagher & Murtagh 26

96. (tie) Goldberg Persky & White 26

96. (tie) Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 26

96. (tie) Rothman Gordon 26

100. Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 25

101. Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 24

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time and Part-Time Attorneys

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Fastest-Growing Firms (Ranked by Percent Increase of Pa. Attorneys)

Rank Firm

No. of Attorneys 2010


Percent Change

1. Zimmer Kunz 31 25 24.00%

2. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 69 59 16.95%

3. (tie) Greenberg Traurig 33 29 13.79%

3. (tie) Houston Harbaugh 33 29 13.79%

5. Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 36 32 12.50%

6. Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 39 35 11.43%

7. Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 41 37 10.81%

8. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 78 71 9.86%

9. (tie) Barley Snyder 65 60 8.33%

9. (tie) Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 26 24 8.33%

11. Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 27 25 8.00%

12. Burns White 84 78 7.69%

13. (tie) Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 32 30 6.67%

13. (tie) The Webb Law Firm 32 30 6.67%

15. Archer & Greiner 33 31 6.45%

Fastest-Growing Firms (Ranked by Increase in Number of Pa. Attorneys)

Rank Firm



Change in Number

1. Reed Smith 323 308 15

2. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 69 59 10

3. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 78 71 7

4. (tie) Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 272 266 6

4. (tie) Burns White 84 78 6

4. (tie) Zimmer Kunz 31 25 6

7. (tie) Barley Snyder 65 60 5

7. (tie) Morgan Lewis & Bockius 299 294 5

9. (tie) Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 36 32 4

9. (tie) Greenberg Traurig 33 29 4

9. (tie) Houston Harbaugh 33 29 4

9. (tie) Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 39 35 4

9. (tie) Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 41 37 4

9. (tie) Tucker Arensberg 70 66 4

15. (tie) Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 72 69 3

15. (tie) Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 50 47 3

15. (tie) Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 53 50 3

Fastest-Shrinking Firms (Ranked by Decrease in Number of Pa. Attorneys)

Rank Firm



Change in Number

1. Dechert 208 242 -34

2. Ballard Spahr 189 222 -33

3. Pepper Hamilton 302 331 -29

4. Cozen O’Connor 237 257 -20

5. White & Williams 159 177 -18

6. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 115 128 -13

7. Reger Rizzo & Darnall 28 37 -9

8. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 91 99 -8

9. (tie) Blank Rome 233 240 -7

9. (tie) Saul Ewing 112 119 -7

9. (tie) Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 118 125 -7

9. (tie) Woodcock Washburn 59 66 -7

13. (tie) Dilworth Paxson 80 86 -6

13. (tie) Jones Day 50 56 -6

13. (tie) Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 97 103 -6

13. (tie) Stevens & Lee 148 154 -6

13. (tie) Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 32 38 -6

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only

Fastest-Shrinking Firms (Ranked by Percent Decrease of Pa. Attorneys)

Rank Firm



Percent Change

1. Reger Rizzo & Darnall 28 37 -24.32%

2. Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 25 30 -16.67%

3. Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 32 38 -15.79%

4. Ballard Spahr 189 222 -14.86%

5. Dechert 208 242 -14.05%

6. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 115 128 -11.30%

7. Jones Day 50 56 -10.71%

8. Woodcock Washburn 59 66 -10.61%

9. White & Williams 159 177 -10.17%

10. Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 36 40 -10.00%

11. Gibbons 40 44 -9.09%

12. Pepper Hamilton 302 331 -8.76%

13. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 91 99 -8.08%

14. Cozen O’Connor 237 257 -7.78%

15Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow

24 26 -7.69%

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in Pittsburgh

1. K&L Gates 212

2. Reed Smith 179



5. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 115

6. Cohen & Grigsby 109

7. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 74

8. Burns White 67

9. Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 66

10. Tucker Arensberg 64

11. Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 56

12. Jones Day 50

13. Meyer Unkovic & Scott 49

14. Sherrard German & Kelly 35

15. (tie) Houston Harbaugh 33

15. (tie) Pepper Hamilton 33

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in Pittsburgh

17. The Webb Law Firm 32

18. (tie) Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 31

18. (tie) McGuire Woods 31

20. Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 30

21. Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 29

22. Grogan Graffam 27

23. (tie) Goehring Rutter & Boehm 26

23. (tie) Rothman Gordon 26

25. Goldberg Persky & White 24

26. (tie) Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 23

26. (tie) Fox Rothschild 23

28. Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck 22

29.(tie) Cipriani & Werner 21

29.(tie) Edgar Snyder & Associates 21

29.(tie) Swartz Campbell 21

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Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in Philadelphia

1. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 277

2. Blank Rome 233


4. Cozen O’Connor 211

5. Dechert 208

6. Drinker Biddle & Reath 195

7. (tie) Duane Morris 189

7. (tie) Ballard Spahr 189

9. Reed Smith 144

10. White & Williams 136

11. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 126

12. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 117

13. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 100

14. (tie) Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 95

14. (tie) Fox Rothschild 95

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in Philadelphia

16. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 88

17. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 83

18. Post & Schell 82

19. Saul Ewing 79

20. Rawle & Henderson 78

21. Dilworth Paxson 75

22. Berger & Montague 64



25. Woodcock Washburn 59

26. Margolis Edelstein 53

27. Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby 50

28. Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 49

29. Spector Gadon & Rosen 45

30. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 42

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1. McNees Wallace & Nurick 104

2. Rhoads & Sinon 45

3. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 38

4. (tie) Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 33

4. (tie) Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 33

6. (tie) K&L Gates 20

6. (tie) Post & Schell 20

8. Saul Ewing 18

Rank FirmTotal Attorneys in Harrisburg

9. Stevens & Lee 17

10. Mette Evans & Woodside 16

11. (tie) Goldberg Katzman 15

11. (tie) Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 15


14. Keefer Wood Allen & Rahal 11

15. (tie) Cipriani & Werner 10

15. (tie) Seratelli Schiffman & Brown 10

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PaLAW 2010 7978 PaLAW 2010

Largest Firms by CityLaw Firm Growth

PaLAW 2010 8180 PaLAW 2010

Percent of Female Attorneys (PA Only)Percent of Female Attorneys (PA Only)Rank Firm Total Attorneys in PA Female Partners Female Associates Female Of Counsel Total Women Percent Female

