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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LEGAL PROFESSION 

Editor’s Note 7 

Welcome to PaLAW 2010: Our 17th 

Annual Report on the Legal Profession. 

Largest Awards & Settlements 9 

A 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 16 

A 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 18 

How Pennsylvania law firms compare 

to firms nationwide. 

County-by-County Statistics 20 

Pennsylvania’s attorney-to-population 

ratio, and license numbers. 

Largest Public Law Firms in PA 22 

Pennsylvania’s public law offices, ranked 

by number of attorneys. 

PA-Area Law School Statistics 24 

The essential information about the 

region’s law schools. 

PA Minority- & 

Women-Owned Law Firms 27 

An alphabetical listing of firms identifying 

themselves as minority firms. 

PA Public Interest Law Firms 29 

Pennsylvania agencies that serve the 

public interest, listed by annual budget. 

Largest PA Public Corporations 34 

The legal departments of the 100 

largest public companies based in 

Pennsylvania. 

Law Firms Identified 

by Corporate Clients 43 

Which law firms are called upon most 

often to represent Pennsylvania’s 

public corporations? 

Survey of Pennsylvania 

Managing Partners 44 

The focus is on the economic 

environment in our 15th annual 

Managing Partners Survey. 

100 Largest Law 

Firms in Pennsylvania 51 

Our 17th ranking of the largest PA 

law firms, with comprehensive tables 

on firm growth, women and minority 

percentages, and geographical 

presence. 

Law Firm Growth 78 

Tracking which firms are fastest- 

growing and fastest-shrinking. 

Female and Minority Percentages 80 

How the 100 largest firms performed 

in diversity. 

Uncertain Transition 92 

Altman Weil consultant Tom Clay’s 

analysis of what lies ahead for 2011. 

Firm Financials 2009 94 

Our roundup of articles on the 

business of law in Pennsylvania. 


Editor’s Note 

Welcome to the 17th annual PaLAW: 

Annual Report on the Legal Profession. 

Last year in this space I spoke 

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about the changes that had been made to 

the publication, our methods of collecting 

data, and the rankings in our list of 100 Largest 

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 important 

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 fulltime 

attorneys, this year Reed Smith has taken 

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 laterals, 

we also saw just two firms with over 300 

PA-based attorneys, but to get to similar levels 

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 insightful 

piece, turn to page 92. 

Additionally, we have overhauled our Firm 

Financials section, consolidating multiple reports 

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 statistics 

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, according 

to information gathered from The Legal 

Intelligencer. 

Finally, one of the most noticeable changes, 

both for us and for you readers, is that 

we have a new Art Director who completely 

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 compiled 

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, assisted 

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 production 

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. 

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Largest Awards & Settlements in PA 

Rank Case Name Amount Type of Action Court Attorneys Date 

1. United States ex rel. Wetta v. 

AstraZeneca 

$520 million 

(settlement) 

2. Miller v. Santilli $100 million 

(settlement) 

3. Pridgen v. Avco Corp. $88.7 million 

(verdict) 

4. Barton v. Wyeth 

Pharmaceuticals Inc. 

5. Bro-Tech Corp. t/a The 

Purolite Co. and Purolite 

International Ltd. v. Thermax 

Inc. 

$78.746 million 

(verdict) 

$38 million 

(settlement) 

6. In re Riverwalk Fire Cases $36.25 million 

(settlement) 

7. Kendall v. Wyeth 

Pharmaceuticals Inc. 

8. Donald C. Frederick, et al v. 

Range Resources-Appalachia 

$34.3 million 

(verdict) 

$29 million 

(settlement) 

9. Graham Co. v. Haughey $18.9 million 

(verdict) 

10. Nelson v. Crane Co. $14.5 million 

(verdict) 

11. Thompson v. Lasko 

Products Inc. 

$13.5 million 

(verdict) 

12. Davis v. Davis $12.59 million 

(decision) 

Whistleblower U.S. District 

Court, E.D. Pa. 

Fraud C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Personal Injury, 

Products 

Liability 

Products 

Liability 

Intellectual 

Property 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

U.S. District 


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. 

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. 

Arthur A. Wolk, Bradley Stoll and Cynthia Devers of The Wolk Law Firm; 

James Robinson and Sara Anderson Frey of Cozen O’Connor. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Products 

Liability 

Breach of 

Contract 

Copyright 

Infrigement 

Asbestos, 

Products 

Liability 

Products 

Liability 

Breach of 

Fiduciary Duty 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

U.S. District 

Court, W.D. Pa. 

U.S. District 


C.P. 

Philadelphia 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

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

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. 

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. 

David J. Wolfsohn, Aleksander J. Goranin and John F. Murphy of 

Woodcock Washburn; Floyd Abrams of Cahill Gordon & Reindel. 

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. 

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. 

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

Cantor & Massey. 

4/27/2010 

10/9/2009 

4/7/2010 

10/26/2009 

2/24/2010 

12/17/2009 

11/23/2009 

7/20/2010 

3/19/2010 

3/9/2010 

10/14/2009 

9/10/2009 




13. Rice v. 2701 Red Lion Road 

Associates 

$12.4 million 

(verdict) 

14. State Farm v. Lincow $12.1 million 

(verdict) 

15. 

(tie) 

15. 

(tie) 

Calgon Carbon Corp. v. 

ADA-ES Inc. 

$12 million 

(verdict) 

VanTassel v. Alfa Laval Inc. $12 million 

(verdict) 

17. McKinney v. PHA $11.6 million 

(settlement) 

18. Dolby as the administratrix of 

the Estate of Omega Leach III 

v. Universal Health Services 

Inc. et al. 

$10.5 million 

(settlement) 

19. Lazabeck v. Pruchnitzky $10.25 million 

(decision) 

20. 

(tie) 

20. 

(tie) 

20. 

(tie) 

Davis et al v. SOH Distribution 

Co. Inc. and Hagris et al v. 

G&A Snack Distributing Inc. 

$10 million 

(settlement) 

Potsko v. Oshkosh Truck Corp $10 million 

(settlement) 

Schroeder v. Anchor Darling 

Valve Co. 

$10 million 

(verdict) 

23. Singleton v. Wyeth $9.45 million 

(verdict) 

24. 

(tie) 

24. 

(tie) 

Estate of Paulin v. A.C.I. 

Chesterton Co. 

$8.5 million 

(verdict) 

Kolar v. Buffalo Pumps Inc. $8.5 million 

(verdict) 

26. Goodman v. T.H. Properties $8.2 million 

(settlement) 

Products 

Liability 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Civil RICO U.S. District 


Breach of 

Contract 

Asbestos, 

Products 

Liability 

U.S. District 


C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Civil Rights U.S. District 


Wrongful Death U.S. District 


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. 

Cy Goldberg, Richard M. Castagna and Matthew A. Moroney of 

Goldberg Miller & Rubin; Joel W. Todd of Dolchin Slotkin & Todd. 

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. 

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

& Burns. 

Michael Trunk and Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter; Abbe F. Fletman 

and Rachel E. Licausi of Flaster Greenberg. 

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. 

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. 

Employment U.S. District 

Court, M.D. Pa. 

Wrongful Death C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Asbestos C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Products 

Liability 

Toxic Torts, 

Asbestos 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Asbestos C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Construction 

Accident 


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. 

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. 

Aaron J. DeLuca, Barrett Naman and Rick Nemeroff of DeLuca & 

Nemeroff; Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center. 

Zoe Littlepage of Littlepage Booth; Samuel Abloeser of Williams Cuker 

Berezofsky; Heidi Hubbard of Williams & Connolly; David Dukes of 

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

2/23/2010 

6/3/2010 

7/29/2010 

3/9/2010 

5/3/2010 

2/2/2010 

11/5/2009 

3/29/2010 

3/17/2010 

2/19/2010 

2/22/2010 

12/11/2009 

12/11/2009 

1/1/2010 




27. Tavares v. Mega Construction $7.9 million 

(settlement) 

28. Plevretes v. LaSalle University $7.5 million 

(settlement) 

29. Russell v. AW Chesterton Inc. $7 million 

(verdict) 

30. Powell v. Keystone Freight 

Corp. 

31. Smith v. Sandals Resorts 

International Ltd. 

32. 

(tie) 

32. 

(tie) 

12 PaLAW 2010 

$6.75 million 

(verdict) 

$6.52 million 

(settlement) 

Lanpher v. Alfa-Laval Inc. $6.5 million 

(verdict) 

MFS Inc. v. Thomas A. 

DiLazaro et al. 

$6.5 million 

(verdict) 

34. Marcus v. PQ Corp. $6.2 million 

(verdict) 

35. 

(tie) 

35. 

(tie) 

35. 

(tie) 

Blango v. Jeanes Hospital Inc. $6 million 

(verdict) 

Collins v. Grover $6 million 

(settlement) 

Katz v. Westfall Township $6 million 

(settlement) 

38. Boone v. Philadelphia $5.9 million 

(settlement) 

39. Golini v. Alfa Laval Inc. $5.65 million 

(verdict) 

40. Thomas v. Coady $5.15 million 

(verdict) 

Construction 

Accident 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Negligence C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Asbestos C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Motor Vehicle C.P. 

Philadelphia 



Wrongful Death C.P. 

Philadelphia 



Age 

Discrimination 

Nursing Home 

Mass Tort 

U.S. District 


C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Motor Vehicle C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Breach of 

Contract 

U.S. District 




Asbestos C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Medical 

Malpractice 

U.S. District 



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. 

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. 

Aaron J. DeLuca, Barrett Naman and Rick Nemeroff of DeLuca & 

Nemeroff; Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center. 

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. 

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. 

Benjamin Shein of Shein Law Center; Troyce G. Wolf and Demetrios T. 

Zacharopoulos of Waters & Kraus; Bernard L. Levinthal of Goldfein and 

Joseph. 

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. 

Katie R. Eyer and Scott B. Goldshaw of Salmanson Goldshaw; 

Elizabeth A. Malloy and Peter J. Ennis of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. 

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. 

Heather A. Herrington and John J. Snyder of Rawle & Henderson; 

Daniel S. Weinstock and Carolyn M. Chopko of Feldman Shepherd 

Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig. 

7/2/2010 

11/25/2009 

2/19/2010 

8/4/2009 

4/19/2010 

3/5/2010 

3/3/2010 

11/10/2009 

3/17/2010 

8/5/2009 

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

Daniel C. Levin of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman; Shelley R. Smith 

and Craig Straw of the City of Philadelphia Law Department. 

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

McCamey & Chilcote. 

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. 

11/5/2009 

4/29/2010 

12/29/2009



41. Estate of McCoy v. George 

Junior Republic in 

Pennsylvania 

42. 

(tie) 

42. 

(tie) 

Mason v. Northeastern 

Educational Intermediate 

Unit 19 


$5.12 million 

(settlement) 

$5 million 

(settlement) 

Sollman v. Renninger $5 million 

(settlement) 

44. FTC v. Magazine Solutions Inc. $4.78 million 

(decision) 

45. Koeberle v. Alfa Laval Inc. $4.5 million 

(verdict) 

46. DiPietro v. DiPietro $4.3 million 

(settlement) 

47. 

(tie) 

47. 

(tie) 

47. 

(tie) 

47. 

(tie) 

Grossi v. Travelers 

Insurance Co. 

Iatarola v. Campbell’s Auto 

Express Inc. 

Mente Chevrolet Oldsmobile 

Inc. v. GMAC 

Schlier v. Captain John 

G. Rice and Schlier v. 

Lt. David Dougalas and 

Wreckers International 

v. Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania and 

Pennsylvania State Police 

$4 million 

(settlement) 

$4 million 

(settlement) 

$4 million 

(verdict) 

$4 million 

(settlement) 

Negligent 

Supervision 

U.S. District 


School Abuse U.S. District 




Consumer 

Fraud 

U.S. District 


Asbestos C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Premises 

Liability, 

Dram Shop 

Underinsured 

Motorist 

C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Auto Accident C.P. 

Philadelphia 

Breach of 

Contract 

First 

Amendment 

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. 

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. 

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. 

8/25/2009 

6/1/2010 

11/6/2009 

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

U.S. District 


U.S. District 



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. 

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. 

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. 

6/15/2010 

4/9/2010 

8/6/2009 

6/22/2010 

11/19/2009 

2/1/2010

Most Requested Opinions Most Requested Opinions 

Rank Case Name PICS No. Court Date Judge Holding 

1. Orlowski v. Jimmy 

Magg’s Inc. 

2. Kolar v. Preferred 

Unlimited 


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. 

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) 

4. 

(tie) 

Bradish-Klein v. 

Kennedy and State 

Farm Insurance 

Company 

Carra-Cielski v. 

Scrimalli 

6. Murray v. Dollar Tree 

Stores Inc. 

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. 

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. 

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 

9. Zappala v. The James 

Lewis Group 

10. Harlan Jr. v. 

Pennsylvania State 

Police 

11. Harhai v. The Travelers 

Cos. 

12. 

(tie) 

12. 

(tie) 

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. 

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. 

10-1506 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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Rank Case Name PICS No. Court Date Judge Holding 

14. 

(tie) 

14. 

(tie) 

14. 

(tie) 

17. 

(tie) 

17. 

(tie) 

19. 

(tie) 

19. 

(tie) 

19. 

(tie) 

19. 

(tie) 

19. 

(tie) 

24. 

(tie) 

24. 

(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. 

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). 

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. 

Hower v. Wal-Mart 

Stores Inc. 

09-1026 U.S. District Court, 

E.D. Pa. 

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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Vail v. Leonard S. 

Fiore Inc. 

Albert Heston v. 

Greenwood Gaming 

and Entertainment 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Segal Wolf Berk Gaines 

& Liss PA v. Arleen 

Wolf et al. 

Gustine Uniontown 

Associates v. Antony 

Crane Rental 

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. 

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. 


National Statistics 

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

Firm Data 

(weighted average per lawyer) 

Lawyer Data 

(median – 50th percentile) 

Partner Billing 

Rates (1/1/10) 

Associate Billing 

Rates (1/1/10) 

Partner 

Compensation 

Associate 

Compensation 

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


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 



Over 10 Years Experience $153,369 $147,664

County-by-County Statistics 

Pennsylvania Attorney-to-Population Ratio 

Erie 

1/525 

Susquehanna 

1/1,104 

Bradford 

1/988 

Tioga 

1/882 

Potter 

1/929 

McKean 

1/1,146 

Warren 

1/1,164 

Wayne 

1/800 

Crawford 

1/782 

Wyoming 

1/991 Lackawanna 

1/285 

Cameron 

1/1,317 

Forest 

1/2,275 Elk 

1/1,113 

Pike 

1/1,011 

Sullivan 

1/1,225 

Venango 

1/878 

Lycoming 

1/545 

Mercer 

1/788 

Luzerne 

1/448 

Clinton 

1/1,058 

Jefferson 

1/851 

Clarion 

1/1,081 

Monroe 

1/805 

Columbia 

1/1,066 

Montour 

1/553 

Union 

1/823 

Clearfield 

1/1,023 

Lawrence 

1/669 

Carbon 

1/993 

Butler 

1/594 

1/1,035 

Northumberland 

Centre 

1/579 

Snyder 

1/1,523 

Armstrong 

1/1,495 

Northampton 

1/525 

Lehigh 

1/461 

Schuylkill 

1/767 

Beaver 

1/825 

Juniata 

1/1,286 

Mifflin 

1/1,396 

Indiana 

1/1,041 

Bucks 

1/352 

Berks 

1/582 

Dauphin 

1/109 

Allegheny 

1/144 

Lebanon 

1/889 

Perry 

1/1,027 

Blair 

1/659 

Cambria 

1/668 

Montomery 

1/152 

Huntingdon 

1/1,423 

Westmoreland 

1/537 

Cumberland 

1/274 

Washington 

1/461 

Philadelphia 

1/115 

Chester 

1/209 

Lancaster 

1/603 

Fulton 

1/2,134 

Delaware 

1/209 

York 

1/718 

Bedford 

1/1,989 

Adams 

1/1,111 

Franklin 

1/1,003 

Somerset 

1/1,047 

Fayette 

1/1,021 

Greene 

1/1,157 

Sources: Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2010 Data; U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 Estimates 

County-by-County Statistics 

20 PaLAW 2010 PaLAW 2010 21 

Where Lawyers Are (Legal Establishments/Active Lawyer Licenses) 

Erie 

96/532 

Susquehanna 

13/37 

Bradford 

29/62 

Tioga 

16/46 

Potter 

7/18 

McKean 

17/38 

Warren 

17/35 

Wayne 

28/65 

Crawford 

35/113 

Wyoming 

12/28 Lackawanna 

174/734 

Cameron 

1/4 

Forest 

0/3 Elk 

13/29 

Pike 

12/59 

Sullivan 

3/5 

Venango 

22/62 

Lycoming 

48/214 

Mercer 

41/148 

Luzerne 

192/696 

Clinton 

11/35 

Jefferson 

17/53 

Clarion 

14/37 

Monroe 

62/205 

Columbia 

16/61 

Montour 

5/32 

Union 

19/53 

Clearfield 

35/81 

Lawrence 

43/135 

Carbon 

26/64 

Butler 

57/308 

30/88 

Northumberland 

Centre 

43/250 

Snyder 

9/25 

Armstrong 

20/46 

Northampton 

138/561 

Lehigh 

151/737 

Schuylkill 

50/192 

Beaver 

64/209 

Juniata 

6/18 

Mifflin 

14/33 

Indiana 

29/84 

Bucks 

304/1,765 

Berks 

124/694 

Dauphin 

208/2,362 

Allegheny 

780/8,449 

Lebanon 

26/145 

Perry 

14/44 

Blair 

63/190 

Cambria 

56/216 

Montomery 

566/5,125 

Huntingdon 

13/32 

Westmoreland 

149/673 

Cumberland 

110/838 

Washington 

94/448 

Philadelphia 

1072/12,584 

Chester 

235/2,357 

Lancaster 

134/833 

Fulton 

3/8 

Delaware 

340/2,652 

York 

122/591 

Bedford 

10/25 

Adams 

22/91 

Franklin 

46/143 

Somerset 

29/74 

Fayette 

47/141 

Greene 

13/34 

Sources: Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2010 Data; U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 Estimates

Largest Public Law Firms in PA 

Rank 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. 