1. Littler Mendelson 37 8 11 1 20 54.05%

2. Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 36 9 10 0 19 52.78%

3. Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 27 3 10 0 13 48.15%

4. Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 49 8 13 0 21 42.86%

5. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 299 22 93 7 122 40.80%

6. (tie) Rawle & Henderson 95 7 27 4 38 40.00%

6. (tie) German Gallagher & Murtagh 25 1 8 1 10 40.00%

6. (tie) Jones Day 50 5 13 2 20 40.00%

9. Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 36 6 7 1 14 38.89%

10. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 152 14 37 8 59 38.82%

11. Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 50 6 11 2 19 38.00%

12. (tie) Greenberg Traurig 33 7 5 0 12 36.36%

12. (tie) Willig Williams & Davidson 33 8 4 0 12 36.36%

14. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin 47 8 9 0 17 36.17%

15. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 118 15 26 1 42 35.59%

16. (tie) Drinker Biddle & Reath 221 14 64 0 78 35.29%

16. (tie) McQuaide Blasko 34 7 5 0 12 35.29%

18. Ballard Spahr 189 21 42 1 64 33.86%

19. (tie) Burns White 84 3 25 0 28 33.33%

19. (tie) Eastburn & Gray 27 5 4 0 9 33.33%

19. (tie) Goehring Rutter & Boehm 27 4 5 0 9 33.33%

22. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 272 26 52 11 89 32.72%

23. DLA Piper 40 3 8 2 13 32.50%

24. Cohen & Grigsby 109 12 22 1 35 32.11%

25. Dechert 208 7 57 2 66 31.73%

26. Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 32 6 3 1 10 31.25%

27. Pepper Hamilton 302 22 68 4 94 31.13%

28. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 97 12 16 2 30 30.93%

29. (tie) Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 78 2 20 2 24 30.77%

29. (tie) Post & Schell 143 19 25 0 44 30.77%

29. (tie) Wisler Pearlstine 26 2 6 0 8 30.77%

32. Houston Harbaugh 33 6 4 0 10 30.30%

33. Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 53 3 9 4 16 30.19%

34. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 111 5 23 5 33 29.73%

35. Reed Smith 323 34 55 7 96 29.72%

36. (tie) Curtin & Heefner 28 3 5 0 8 28.57%

36. (tie) Kline & Specter 28 2 6 0 8 28.57%

36. (tie) The Chartwell Law Offices 49 1 13 0 14 28.57%

39. Swartz Campbell 86 12 12 0 24 27.91%

40. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 238 27 39 0 66 27.73%

41. McNees Wallace & Nurick 116 16 12 4 32 27.59%

42. Duane Morris 205 24 31 0 55 26.83%

Rank Firm Total Attorneys in PA Female Partners Female Associates Female Of Counsel Total Women Percent Female

43. Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 30 1 6 1 8 26.67%

44. Meyer Unkovic & Scott 49 5 6 2 13 26.53%

45. Dilworth Paxson 80 12 9 0 21 26.25%

46. White & Williams 159 15 23 3 41 25.79%

47. (tie) Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 72 7 11 0 18 25.00%

47. (tie) Berger & Montague 64 7 9 0 16 25.00%

49. Blank Rome 233 16 39 3 58 24.89%

50. Cipriani & Werner 57 2 12 0 14 24.56%

51. Spector Gadon & Rosen 45 3 8 0 11 24.44%

52. Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 41 3 7 0 10 24.39%

53. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 115 13 15 0 28 24.34%

54. Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 74 6 10 2 18 24.32%

55. Archer & Greiner 33 6 2 0 8 24.24%

56. (tie) CGA Law Firm 29 3 4 0 7 24.14%

56. (tie) K&L Gates 232 14 39 3 56 24.14%

58. Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein 34 5 3 0 8 23.53%

59. Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 30 3 4 0 7 23.33%

60. Saul Ewing 112 9 15 2 26 23.21%

61. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 69 8 8 0 16 23.19%

62. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 233 25 28 1 54 23.18%

63. (tie) Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 52 0 10 2 12 23.08%

63. (tie) Thorp Reed & Armstrong 91 8 9 4 21 23.08%

65. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 83 6 9 4 19 22.89%

66. Sherrard German & Kelly 35 4 3 1 8 22.86%

67. Cozen O’Connor 237 30 24 0 54 22.78%

68. Gibbons 40 3 6 0 9 22.50%

69. Conrad O’Brien 36 4 2 2 8 22.22%

70. Woodcock Washburn 59 5 8 0 13 22.03%

71. Fox Rothschild 208 14 30 1 45 21.63%

72. (tie) Gross McGinley 28 4 2 0 6 21.43%

72. (tie) Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck 28 2 4 0 6 21.43%

72. (tie) Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 42 1 8 0 9 21.43%

75. Rhoads & Sinon 45 2 7 0 9 20.00%

76. Stevens & Lee 148 12 10 7 29 19.59%

77. (tie) Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 26 2 2 1 5 19.23%

77. (tie) Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers 26 1 4 0 5 19.23%

79. The Webb Law Firm 32 2 4 0 6 18.75%

80. MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton 43 4 4 0 8 18.60%

81. Tucker Arensberg 70 2 9 2 13 18.57%

82. Grogan Graffam 27 3 2 0 5 18.52%

83. Margolis Edelstein 84 9 6 0 15 17.86%

84. Volpe & Koenig 37 0 6 0 6 16.22%

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only

PaLAW 2010 8382 PaLAW 2010

Percent of Minority Attorneys (PA Only)Percent of Female Attorneys (PA Only)

Rank FirmTotal Pa. Attorneys

Minority Partners

Minority Associates

Minority Of Counsel

Total Minorities

Percent Minority

1. DLA Piper 40 2 6 0 8 20.00%

2. Volpe & Koenig 37 0 5 1 6 16.22%

3. Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 50 2 4 0 6 12.00%

4. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 118 2 11 1 14 11.86%

5. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 78 1 8 0 9 11.54%

6. Tucker Arensberg 70 3 5 0 8 11.43%

7. Ballard Spahr 189 6 13 1 20 10.58%

8. Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 49 0 5 0 5 10.20%

9. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 299 5 25 0 30 10.03%

10. Gibbons 40 0 4 0 4 10.00%

11. McGuire Woods 31 1 2 0 3 9.68%

12. Drinker Biddle & Reath 221 3 18 0 21 9.50%

13. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 152 4 6 3 13 8.55%

14. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin 47 3 1 0 4 8.51%

15. (tie) Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 24 2 0 0 2 8.33%

15. (tie) Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 36 1 2 0 3 8.33%

15. (tie) Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 36 0 3 0 3 8.33%

18. Pepper Hamilton 302 7 17 1 25 8.28%

19. Dechert 208 1 15 1 17 8.17%

20. The Chartwell Law Offices 49 1 3 0 4 8.16%

21. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 111 4 4 1 9 8.11%

22. Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers 26 0 2 0 2 7.69%

23. White & Williams 159 2 10 0 12 7.55%

24. Reed Smith 323 6 17 1 24 7.43%

25. Rawle & Henderson 95 2 5 0 7 7.36%

26. (tie) Burns White 84 0 6 0 6 7.14%

26. (tie) Kline & Specter 28 0 2 0 2 7.14%

28. Woodcock Washburn 59 0 4 0 4 6.78%

29. Dilworth Paxson 80 2 3 0 5 6.25%

30. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 97 2 4 0 6 6.19%

31. (tie) Archer & Greiner 33 2 0 0 2 6.06%

31. (tie) Willig Williams & Davidson 33 1 1 0 2 6.06%

33. (tie) Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein 34 2 0 0 2 5.88%

33. (tie) Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 238 6 8 0 14 5.88%

35. Swartz Campbell 86 1 4 0 5 5.81%

36. K&L Gates 232 0 12 1 13 5.60%

37. Littler Mendelson 37 0 2 0 2 5.41%

38. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 233 6 6 0 12 5.15%

Rank Firm Total Attorneys in PA Female Partners Female Associates Female Of Counsel Total Women Percent Female

85. Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo 31 0 4 1 5 16.13%

86. (tie) Ratner Prestia 26 0 4 0 4 15.38%

86. (tie) Rothman Gordon 26 2 2 0 4 15.38%

88. Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin 27 3 1 0 4 14.81%

89. Reger Rizzo & Darnall 28 2 2 0 4 14.29%

90. MacElree Harvey 29 2 1 1 4 13.79%

91. McGuire Woods 31 1 2 1 4 12.90%

92. Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett 41 3 2 0 5 12.20%

93. Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 25 0 2 0 2 8.00%

94. Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 24 1 0 0 1 4.17%

95. Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 32 0 1 0 1 3.13%

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only

The following firms either had no women or did not report any gender-specific information: Barley Snyder, Edgar Snyder & Associates, Goldberg Persky & White, Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, Zimmer Kunz.


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Percent of Minority Attorneys (PA Only)

Rank FirmTotal Pa. Attorneys

Minority Partners

Minority Associates

Minority Of Counsel

Total Minorities

Percent Minority

39. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 272 3 8 2 13 4.78%

40. (tie) Margolis Edelstein 84 1 3 0 4 4.76%

40. (tie) Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 42 1 1 0 2 4.76%

42. Stevens & Lee 148 5 1 1 7 4.73%

43. Cozen O’Connor 237 5 5 1 11 4.64%

44. Cohen & Grigsby 109 0 5 0 5 4.59%

45. Rhoads & Sinon 45 1 1 0 2 4.44%

46. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 91 0 4 0 4 4.40%

47. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 115 1 4 0 5 4.34%

48. Blank Rome 233 2 8 0 10 4.29%

49. Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 74 1 2 0 3 4.05%

50. Duane Morris 205 3 4 1 8 3.90%

51. (tie) Fox Rothschild 208 3 4 1 8 3.85%

51. (tie) Wisler Pearlstine 26 0 1 0 1 3.85%

53. Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 53 1 0 1 2 3.77%

54. (tie) Eastburn & Gray 27 0 1 0 1 3.70%

54. (tie) Goehring Rutter & Boehm 27 0 1 0 1 3.70%

54. (tie) Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 27 1 0 0 1 3.70%

57. (tie) Curtin & Heefner 28 0 1 0 1 3.57%

57. (tie) Gross McGinley 28 0 1 0 1 3.57%

57. (tie) Saul Ewing 112 1 3 0 4 3.57%

60. Cipriani & Werner 57 0 2 0 2 3.51%

61. MacElree Harvey 29 1 0 0 1 3.45%

62. Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 30 0 1 0 1 3.33%

63. Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 32 0 1 0 1 3.13%

64. Post & Schell 143 1 3 0 4 2.80%

65. McNees Wallace & Nurick 116 1 2 0 3 2.59%

66. Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 41 0 1 0 1 2.44%

67. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 83 0 2 0 2 2.41%

68. Meyer Unkovic & Scott 49 0 1 0 1 2.04%

69. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 52 0 1 0 1 1.92%

70. Berger & Montague 64 0 1 0 1 1.56%

71. Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 72 0 1 0 1 1.39%


The following firms either had no minorities or did not report any ethnic information: Barley Snyder, CGA Law Firm, Conrad O’Brien, Edgar Snyder & Associates, Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry, German Gallagher & Murtagh, Goldberg Persky & White, Greenberg Traurig, Grogan Graffam, Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin, Hartman Underhill & Brubaker, Houston Harbaugh, Jones Day, Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton, Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney, McQuaide Blasko, Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck, Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo, Ratner Prestia, Reger Rizzo & Darnall, Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald, Rothman Gordon, Sherrard German & Kelly, Spector Gadon & Rosen, The Webb Law Firm, Thomas Thomas & Hafer, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, Zimmer Kunz

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Analysis: The Future of the Professionreducing costs even more significantly. New strategies will be needed to improve — or even maintain — profitability.

This may seem harsh, but gone are the days when law firms could raise billing rates each year at twice the rate of infla-tion or more. That is what allowed law firms to make increased profits year on year and it simply is not going to be possible any longer. Firms also are not going to be able to make large profits on inefficient work. Even if volume returns, the profit levels and margins will not be the same as in the past. These two things will force law firms to re-duce overhead costs even more.

By way of example, I recently told a fairly large law firm that they ought to increase their lawyer to assistant/secretary ratios from three to one to eight to one. Most people in the room were aghast. One law-yer asked, “How will we get our filing and copying done?” My response was, “Why are you still filing and copying on paper?” New thinking at every level is required if prog-ress is to be made.

At the end of the day, law firms that have underlying costs of $150,000 to $250,000 per lawyer will not be able to sustain prof-itability. Significant improvements in over-head cost reduction will be needed over the next five years and strategies for imple-mentation need to start now.

The pace in this area is compelling. Some firms have begun the transition while others appear to be simply happy that they made it through the recession, generally in-tact. I believe that the latter will prove to be an unfortunate mindset.