22 PaLAW 2010

PA-Area Law School Statistics 

School, Address, Phone/Fax, Website Dean 

Drexel University — Earle Mack School of Law 

3320 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 

215-571-4815 / 215-571-4763 

www.drexel.edu/law 

Duquesne University School of Law 

201 Hanley Hall 

900 Locust St., Pittsburgh, PA 15282 

412-396-6296 / 412-396-1073 

www.law.duq.edu 

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 

Rutgers University School of Law-Camden 

217 N. Fifth St. 

Camden, NJ 08102 

856-225-6102 / 856-969-7903 

www.camlaw.rutgers.edu 

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 

University of Pennsylvania Law School 

3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 

215-898-7481 / 215-573-2025 

www.law.upenn.edu 

University of Pittsburgh School of Law 

3900 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260 

412-648-1400 / 412-648-1318 

www.law.pitt.edu 

Villanova University School of Law 

299 N. Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085 

610- 519-7000 / 610-519-6472 

www.law.vill.edu 

Widener University School of Law — Harrisburg 

3800 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA 17106 

717-541-3902 / 717-541-3999 

www.law.widener.edu 

Widener University School of Law — Delaware 

4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803-0474 

302-477-2100 / 302-477-2282 

www.law.widener.edu 


2009 

75%/25% LSAT† 

2009 

Median GPA† 

July 2010 

Bar Pass Rate* 

Feb. 2010 

Bar Pass Rate* Application Deadline/Fee 

Roger J. Dennis 163/156 3.42 81.32% 75% May 1 

No fee 

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 

Philip J. 

McConnaughay 

Rayman L. 

Soloman 

160/157 3.48 83.64% 57.14% March 1 

$60 

162/158 3.46 77.85% 70.59% March 15 

$65 

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

$60 

Michael A. Fitts 171/166 3.82 92.86% 57.14% Dec. 1 — Early Decision 

Feb. 15 — Regular Notification 

$75 

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

$55 

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

$75 

Linda L. 

Ammons 

Linda L. 

Ammons 

152/148 3.20 87.67% 82.35% May 15 

$60 

154/150 3.13 82.61% 72.73% May 15 

$60 

† 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. 

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


PA Minority- & Women-Owned Law Firms 

Firm, 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 

Ann C. Lebowitz 

The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St., Suite 600 

Philadelphia, PA 19102 

215-893-4976 / 215-790-0723 

acl@alebowitz.com 

Bagia & Associates 

The Bourse, 111 S. Independence Mall East, Suite 592 


215-922-5354 / 215-922-5713 

jay@bagiaimmigration.com / www.bagiaimmigration.com 

Brown Stone Nimeroff 

Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market St., Suite 3420 


267-861-5330 / 267-350-9050 

astone@bsnlawyers.com / www.bsnlawyers.com 

Cohen Fluhr & Gonzalez 

1608 Walnut St., Suite 1108 


215-854-0060 / 215-854-0097 

sgonzalez@cfg-law.com / www.cfg-law.com 

Harper & Paul 

140 W. Maplewood Ave. 


215-844-4848 / 215-844-0464 

Harper140@aol.com / www.harperandpaul.com 

Hing Cheng 

123 N. Ninth St. 


215-568-0400 / 215-568-5560 

ghing@hingcheng.com / www.hingcheng.com 

Hwang & Haas 

550 Township Line Road, Suite 400 

Blue Bell, PA 19422 

610-680-2300 / 610-680-2319 

hwang@hwanglawfirm.com / www.hwanglegal.com 

Law Office of Dolores Rocco Kulp 

2300 Chestnut St., Suite 340 


215-468-5444 / 215-468-5443 

drkulp@drkulplaw.com / www.drkulplaw.com 

Law Office of Jettie D. Newkirk 

3600 Conshohocken Ave., Suite 2001 


215-877-4546 / 215-877-4547 

newkirklaw@aol.com 

Nattiel Seay & Humble 

The Philadelphia Building, 1315 Walnut St., Suite 732 


215-545-7778 / 215-545-0893 

will.nattiel@verizon.net / www.nattiel1law.com 

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

Marvin Abrams 1 Personal Injury, Family Law, Wills, Bankruptcy, 

Workers’ Compensation, Unemployment, Social Security 

Ann C. Lebowitz 1 Appellate 

Jay Bagia 4 All areas of U.S. Immigration 

Mary Kay Brown, 

Antoinette R. Stone and 

Jami B. Nimeroff 

4 Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy 

Sanjuanita Gonzalez 5 Social Security/SSI Disability, Immigration & 

Nationality Law 

Ronald J. Harper 3 Real Estate, Litigation/Personal Injury, Corporate, Domestic, 

Wills, Estates, General Practice 

Glenn F. Hing 4 Real Estate, Zoning and Land Use, Commercial 

Transactions, Complex Commercial Litigation, 

Landlord/Tenant Matters, Liquor Licensing, Wills, 

Trusts & Estates, Immigration 

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

Commercial Litigation 

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

Jettie D. Newkirk 1 Probate, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Real Estate and 

Nonprofits and Small Business Representation 

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 


PA Minority- & Women-Owned Law Firms 

Firm, 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 

grobinson@robinson-geraldo.com / www.robinson-geraldo.com 

The Smyler Firm 

109 S. 22nd St. 


215-568-6090 / 215-568-6091 

Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards 

1717 Arch St., Suite 3838 


215-731-9004 / 215-731-9044 

ktrujillo@trrlaw.com / www.trrlaw.com 

Tucker Law Group 

1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1700 


215-875-0609 / 215-875-8143 

jtucker@tlgattorneys.com / www.tlgattorneys.com 

Verdell Dean & Associates 

Allegheny Building, 429 Forbes Ave., Suite 1609 


412-471-3327 / 412-471-0118 

vdlaw@aol.com 

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


Gerald Robinson 4 Family Law, Criminal, Estate Planning, Immigration, 

Personal Injury, Employment, Discrimination, Business 

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

& Transactions 

Kenneth I. Trujillo 7 Antitrust, Commercial Litigation, International Litigation, 

Securities, Government, Education and Social Sector 

Joe H. Tucker Jr. 10 Complex Civil Litigation, Employment Discrimination, 

Civil Rights, Catastrophic Personal Injury and Medical 

Malpractice, Public Finance 

Verdell Dean 2 Family, Personal Injury and General Litigation 

PA Public Interest Law Firms 

Organization, Address, Phone/Fax, 

E-Mail/Website 

Community Legal Services Inc. 

1424 Chestnut St., 3638 N. Broad St. 


215-981-3700 / 215-981-0434 

NA / www.clsphila.org 

MidPenn Legal Services Inc. 

213A N. Front St. 


717-234-0492 / 717-234-0496 

rthomas@midpenn.org 

www.midpenn.org 

Mazzoni Center 

21 S. 12th St., Eighth Floor 


215-563-0657 / 215-563-0748 

legalservices@mazzonicenter.org 

www.mazzonicenter.org 

North Penn Legal Services 

507 Linden St., Suite 300 

Scranton, PA 18503 

610-317-8757 / 610-317-8778 

vcoyle@northpennlegal.org 

www.northpennlegal.org 

Neighborhood Legal Services 

Association 

928 Penn Ave. 


412-255-6700 / 412-355-0168 

racunasr@nlsa.us/www.nlsa.us 

Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center 

42 S. 15th St., Suite 500 


215-981-3800 / 215-981-3860 

asantos@philalegal.org 

www.philalegal.org 

Laurel Legal Services Inc. 

306 S. Pennsylvania Ave. 

Greensburg, PA 15601-3066 

724-836-2211 / 724-836-3680 

csheehan@mail.wpalaw.org 

www.laurellegalservices.org 

Top Staff 

Member/Title Annual Budget Core Services 

Catherine C. 

Carr 

Executive 

Director 

Rhodia D. 

Thomas 

Executive 

Director 

Nurit Shein 

Executive 

Director 

Victoria Coyle 

Executive 

Director 

Robert V. 

Racunas 

Executive 

Director 

Anita Santos- 

Singh 

Executive 

Director 

Cynthia A. 

Sheehan 

Executive 

Director 

$9.8 million Provides civil legal services 

in a broad range of areas 

to all indigent residents of 

Philadelphia. 

$7.7 million Provides legal representation 

to low-income individuals in 

civil legal matters and survivors 

of domestic violence. 

$7.5 million Provides a broad continuum 

of LGBT-focused health and 

wellness services. 

$5.5 million Provides civil legal services 

to low-income people in 

the 20-county, Northeast 

Pennsylvania region. 

$5.1 million Provides free legal services 

to low-income residents in 

Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and 

Lawrence counties in civil 

matters. 

$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. 

$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. 

Area 

Served 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

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

Full-Time 

Paralegals 

Other 

Full-Time 

Staff 

Volunteer 

Attorneys/ 

Paralegals & 

Students 

Cases 

Opened 

from 7/09 

to 7/10 

County 53 37 35 10/20 11,739 

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

Regional 1 0 0 2/29 436 

Regional 32 18 30 166/19 10,303 

Regional 32 5 22 300/45 12,195 

County 12 20 11 0/50 10,640 

County 17 1 16 3/5 5,000 





Juvenile Law Center 

1315 Walnut St., Fourth Floor 


215-625-0551 / 215-625-2808 

info@jlc.org 

www.jlc.org 

Regional Housing Legal Services 

2 S. Easton Road 

Glenside, PA 19038-7615 

215-572-7300 / 215-572-0262 

mark.schwartz@rhls.org 

www.rhls.org 

Public Interest Law Center of 

Philadelphia 

1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 

Second Floor 


215-627-7100 / 215-627-3183 

jclarke@pilcop.org 

www.pilcop.org 

Pennsylvania Health Law Project 

Lafayette Building 



215-625-3663 / 215-625-3879 

lmillerwilson@phlp.org 

www.phlp.org 

SeniorLAW Center 

100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810 


215-988-1244 / 215-988-1243 

kbuck@seniorlawcenter.org 

www.seniorlawcenter.org 

Women’s Law Project 

125 S. Ninth St., Suite 300 


215-928-9801 / 215-928-9848 

info@womenslawproject.org 

www.womenslawproject.org 


Top Staff 


Robert G. 

Schwartz 

Executive 

Director 

Mark Schwartz 

Executive 

Director 

Jennifer Clarke 

Executive 

Director 

Laval Miller- 

Wilson 

Executive 

Director 

Karen C. Buck 

Executive 

Director 

Carol E. Tracy 

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. 

$1.9 million Provides innovative project 

and policy solutions that 

help create sustainable 

communities offering decent, 

safe and affordable housing for 

lower-income Pennsylvanians. 

$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. 

$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. 

$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. 

$1 million Seeks to advance the legal, 

social and economic status 

of women through litigation, 

public policy advocacy, public 

education and individual 

counseling. 

Area 

Served 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 


Full-Time 

Paralegals 

Other 

Full-Time 

Staff 

Volunteer 

Attorneys/ 

Paralegals & 

Students 

State 10 2 5 10/12 4 

State 13 1 2 0/3 50 

State 6 0 4 4/0 60 

Cases 

Opened 

from 7/09 

to 7/10 

State 5 3 3 0/6 3,673 

County 11 2 2 100/15 3,723 

State 4 0 6 30/0 6 




Education Law Center 



215-238-6970 / 215-772-3125 

429 Fourth Ave., Suite 1901 

Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1910 

412-258-2120 / 412-391-4496 

elc.pgh@elc-pa.org / www.elc-pa.org 

AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania 



215-587-9377 / 215-587-9902 

goldfein@aidslawpa.org 

www.aidslawpa.org 

CASA of Allegheny County 

564 Forbes Ave., Suite 902 


412-594-3606 / 412-594-3607 

info@pgh-casa.org 

www.pgh-casa.org 

Friends of Farmworkers 

42 S. 15th St., Suite 605 

Philadelphia, PA 19102-2205 

215-733-0878 / 215-733-0876 

fof@friendsfw.org 

www.friendsfw.org 

Legal Clinic for the Disabled 

1513 Race St. 


215-587-3214 / 215-587-3166 

lpeyton@mageerehab.org 

www.legalclinicforthedisabled.org 

Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts 

Three Parkway 

1601 Cherry St., Suite 1320 


215-569-1150 / 215-569-9153 

staff@pmconline.org 

www.pmconline.org 

Mental Health America Allegheny 

County 

100 Sheridan Sq., Second Floor 


412-661-7860 / 412-661-7865 

fcecchetti@mhaac.net 

www.mhaac.net 

Top Staff 


Len Reiser 

Executive 

Director 

Ronda 

Goldfein 

Executive 

Director 

Melissa 

Protzek 

Executive 

Director 

Gisselle 

Guerrero 

Executive 

Director 

Linda Peyton 

Executive 

Director 

Lynn A. Marks 

Executive 

Director 

Frank 

Cecchetti 

Attorney 

$1 million Helps low-income and 

disadvantaged families, 

students and community 

organizations with problems 

involving access to public 

education and quality of 

education services. 

$935,000 Provides free legal services to 

Pennsylvanians affected by the 

AIDS epidemic. 

$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. 

$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. 

$405,000 Provides free legal services 

to low-income persons with 

physical disabilities in the fivecounty 

Philadelphia area. 

$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. 

$60,000 Provides consultation and 

representation to individuals 

in Allegheny County receiving 

services in the public mental 

health systems — on civil 

matters only. 

Area 

Served 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 


Full-Time 

Paralegals 

Other 

Full-Time 

Staff 

Volunteer 

Attorneys/ 

Paralegals & 

Students 

State 7 1 4 10/5 700 

Cases 

Opened 

from 7/09 

to 7/10 

State 5 5 2 20/13 1,955 

County 1 0 7 12/8 93 

State 4 1 1 10/10 500 

Regional 6 0 2 38/2 213 

State 2 0 1 0/0 0 

County 0 0 0 1/0 0 





KidsVoice 

437 Grant St., Suite 700 


412-391-3100 / 412-391-3588 

info@kidsvoice.org 

www.kidsvoice.org 

Northwestern Legal Services 

Renaissance Centre 

1001 State St., Suite 700 

Erie, PA 16501 

814-452-6949 / 814-452-3734 

roakley@nwls.org / www.nwls.org 

SafeNet Legal Clinic — PFACS 

P.O. Box 1436 


814-455-1774 / 814-459-6512 

lking@safeneterie.org 

www.safeneterie.org 

American Civil Liberties Union of 

Pennsylvania 

P.O. Box 40008 


215-592-1513 / 215-592-1343 

info@aclupa.org / www.aclupa.org 

HIAS and Council Migration Service of 

Philadelphia 

2100 Arch St. 


215-832-0900 / 215-832-0919 

hiasphl@hiaspa.org / www.hiaspa.org 

Homeless Advocacy Project 

42 S. 15th St., Fourth Floor 


215-523-9595 / 215-981-3866 

marsha@philalegal.org 

www.homelessadvocacyproject.org 

Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project 



215-523-951 1/ 215-981-3866 

malluce@gmail.com / www.philalegal.org 

Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania 

625 Swede St. 

Norristown, PA 19401 

610-275-5400 / 215-275-5406 

hstrauss@lasp.org, efritsch@lasp.org 

www.lasp.org 

Top Staff 


Scott 

Hollander 

Executive 

Director 

Robert A. 

Oakley 

Executive 

Director 

Linda King 

Executive 

Director 

Nancy Hopkins 

Executive 

Director 

Judith 

Bernstein- 

Baker 

Executive 

Director 

Marsha I. 

Cohen 

Executive 

Director 

Mary Anne 

Lucey 

Executive 

Director 

Harvey F. 

Strauss and 

Elizabeth W. 

Fritsch 

Co-Executive 

Directors 

WND Provides multidisciplinary 

advocacy and legal 

representation for abused, 

neglected and at-risk children. 

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. 

WND Provides free legal 

representation to domestic 

violence victims, protection 

from abuse orders and civil 

cases related to abuse. 

Area 

Served 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

Full-Time 

Paralegals 

Other 

Full-Time 

Staff 

Volunteer 

Attorneys/ 

Paralegals & 

Students 

County 19 0 40 10/12 39 

Cases 

Opened 

from 7/09 

to 7/10 

Regional 17 4 14 153/6 5,739 

County 1 1 50 0/4 50 

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 

WND Provides immigration services, 

including family unification, 

violence against women selfpetitions, 

removal defense, 

asylum, adjustment of status and 

refugee resettlement services. 

Regional 6 5 7 38/0 1,447 

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. 

WND Provides debt counseling and 

assistance with Chapter 7 

bankruptcy. 

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). 


County 7 4 3 325/75 3,000 

County 1 1 1 30/20 410 

Regional 27 8 17 600/25 10,000 




Nationalities Service Center 

1216 Arch St., Fourth Floor 


215-893-8400 / 215-735-9718 

dmulligan@nscphila.org 

www.nationalitiesservice.org 

Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project 

718 Arch St., Suite 304 South 


215-925-2966 / 215-925-5337 

alove@pailp.org/www.pailp.org 

Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for 

the Arts 

200 S. Broad St., Suite 700 


215-790-3836 / 215-790-3888 

mhohag@artsandbusinessphila.org 

www.artsandbusiness.org/pvla 

Philadelphia Volunteers for the 

Indigent Program 



215-523-9550 / 215-564-0845 

swoods@phillyvip.org / www.phillyvip.org 

Support Center for Child Advocates 

1900 Cherry St. 


267-546-9200 / 267-546-9201 

fcervone@advokid.org 

www.advokid.org 

Women Against Abuse Legal Center 

100 S. Broad St., Fifth Floor 


215-686-7082 / 215-686-7041 

NA / www.womenagainstabuse.org 

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network 

118 Locust St. 


717-236-9486 / 717-233-4088 

smilkes@palegalaid.net 

www.palegalaid.net 

Disability Rights Network of PA 



215-238-8070 / 215-772-3126 

drn-phila@drnpa.org/www.drnpa.org 

Top Staff 



Dennis 

Mulligan 

Executive 

Director 

Angus Love 

Executive 

Director 

Miriam K. 

Hohag 

Director of 

Legal Services 

Sara Woods 

Executive 

Director 

Frank P. 

Cervone 

Executive 

Director 

Molly Callahan 

Executive 

Director 

Sam Milkes 

Executive 

Director 

Ilene Shane 

Chief 

Executive 

Officer 

WND Provides educational and 

social services, and legal 

representation for immigrants 

and refugees. Provides 

interpretation and translation 

services for business and 

nonprofit clients. 

WND Provides free civil legal 

assistance to eligible 

institutionalized persons in 

Pennsylvania. 

Area 

Served 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

Full-Time 

Paralegals 

Other 

Full-Time 

Staff 

Volunteer 

Attorneys/ 

Paralegals & 

Students 

Regional 4 3 28 5/24 936 

State 3 1 1 1/4 200 

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 

WND Provides low-income individuals 

equal access to the legal system 

in civil matters by referring 

them to volunteer lawyers, paralegals 

and others who provide 

legal assistance free of charge. 

WND Provides legal and social 

service advocacy for child 

victims of abuse and neglect, 

teaming volunteer attorneys 

with staff social workers and 

attorneys. 

WND Provides free advocacy and 

legal representation in family 

law cases to domestic violence 

victims in Philadelphia County. 

WND Provides civil legal aid to 

low-income clients in certain 

priority areas. 

WND Provides legal and policy 

advocacy to expand and protect 

the rights of persons with 

disabilities. 


County 5 5 4 1,076/200 985 

County 7 0 17 345/12 368 

County 4 2 8 5/5 207 

Cases 

Opened 

from 7/09 

to 7/10 

State 266 112 161 948/103 69,478 

State 18 2 40 1/0 45

Largest PA Public Corporations 

Rank Public Corporation/Address 

1. AmerisourceBergen Corp. 

1300 Morris Drive 

Chesterbrook, PA 19087 

2. Comcast Corp. 

One Comcast Center 

1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd. 


3. Sunoco Inc. 

1735 Market St. 


4. Alcoa Inc. 

201 Isabella St. 

Alcoa Corporate Center 


5. CIGNA Corp. 

Two Liberty Place, 1601 Chestnut St. 


6. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. 

One PNC Plaza, 249 Fifth Ave. 


7. PPG Industries Inc. 

One PPG Place 


8. U.S. Steel Corp. 

600 Grant St. 


9. H.J. Heinz Co. 

One PPG Place, Ste. 3100 


10. Lincoln National Corporation 

150 N. Radnor Chester Road, Suite A305 

Radnor, PA 19087 

11. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. 

7201 Hamilton Blvd. 

Allentown, PA 18195 

12. Crown Holdings Inc. 

One Crown Way 


13. UGI Corp. 

460 N. Gulph Road 

King of Prussia, PA 19406 

14. The Hershey Co. 

100 Crystal A Drive 

Hershey, PA 17033 


2009 

Revenue 

(In Millions) Chief Legal Officer Title 

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

Counsel & Secretary 

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


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

Counsel 

$18,439 Nicholas J. DeRoma Executive V.P., Chief 

Legal & Compliance 

Officer 

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

General Counsel 

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

Counsel 

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

Counsel 

$11,048 James D. Garraux Senior V.P. — Corporate 

Affairs & General 

Counsel 

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

Counsel 

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

Counsel 

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

Counsel 

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


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

Assistant Secretary 

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


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

Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 

Attorneys Major Law Firms Used 

2007 18 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Buchanan 

Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia; Morgan 

Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia 

2000 75 Davis Polk & Wardwell; Wilkie Farr & 

Gallagher; Davis Wright Tremaine; Drinker 

Biddle & Reath; Ballard Spahr 

2010 27 Beveridge & Diamond, Washington, D.C.; 

Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis 

& Bockius, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, 

Philadelphia 

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 

2006 WND DLA Piper; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; 

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker; 

Morgan Lewis & Bockius; Jenner & Block 

2009 WND WND 

2010 28 WND 

2007 49 WND 

2006 WND WND 

2010 WND WND 

2009 30 WND 

2000 10 Dechert, Philadelphia; Law Offices of 

Michael J. Stack, Philadelphia; Elliott 

Greenleaf & Seidzikowski, Blue Bell, Pa. 

2003 12 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; 

Foley & Lardner, Washington, D.C.; Nelson 

Kinder Mosseau & Saturley, Manchester, 

N.H.; Reed Smith, Chicago; Blank Rome, 

Philadelphia 

2001 10 WND 



15. Universal Health Services Inc. 

Universal Corporate Center 

367 S. Gulph Road 

King of Prussia, PA 19406-0958 

16. Mylan Laboratories Inc. 

1500 Corporate Drive, Suite 400 

Cannonsburg, PA 15317 

17. WESCO International Inc. 

225 W. Station Square Drive, Suite 700 


18. CONSOL Energy Inc. 

1000 CONSOL Energy Drive 

Canonsburg, PA 15317 

19. Unisys Corp. 

Unisys Way 


2009 

Revenue 


Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


$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 

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


2010 25 Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & 

Raspanti; Cravath Swaine & Moore 

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

Pittsburgh; Cohen & Grigsby, Pittsburgh 

$4,621.88 P. Jerome Richey Executive V.P. — 

Corporate Affairs & 

Chief Legal Officer 

$4,597.70 Nancy Straus 

Sundheim 


Senior V.P., General 


2009 WND WND 

2001 86 WND 




20. Airgas Inc. 

249 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Suite 100 

Radnor, PA 19087-5240 

21. Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. 

300 Industry Drive, RIDC Park West 


22. Allegheny Energy Inc. 

800 Cabin Hill Drive 

Greensburg, PA 15601 

23. Allegheny Technologies Inc. 

1000 Six PPG Place 


24. Harsco Corp. 

350 Poplar Church Road 

Camp Hill, PA 17011 

25. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. 

77 Hot Metal St. 


26. FMC Corp. 



27. Armstrong World Industries Inc. 

P.O. Box 3001 

Lancaster, PA 17604 

28. Charming Shoppes Inc. 

450 Winks Lane 

Bensalem, PA 19020 

29. Penn National Gaming Inc. 

Wyomissing Professional Ctr. 

825 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 200 

Wyomissing, PA 19610 

30. Amerigas Partners 

460 N. Gulph Road 


31. Cephalon Inc. 

41 Moores Road 

P.O. Box 4011 

Frazer, PA 19355 

32. Dentsply International Inc. 

Susequehanna Commerce Center 

221 W. Philadelphia St. 

York, PA 17405-0872 

2009 

Revenue 


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

Counsel 

$4,130.13 David I. Mossé Senior V.P. — Legal, 

General Counsel & 

Corporate Secretary 

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

Secretary 

$3,054.90 Jon D. Walton Executive V.P. — Human 

Resources, Chief Legal 

& Compliance Officer, 


Secretary 

$2,990.58 Mark E. Kimmel Senior V.P., Chief 

Administrative Officer, 



Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


2007 4 WND 

2010 6 Jones Day; Buchanan Ingersoll 

2006 WND WND 

1996 7 WND 

2004 13 Jones Day, Cleveland; Eckert Seamans 

Cherin & Mellott, Pittsburgh; Nixon 

Peabody, Buffalo, NY; McNees Wallace & 

Nurick, Harrisburg 

$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 

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

Secretary 

$2,780 Jeffrey D. Nickel Senior V.P., General 

Counsel & Corporate 

Secretary 

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


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

Counsel 

$2,260.09 Robert H. Knauss V.P., General Counsel & 

Corporate Secretary of 

the General Partner 

$2,192.31 Gerald J. Pappert Executive V.P., General 

Counsel & Company 

Secretary 

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

Counsel 

2001 12 Dechert, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis & 

Bockius, Philadelphia; Blank Rome, 

Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; 

Swanson Martin & Bell, Chicago 

2008 10 Weil Gotshall & Manges; Womble Carlyle 

Sandridge & Rice; Sandler Travis & 

Rosenberg; Thompson & Knight; Stevens & Lee 

1989 5 WND 

2002 WND WND 

2003 12 WND 

2008 18 WND 

1998 6 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Pittsburgh; 

McNees Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg; 

Woodcock Washburn, Philadelphia; 

Goodell DeVries, Baltimore 



33. Ametek Inc. 

37 N. Valley Road, Building Four 

P.O. Box 1764 

Paoli, PA 19301 

34. Vishay Intertechnology Inc. 

63 Lancaster Ave. 

Malvern, PA 19355-2120 

35. Kennametal Inc. 

1600 Technology Way 

P.O. Box 231 

Latrobe, PA 15650 

36. EnerSys 

2366 Bernville Road 

Reading, PA 19605 

37. Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack 

3111 W. Allegheny Ave. 


38. Urban Outfitters Inc. 

5000 S. Broad St. 


39. Teleflex Inc. 

155 S. Limerick Road 

Limerick, PA 19468 

40. Buckeye Partners 

Five TEK Park, 9999 Hamilton Blvd. 

Breinigsville, PA 18031 

41. Toll Brothers Inc. 

250 Gibraltar Road 

Horsham, PA 19044 

42. Atlas Energy Inc. 

1550 Coraopolis Heights Road 

Moon Township, PA 15108 

43. Central European Distribution Corp. 

Two Bala Plaza, Suite 300 


44. Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. 

100 Endo Blvd. 

Chadds Ford, PA 19317 

45. Wabtec Corp. 

1001 Air Brake Ave. 

Wilmerding, PA 15148 

46. Carpenter Technology Corp. 

P.O. Box 14662 


2009 

Revenue 


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

Counsel 

$2,042.03 Avner Z. Lahat Director of Legal 

Services 

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

Counsel 

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


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


$1,834.62 Glen A. Bodzy General Counsel & 

Secretary 

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


$1,770.37 William H. 

Schmidt Jr. 

V.P., General Counsel & 

Secretary of General 

Partner 

$1,755.31 John K. McDonald Senior V.P., General 

Counsel & Chief 

Compliance Officer 

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

Officer & Secretary 


Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


2007 1 WND 

2004 5 WND 

2001 9 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh; 

Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C.; 

Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.; Babst 

Calland Clements & Zomnir, Pittsburgh 

2009 3 WND 


DLA Piper, Philadelphia; Reed Smith, 

Philadelphia; Klehr Harrison Harvey 

Branzburg & Ellers, Philadelphia 

1999 WND WND 

2004 6 WND 

2007 2 Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis; 

Duane Morris, Philadelphia; Morgan Lewis 

& Bockius, Philadelphia; Vincent & Elkins, 

Houston; Baker & Daniels, Washington, D.C. 

2010 14 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Duane Morris, 

Philadelphia 

2005 1 Ledgewood Law, Philadelphia 

$1,507.14 WND WND WND WND Dewey & LeBoeuf 

$1,460.84 Caroline B. Manogue Executive V.P., 

Chief Legal Official & 

Secretary 

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


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


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

2004 9 Arnold & Porter; Skadden Arps Slate 

Meagher & Flom; Drinker Biddle & Reath; 

Dechert 

2000 3 Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; The Webb Law 

Firm, Pittsburgh 

2007 3 WND



47. Radian Group Inc. 



48. EQT Corp. 

225 North Shore Drive 


49. Triumph Group Inc. 

1550 Liberty Ridge Drive, Suite 100 

Wayne, PA 19087 

50. P.H. Glatfelter Co. 

96 S. George St., Suite 500 

York, PA 17401 

51. Federated Investors Inc. 

Federated Investors Tower 

1001 Liberty Ave. 


52. Koppers Holdings Inc. 

436 Seventh Ave. 


53. SEI Investments Co. 

One Freedom Valley Drive 

Oaks, PA 19456 

54. West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. 

101 Gordon Drive, P.O. Box 645 

Lionville, PA 19341 

55. Black Box Corp. 

1000 Park Drive 

Lawrence, PA 15055 

56. Harleysville Group Inc. 

355 Maple Ave. 

Harleysville, PA 19438 

57. GSI Commerce Inc. 

935 First Ave. 


58. Fulton Financial Corp. 

One Penn Square 

P.O. Box 4887 


59. Mine Safety Appliances Co. 

121 Gamma Drive 


2009 

Revenue 


$1,313.38 Edward J. Hoffman Senior V.P., General 


Secretary 

Year 

Named 

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

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

Secretary 

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

Secretary 

$1,175.95 John W. McGonigle Vice Chairman, 

Executive V.P., 

Chief Legal Officer & 

Secretary 

$1,124.40 Steven R. Lacy Senior V.P. — 

Administration, General 


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

Counsel 

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

Secretary 

$999.55 Christopher H. 