Alternative FeesAlternative fee arrangements have been around for decades. The percentage in-crease in their use has been more signifi-cant in the last five years than in the previ-ous 25 years. The trend is here to stay. It is not going away. The issue for firms of all sizes to determine is what does it mean to them and their particular clients and what is the appropriate pace of the change in their circumstances.

I have spent the last 18 months helping firms determine how to most effectively conceptualize and install the use of alterna-tive fees. Several truisms have emerged:

Clients are not monolithic in their think-ing and are unlikely to become so. The bill-able hour is not dead and will remain vibrant for at least the next five years. Some clients like hourly billing and will control costs by controlling outside counsel rates.

There is a cadre of clients that are totally dedicated to moving quickly to alternative fees. Meeting their challenge is a must for any firm dealing with those clients.

Every firm should gain experience in the area of alternative fees whether they intend to use them as a competitive advantage or simply want to be ready to offer them. When clients ask about alternative pricing, there isn’t time to say, “Let me think about it and get back to you.”

What is the pace here? It is totally con-tingent on individual clients.

I recommend that firms or practice groups take some number of clients, per-haps the top 50, and speak with them about their interest in the use of alternative fees. We have developed a methodology that allows firms to rate their clients’ interest from high to low and plot the results on a continuum line. Once a firm has done this, it is easy to see where it needs to focus its energies, what the level of urgency is for that group of clients or if the firm may have more time to deal with the issue.

The point is firms should not fall prey to hyperbolic rants about moving to alterna-tive fees. Do your homework, talk with cli-ents and then develop a rational strategy based upon the hard facts.

It is important that all firms are edu-cating themselves on this issue and tak-ing the pulse of their clients on a regular basis. Some firms will need to develop this capability quickly. But for most firms there is probably time to proceed at a measured pace and “do it right.”

Partnership The final dynamic with which law firms will struggle has, in most instances, emerged quietly. Chronically underproductive part-ners (as measured by a firm’s individual cri-teria) are finding it increasingly difficult to remain in such a position. In the “good old days” of extraordinary profitability, many of these partners were able to skate along because there was simply enough money

to go around. Now, as managing profitabil-ity becomes a very different exercise and there is an increased need for productivity at all levels, underproductive partners will not survive.

Over a quarter of law firms in Altman Weil’s Law Firms in Transition Survey 2010 indicated that they had released equity partners in 2009 and 27 percent had de-equitized partners. In my experience, this is ongoing in most law firms, especially mid-sized and larger firms.

Some see this as mean-spirited or coun-ter to firm culture. I don’t. It is the natural working of economic market forces under which all businesses must ultimately operate.

It is hard to predict what the pace of firm actions in this area might be. If profitability returns to higher levels rather quickly, then the pace will slow. If it doesn’t, then the pace will undoubtedly increase. I encourage senior leadership in law firms to deal with this forthrightly, rigorously and humanely. In this area, like the others, take action be-fore you have to.

ConclusionThese issues — efficiency of service delivery, cost control, alternative pricing and right-sizing the ownership tier — are the ones that I believe are the most important for any firm to deal with now. There are a myriad of other things that can be in a firm’s strategic game plan, but these are clearly the most critical.

In Altman Weil’s 2010 survey, 96 percent of law firm leaders assessed the events of 2009 as either an accelerator of trends that already existed in the legal market place or as a game changer that has fundamentally redirected the legal profession. If they are right, then it is imperative that firms not only address these issues, but also match the speed of their response to the pace of market forces.

As Will Rogers is quoted as saying, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Thomas S. Clay, a principal of Altman Weil Inc., heads complex consulting assignments in strategic planning, law firm management and organization and law firm mergers and acquisi-tions. Contact him at [email protected].

By Thomas S. Clay

The Rock Center for Corpo-rate Governance at Stan-ford University recently is-sued a report on the future of law firms in the new economy called “Big But

Brittle: Economic Perspectives on the Future of the Law Firm in the New Economy.” It concluded with these words: “We must ac-knowledge and respect the forces that cre-ated [current market dynamics], and fashion remedies that swim with the tide of eco-nomic change rather than rail against it.”

The forces referred to by the authors are those that are exerting an inexorable pres-sure on the profession to change. I agree with this takeaway, which is, essentially: deal with it.

Law firms of all sizes cannot escape the pressures for change and therefore must engage in new thinking and new approaches to remain viable, stable and competitive.

This magazine contains the results of PaLAW’s annual survey of managing part-ners, which reflects firm leaders’ think-ing regarding the dynamics and pressures that are affecting Pennsylvania law firms in 2010. That survey provides a breadth of information on the changing profession. In my work with law firms and my collabora-tion with colleagues who work for corporate legal departments, I see several of these is-sues rising to the top as areas where law firms will need to focus their transition ef-forts over the next decade.

Although the need for change seems quite clear, the pace that is required to ef-fectively deal with various pressures is un-clear. For example, must a firm move to al-ternative fee arrangements within the next two years or suffer irreparable competitive disadvantage? I think not.

Must a firm immediately move away from hiring first-year lawyers right out of law school because they appear to have

decreasing value, at least to major corpo-rate purchasers? Of course not.

But these forces are in motion and they are accelerating partly as a result of the recession. We don’t know exactly how fast firms must change — and that is vexing. However, it is always better to look forward, anticipate the changes that must eventual-ly occur and begin to deal with them before they create a crisis. In fact many firms are beginning to see these issues as opportuni-ties to establish competitive advantage.

A More Efficient Service Delivery ModelA commonly voiced opinion these days is that law firms need to change their busi-ness model. I might agree that the model for rendering legal services needs signifi-cant consideration and perhaps even an overhaul, but it isn’t required in every sec-tor nor must it happen immediately.

What is required is for every law firm to examine the way it serves clients and ask the difficult question: “Can we do this more efficiently?” In almost all instances the an-swer will undoubtedly be “Yes,” and, not-withstanding a reluctance to change, the next question should be “How?”

The PaLAW Managing Partners Survey clearly shows that firms are struggling with questions of whether to hire new associ-ates, whether to make robust use of con-tract and other non-traditional lawyers and how to use technology to counteract some of the forces of commoditization.

When viewed in light of law firms’ need to maintain profitability levels, it is an inescap-able conclusion that reducing professional labor costs, probably significantly over the next five years, is necessary. This includes assuring that work that is deemed to be routine and increasingly less valuable to cli-ents is done at the lowest competent level at the lowest price the market will bear.

To emphasize this point, I relate a con-

versation that I had with U.S. law school deans when making a presentation at their annual roundtable earlier this year. I said that law schools were increasingly produc-ing a product with less market value. You can imagine the reaction I got to that.

However, I cited the growing number of corporate purchasers who are not allowing certain lawyers, such as first and second years, to work on their matters, preferring paraprofessionals do the work. Clients are saying “If you won’t become more efficient, we will force you into it with methods like these.”

One dean asked how much a new associ-ate is worth today. My response was that in real terms, to do routine work, they may be worth no more than a competent, expe-rienced paraprofessional. And in fact that dynamic is only likely to become stronger as commoditization forces increasingly take hold.

So what should law firms do? They must deal with becoming more efficient now. It’s not easy because it involves management attention, personnel decisions, new meth-ods of working, and new ways of thinking. But the pursuit of efficiency is never a bad thing and is looked upon favorably in any economic market.

My estimation of the pace of change in this area is high. The curve is like to steep-en significantly over the next five years.

Overhead Cost ReductionIn reviewing the PaLAW Managing Partners Survey, as well as a number of other eco-nomic studies, it’s clear that 2009 was a year for law firms to cut costs. Major per-sonnel cuts were made, with the largest cuts in support staff, followed by reductions in associate lawyers. Other overhead cuts were made at unprecedented levels. This was necessary triage to counteract the ef-fects of the recession in 2009. It also “saved” many law firms in that they did not have dramatic decreases in profitability and weathered the economic storm rela-tively well.

However, I believe that too many firms believe that the work is done. It is not. Law firms are still too expensive to operate and will need to take some very innovative, and perhaps extremely difficult, approaches to

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The firm’s revenue dropped by more than $100 million, or 12.6 percent, from $815.9 million in 2008 to $713.1 million in 2009. Attorney headcount fell by a similar margin of nearly 12 percent from 891 at-torneys to 786 lawyers.

Firm Chairman Barton J. Winokur said the biggest contributing factor to the rev-enue drop-off was the decline of the firm’s real estate finance practice. The practice dropped from 13 percent of the firm’s rev-enue in 2007 to about 7 percent in 2008. While it didn’t have as much room to fall in 2009 and actually picked up a bit at the end of the year, Winokur said it was the one practice Dechert moved “quickly to right size” because it knew the drought in that work would last for some time.

While Dechert conducted significant cost cutting measures, the firm saw a dip in PPP from $2.14 million in 2008 to $1.96 million in 2009, a drop of almost 9 percent.

Dechert saw some dips in other finan-cial metrics as well. The firm’s RPL fell less than 1 percent from $915,000 to $908,000, and the average compensation for all part-ners dropped more than 7 percent from $1.48 million to $1.37 million.

The firm was also forced to lay off more than 175 staff and attorneys throughout the course of the year, and it staggered its start dates for incoming associates so that only one-third of them actually started in 2009.

Along with cost reductions came some investment. The firm opened an office in Moscow last year and paid out bonuses for 2008, which came out of 2009 profits.

MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUSGross revenue at Philadelphia-based Mor-gan Lewis & Bockius declined by nearly 5 percent to $1.07 billion from $1.12 billion in 2008. PPP dropped nearly 15 percent to about $1.24 million. RPL fell 1.2 percent to $810,000.

Morgan Lewis’ managing partner for operations, Thomas Sharbaugh, told Legal affiliate The American Lawyer in February that the firm “dodged the bullet” in 2008 by having its fiscal year end Sept. 30.

Sharbaugh told The Legal through a spokeswoman in October that the dip in rev-

enue was really a timing issue that was not likely to be repeated in 2010. He told The American Lawyer work picked up “signifi-cantly” in the last quarter of 2009, partic-ularly in the investment and finance areas.

The American Lawyer also reported that the firm’s head count shrank by near-ly 4 percent, from 1,363 lawyers to 1,315. Most of the losses were associates, the magazine said, as the firm deferred its fall 2009 incoming class of 55 first-year asso-ciates until October 2010 and laid off about 55 lawyers, most of whom were associ-ates, in March 2009.

The firm did, however, increase its num-ber of partners by nearly 6 percent in 2009, according to the magazine.

Morgan Lewis also brought aboard 55 new lawyers in the 2009 fiscal year, nearly double the number of lateral hires made in 2008, The American Lawyer reported. In November 2008, it hired 20 transactional energy lawyers from Thelen Reid and in the summer of 2009, it took on 11 banking and leveraged-finance lawyers, including five partners, from Bingham McCutchen, as well as 13 health care regulatory law-yers, eight of whom were partners, from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

REED SMITHA falloff in demand, a nearly 4 percent reduction in headcount and a lower con-version rate for overseas income led to a 3.8 percent dip in Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith’s revenues for 2009.

The firm moved from $979 million in revenue for 2008 down to $942 million last year.

The firm’s profit margin, however, jumped thanks to significant cost cutting measures that were partially realized in 2009. Reed Smith’s PPP rose by nearly 7 percent from $938,000 to $1 million, which is back to the firm’s 2007 profit levels.

The firm’s RPL stayed flat between 2008 and 2009 at $660,000 and the av-erage compensation for all partners grew 6.2 percent from $614,000 to $652,000.

In a year Managing Partner Gregory B. Jordan said was “by far the most challeng-ing” he had ever worked through, the bright spot for 2009 was a deepening re-lationship with the firm’s core client base. Though revenue fell nearly $40 million, Jordan said revenue from the firm’s top 250 clients grew by $20 million, bringing that client contingent to about 60 percent of the firm’s revenue.

The firm cut fewer than 40 associates across all of its offices as well as some non-equity partners. Reed Smith also let go of nearly 200 staffers between late 2008 and 2009.

The firm’s non-equity partner tier de-creased 5.5 percent to 362 non-equity partners, and the equity tier grew 4 per-cent to 315 equity partners. The firm’s overall headcount dropped 3.8 percent to 1,427 lawyers.

By Zack NeedlesOf the Legal Staff

he legal industry had one of its toughest years ever in 2009, as a flailing economy led to significant

revenue drops and staff reductions.Three of the four largest Pennsylvania-

based firms — Dechert, Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Reed Smith — lost a combined $192 million in revenue in 2009 thanks to a dropoff in demand of some of their core practice areas.

As it was with most firms that saw rev-enue loss, falloff of revenue was matched by a relatively equal percentage drop in headcount as firms looked to preserve net profits by cutting lawyers with few or no hours to bill.