Gebhardt 

$980.62 Robert A. Kauffman Senior V.P., 

Compliance Officer, 


Secretary 

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

Counsel 

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


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

Counsel 


No. of 

In-House 


2008 9 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, 

Philadelphia; Drinker Biddle & Reath, 

Philadelphia; Posternak Blankstein & Lund, 

Boston; White & Williams, Philadelphia; 

Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia 

2004 2 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; Buchanan 

Ingersoll & Rooney, Philadelphia; Stradley 

Ronon Stevens & Young, Philadelphia; 

Ogletree Deakins, Phoenix; Morgan Lewis 

& Bockius, Philadelphia 

2008 2 Ballard Spahr; Shearman & Sterling; 

Kilpatrick Stockton; Dilworth Paxson; 

Barley Snyder 

1998 WND Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Buchanan 

Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh; K&L Gates, 

Pittsburgh 

2004 WND WND 


Matheson Ormsby & Prentice, Dublin, 

Ireland; Simmons & Simmons, London; 

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & 

Goggin, Philadelphia 

1991 WND WND 

General Counsel WND 3 WND 

2004 38 Blank Rome, Philadelphia; Ballard Spahr, 

Philadelphia; Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia 

1999 9 WND 

2001 5 Barley Snyder, Lancaster, Pa.; Caldwell 

& Kearns, Harrisburg; Ballard Spahr, 

Philadelphia; McNees Wallace & Nurick, 

Harrisburg 

2002 3 Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; Dillon McCandless 

King & Coulter, Saxonburg; Crowell & 

Moring, Washington, D.C. 



60. CDI Corp. 

1717 Arch St., 35th Floor 


61. Penn Virginia Corp. 

Three Radnor Corporate Center 

100 Matsonford Road, Suite 300 


62. Matthews International Corp. 

Two Northshore Center 


63. Knoll Inc. 

1235 Water St. 

East Greenville, PA 18041 

64. Liberty Property Trust 

500 Chesterfield Parkway 

Malvern, PA 19355 

65. Healthcare Services Group Inc. 

3220 Tillman Dr., Suite 300 


66. Aqua America Inc. 

762 W. Lancaster Ave. 

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 

67. Constar International Inc. 

One Crown Way 


68. Orleans Homebuilders Inc.† 

One Greenwood Square 

3333 Street Road, Suite 101 


69. Brandywine Realty Trust 

555 E. Lancaster Ave. 


70. PMA Capital Corp. 

380 Sentry Parkway 


71. Destination Maternity Corp. 

456 N. Fifth St. 


72. Dollar Financial Corp. 

1436 Lancaster Ave., Suite 300 

Berwyn, PA 19312 

73. NutriSystem Inc. 

300 Welsh Road, Building 1, Suite 100 

Horsham, PA 19044 

2009 

Revenue 


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

Officer 

$815.14 Nancy M. Snyder Executive V.P., 

Chief Administrative 

Officer, General Counsel 

& Corporate Secretary 


Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


1987 5 Dechert, Philadelphia 

2008 4 Vinson & Elkins, New York and Houston 

$780.91 Brian D. Walters V.P. & General Counsel 2005 1 Reed Smith, Philadelphia; Thorp Reed & 

Armstrong, Pittsburgh; Beirne Maynard & 

Parsons, Houston 

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

Secretary 

$744.26 James J. Bowes Secretary & General 

Counsel 

2007 WND WND 

$692.70 WND WND WND 0 WND 

$670.54 Roy H. Stahl Chief Administrative 

Officer, General 


$638.37 David J. Waksman Senior V.P. — Human 

Resources, General 


1996 3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia 

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

Saul Ewing, Philadelphia 

2003 2 Dechert, Philadelphia; Woodcock 

Washburn, Philadelphia 

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

$582.22 Brad A. Molotsky Executive V.P., General 


$531.72 Steven L. 

Kibblehouse 

Executive V.P., General 


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


$527.85 Roy W. Hibberd Senior V.P., General 


† In bankruptcy since March 2010 *2008 Data 


1997 2 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Morgan 

Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Sirlin & 

Lesser; DLA Piper, Baltimore & Chicago; 

Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg, 

Philadelphia 

2008 20 Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia; White & 

Williams, Philadelphia; Pepper Hamilton, 

Philadelphia 

2006 3 Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; Morgan 

Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia; Duane 

Morris, Philadelphia; Paul Hastings, 

San Diego; Holland & Knight, Boston 

2005 WND WND 

$527.73 Donna Davidson WND WND WND Morgan Lewis & Bockius



74. ANSYS Inc. 

275 Technology Drive 

Canonsburg, PA 15317 

75. CSS Industries Inc. 

1845 Walnut St. 


76. Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust 

The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St. 


77. RAIT Financial Trust 

2929 Arch St., 17th Floor 


78. Quaker Chemical Corp. 

One Quaker Park 

901 Hector St. 

Conshohocken, PA 19428 

79. Michael Baker Corp. 

Airside Business Park 

100 Airside Drive 

Moon Township, PA 15108 

80. Calgon Carbon Corp. 

P.O. Box 717 


81. RTI International Metals Inc. 

Westpointe Corporate Center One 

1550 Coraopolis Heights Road, Fifth Floor 


82. Technitrol Inc. 

1210 Northbrook Drive, Suite 385 

Trevose, PA 19053 

83. L.B. Foster Co. 

415 Holiday Drive 


84. Dorman Products Inc. 

3400 E. Walnut St. 

Colmar, PA 18915 

85. Entercom Communications Corp. 

401 City Ave., Suite 809 

Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 

86. C&D Technologies Inc. 

1400 Union Meeting Road 


2009 

Revenue 


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

Secretary 

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

Resources & General 

Counsel 

$463.09 Bruce Goldman Executive V.P., General 


Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


2004 WND WND 

2006 WND WND 

2000 8 Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia; 

Blank Rome, Philadelphia 

$461.70 Raphael Licht Chief Operating Officer 2010 3 Dechert, Philadelphia; Duane Morris, 

Philadelphia; Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia; 

Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia; 

Ledgewood Law, Philadelphia 

$451.49 D. Jeffry Benoliel V.P. — Global Strategy, 



$445.18 H. James McKnight Executive V.P., Chief 

Legal Officer & 


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

Counsel 

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

Secretary 

2001 2 Drinker Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia; 

Baker McKenzie, London, Amsterdam & 

Milan; Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia; Irell & 

Manella, Los Angeles 

1995 5 Reed Smith, Philadelphia 

2009 1 Cohen & Grigsby, Pittsburgh; K&L Gates, 

Pittsburgh; Reed Smith, Pittsburgh; 

Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Pittsburgh; 

Meyer Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh 

2007 2 WND 

$398.80 WND WND WND WND WND 

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

Counsel 

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


$372.43 John C. Donlevie Executive V.P., General 


$369.54 James D. Dee V.P., Chief 

Administrative 

Officer, General Counsel 

& Secretary 

1986 1 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh 

2005 1 Blank Rome, Philadelphia; Volpe & Koenig, 

Philadelphia 

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

& Watkins, Washington, D.C. 

2005 2 WND 



87. ViroPharma Inc. 

397 Eagleview Blvd. 

Exton, PA 19341 

88. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. 



89. Interdigital Inc. 

781 Third Ave. 


90. II-VI Inc. 

375 Saxonburg Blvd. 

Saxonburg, PA 16056 

91. Kulicke & Soffa Industries Inc. 

1005 Virginia Drive 

Ft. Washington, PA 19034 

92. Nobel Learning Communities 

1615 West Chester Pike, Suite 200 

West Chester, PA 19382 

93. Horsehead Holding Corp. 

300 Frankfort Road 

Monaco, PA 15061 

94. iGate Corp. 

1000 Commerce Drive, Suite 500 


95. StoneMor Partners 

311 Veterans Highway, Suite B 

Levittown, PA 19056 

96. Tasty Baking Co. 

Navy Yard Corporate Center 

3 Crescent Drive, Suite 200 


97. Auxilium Pharmaceuticals 

40 Valley Stream Parkway 

Malvern, PA 19355 

98. Kenexa Corp. 

650 E. Swedesford Road, Second Floor 

Wayne, PA 19087 

99. Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. 

600 Mayer St. 

Bridgewille, PA 15017 

100. Lannett Co. 

9000 State Road 


2009 

Revenue 


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

Secretary 

$299.18 Robert F. Schultz V.P. — Industrial 

Relations & Senior 

Counsel 

$297.40 Steven W. Sprecher General Counsel & 

Secretary 


Year 

Named 

No. of 

In-House 


WND WND WND 

WND 1 WND 

2007 15 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Dechert; Stradley 

Ronon Stevens & Young; Schnader 

Harrison Segal & Lewis; The Hoyle Law 

Firm 

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

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

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

$216.53 Ali Alavi V.P. — Corporate 

Adminstration, General 


$193.10 Mukund Srinath V.P. — Legal & 

Company Secretary 

1996 WND WND 

2008 2 Reed Smith, Philadelphia 

$181.20 NA NA NA WND Blank Rome 

$180.56 Laurence 

Weilheimer 

$164.04 Jennifer Evans 

Stacey 

Senior V.P., General 


Secretary 

Executive V.P., General 

Counsel — 

Human Resources & 

Secretary 

2006 2 Stradley Ronon; Cozen O’Connor; 

Blank Rome 

2006 WND WND 

$157.67 WND WND WND WND WND 

$124.91 Paul A. McGrath V.P. — Administration, 


Secretary 

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

1996 WND WND 

$119 WND WND WND WND Fox Rothschild, Philadelphia

Law Firms Identified by Corporate Clients 

Rank 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 

15. (tie) Skadden Arps Slate Meagher 

& Flom 

2 Interdigital Inc.; Radian Group Inc. 

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 


Managing Partners Survey 

Raising Rates Back in Vogue? 

Done with Layoffs, MPs Look to Revenue Generators 

(Ahem, Clients) to Maintain Profitability 

By Gina Passarella 

Of the Legal Staff 

The 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 attorneys 

are taking their place and the number 

of firms that saw increases in either 

revenue or profits in the last year shrunk 

substantially. 

But perhaps the most interesting finding 

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 increased 

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 entrylevel 

hiring. 

That comes as a bit of a surprise in a 

climate where clients are looking for non- 

MERGER 

POSSIBILITIES 

14.8% Actively seeking 

merger opportunities 

63.0% Would be open to 

merger opportunities 

22.2% Has no interest in merging 

hourly fee arrangements and reductions 

in costs. With the reportedly wide use of 

discounting billable hours, the rate increases 

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 respondents 

said clients sometimes ask for 

reductions, which was up from 64.3 percent 

who said so last year. On the other 

hand, only 19.2 percent said clients paid 

without much hassle, down from 32.1 percent 

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 reducing 

lateral hiring, reducing entry-level hir- 

DID YOUR 

FIRM HAVE 

NON-PARTNER 

TRACK 

ASSOCIATES 

FROM 

JUNE 2009 TO 

JUNE 2010? 

29.6% Yes 

70.4% No 

ing and reducing marketing costs. Nearly 

39 percent of respondents said they reduced 

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-equitize 

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 happening 

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 decrease 

in gross revenue, which largely mirrors 

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. 

HAS YOUR FIRM 

DE-EQUITIZED 

ANY PARTNERS 

BETWEEN JUNE 

2009 AND 

JUNE 2010? 

12% Yes 

88% No 


In 2009, 80 percent of respondents 

said they were able to increase gross revenue 

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. 

(continued on Page 46) 

FIRM 

NET PROFITS 

55.6% Increased 

29.6% Decreased 

14.8% Stayed the same 

GROWTH IN 

NUMBER OF 

ATTORNEYS 

JUNE 2009 TO 

JUNE 2010 

7.4% Grew significantly 

37.0% Grew slightly 


7.4% Shrunk slightly 

7.4% Shrunk significantly 

PROJECTED 

GROWTH IN 

NUMBER OF 

ATTORNEYS 

JUNE 2010 TO 

JUNE 2011 

3.8% Will grow significantly 

69.2% Will grow slightly 

19.2% Will stay the same 

7.7% Will shrink slightly 

0% Will shrink significantly 


FIRM COSTS 




REVENUE 

PER LAWYER 




PROFITS 

PER PARTNER 




DID YOUR FIRM 

HIRE CONTRACT 

ATTORNEYS 

LAST YEAR? 

40.7% Yes 

59.3% No 

FIRM 

REVENUE 



19.2% Stayed the same


(continued from Page 45) 

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 costcutting 

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 

Commercial Litigation 

Employment Law 

Intellectual Property 

Class Action 

Bankruptcy 

Public Finance 

Labor Law 

Mergers & Acquisitions 

Securities 

Criminal/White Collar 

Real Estate 

Insurance Litigation 

Banking 

Tax 

Trusts & Estates 

Venture Capital/ 

Emerging Businesses 

0% 

0% 

0% 

0% 

5.0% 

5.0% 

3.8% 

3.8% 

5.0% 

3.8% 

5.0% 

5.0% 

7.7% 

7.7% 

7.7% 

11.5% 

15.0% 

15% 

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 percent 

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 

AREAS OF LAW WITH THE AREAS MOST SIGNIFICANT OF LAW WITH GROWTH THE MOST OR SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN OPPORTUNITIES 

GROWTH OR DECLINE IN OPPORTUNITIES 

19.2% 

19.2% 

20.8% 

19.2% 

20.0% 

26.9% 

26.9% 

30.0% 

35.0% 

34.6% 

42.3% 

50.0% 

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 respondents, 

or 55.6 percent, said they hired 


0% 0% 0% 

0 

Percent of Managing Partners Who Selected Category 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 8009010 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 

57.7% 

65.0% 

Growth 

Decline 


WHAT ACTIONS HAS YOUR FIRM TAKEN WHAT ACTIONS TO RETAIN HAS PROFITABLILITY YOUR FIRM TAKEN LEVELS? TO RETAIN PROFITABILITY LEVELS? 

Reduce number of equity partners 

Lay off non-equity partners 

Lay off associates 

Lay off support staff 

Reduce lateral hiring 

Reduce entry-level hiring 

Reduce marketing costs 

Rescind offers to incoming 1st-year associates 

Switch practice focus to higher-demand areas 

Reduce partner compensation 

Reduce associate compensation 

Raise billing rates 

Increased focus on 

client development 

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 

Percent of Managing Partners Who Selected Category 

DOES YOUR 

FIRM HAVE A 

NON-LAWYER 

MARKETING 

DIRECTOR/CMO? 

DOES YOUR 

FIRM REGULARLY 

USE CLIENT 

SATISFACTION 

SURVEYS? 


Decrease in 

professionalism 

4.3% 

8.7% 

13% 

13% 

Increased economic 

pressures 

21.7% 

21.7% 

26.1% 

26.1% 

Increased client 

demands/pressure 

to lower fees 

34.8% 

FOR THOSE WHO FOUND THE PRACTICE OF LAW TO BE LESS ENJOYABLE, 

IT WAS BECAUSE PRACTICE OF: OF LAW IS LESS ENJOYABLE BECAUSE OF: 

Percent of Respondents 

100 

90 

80 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

10% 

50% 

80% 

MOST EFFECTIVE MARKETING TOOLS 

MOST EFFECTIVE MARKETING TOOLS 

Percent of MPs Ranking First 

30 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5 

Social events 

Seminars 

8% 8.3% 

Firm Website 

16% 

Branding 

8% 

Client Newsletters 

4.3% 

Client Survey 

13.6% 

Brochures 

Media Relations 

4% 

39.1% 

30% 30% 

Charitable Involvement 

Trade Publication Writing 

Overall rise in 

competitive 

environment 

Cold Calling 

8.3% 

Advertising 

4.3% 

47.8% 

65.2% 

70.4% Yes 

29.6% No 

18.5% Yes 

81.5% No 

100 

90 

80 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

30 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5



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 departments 

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 expectation 

of partnership, are paid less and 

often work fewer hours. 

Nearly 70.5 percent of respondents said 

DOES YOUR 

FIRM EXPECT 

TO LAY 

OFF ANY 

ATTORNEYS 

IN THE NEXT 

YEAR? 

3.7% Yes 

96.3% No 

they had no non-partner track or staffassociate 

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 LAYOFFS 

From the responses to the survey, it would 

seem layoffs have greatly subsided both in 

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 

IN THE PAST 

YEAR, HAS 

YOUR FIRM 

LAID OFF ANY 

ATTORNEYS 

DUE TO THE 

ECONOMIC 

DOWNTURN? 

14.8% Yes 

85.2% No 

terms of the past year and what can be expected 

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 Pennsylvania, 

however. 

CONCERNING 

ALTERNATIVE 

BILLING, 

CLIENTS 

PREFER: 

75% Flat fee for projects 

10% Fixed fee plus outcome-based bonus 

15% Task-based billing 

IN THE PAST 

YEAR, DID RFPS 

ASK FOR 

GENDER/ 

MINORITY 

INFORMATION? 

81.5% Yes 

18.5% No 


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 HIGHLIGHTS 

More 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 benefits 

of firms conducting client satisfaction 

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 arrangements, 

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 

I BELIEVE 

FIRST- AND 

SECOND-YEAR 

ASSOCIATES 

ARE: 

4.2% Grossly overpaid 

58.3% Somewhat overpaid 

37.5% Fairly compensated 

23 percent said the same this year. 