Still, some in the industry said it could have been worse and, on the whole, firms fared better in 2009 than expected at the beginning of the year.

K&L GATESPittsburgh-based K&L Gates’ gross reve-nue increased 7.8 percent from $959.4 million in 2008 to $1.034 billion in 2009. Net profits grew by a smaller amount at 4.8 percent to $254 million, dropping the firm’s profit margin by less than a percent-age point to 24.6 percent, according to data from The Legal’s sister publication, The American Lawyer.

Although gross revenue and profits per equity partner (PPP) increased, revenue per lawyer (RPL) fell by nearly 2 percent from $618,000 in 2008 to $607,000 in 2009. PPP increased by nearly 1 percent from $854,000 to $861,000. The average compensation for all partners decreased by less than 1 percent to $533,000 in 2009.

Attorney headcount grew by 9.9 per-cent from 1,552 to 1,705. The equity partner tier increased by 3.9 percent from 284 to 295, but the firm still has one

of the smallest percentages of equity part-ners, at 17.3 percent, when compared to other Pennsylvania firms on the Am Law 100. The firm’s non-equity tier grew by 22.2 percent from 495 non-equity part-ners in 2008 to 605 last year.

In order to manage expenses in 2009, K&L Gates cut 36 associates and 79 staff members and deferred its incoming class of first-year associates from the fall to January 2010. In addition to personnel

matters, the firm did a bottom-up analysis of every process, system and expense within the firm.

“Benchmark surveys always said we were fairly conservatively managed in terms of expense structure, but what we found was a lot of unnecessary expenses grow accretively over time unless they are challenged with a really skeptical frame of mind,” firm Chairman Peter Kalis said.

The firm eliminated layers of expense it may have turned a blind eye toward a few years ago, such as excess travel by lawyers and staff, he said.

DECHERTPhiladelphia-based Dechert saw substan-tial dips in gross revenue and headcount in 2009, thanks in part to a slowdown in its real estate finance department.

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2 and 10 percent. First-year associates were deferred until January 2010, though some started early. Blank Rome also closed its Cherry Hill, N.J., office in 2009, moving the lawyers to the Princeton location where the firm has focused its New Jersey efforts. Hoffman said the firm still had to pay some rent for the Cherry Hill space during parts of 2009.

The firm added 40 lateral hires in 2009, but still reduced attorney headcount from 512 full-time equivalent attorneys to 490. The equity partner tier decreased 3 percent from 160 equity partners to 156 in 2009. Non-equity partners fell from 110 to 109.

COZEN O’CONNORThe addition of nearly 90 laterals coupled with a substantial contingency-fee payout significantly boosted Philadelphia-based Cozen O’Connor’s revenues and profits in 2009.

The firm saw a 22.6 percent increase in gross revenue from about $237 million in 2008 to $290.7 million in 2009. RPL in-creased 10.6 percent from $520,000 to $575,000, PPP grew 19.3 percent from $545,000 in 2008 to $650,000 in 2009, and the average compensation for all part-ners increased by about 19 percent from $400,000 to $475,000.

The firm said it increased its headcount by 10.5 percent from 457 attorneys in 2008 to 505 lawyers in 2009. From 2006 through 2008, Cozen O’Connor’s head-count dropped by 5.4 percent.

The equity partner tier rose 20.8 percent to 145 equity partners and the non-equity tier grew by 9 percent to 121 non-equity partners in 2009.

Firm President Thomas A. “Tad” Decker attributed the firm’s strong financial per-formance in 2009 to a diversity of prac-tices, strong lateral recruitment and growth in key markets, as well as a one-time contingency fee payout.

Decker wouldn’t put a number on the contingency fee but said the firm would have seen a nearly 10 percent increase in revenue without the payout. He said the fee was paid by a number of clients in-volved in one set of cases. Decker said he

knew the fee was coming in late summer, but said he didn’t want to budget with the case in mind. He did say, however, that the fee made the firm a bit more comfortable in adding so many laterals in 2009 — a ven-ture Decker said the firm would have done either way.

The firm was, however, forced to lay off 61 support staff, including six paralegals.

Decker had said the firm’s attorney-to-staff ratios were “way out of whack.” Much of that had to do with the firm shrinking in overall headcount in the prior two years and never rectifying the number of staff it had. The firm had 458 full-time equivalent attorneys in 2007 and 483 in 2006.

BALLARD SPAHRPhiladelphia-based Ballard Spahr institut-ed a number of structural changes over the course of 2008 and 2009 to combat a

tough economy and 30 years of never do-ing any “housecleaning.”

A number of staff and attorney layoffs that began in 2008 weren’t enough to keep the firm’s profits from falling by near-ly 25 percent that year. But it was enough to make Chairman Arthur Makadon look to shake up the design of the firm. While 2009’s PPP are still more than $100,000 off of 2007 levels, there was an improve-ment over 2008 returns.

Ballard Spahr saw a 4 percent increase in PPP from $415,000 to $430,000 while gross revenue decreased by about the same margin, moving from $283 million in 2008 down to $271 million in 2009.

RPL rose by about 1 percent from $550,000 to $555,000 and the average compensation for all partners grew by 4.5 percent from $409,000 to $427,000.

PEPPER HAMILTONPhiladelphia-based Pepper Hamilton came out flat on most of its key financial metrics for 2009, increasing gross revenue by less than $2 million and seeing a drop in RPL of less than 1 percent.

Gross revenue increased less than a half percent from $331.5 million in 2008 to $333 million in 2009. RPL slid back minimally from $689,000 to $688,000, and PPP dropped 1.6 percent from $728,000 in 2008 to $716,000 in 2009. The average compensation for all partners fell more than 3 percent from $611,000 to $592,000.

Unlike many other firms that showed an increase in profit margin or an increase in net profits after a year of cost cutting, Pepper Hamilton saw net profits decline 3 percent to $102.3 million and its profit margin fall from 31.8 percent to 30.7 percent.

Executive Partner Robert E. Heideck said the firm was focused on cost manage-ment throughout the year and took steps to minimize costs. But he said there was a one-time, large expense the firm had bud-geted and paid out in 2009 that caused net profits to fall. He wouldn’t elaborate on what that expense was.

Heideck said Pepper Hamilton didn’t conduct any mass layoffs of associates or staff. A hiring freeze was implemented at the end of 2008 for staff, and all associate hires have to be approved by Heideck. Sal-aries were frozen at the beginning of 2009 and starting salaries for 2010 were re-duced from $145,000 to $125,000, he said.