“[Clients] often say they want to explore 

creative fee proposals, but more 

often [they] just want a discount,” one respondent 

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 respondents 

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. 

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 

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 salaries, 

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 lawyers 

are fairly compensated, and 4.2 percent 

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 respondents 

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 percent 

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 characterize 

themselves as full-service firms, 25 

percent have limited practices and about 

18 percent were from boutiques. 

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 


0% Underpaid 

While no firms had planned 

to change partner 

compensation models in 

2009, 16 percent said they 

were planning on it now.

100 Largest Law Firms in Pennsylvania 

Rank 

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

Other Offices 

1. Reed Smith 

Reed Smith Centre, 225 Fifth Ave. 


412-288-3131 / 412-288-3063 

reedsmith@reedsmith.com 

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 

2. Pepper Hamilton 

3000 Two Logan Square, 18th & Arch Sts. 


215-981-4000 / 215-981-4750 

phinfo@pepperlaw.com 

www.pepperlaw.com 

Berwyn, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

Wilmington, Del.; Princeton, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; 

New York; Boston; Detroit; Orange County, Calif. 

3. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 



215-963-5000 / 215-963-5001 

info@morganlewis.com 

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 

4. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney 

One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., 20th Floor 


412-562-8800 / 412-562-1041 

info@bipc.com 

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. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

323 $942 

302 $333 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 

PPP/RPL Firm Management 

$1,000,000 

$660,000 

$716,000 

$688,000 

299 $1,068 

$1,234,249 

$812,449 

272 $265 

$590,000 

$595,000 

Gregory B. Jordan, Global 

Managing Partner; Ajay 

Raju, Office Managing 

Partner, Philadelphia; 

George L. Stewart, 

Office Managing Partner, 

Pittsburgh 

Robert E. Heideck, 

Executive Partner; Nina M. 

Gussack, Chairwoman of 

the Executive Committee 

J. Gordon Cooney Jr., 

Philadelphia Office 

Managing Partner; 

Francis Milone, Chairman, 

Thomas J. Sharbaugh, 

Managing Partner for 

Operations 

John A. Barbour, CEO & 

Board Chairman 

First-Year 

Associate 

Salary Practice Areas Representative Clients 

$110,000, 

Pittsburgh 

$117,500, 

Philadelphia 

$105,000– 

$145,000 

Banking, Bankruptcy, 

Commercial Litigation, 

Corporate & Securities, 

Labor & Employment, 

Health Care, Insurance, 

Intellectual Property, 

Products Liability, 

Taxation 

Antitrust, Bankruptcy, 

Business & Finance, 





Litigation, Products 

Liability, Taxation 

WND Antitrust, Business 

& Finance, Employee 

Benefits, Energy, Health 

Care, Intellectual 

Property, Investment 

Management, Labor & 

Employment, Litigation, 

Real Estate 

WND Banking, Bankruptcy, 




Government Relations, 

Health Care, Intellectual 

Property, Real Estate, 

Taxation 

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) 

Tenet Healthcare 

Corp.; Wells Fargo; 

Merck & Co. Inc.; The 

Bank of New York 

Mellon Corp.; Highmark 

Inc.; Federated 

Investors Inc. 

Advent International 

Corporation; Eli 

Lilly and Company; 

Brandywine Realty 

Trust 

ARAMARK; Hewlitt- 

Packard Development 

Co.; JPMorgan Chase & 

Co; SEI Investments 

AmerisourceBergen 

Corp.; Arkema Inc.; 

Catholic Health East; 

Motorola Inc.; PNC 

Bank, N.A.; Reliant 

Energy 

Rank 

2009 

2. 

1. 

3. 

4. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

5. Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin 

1845 Walnut St. 


215-575-2600 / 215-575-0856 

marshalldennehey@mdwcg.com 

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. 

6. Cozen O’Connor 



215-665-2000 / 215-665-2013 

postmaster@cozen.com 

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 

7. 

(tie) 

7. 

(tie) 

Blank Rome 

One Logan Square, 130 N. 18th St. 


215-569-5500 / 215-569-5555 

webmaster@BlankRome.com 

www.BlankRome.com 

Princeton, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Washington, D.C.; 

New York; Cincinnati; Boca Raton, Fla.; Los 

Angeles; Hong Kong; Houston 

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott 

600 Grant St., 44th Floor 


412-566-6000 / 412-566-6099 

info@eckertseamans.com 

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. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


238 WND Thomas A. Brophy, 

President, CEO; Peter 

S. Miller, Chairman of 

the Board & COO; Philip 

B. Toran, Chairman of 

Executive Committee 

237 $290 

233 $322 

$651,044.34 

$575,622.58 

$665,000 

$655,000 

Thomas A. Decker, 

President and Chief 

Executive Officer 

Carl M. Buchholz, 

Managing Partner & 

CEO; Alan J. Hoffman 

and T. Michael Dyer, 

Co-Chairmen; Gary R. 

Goldenberg, Finance 

Partner 

233 WND Timothy P. Ryan, CEO; 

Stephen R. Delinsky, 

Chairman of the Board of 

Directors 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Insurance, Intellectual 

Property, Litigation, 

Medical Malpractice, 

Health Care, Corporate 

& Securities, Products 

Liability, Workers’ 

Compensation, Labor 

& Employment, 

Professional Liability 

$135,000 Commercial Litigation, 




Health Care, 


Taxation, Real Estate, 

Insurance, Trusts & 

Estates 

$130,000 Banking, Commercial 

Litigation, Bankruptcy, 



& Securities, Intellectual 




WND Bankruptcy, Business 

& Finance, Commercial 

Litigation, Real Estate, 


Environmental/Toxic 

Torts, Energy, Insurance, 


Products Liability 



American Honda; 

ACE; Liberty Mutual; 

CNA Financial; Chartis; 

Zurich 

Dow/Rohm and Haas; 

ARAMARK Corp.; 

ACE; Blue Cross 

of Northeastern 

Pennsylvania; Comcast 

Spectacor; Liberty 

Property Trust 

SunGard Data Systems 

Inc.; Lyondell; Synthes; 

Lincoln National Corp.; 

DRA Advisors 

Rank 

2009 

6. 

5. 

8. 

WND 10. 


Rank 


Other Offices 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

9. K&L Gates 

Henry W. Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield St. 

232 $1,034 


412-355-6500 / 412-355-6501 

$861,168 

surveys@klgates.com 

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 

$606,766 

10. Drinker Biddle & Reath 

One Logan Square, 18th & Cherry Sts. 


215-988-2700 / 215-988-2757 

info@dbr.com 

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 

11. 

(tie) 

11. 

(tie) 

Dechert 

Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St. 


215-994-4000 / 215-994-2222 

info@dechert.com 

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 

Fox Rothschild 

2000 Market St., 20th Floor 


215-299-2000 / 215-299-2150 

attorneys@foxrothschild.com 

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. 

221 $373 

208 $713 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


$605,000 

$600,000 

$1,960,000 

$910,000 

208 $216.95 

$548,065 

$512,896 

Peter J. Kalis, Chairman 

& Global Managing 

Partner; Michael G. Zanic, 

Administrative Partner, 

Pittsburgh 

Andrew C. Kassner, 

Executive Partner; Alfred 

W. Putnam Jr., Chairman 

Barton J. Winokur, 

Chairman & CEO 

Mark Silow, 

Administrative Partner; 

Abraham C. Reich, 

Co-Chairman; Phillip E. 

Griffin, Co-Chairman 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Financial Services, ADR, 




Torts, Government 

Relations, Insurance, 


Health Care, Real Estate 

$105,000 

(increases 

to $130,000 

after six 

months) 

Bankruptcy, Products 

Liability, Commercial 

Litigation, Corporate 

& Securities, Labor 

& Employment, 


Torts, Insurance, 


Health Care, Real Estate 

$145,000 Antitrust, Intellectual 

Property, Products 

Liability, Business and 

Finance, Commercial 


& Securities, Criminal 

Defense, Bankruptcy, 


Taxation 

$125,000 Family Law, Health Care, 

Bankruptcy, Intellectual 

Property, Commercial 

Litigation, Corporate & 

Securities, Real Estate, 

Taxation, Labor & 

Employment, Trusts & 

Estates 



Allegheny 

Technologies; E.I. Du 

Pont de Nemours & 

Co.; PPG Industries 

Inc.; Alcoa Inc.; Bank 

of America Corp.; 

Westinghouse Electric 

Co. 

Johnson & Johnson; 

AT&T Mobility; Urban 

Outfitters; Agilent 

Technologies; General 

Electric Co.; Comcast 

Corp. 

Merck & Co. Inc.; Crown 

Holdings Inc.; Endo 

Pharmaceuticals; 

Dean Foods Company; 

AstraZeneca; PIMCO 

Rank 

2009 

9. 

11. 

7. 

WND 13. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

13. Duane Morris 

30 S. 17th St. 


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 

14. Ballard Spahr 

1735 Market St., 51st Floor 


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 

15. White & Williams 

One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., Suite 1800 


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 

16. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young 

2005 Market St., Suite 2600 


215-564-8000 / 215-564-8120 

www.stradley.com 

Malvern and Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J.; 

Washington, D.C.; Wilmington, Del. 

17. Stevens & Lee 

111 N. Sixth St., P.O. Box 679 

Reading, PA 19603 19603 

610-478-2000 / 610-376-5610 

attys@stevenslee.com 

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. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

205 $387.5 

189 $271 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


$755,000 

$635,000 

$430,000 

$550,000 

First-Year 

Associate 


John Soroko, Chairman $145,000 Litigation, Intellectual 

Property, Bankruptcy, 

Business and Finance, 

E-Commerce & 

Technologies, Corporate 

& Securities, Health 

Care, Insurance, 


Real Estate 

Lynn Rzonca, Philadelphia 

Managing Partner; Arthur 

Makadon, Chairman 

159 WND Guy A. Cellucci, Chairman, 


152 WND William R. Sasso, 

Chairman; Jeffrey A. 

Lutsky, Managing Partner; 

Thomas J. Renehan Jr., 

Financial Partner 

148 $108.5 

$906,000 

$636,000 

Ernest Choquette, 

President; Joseph 

Harenza, Non-Executive 

Chairman; Joseph 

W. Marshall III, Vice 

Chairman 

WND Business & Finance, 


Litigation, White-Collar/ 

Corporate Governance, 

Public Finance, Real 

Estate, Environmental/ 

Toxic Torts, Intellectual 

Property, Health Care, 

Bankruptcy 

WND Corporate & Securities, 

Health Care, Bankruptcy, 



Insurance, Litigation, 


Real Estate 




Banking, Real Estate, 


Insurance, Intellectual 



WND Antitrust, Banking, 

Bankruptcy, 



& Securities, Business 

& Finance, Real Estate, 


Litigation 



General Electric 

Co.; Pfizer; Taiwan 

Semiconductor 

Manufacturing Co.; 

ExxonMobile; Wachovia 

Bank; Toll Brothers Inc. 

DuPont; University of 

Pennsylvania; Sunoco 

Corp.; GlaxoSmithKline; 

Comcast Corp.; Temple 

University 

ACE USA; Children’s 

Hospital of 

Pennsylvania; 

Monsanto; Bank of 

America; Citizen’s 

Bank; Geisinger 

Archdiocese of 

Philadelphia; Franklin 

Templeton Group of 

Funds; Delaware Group 

of Funds; Travelers 

Insurance 

PFM; EnerSys; 

Armstrong World 

Industries; Temple 

University/Temple 

University Health 

System; Wellspan 

Health; Pennsylvania 

Higher Education 

Assistance Agency 

Rank 

2009 

14. 

12. 

15. 

17. 

16. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

18. Post & Schell 

Four Penn Center 

1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd., 13th Floor 


215-587-1000 / 215-587-1444 

www.postschell.com 

Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Pittsburgh, 

Pa.; Princeton, N.J.; Washington, D.C. 

19. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 



215-751-2000 / 215-751-2205 

contactus@schnader.com 

www.schnader.com 

Pittsburgh; Cherry Hill, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; 

New York; San Francisco; Wilmington, Del. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


143 WND Brian M. Peters, President 

& CEO 

118 WND David Smith, Chairman; 

Nicholas J. LePore III, 

Managing Partner 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Antitrust, Bankruptcy, 


White-Collar/ 


E-Commerce/ 

Technology, Labor & 

Employment, Energy, 


Torts, Health Care, 

Insurance 




Torts, White-Collar/ 




Liability, Real Estate, 




Saint-Gobain Corp.; 

PPL Corp.; Thomas 

Jefferson University 

Hospitals; Duquesne 

Light; Turner 

Construction; DaVita 

UPS Inc.; Liberty 

Property Trust; QVC 

Inc.; Global Aerospace; 

Wells Fargo/Wachovia; 

CBS Corp. 

Rank 

2009 

18. 

20.


Rank 


Other Offices 

20. McNees Wallace & Nurick 

100 Pine St. 


717-232-8000 / 717-237-5300 

info@mwn.com 

www.mwn.com 

Hazleton, State College and Lancaster, Pa.; 

Columbus, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; 

21. Dickie McCamey & Chilcote 

Two PPG Place, Suite 400 


412-281-7272 / 412-392-5367 

info@dmclaw.com 

www.dmclaw.com 

Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pa.; Haddonfield, 

N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Steubenville, Ohio; 

Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Wheeling, W.Va. 

22. Saul Ewing 

Centre Square West, 1500 Market St., 38th Floor 


215-972-7777 / 215-972-7725 

lawyers@saul.com 

www.saul.com 

Chesterbrook and Harrisburg, Pa.; Princeton 

and Newark, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore; 

Washington, D.C.; New York 

23. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel 

One Penn Center 



215-665-3000 / 215-665-3165 

getresults@obermayer.com 

www.obermayer.com 

Altoona, Berwyn, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; Denver 

24. Cohen & Grigsby 

625 Liberty Ave. Fifth Floor 


412-297-4900 / 412-209-0672 

info@cohenlaw.com 

www.cohenlaw.com 

Bonita Springs, Fla. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


116 WND David M Kleppinger, 

Chairman; Brian F. 

Jackson, Member of 

Management Committee; 

Mark Van Blargan, 

Member of Management 

Committee 

115 WND Jeffrey T. Wiley, Managing 

Director & COO; James R. 

Miller, President, CEO & 

Chairman of the Board 

112 $115.19 

$435,000 

$505,000 

David S. Antzis, 


111 WND Robert I. Whitelaw, 


109 WND Jack W. Elliott, President; 

Charles C. Cohen, 

Chairman; Andrew M. 

Roman, Executive Vice 

President 

First-Year 

Associate 


$90,000 Intellectual Property, 

Litigation, 

Environmental, Business 

& Finance, Taxation, 


Real Estate, Trusts 

& Estates, Labor & 

Employment, Family Law 

WND Commercial Litigation, 







Workers’ Compensation, 

Medical Malpractice 

$110,000 Bankruptcy, Business 


Litigation, Labor 

& Employment, 



Insurance, Intellectual 




& Finance, Government 

Relations, Labor 

& Employment, 


Torts, Family Law, 

Health Care, Real Estate, 

Litigation, Trusts & 

Estates 

WND Intellectual 


Bankruptcy, Business 



& Securities, Real 

Estate, E-Commerce & 



Estates 



Rank 

2009 

WND 23. 

WND 19. 

Waste Management 

Inc.; Willis; Trustees 

of the University of 

Pennsylvania; Johnson 

Matthey Inc. 

21. 

WND 22. 

WND 24. 


Rank 


Other Offices 

25. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 



215-772-1500 / 215-772-7620 

info@mmwr.com 

www.mmwr.com 

Berwyn, Pa.; Linwood and Cherry Hill, N.J.; 

Wilmington, Del. 

26. Rawle & Henderson 

The Widener Building 

One South Penn Square, 16th Floor 


215-575-4200 / 215-563-2583 

info@rawle.com 

www.rawle.com 

Harrisburg, Media and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Marlton, 

N.J.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Wilmington, Del.; New York 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


97 WND Richard L. Scheff, 

Chairman; Stephen A. 

Madva, Managing Partner; 

Louis A. Petroni, Vice 

Chairman 

95 WND Thomas A. Kuzmick, 

Executive Committee; 

Timothy J. Abeel, 

Executive Committee; 

John H. McCarthy, 


First-Year 

Associate 


$100,000 Criminal Defense, 


Bankruptcy, Products 





Employment, Business & 

Finance 

WND Bankruptcy, Insurance, 

Litigation, Medical 

Malpractice, Commercial 


Liability, Criminal 

Defense, Workers’ 

Compensation, Labor 

& Employment, 


Torts 




Clear Channel 

Communications Inc.; 

Dun & Bradstreet; 

Microsoft Corp.; 

LaSalle University 

Honeywell; Erie 

Insurance; AIG 

Technical; Zurich; J.B. 

Hunt Transport Inc.; 

Apotex Corp. 

Rank 

2009 

25. 

27. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

27. Thorp Reed & Armstrong 

One Oxford Centre, 301 Grant St., 14th Floor 


412-394-7711 / 412-394-2555 

contact@thorpreed.com 

www.thorpreed.com 

Philadelphia; Princeton, N.J.; Wheeling, W.Va. 

28. Swartz Campbell 

Two Liberty Place, 50 S. 16th St. 


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 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


91 WND Jeffrey J. Conn, 


86 WND Jeffrey B. McCarron, 

Managing Partner; James 

Haggerty, Managing 

Partner; G. Daniel Bruch 

Jr., Managing Partner 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Bankruptcy, 


Torts, Commercial 


& Securities, Labor & 

Employment, Health 

Care, Litigation, Real 

Estate, Trusts & Estates, 

Insurance 

WND Bankruptcy, Commercial 

Litigation,Labor 

& Employment, 


Torts 



Rank 

2009 

WND 26. 

Nationwide Insurance 

Co.; CAN; Honeywell 

Inc.; Westport; Erie 

Insurance; Argonaut 

Insurance 

29. 


Rank 

29. 

(tie) 

29. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Margolis Edelstein 

The Curtis Center, 601 Walnut St., Fourth Floor 


215-922 1100 / 215-922 1772 

mmckenna@margolisedelstein.com 

www.margolisedelstein.com 

Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Beaver, Scranton and 

Hollidaysburg, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Mount Laurel 

and Berkley Heights, N.J. 

Burns White 

Four Northshore Center, 106 Isabella St. 


412-995-3000 / 412-995-3300 

info@bwhllc.com 

www.bwhllc.com 

West Consohocken, Pa.; Wheeling, W.Va.; 

Cherry Hill, N.J. 

31. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 



215-568-6060 / 215-568-6603 

www.klehr.com 

Cherry Hill, N.J.; Wilmington, Del. 

32. Dilworth Paxson 

3200 Mellon Bank Center, 1735 Market St. 


215-575-7000 / 215-575-7200 

spacitto@dilworthlaw.com 

www.dilworthlaw.com 

Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill and Neptune, N.J.; 

Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C. 

33. Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check 

280 King of Prussia Road 


610-667-7706 / 610-667-7056 

info@btkmc.com 

www.btkmc.com 

San Francisco 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


84 WND Michael P. McKenna, 


84 WND David B. White, 

Founding Member 

83 WND William A. Harvey, 


80 WND Stephen J. Harmelin, 


Joseph H. Jacovini, 

Chairman 

78 WND Joseph H. Meltzer, 

Member, Management 

Committee 

First-Year 

Associate 





& Employment, 





Workers’ Compensation 

WND Health Care, Banking, 

Insurance, Business & 


Litigation, Litigation, 





Torts 

WND Real Estate, Corporate 

& Securities, 



Litigation, Intellectual 

Property, Taxation, 



Torts 

$110,000 Litigation, Corporate 

& Securities, Banking, 

Bankruptcy, Labor 

& Employment, 


Real Estate, Taxation, 

Trusts & Estates, 

Business & Finance 


Litigation, Antitrust, 




Erie Insurance Group; 

Sentry Insurance; 

Liberty Mutual 

Insurance Co.; Chartis 

Insurance Group; 

Pennsylvania National 

Insurance; Fireman’s 

Fund Insurance Co. 

Northfolk Southern 

Corp.; CSX 

Transportation Inc.; 

St. Paul Travelers Cos.; 

Health South; DPIC/XL 

Design Professionals; 

Citizens Bank 

PREIT-Rubin; Sun 

Capital Partners; 

Thomas Jefferson 

University; Lubert- 

Adler Real Estate 

Opportunity Fund; The 

Goldenberg Group; BPG 

Properties Ltd. 

SEPTA; Holt Logistcs; 

National Constitution 

Center; Aqua America; 

Crown Holdings 

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) 

Rank 

2009 

28. 

32. 

31. 

30. 

35. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

34. Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti 

One Oxford Centre, 38th Floor 


412-263-2000 / 412-261-5295 

info@pietragallo.com 

www.pietragallo.com 

Philadelphia, West Chester and Sharon, Pa.; 

Weirton, W.Va.; Steubenville, Ohio 

35. Babst Calland Clements & Zomnir 

Two Gateway Center 


412-394-5400 / 412-394-6576 

bccz@bccz.com 

www.bccz.com 

State College, Pa.; Sewell, N.J. 

36. 

(tie) 

36. 

(tie) 

Tucker Arensberg 

1500 One PPG Place 


412-566-1212 / 412-594-5619 

tapc@tuckerlaw.com 

www.tuckerlaw.com 

Harrisburg, Pa. 

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby 



215-972-7900 / 215-564-7699 

www.wglaw.com 

Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa.; Newark 

and Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York; London 

38. Thomas Thomas & Hafer 

305 N. Front St. 


717-237-7100 / 717-237-7105 

firm@tthlaw.com 

www.tthlaw.com 

Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Baltimore 

39. Barley Snyder 

126 E. King St. 


717-299-5201 / 717-291-4660 

mdixon@barley.com 

www.barley.com 

York, Reading, Berwyn and Hanover, Pa. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


74 WND William Pietragallo II, 


72 WND Chester R. Babst III, 


70 WND Thomas P. Peterson, 

Managing Shareholder 

70 WND Warren L. Simpson Jr., 


69 WND James K. Thomas, 


Edward H. Jordan Jr., 


Peter J. Speaker, 


65 WND Timothy G. Dietrich, 


First-Year 

Associate 


WND Intellectual Property, 

Litigation, Workers’ 

Compensation, Business 


Litigation, Health Care, 

Criminal Defense, 



Insurance 

$100,000 Litigation, Real Estate, 


Intellecutal Property, 




Relations 

WND Bankruptcy, 

Banking, Corporate, 


Environmental, Health 

Care, Trusts & Estates, 


Real Estate 

WND Insurance, Litigation, 







Torts 

WND Medical Malpractice, 

Insurance, Real Estate, 


Health Care, Products 



Labor & Employment 

WND Health Care, Banking, 






& Estates, Labor & 

Employment, Workers’ 

Compensation 



Rank 

2009 

WND 33. 

Beazer East Inc.; Gen 

Tek Inc.; Crown Castle 

International Corp.; 

NOVA Chemical Inc.; PQ 

Corp.; Thermo Fisher 

Scientific Inc. 

36. 

WND 37. 

WND 33. 

WND 41. 

WND 40. 


Rank 


Other Offices 

40. Berger & Montague 

1622 Locust St. 


800-424-6690 / 215-875-4604 

info@bm.net 

www.bergermontague.com 

41. Woodcock Washburn 

Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St., 12th Floor 


215-568-3100 / 215-568-3439 

www.woodcock.com 

Atlanta; Seattle 

42. Cipriani & Werner 

650 Washington Road, Suite 700 


412-563-2500 / 412-563-2080 

phaeck@c-wlaw.com 

www.c-wlaw.com 

Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Scranton, Pa.; 

Marlton, N.J. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


64 WND Daniel Berger, Managing 

Shareholder; H. Laddie 

Montague Jr., President 

59 WND Joseph Lucci, Policy 

Committee Member; 

Steven B. Samuels, Policy 


Steven J. Rocci, Policy 

Committee Member 

57 WND Gerald J. Cipriani, 

President 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Litigation, Antitrust, 





Torts, Insurance, 

Products Liability 

Rank 

2009 

WND 39. 

$130,000 Intellectual Property Microsoft Corp.; 


Crown Cork; 

duPont; Cephalon 

Inc.; University of 

Pennsylvania 

WND Litigation, Workers’ 

Compensation, Products 


Litigation, Labor & 

Employment, Insurance 



37. 

WND 43. 



Rank 


Other Offices 

43. Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski 

925 Harvest Drive 


215-977-1000 / 215-977-1099 

hfs@elliottgreenleaf.com 

www.elliottgreenleaf.com 

Harrisburg, Scranton, Philadelphia and 

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Wilmington, Del. 

44. Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman 

United Plaza, 30 S. 17th St., 19th Floor 


215-564-1700 / 215-564-3066 

NA / www.cohenseglias.com 

Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Wilmington, Del. 

45. 

(tie) 

45. 

(tie) 

47. 

(tie) 

47. 

(tie) 

Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg 



215-561-4300 / 215-561-6661 

webmaster@bbs-law.com 

www.bbs-law.com 

Blue Bell and Lancaster, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Jones Day 



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 

Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio 

190 Independence Mall West 

Sixth & Race Sts., Suite 500 


215-627-0303 / 215-627-2551 

info@lavin-law.com 

www.lavin-law.com 

Mt. Laurel, N.J.; New York 

Meyer Unkovic & Scott 

1300 Oliver Building, 535 Smithfield St. 


412-456-2800 / 412-456-2864 

postmaster@muslaw.com 

www.muslaw.com 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


53 WND John M. Elliott, Chairman; 

Henry F. Siedzikowski, 

President & Managing 

Partner; Bruce W. 

Kauffman, Co-CEO 

52 WND Roy S. Cohen, President; 

Edward Seglias, 

Vice President; 

John Greenhall, 


50 WND Louis E. Bricklin, 


50 $1,520 

$765,000 

$615,000 

Laura E. Ellsworth, 

Partner in Charge, 

Pittsburgh 

49 WND Basil A. DiSipio, 

Chief Operating Officer 

49 WND Kevin F. McKeegan, 


First-Year 

Associate 


$92,000 Bankruptcy, Commercial 

Litigation, Labor & 

Employment, Business 

& Finance, Health 

Care, Insurance, 


Torts, Real Estate, Trusts 

& Estates, Family Law 

$100,000 Real Estate, Trusts & 

Estates, Bankruptcy, 




Litigation, Health Care 

WND Insurance, Litigation, 





WND Antitrust, Business & 

Finance, Litigation, 


Health Care, Intellectual 



Taxation 

WND Litigation, Commercial 

Litigation, 


Torts 



Liability, Business & 






Estates 



Aetna Inc.; 

CBS; Pegasus 

Communications; 

3M; Jefferson Health 

System; Philadelphia 

Media Holdings 

Rank 

2009 

47. 

WND 44. 

WND 51. 

WND 42. 

General Motors Corp.; 

Toyota Motor Sales, 

USA Inc.; Nissan 

North America Inc.; 

GlaxoSmithKline; 

3M Company; Quest 

Diagnostics 

44. 

WND 46. 


Rank 

47. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

The Chartwell Law Offices 

970 Rittenhouse Road, Suite 300 

Eagleville, PA 19403 

610-666-7700 / 610-666-7704 

info@chartwelllaw.com 

www.chartwelllaw.com 

Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Scranton and 

Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; New York 

50. Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin 

One Logan Square, 27th Floor 


215-568-6200 / 215-568-0300 

www.hangley.com 

Harrisburg and Norristown, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


First-Year 

Associate 


49 WND Cliff Goldstein, CEO WND Banking, Bankruptcy, 



Litigation, Medical 

Malpractice, Workers’ 

Compensation, 

Insurance Coverage/ 

Property, Premises 

Liability, Subrogation 

47 WND David Pudlin, President; 

William T. Hangley, 

Chairman 

$125,000 Antitrust, Real Estate, 



Litigation, Trusts & 

Estates, Environmental, 

Litigation, Family Law, 

Government Relations 



Rank 

2009 

WND 49. 

WND 47. 



Rank 

51. 

(tie) 

51. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Rhoads & Sinon 

One S. Market Square, M&T Building 


717-233-5731 / 717-232-1459 

www.rhoads-sinon.com 

Spector Gadon & Rosen 

1635 Market St., Seventh Floor 


215-241-8888 / 215-241-8844 

sg+r@lawsgr.com 

www.lawsgr.com 

Moorestown, N.J.; St. Petersburg, Fla. 

53. MacDonald Illig Jones & Britton 

100 State St., Suite 700 


814-870-7600 / 814-454-4647 

info@macdonaldillig.com 

www.macdonaldillig.com 

54. Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy 



215-569-2800 / 215-569-1606 

zarwin@zarwin.com 

www.zarwin.com 

Conshohocken and Bethlehem, Pa.; Marlton and 

Jersey City, N.J. 

55. 

(tie) 

55. 

(tie) 

Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst 

518 Township Line Rd., Suite 300 


610-862-6500 / 610-862-6501 

rhorst@nldhlaw.com 

www.nldhlaw.com 

Newark and Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York; Columbus, 

Ohio; London; Denver 

Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett 

120 W. 10th St. 


814-459-2800 / 814-453-4530 

knox@kmgslaw.com 

www.kmgslaw.com 

North East and Cranesville, Pa.; Jamestown, N.Y. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


45 WND Charles J. Ferry, 

Chairman, Executive 

Committee; Thomas J. 

Nehilla, Todd J. Shill, 

Dean H. Dusinberre, 

Robert J. Tribeck, 

Members, Executive 

Committee 

45 WND Paul R. Rosen, President 

& Chairman; Steven 

F. Gadon, Secretary & 

Treasurer 

43 WND Russell S. Warner, 


42 WND Mitchell Kaplan, 

President; Theodore M. 

Schaer, Vice President 

41 WND Michael R. Nelson, 

Chairman 

41 WND Thomas A. Tupitza, 

President 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Finance, Banking, Real 

Estate, Business & 



& Securities, Taxation, 



Environmental 

WND Family Law, Banking, 




& Securities, Trusts & 

Estates, Intellectual 

Property, Labor 

& Employment, 

Environmental/Toxic Torts 

WND Insurance, Intellectual 

Property, Bankruptcy, 



Real Estate, Trusts & 

Estates, Workers’ 

Compensation, Labor & 

Employment, Environ- 

mental/Toxic Torts 



Banking, Labor 

& Employment, 

Environmental, Insurance, 

Medical Malpractice, Real 



Amereda Hess 

Corp.; AT&T; Stabler 

Cos. Inc.; H.J. Heinz 

Co.; Associated 

Wholesalers Inc.; 

Farmers & Merchants 

Trust Company 

Rank 

2009 

49. 

WND 52. 

Erie Insurance Group; 

First National Bank 

of PA; State Farm 

Insurance; General 

Electric Co.; Plastek 

Industries Inc.; Erie 

Management Group 

Korman Residential 

Properties; 

Pennsylvania Real 

Estate Investment Trust; 

Comcast Spectacor Inc.; 

Conestoga Bank; The 

Bancorp Bank; Tornetta 

Properties 

WND Insurance, Litigation Nationwide Insurance 

Cos.; Lloyds of London; 

Liberty Mutual 

Insurance; State Farm 

Fire and Casualty; Erie 

Insurance; Harleysville 

Insurance 

WND Bankruptcy, Business & 

Finance, Labor & 

Employment, Family Law, 

Litigation, Intellectual 

Property, Trusts & Estates, 


Real Estate, Government 

Relations 



54. 

54. 

61. 

WND 56. 


Rank 

57. 

(tie) 

57. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

DLA Piper 

One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., Suite 4900 


215-656-3300 / 215-656-3301 

info@dlapiper.com / 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 

Gibbons 

1700 Two Logan Square 

18th and Arch Sts., Suite 1700 


215-665-0400 / 215-636-0366 

pdunican@gibbonslaw.com 

www.gibbonslaw.com 

Newark and Trenton, N.J.; New York; 

Wilmington, Del. 

59. Marks O’Neill O’Brien & Courtney 

1880 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1200 


215-564-6688 / 215-564-2526 

info@mooclaw.com / www.mooclaw.com 

Pittsburgh; Pennsauken, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.; 

Baltimore; Elmsford, N.Y. 

60. 

(tie) 

60. 

(tie) 

Volpe & Koenig 

United Plaza, 30 S. 17th Street 


215-568-6400 

info@volpe-koenig.com / www.volpe-koenig.com 

Princeton, N.J. 