The firm’s headcount remained rela-tively flat, moving up less than 1 percent from 481 full-time attorneys to 484. The equity tier fell by more than 1 percent from 145 equity partners in 2008 to 143 in 2009. The non-equity partner tier was the only category in which Pepper Hamilton saw a major change up or down. That tier in-creased 10.7 percent from 65 non-equity partners to 72 last year. Heideck said the only reason the firm’s headcount didn’t increase was because the first-year asso-ciates were deferred.

BLANK ROMEPhiladelphia-based Blank Rome increased its revenue by 3 percent in 2009 and sig-nificantly bumped up its partner profits through a number of cost cutting mea-sures.

The firm’s revenue grew despite a 4 percent drop in attorney headcount to 490 lawyers, thanks to what co-chairman Alan J. Hoffman said was a strong year for litigation, bankruptcy and even the firm’s real estate practice.

Revenue grew from $312 million in 2008 to $322 million in 2009, with about one quarter of that coming from alternative fee arrangements. PPP increased about 13 percent from $590,000 to $665,000, and RPL grew by more than 7 percent from $610,000 to $655,000. The average com-pensation for all partners increased by

10.5 percent from $475,000 to $525,000.Real estate made up 10 percent of the

firm’s revenue in 2009, with Blank Rome handling $3.1 billion in transactions exclu-sive of financings, the largest office deal in the country and the second-largest re-tail portfolio transaction for the year, the firm said.

Firm Managing Partner Carl M. Buchholz said the firm spent a lot of time in 2009 focused on client relationships as well as communicating internally. That communi-cation helped when the firm decided to take $9 million out of firm profits that was slated for equity and non-equity partners in order to pre-pay some 2010 expenses.

The firm laid off 47 associates and 92 staff members across its offices in 2009. It also cut starting salaries by $15,000 and reduced all associate salaries by between


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personnel issues, there were a few reports from late 2008 through 2009 that groups of associates were let go. The firm gave of-fers to about two-thirds of its 2009 sum-mer associate class, which was fewer than normal but more than many other law firms did last year.

The firm decided to buck the deferral trend in 2009 by bringing in its first-year associate class on time in the fall. To com-bat a growing uneasiness from clients about the usefulness of first-year associ-ates on their matters, Drinker Biddle ad-opted a six-month training program in which first-years would not bill any time but would instead focus on training.

Drinker Biddle’s headcount remained relatively flat last year, moving from 619 full-time equivalent lawyers to 621 in 2009. The equity partner tier fell slightly from 195 equity partners to 193 and the non-equity tier gained one member, moving to 72 non-equity partners.

BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEYPhiladelphia-based Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s dip in revenue in 2009 was due to cost pressures from clients and a lower head count, but efficiencies gained last year helped bolster other financial met-rics, the firm’s CEO said.

The firm saw a 2.9 percent decrease in gross revenue, from $272.8 million in 2008 to $264.9 million in 2009. It kept its profit margin flat at about 22.5 percent.

“There was a lot of pressure from cli-ents to reduce their legal costs,” Chief Ex-ecutive Officer John A. “Jack” Barbour said. “Practically everyone said you can’t pass through rate increases.”

While that doesn’t automatically result in a drop in revenue, Barbour said, re-straints on rates coupled with a near 10 percent decrease in head count led to the 3 percent dip in revenue.

In looking at the firm’s full-time equivalent number of lawyers for the entire fiscal year, Buchanan Ingersoll saw a drop in head count of 9.9 percent, from 487 to 439. This is the second year in a row head count has fallen, dropping 5

percent in 2008. The non-equity partner ranks in 2009 stayed flat at 95 non-equity partners and the equity tier decreased more than 7 percent, from 109 to 101 equity partners.

Although the firm saw a number of high-level departures in 2008, the cuts in 2009 had more to do with productivity. Barbour said internally the firm was fo-cused on being more efficient and having only productive lawyers stay on.

The firm’s equity partners were paid a bigger share in 2009 than in 2008. The PPP grew by 4.8 percent, from $563,000 to $590,000. RPL increased 5.3 percent, from $565,000 in 2008 to $595,000 in 2009. The average compensation for all partners grew 1.6 percent, from $430,000 to $437,000.

STEVENS & LEEReading, Pa.-based Stevens & Lee saw a 1 percent dip in gross revenue in 2009 due in large part to a slowdown in its core cor-porate practices.

The firm continued to add laterals, how-ever, resulting in a larger percentage drop in RPL, which fell nearly 6 percent from $675,000 in 2008 to $635,000 in 2009. Gross revenue dropped from about $109.7 million in 2008 to $108.6 million in 2009.

PPP increased by 4.6 percent to $905,000 from $865,000 in 2008. The average compensation for all partners fell 3.8 percent from $685,000 to $659,000.

While the cost cutting measures of 2009 resulted in many firms seeing in-creases in PPP when revenue was falling, Stevens & Lee avoided many of those un-dertakings. The only major structural

More than 170 support positions were cut between the beginning of 2008 and mid-2009, along with a number of attor-neys. Makadon said the firm is still realiz-ing the cost savings of those reductions. He had said last year the firm hadn’t done any housecleaning in about 30 years.

Ballard Spahr deferred its 2009 first-year associates by a full year to the fall of 2010 and decided not to have a summer associate program this year. It will have a summer program in 2011, though it will be more conservative than in prior years, Makadon said.

Ballard Spahr’s overall attorney head-count dropped more than 5 percent from 515 attorneys to 488 in 2009. The non-equity tier fell by 53 percent to 24 non-equity partners, and the equity tier grew by 16 percent to 202 equity partners.

DUANE MORRISPhiladelphia-based Duane Morris saw a 5.4 percent increase in gross revenue in 2009 thanks to some timely contingency fee payouts and an overall increase in bill-able hours for the year, the firm said.

Gross revenue grew from $368 million in 2008 to $387.7 million in 2009, putting the firm back ahead of its 2007 revenue performance of $375 million.

Although Chairman John J. Soroko said contingency fees were secondary to bill-able hour improvement, he said the fees contributed between $15 million and $20 million to the top line.

The firm has historically budgeted 4 percent to 5 percent of its billable time to contingency matters and Soroko said be-tween 5 percent and 10 percent of the firm’s revenues in 2009 came from contin-gency and other types of alternative fee arrangements. Because the firm is familiar with handling such matters, he said, it is interested in more alternative fee arrange-ments, and sometimes its interest in them exceeds its clients’ interest.

Soroko said the firm was closer to the billable targets it set for 2009, with associ-ates being “extremely busy” and partners being busier than in 2008.

Though hours were up, RPL fell less than 1 percent from $637,000 to $633,000. PPP increased 3.6 percent from $727,000 to $753,000. The firm hit an all-time PPP high in 2007 at $800,000. The average compensation for all partners in 2009 was $511,000, up more than 2 percent from $499,000.

One of the biggest impacts on Duane Morris’ financials and headcount in 2009 was the acquisition of 53 lawyers from dis-solved Wolf Block, including the labor and employment practice and the Cherry Hill, N.J., office.

Duane Morris’ headcount grew 6.1 per-cent from 578 lawyers to 613 in 2009. The equity partner tier increased nearly 8 per-cent from 121 to 130 and the non-equity partner ranks grew 15.7 percent from 191 to 221.

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATHPhiladelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath saw small dips in its gross revenue and RPL in 2009 while holding partner profits steady.

Revenue dropped 2.3 percent from $382 million in 2008 to $373 million in 2009. RPL fell by about the same percent-age from $615,000 to $600,000 and PPP remained flat at about $605,000 year over year. The average compensation for all partners grew by more than 3 percent to nearly $538,000.

Firm Executive Partner Andrew C. Kass-ner looked at the revenue drop in a posi-tive light, saying the firm didn’t lose much of the gains it made in 2008 despite weathering a two-year recession and avoiding a lot of the mass layoffs and de-ferrals other firms conducted last year.

Though Drinker Biddle doesn’t discuss


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most of the cost-cutting measures under-taken at many Am Law 200 firms.

The firm, with a fiscal year end of March 31, grew gross revenue 7 percent from nearly $203 million in 2008 to about $217 million in 2009. Net profits jumped 15 per-cent to $66.8 million, bringing Fox Roth-schild’s profit margin to 30.8 percent, up from 28.7 percent.

The firm increased net profits while growing headcount 6.5 percent from 397 lawyers to 423 attorneys in 2009. The non-equity partner tier dropped 5.5 per-cent to 68 non-equity partners and the equity partner tier grew nearly 12 percent

from 109 equity partners to 122 last year. The growth in the equity tier ate away at the net profits, allowing the PPP to in-crease just 2.8 percent in comparison. That metric moved from $535,000 in 2008 to $550,000 in 2009.

Fox Rothschild’s RPL rose less than 1 percent from $510,000 to $515,000. The average compensation for all partners increased 6.2 percent from $432,000 to $459,000.

The firm’s administrative partner, Mark L. Silow, said the gross revenue grew be-cause the firm “added a number of really productive lateral partners over the last

18 months and they all really sort of kicked into gear during the last fiscal year.”

The firm’s growth, particularly at the profit level, was not due to layoffs, defer-rals, salary reductions, or any of the other cost cutting measures used by competi-tors in 2009 because the firm didn’t do any of those things.

When asked how net profits grew by 15 percent without any major cost-cutting initiatives, Silow said the firm has always been tightly managed on the expense side as a reflection of the type of practice it has.

change the firm made was to go back to the merit-based associate compensation model it did away with in 2004 because of increasing competition for talent from the Philadelphia-based firms.

Stevens & Lee’s constant and historic focus on expense management coupled with a decreasing equity tier helped boost its PPP in 2009. The firm was able to cut the average cost per attorney by $8,000 in 2009, firm President Ernie Choquette said. A good portion of those cost savings were due to renegotiating lease deals in Philadelphia and other offices, the bene-fits of which were seen in part in 2009 and will be seen in 2010, he said.

The cost cutting didn’t help maintain Stevens & Lee’s profit margin, which at 6 percentage points lower is still among the highest of the Am Law 200 firms. The firm’s net profits fell more than 10 percent, bringing the profit margin down from 57.2 percent to 51.7 percent in 2009.

Stevens & Lee has historically had a low equity partner/non-partner leverage mod-el of nearly 1-1, but in 2006 the firm de-cided to shift its leverage model.

In 2005, before this program began, Stevens & Lee had 167 lawyers, including 103 equity partners. In 2009, the firm had 171 lawyers, including 62 equity partners. So while the headcount grew by about 2 percent, the equity tier shrunk 40 percent.

In looking at the change between 2008 and 2009, the firm’s headcount grew about 5 percent from 163 attorneys to 171 and the equity tier contracted 13.8 percent from 72 to 62 equity shareholders. The non-equity tier grew more than 37.8 per-cent year over year, from 37 to 51 non-eq-uity attorneys.

SAUL EWINGDespite dips in gross revenue and RPL, Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing grew its PPP by 14.5 percent without cutting head count or its equity partner tier.

Managing Partner David S. Antzis attrib-uted the feat to shaving off about $7 million in expenses through cost management prac-tices that were implemented in mid-2008.

PPP jumped from $380,000 in 2008 to $435,000 in 2009.

In the same time frame, gross revenue fell 4.2 percent from $120 million to $115 million, and RPL dropped by nearly 4 per-cent from $525,000 to $505,000. The av-erage compensation for all partners in-creased 8.5 percent from $354,000 to $384,000.

Along with bolstering PPP, Saul Ewing gave a significant boost to its profit mar-gin, growing the figure from 24.8 percent up to 30.6 percent. Net profits in raw dol-lars totaled nearly $38.3 million.

Staffing levels were a target area as the firm looked to get to a 3-1 lawyer to secre-tary ratio. Reports early in 2009 detailed 19 staff cuts and seven associate layoffs at the firm. Antzis said that by year end a total of 28 staff positions were cut, including the

original 19. Other than the seven associate layoffs, only a small amount of attrition oc-curred in the associate ranks, he said.

Despite cutting some attorneys, Saul Ewing didn’t shy away from growth. The firm added 16 new attorneys in 2009, in-cluding seven from the Wilmington, Del., office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

Saul Ewing’s head count remained rela-tively flat, moving from 228 attorneys in 2008 to 229 last year. The equity tier grew by two partners to 81 and the non-equity tier decreased by 5.7 percent from 52 to 49 non-equity partners.

FOX ROTHSCHILDPhiladelphia-based Fox Rothschild was able to increase gross revenue and net profits by significant margins in 2009 while in-creasing its equity partner tier and avoiding


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