Littler Mendelson 

1601 Cherry St., Suite 1400 


267-402-3000 

info@littler.com / 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. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

40 $1,014* 

40 $111 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


James M. Brogan, 

Philadelphia Managing 

$1,230,000* Partner; Francis B. Burch 

Jr., Firm Joint CEO; 

$810,000* Lee I. Miller, Firm Joint 

CEO 

$720,641.03 

$550,868.49 

Patrick C. Dunican Jr., 

Chairman and Managing 

Director; Stephen 

Imbriglia, Administrative 

Director of Philadelphia 

Office 

39 WND Kevin J. O’Brien, 

Managing Director 

First-Year 

Associate 


$130,000 Litigation, Intellectual 

Property, Corporate & 


Government Relations 

$135,000 Bankruptcy, Commercial 


& Securities, Criminal 

Defense, Labor 

& Employment, 



Relations, Intellectual 


Liability, Real Estate 

WND Bankruptcy, Commercial 


Insurance, Products 

Liabilty, Litigation, 



Environmental/Toxic Torts 

UPS Inc.; Goodyear 

Tire & Rubber 

Company; Chubb 

Insurance; Harley- 

Davidson; Pfizer 

Rank 

2009 

56. 

WND 53. 

WND 66. 

37 WND Jay Halt, President $130,000 Intellectual Property WND 59. 

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 

* U.S. operations only 



WND Labor & Employment WND 61. 



Rank 

62. 

(tie) 

62. 

(tie) 

62. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Conrad O’Brien 



215-864-9600 / 215-864-9620 

lawyers@cogr.com 

www.conradobrien.com 

West Chester, Harrisburg and West Conshohocken, 

Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Christie Pabarue Mortensen & Young 



215-587-1600 / 215-587-1699 

cpmy@cpmy.com 

www.cpmy.com 

Wilmington, Del.; Westmont, N.J.; New York; Boston 

Rubin Fortunato & Harbison 

MCS Building, 10 S. Leopard Road 

Paoli, PA 19301 

610-408-2000 / 610-408-9000 

rf@rubinfortunato.com 

www.rubinfortunato.com 

65. Sherrard German & Kelly 

Two PNC Plaza, 28th Floor 


412-355-0200 / 412-261-6221 

www.sgkpc.com 

66. 

(tie) 

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 

mreiter@kaplaw.com 

www.kaplaw.com 

Philadelphia; Cherry Hill, N.J. 

McQuaide Blasko 

811 University Drive 

State College, PA 16801 

814-238-4926 / 814-234-5620 

contact@mqblaw.com 

www.mcquaideblasko.com 

Hershey and Hollidaysburg, Pa. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


36 WND Nicholas Centrella, 


James J. Rohn, Chairman 

36 WND Ralph J. Luongo, 


36 WND Gregory S. Rubin, 

Chairman 

35 WND Robert D. German, 


Walter R. Bashaw II, 


34 WND Maury B. Reiter, 

Managing Principal 

34 WND James M. Horne, 


First-Year 

Associate 



White-Collar/ 




Environmental/ 

Toxic Torts, Antitrust, 


Bankruptcy, Business & 

Finance 

WND Litigation, Insurance, 





Torts 

The Dow Chemical 

Company; The 

Vanguard Group; 

Exxon Mobile Corp.; 

Cephalon Inc.; The 

Children’s Hospital of 

Philadelphia; Teledyne 

Continental Motors 

Rank 

2009 

61. 

WND 69. 

WND Labor & Employment WND 56. 

WND Insurance, Trusts 

& Estates, Banking, 





Family Law, Real Estate, 

Taxation 






Care, Real Estate, 

Taxation, Trusts & 

Estates, Litigation 

WND Litigation, Family Law, 

Health Care, Business 

& Finance, Intellectual 

Property, Corporate & 







WND 61. 

Toll Brothers; Stoltz 

Management; Pitcairn 

Properties Inc.; Chick- 

Fil-A; Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corp. 

68. 

WND 66. 


Rank 

68. 

(tie) 

68. 

(tie) 

68. 

(tie) 

68. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Willig Williams & Davidson 

1845 Walnut St., 24th Floor 


215-656-3600 / 215-561-5135 

manager@wwdlaw.com 

www.wwdlaw.com 

Harrisburg, Jenkintown and Media, Pa.; 

Haddonfield, N.J. 

Archer & Greiner 

One Liberty Place, 1650 Market St., 32nd Floor 


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. 

Greenberg Traurig 

Two Commerce Square 



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 

Houston Harbaugh 

Three Gateway Center 

401 Liberty Ave., 22nd Floor 


412-281-5060 / 412-281-4499 

cameron@hh-law.com 

www.hh-law.com 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


33 WND Deborah R. Willig, 


33 $65.305 

$399,800 

$435,400 

33 $1.173 

$1,311,000 

$687,000 

James H. Carll, Chairman 

of the Board; Gary J. 

Lesneski, President 

Michael L. Lehr, Managing 

Partner; Robert M. 

Goldich, Philadelphia 

Operating Shareholder 

33 WND Bradley J. Franc, 


Member; Michael J. 

Dempster, Executive 


Mary-Jo Rebelo, Executive 

Committee Member 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Family Law, Litigation, 

Bankruptcy, Real Estate, 



Criminal Defense, Trusts 

& Estates 

$110,000 Bankruptcy, Business 



& Securities, Labor 

& Employment, 




Taxation, Trusts & Estates 

WND Antitrust, Bankruptcy, 



E-Commerce & 

Technology, Labor 

& Employment, 



Relations, Health Care, 






E-Commerce & 



Care, Real Estate, Trusts 

& Estates 



AFSCME; Philadelphia 

Federation of Teachers; 

Teamsters; United Food 

& Commercial Workers 

Union; International 

Association of 

Firefighters; Unite Here 

Exxon Mobil Corp.; 

Keystone Foods; Pulte 

Home Corporation; 

Cybex International; 

City of Philadelphia; 

Delaware River Port 

Authority 

Greystone & Co.; 

Penrose Properties; 

Shaw Environmental; 

Centerline Capital; 

Wilmington Trust 

Company; Goldman 

Sachs 

Rank 

2009 

69. 

72. 

79. 

WND 79. 



Rank 

72. 

(tie) 

72. 

(tie) 

72. 

(tie) 

75. 

(tie) 

75. 

(tie) 

75. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald 

15 S. Franklin St. 

Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 

570-826-5600 / 570-826-5640 

info@rjglaw.com / www.rjglaw.com 

Hazleton and Scranton, Pa. 

Tallman Hudders & Sorrentino 

Paragon Centre, 1611 Pond Road, Suite 300 


610-391-1800 / 610-391-1805 

info@thslaw.com 

www.thslaw.com 

New York; Bridgewater, N.J. 

The Webb Law Firm 

700 Koppers Building 

436 Seventh Ave. 


412-471-8815 / 412-471-4094 

webblaw@webblaw.com 

www.webblaw.com 

McGuire Woods 

EQT Plaza, 625 Liberty Ave., 23rd Floor 


412-667-6000 / 412-667-6050 

jbeck@mcguirewoods.com 

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 

Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo 

475 Allendale Road, Suite 200 


610-354-9700 / 610-354-9760 

info@powelltrachtman.com 

www.powelltrachtman.com 

Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pa.; Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Zimmer Kunz 

3300 U.S. Steel Tower 

Pittsburgh, PA 15219 15219-2702 

412-281-8000 / 412-281-1765 

info@zklaw.com / www.zklaw.com 

Greensburg, Pa.; Morgantown, W.Va. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


32 WND Joseph L. Persico, 


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 

32 WND Kent E. Baldauf, Chairman 

of the Management 

Committee; John W. 

McIlvaine, Management 

Committee; Kirk M. Miles, 

Management Committee 

31 $509 

$800,000 

$595,000 

Richard Cullen, Chairman; 

Thomas E. Cabaniss, 

Managing Partner; Nancy 

R. Little and Terrence M. 

Begley, Dep. Managing 

Partners 

31 WND Michael G. Trachtman, 

President; Gunther 

O. Carrle, Secretary- 

Treasurer; Paul A. Logan, 

Vice President 

31 WND Jeffrey A. Ramaley, 

President & Managing 

Partner; Daniel E. Krauth, 

Treasurer; Christopher T. 

Yoskosky, Secretary 

First-Year 

Associate 


WND Banking, Business & 



& Employment, 


Bankruptcy, Litigation, 


& Estates, Workers’ 

Compensation 


Banking, Health Care, 






Corporate & Securities 

Guard Insurance 

Group; Wilkes 

University; Sordoni 

Construction Services 

Inc.; Diversified 

Information 

Technologies Inc.; 

Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania; 

Mohegan Tribal 

Gaming Authority 

Lehigh Valley Hospital 

& Health Network; 

PNC Bank; Yuengling 

Brewery; Brown Daub 

Dealership; Lucent 

Technologies; City of 

Easton 

Rank 

2009 

WND Intellectual Property WND 73. 


White-Collar, 


Torts, Business & 




Real Estate, Labor & 

Employment, Taxation 




Products Liability, Real 

Estate, Taxation, Trusts 

& Estates 

WND Litigation, Products 


Compensation, 




Torts 



73. 

60. 

WND 69. 

WND 73. 

WND 94. 


Rank 

78. 

(tie) 

78. 

(tie) 

80. 

(tie) 

80. 

(tie) 

82. 

(tie) 

82. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky 

Four Gateway Center 

444 Liberty Ave., Suite 2200 


vohare@smgglaw.com / www.smgglaw.com 

Greensburg and New Brighton, Pa. 

Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe 

11 Stanwix St., 18th Floor 


412-918-1100 / 412-918-1199 

jlewis@metzlewis.com 

www.metzlewis.com 

CGA Law Firm 

135 N. George St. 

York, PA 17401 

717-848-4900 / 215-246-2144 

info@cgalaw.com 

www.cgalaw.com 

East Berlin, Pa. 

MacElree Harvey 

17 W. Miner St. 

West Chester, PA 19382 

610-436-0100 / 610-429-4486 

info@macelree.com 

www.macelree.com 

Kennett Square, Pa.; Centreville, Del. 

Curtin & Heefner 

250 N. Pennsylvania Ave. 

Morrisville, PA 19067 

215-736-2521 / 215-736-3647 

FSG@curtinheefner.com 

www.curtinheefner.com 

Doylestown, Pa.; Lawrenceville, N.J. 

Meyer Darragh Buckler Bebenek & Eck 

U.S. Steel Tower, 600 Grant St., Suite 4850 


412-261-6600 / 412-471-2754 

info@mdbbe.com 

www.mdbbe.com 

Greensburg, Pa. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


30 WND Reid B. Roberts, 

Co-Managing Partner; 

Harry F. Kunselman, 

Co-Managing Partner 

30 WND LeRoy L. Metz II, 

President 

29 WND Sharon E. Myers, 


29 WND Lance J. Nelson, 


28 WND Frank S. Guarrieri, 


28 WND Constantine J. Passodelis, 

Chairman, Executive 

Committee 

First-Year 

Associate 





Criminal Defense, Family 

Law, Litigation, Medical 

Malpractice, Trusts & 

Estates, Real Estate, 



Banking, Bankruptcy, 




Real Estate, Labor & 


Estates 

WND Bankruptcy, Business, 



Family Law, Intellectual 





Bankruptcy, Litigation, 

Real Estate, Corporate 

& Securities, Taxation, 

Trusts & Estates, Labor 

& Employment, Business 

& Finance 

WND Insurance, Banking, 




Real Estate, Litigation, 


Bankruptcy 

WND Products Liability, 

Health Care, Insurance, 



Trusts & Estates, Criminal 

Defense, Real Estate, 





Rank 

2009 

WND 73. 

WND 73. 

WND 83. 

WND 79. 

Allstate Insurance 

Co.; State Farm Fire & 

Casualty Ins. Co.; New 

Jersey Manufacturer’s 

Ins. Co.; Sovereign 

Bank; Lower Makefield 

Township; Wachovia 

Bank 

83. 

Cendant Mobility 83. 

Services Corp.; County 

Commissioners Association 

of Pennsylvania; 

Donegal Mutual Insurance; 

Laidlaw Transit; 

Quest Diagnostics; 

Transportation Claims 

Inc. 



Rank 

82. 

(tie) 

82. 

(tie) 

82. 

(tie) 

87. 

(tie) 

87. 

(tie) 

87. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Gross McGinley 

33 S. Seventh St. 


610-820-5450 

dfaulkinberry@grossmcginley.com 

www.grossmcginley.com 

Easton, Pa. 

Reger Rizzo & Darnall 

Cira Centre, 2929 Arch St., 13th Floor 


215-495-6500 / 215-495-6600 

info@regerlaw.com 

www.regerlaw.com 

West Chester, Pa.; Mount Laurel, N.J.; White Plains, 

N.Y.; Baltimore; Wilmington, Del. 

Kline & Specter 

1525 Locust St., 19th Floor 


215-772-1000 / 215-772-1359 

www.klinespecter.com 

Cherry Hill, N.J.; New York 

Eastburn & Gray 

60 E. Court St. 

Doylestown, PA 18901 

215-345-7000 / 215-345-9142 

info@eastburngray.com 

www.eastburngray.com 

Blue Bell, Pa. 

Goehring Rutter & Boehm 

Frick Building, 437 Grant St., 14th Floor 


412-281-0587 

www.grblaw.com 

Sewickley, Pa. 

Grogan Graffam 

Four Gateway Center, 12th Floor 


412-553-6300 / 412-642-2601 

www.grogangraffam.com 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


28 WND Malcolm J. Gross, 

Founding Partner; 

Paul McGinley, 

Founding Partner 

28 WND Louis J. Rizzo Jr., 


Richard M. Darnall, 

Partner 

28 WND Thomas R. Kline, 


Shanin Specter, 


27 WND D. Rodman Eastburn, 

President 

27 WND Daniel F. Gramc, President 

& Managing Director; 

Michael K. Parrish, Vice 

President, Robert J. 

Winters, Treasurer 

27 WND Dennis A. Watson, 

President 

First-Year 

Associate 






E-Commerce & 

Technology, Intellectual 



Taxation 

WND Trusts & Estates, 





Family Law, Real Estate, 



WND Litigation, Medical 

Malpractice, Products 

Liability 

WND Banking, Litigation, 


Real Estate, Family 

Law, Criminal Defense, 

Trusts & Estates, Labor 

& Employment 

WND Litigation, Real Estate, 


Bankruptcy, Business & 



& Securities, 


Torts, Labor & 

Employment, Family Law 

WND Litigation, Commercial 

Litigation, Insurance, 



Torts, Products Liability, 

Business & Finance, Real 





Rodale; PPL Corp.; 

KidsPeace; Lehigh 

Valley Hospital; 

Viamedia; City of 

Allentown 

Rank 

2009 

88. 

WND 61. 

WND 83. 

WND 88. 

WND 88. 

WND 91. 


Rank 

87. 

(tie) 

87. 

(tie) 

87. 

(tie) 

93. 

(tie) 

93. 

(tie) 

93. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin 

375 Morris Road, P.O. Box 1479 

Lansdale, PA 19446-0773 

215-661-0400 / 215-661-0315 

lawyers@hrmml.com 

www.hrmml.com 

Limerick, Allentown, Perkasie and Harrisburg, Pa. 

Naulty Scaricamazza & McDevitt 

1617 John F. Kennedy Blvd. 


215-568-5116 / 215-568-2077 

www.naulty.com 

Media, Pa.; Marlton, N.J. 

Edgar Snyder & Associates 

600 Grant St., US Steel Tower, 10th Floor 


412-394-1000 

www.edgarsnyder.com 

Altoona, Ebensburg, Erie and Johnstown, Pa. 

Wisler Pearlstine 

Office Court at Walton Point 

484 Norristown Road, Suite 100 


610-825-8400 / 610-828-4887 

www.wislerpearlstine.com 

Ratner Prestia 

1235 Westlakes Drive, Suite 301 

Berwyn, PA 19312 

610-407-0700 / 610-407-0701 

www.ratnerprestia.com 

Allentown, Pa.; Wilmington, Del. 

Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers 

Centre Square 

1500 Market St., Suite 4100 


215-735-7200 / 215-735-1714 

jem@defensecounsel.com 

www.defensecounsel.com 

Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Cherry Hill, N.J.; 

Hicksville and New York, N.Y.; Tampa and Coral 

Gables, Fla. 

Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


27 WND Steven Lupin, 


27 WND William Cilingin, 


27 WND Edgar Snyder, 


26 WND Kenneth A. Roos, 

Administrative Partner 

26 WND Paul F. Prestia, Chief 

Executive Officer 

26 WND Jay E. Mintzer, 




First-Year 

Associate 






Torts, Family Law, 



Taxation, Trust & Estates 



Envrionmental/Toxic 






WND Personal Injury, 


WND Banking, Commercial 



Employment, Family 

Law, Real Estate, 

Taxation, Trusts & 

Estates, Government 

Relations, ADR 


Litigation 

WND Insurance, Medical 

Malpractice, Products 


Compensation, 


Litigation, E-Commerce 

& Technology, Labor 

& Employment, 


Torts 

Rank 

2009 

WND 79. 

WND 94. 

WND NR 

Carr & Duff Inc.; 

Cheltenham Township; 

Continental Bank; The 

DePaul Group; Lower 

Gwynedd Township; 

Abington School 

District 

Panasonic; University 

of Delaware; ITT 

Industries; B. Braun 

Medical Inc.; Micron; 

Johnson & Johnson 

Western World 

Insurance Co.; 

J.C. Penney Co. 

Inc.; Harrah’s 

Entertainment Inc.; 

National Indemnity Co.; 

Navigators Insurance 

Co.; Academy Bus 

94. 

91. 

94. 



Rank 

93. 

(tie) 

93. 

(tie) 

98. 

(tie) 

98. 

(tie) 

100. 

(tie) 

100. 

(tie) 


Other Offices 

Hartman Underhill & Brubaker 

221 E. Chestnut St. 


717-299-7254 / 717-299-3160 

attys@hublaw.com 

www.hublaw.com 

Rothman Gordon 

310 Grant St., Third Floor 


412-338-1100 / 412-281-7304 

rgpc@rothmangordon.com 

www.rothmangordon.com 

Forry Ullman Ullman & Forry 

540 Court St. 


610-777-5700 / 610-777-2499 

inquiries@forryullman.com 

www.forryullman.com 

King of Prussia, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, 

Philadelphia and Scranton, Pa. 

German Gallagher & Murtagh 

200 S. Broad St., Suite 500 


215-545-7700 / 215-732-4182 

ggm@ggmfirm.com 

www.ggmfirm.com 

Moorestown, N.J. 

Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & Pokotilow 



215-567-2010 / 215-751-1142 

gatekeeper@crbcp.com 

www.crbcp.com 

Goldberg Persky & White 

1030 Fifth Ave. 


412-471-3980 / 412-471-8308 

info@gpwlaw.com 

www.gpwlaw.com 

Greensburg and Johnstown, Pa.; Weirton, W. Va.; 

Saginaw and Allen Park, Mich. 


Total 

Full-Time 

Attorneys 

in PA 

2009 Gross 

Revenue 

(millions)/ 


26 WND Mark Stanley, 


26 WND William E. Lestitian, 


25 WND Lee E. Ullman, Chairman 

of Management 

Committee 

25 WND Dean F. Murtagh, 


24 WND Manny D. Pokotilow, 


24 WND Theodore Goldberg, 

President; Joel Persky, 

Vice President 

First-Year 

Associate 










WND Real Estate, Workers’ 

Compensation, Trusts 

& Estates, Business & 


Litigation, Taxation, 


Mediation 

WND Insurance, Commercial 



Family Law 







Insurance, Medical 

Malpractice 

Rank 

2009 

WND 100. 

WND 83. 

WND 73. 

WND 94. 

WND Intellectual Property Wawa; QVC; Roper 

Industries; Air 

Products; Apotex; 

Checkpoint 

WND Asbestos, Personal 

Injury, Elder Law, 

Insurance Litigation, 




91. 

WND 100. 

100 Largest Law Firms Alphabetically 

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 

Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only 

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 


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Rank Firm 

Total 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 

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time and Part-Time Attorneys 

Rank Firm 


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 


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Law Firm Growth 

Fastest-Growing Firms 

(Ranked by Increase in Number of Pa. Attorneys) 

No. of No. of 

Attorneys Attorneys Change 

Rank Firm 

2010 2009 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) 

No. of No. of 

Attorneys Attorneys Change 

Rank Firm 

2010 2009 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 

Fastest-Growing Firms 

(Ranked by Percent Increase of Pa. Attorneys) 

No. of No. of 

Attorneys Attorneys Percent 

Rank Firm 

2010 2009 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-Shrinking Firms 

(Ranked by Percent Decrease of Pa. Attorneys) 

No. of No. of 

Attorneys Attorneys Percent 

Rank Firm 

2010 2009 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% 

15 

Caesar Rivise Bernstein Cohen & 

Pokotilow 

24 26 -7.69% 

Rank Firm 


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 

Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only Sources: PaLAW Survey, Industry Resources Numbers Include Full-Time Attorneys Only 


Largest Firms by City 

Pittsburgh 

Philadelphia 

Harrisburg 

Rank Firm 


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 Firm 


in Harrisburg 

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 


Rank Firm 


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 

Rank Firm 


in Philadelphia 

16. Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads 88 

17. Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg 83 

18. Post & Schell 82 


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 

Rank Firm 


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 


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% 




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 




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. 


Percent of Minority Attorneys (PA Only) 

Rank Firm 

Total Pa. 

Attorneys 

Minority 

Partners 

Minority 

Associates 

Minority 

Of Counsel 

Total 

Minorities 

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% 


Percent 

Minority 


Percent of Minority Attorneys (PA Only) 

Rank Firm 


Total Pa. 

Attorneys 

Minority 

Partners 

Minority 

Associates 

Minority 

Of Counsel 

Total 

Minorities 

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% 


Percent 

Minority 

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, 

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Analysis: The Future of the Profession 

Uncertain Transition: 

Anticipating the Pace of Change 

By Thomas S. Clay 

The Rock Center for Corporate 

Governance at Stanford 

University recently issued 

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 acknowledge 

and respect the forces that created 

[current market dynamics], and fashion 

remedies that swim with the tide of economic 

change rather than rail against it.” 

The forces referred to by the authors are 

those that are exerting an inexorable pressure 

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 partners, 

which reflects firm leaders’ thinking 

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 collaboration 

with colleagues who work for corporate 

legal departments, I see several of these issues 

rising to the top as areas where law 

firms will need to focus their transition efforts 

over the next decade. 

Although the need for change seems 

quite clear, the pace that is required to effectively 

deal with various pressures is unclear. 

For example, must a firm move to alternative 

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 corporate 

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 eventually 

occur and begin to deal with them before 

they create a crisis. In fact many firms are 

beginning to see these issues as opportunities 

to establish competitive advantage. 

A More Efficient Service Delivery Model 

A commonly voiced opinion these days is 

that law firms need to change their business 

model. I might agree that the model 

for rendering legal services needs significant 

consideration and perhaps even an 

overhaul, but it isn’t required in every sector 

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 answer 

will undoubtedly be “Yes,” and, notwithstanding 

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 associates, 

whether to make robust use of contract 

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 inescapable 

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 clients 

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 producing 

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 associate 

is worth today. My response was that 

in real terms, to do routine work, they may 

be worth no more than a competent, experienced 

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 methods 

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 steepen 

significantly over the next five years. 

Overhead Cost Reduction 

In reviewing the PaLAW Managing Partners 

Survey, as well as a number of other economic 

studies, it’s clear that 2009 was a 

year for law firms to cut costs. Major personnel 

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 effects 

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 relatively 

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 

Analysis: The Future of the Profession 

reducing 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 inflation 

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 reduce 

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 lawyer 

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 progress 

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 profitability. 

Significant improvements in overhead 

cost reduction will be needed over 

the next five years and strategies for implementation 

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 intact. 

I believe that the latter will prove to be 

an unfortunate mindset. 

Alternative Fees 

Alternative fee arrangements have been 

around for decades. The percentage increase 

in their use has been more significant 

in the last five years than in the previous 

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 alternative 

fees. Several truisms have emerged: 

Clients are not monolithic in their thinking 

and are unlikely to become so. The billable 

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 contingent 

on individual clients. 

I recommend that firms or practice 

groups take some number of clients, perhaps 

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 alternative 

fees. Do your homework, talk with clients 

and then develop a rational strategy 

based upon the hard facts. 

It is important that all firms are educating 

themselves on this issue and taking 

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 partners 

(as measured by a firm’s individual criteria) 

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 profitability 

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 deequitized 

partners. In my experience, this is 

ongoing in most law firms, especially midsized 

and larger firms. 

Some see this as mean-spirited or counter 

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 before 

you have to. 

Conclusion 

These issues — efficiency of service delivery, 

cost control, alternative pricing and rightsizing 

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 acquisitions. 

Contact him at tsclay@altmanweil.com. 

92 PaLAW 2010 PaLAW 2010 93

Firm Financials 2009 

2009 Marked by Revenue 

and Staff Cuts at Many Firms 

By Zack Needles 

Of the Legal Staff 

The 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 Pennsylvaniabased 

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 revenue 

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 GATES 

Pittsburgh-based K&L Gates’ gross revenue 

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 percentage 

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 percent 

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 partners, 

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 partners 

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 

2009 

K&L GATES 

2008 

2007 

2009 

DECHERT 

2008 

2007 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$607,000 

$618,000 

$612,000 

$861,000 

$854,000 

$800,000 

Gross Revenue: $1.03B 

Equity Partners: 295 

Total Attorneys: 1,705 

Gross Revenue: $959M 



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. 

DECHERT 

Philadelphia-based Dechert saw substantial 

dips in gross revenue and headcount in 

2009, thanks in part to a slowdown in its 

real estate finance department. 

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(RPL and PPP in Millions) 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 




$908,000 Gross Revenue: $713M 


$1.96M Total Attorneys: 786 

$915,000 

$906,000 

Gross Revenue: $815.9M 


Total Attorneys: 891 




$2.14M 

$2.35M 

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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 attorneys 

to 786 lawyers. 

Firm Chairman Barton J. Winokur said 

the biggest contributing factor to the revenue 

drop-off was the decline of the firm’s 

real estate finance practice. The practice 

dropped from 13 percent of the firm’s revenue 

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 financial 

metrics as well. The firm’s RPL fell less 

than 1 percent from $915,000 to $908,000, 

and the average compensation for all partners 

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 & BOCKIUS 

Gross revenue at Philadelphia-based Morgan 

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 “significantly” 

in the last quarter of 2009, particularly 

in the investment and finance areas. 

The American Lawyer also reported 

that the firm’s head count shrank by nearly 

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 associates 

until October 2010 and laid off about 

55 lawyers, most of whom were associates, 

in March 2009. 

The firm did, however, increase its number 

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 lawyers, 

eight of whom were partners, from 

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. 

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REED SMITH 

A falloff in demand, a nearly 4 percent 

reduction in headcount and a lower conversion 

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 average 

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 challenging” 

he had ever worked through, the 

bright spot for 2009 was a deepening relationship 

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 decreased 

5.5 percent to 362 non-equity 

partners, and the equity tier grew 4 percent 

to 315 equity partners. The firm’s 

overall headcount dropped 3.8 percent to 

1,427 lawyers. 


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2009 

REED SMITH 

2008 

2007 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$660,000 

$660,000 

$690,000 

$938,000 

$1M 

$1M 










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(RPL and PPP in Millions)



PEPPER HAMILTON 

Philadelphia-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 management 

throughout the year and took steps 

to minimize costs. But he said there was a 

one-time, large expense the firm had budgeted 

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. Salaries 

were frozen at the beginning of 2009 

and starting salaries for 2010 were reduced 

from $145,000 to $125,000, he said. 

The firm’s headcount remained relatively 

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 increased 

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 associates 

were deferred. 

BLANK ROME 

Philadelphia-based Blank Rome increased 

its revenue by 3 percent in 2009 and significantly 

bumped up its partner profits 

through a number of cost cutting measures. 

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 compensation 

for all partners increased by 

PEPPER HAMILTON 

2007 2008 2009 

2009 

BLANK ROME 

2008 

2007 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$688,000 

$716,000 

$689,000 

$728,000 

$658,000 

$627,000 











Real estate made up 10 percent of the 

firm’s revenue in 2009, with Blank Rome 

handling $3.1 billion in transactions exclusive 

of financings, the largest office deal 

in the country and the second-largest retail 

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 communication 

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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RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$655,000 

$665,000 

$610,000 

$590,000 

$640,000 

$665,000 










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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’CONNOR 

The 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 increased 

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 partners 

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 headcount 

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 performance 

in 2009 to a diversity of practices, 

strong lateral recruitment and 

growth in key markets, as well as a onetime 

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 involved 

in one set of cases. Decker said he 


COZEN O’CONNOR 

2007 2008 2009 

BALLARD SPAHR 

2007 2008 2009 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$430,000 

$415,000 

$575,000 

$520,000 

$545,000 

$510,000 

$540,000 

$555,000 

$550,000 

$575,000 

$545,000 

$650,000 










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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 venture 

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-tostaff 

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. 

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BALLARD SPAHR 

Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr instituted 

a number of structural changes over 

the course of 2008 and 2009 to combat a 

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tough economy and 30 years of never doing 

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 nearly 

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 improvement 

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. 

(continued on Page 98)



More than 170 support positions were 

cut between the beginning of 2008 and 

mid-2009, along with a number of attorneys. 

Makadon said the firm is still realizing 

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 firstyear 

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 headcount 

dropped more than 5 percent from 

515 attorneys to 488 in 2009. The nonequity 

tier fell by 53 percent to 24 nonequity 

partners, and the equity tier grew 

by 16 percent to 202 equity partners. 

DUANE MORRIS 

Philadelphia-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 billable 

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 billable 

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 between 

5 percent and 10 percent of the 

firm’s revenues in 2009 came from contingency 

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 arrangements, 

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 associates 

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 dissolved 

Wolf Block, including the labor and 

employment practice and the Cherry Hill, 

N.J., office. 

Duane Morris’ headcount grew 6.1 percent 

from 578 lawyers to 613 in 2009. The 

equity partner tier increased nearly 8 percent 

from 121 to 130 and the non-equity 

partner ranks grew 15.7 percent from 191 

to 221. 

2009 

DUANE MORRIS 

2008 

2007 

DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH 

2007 2008 2009 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$633,000 

$637,000 

$753,000 

$727,000 

$642,000 

$800,000 










DRINKER BIDDLE & REATH 

Philadelphia-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 percentage 

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. Kassner 

looked at the revenue drop in a positive 

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 deferrals 

other firms conducted last year. 

Though Drinker Biddle doesn’t discuss 

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PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$600,000 

$605,000 

$615,000 

$605,000 

$595,000 

$575,000 










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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 offers 

to about two-thirds of its 2009 summer 

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 combat 

a growing uneasiness from clients 

about the usefulness of first-year associates 

on their matters, Drinker Biddle adopted 

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 nonequity 

tier gained one member, moving to 

72 non-equity partners. 

BUCHANAN INGERSOLL 

& ROONEY 

Philadelphia-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 metrics, 

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 clients 

to reduce their legal costs,” Chief Executive 

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, restraints 

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 focused 

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. 

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STEVENS & LEE 

Reading, Pa.-based Stevens & Lee saw a 

1 percent dip in gross revenue in 2009 due 

in large part to a slowdown in its core corporate 

practices. 

The firm continued to add laterals, however, 

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 


While the cost cutting measures of 

2009 resulted in many firms seeing increases 

in PPP when revenue was falling, 

Stevens & Lee avoided many of those undertakings. 

The only major structural 

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BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY 

2007 2008 2009 

2009 

STEVENS & LEE 

2008 

2007 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$595,000 

$590,000 

$565,000 

$563,000 

$554,000 

$570,000 

$635,000 

$675,000 

$685,000 










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$905,000 

$865,000 

$840,000 










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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 benefits 

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 model 

of nearly 1-1, but in 2006 the firm decided 

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 percent 

year over year, from 37 to 51 non-equity 

attorneys. 

SAUL EWING 

Despite 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 attributed 

the feat to shaving off about $7 million 

in expenses through cost management practices 

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 percent 

from $525,000 to $505,000. The average 

compensation for all partners increased 

8.5 percent from $354,000 to 

$384,000. 

Along with bolstering PPP, Saul Ewing 

gave a significant boost to its profit margin, 

growing the figure from 24.8 percent 

up to 30.6 percent. Net profits in raw dollars 

totaled nearly $38.3 million. 

Staffing levels were a target area as the 

firm looked to get to a 3-1 lawyer to secretary 

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 

2009 

SAUL EWING 

2008 

2007 

FOX ROTHSCHILD 

2007 2008 2009 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$505,000 

$435,000 

$380,000 

$410,000 

$525,000 

$510,000 










original 19. Other than the seven associate 

layoffs, only a small amount of attrition occurred 

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, including 

seven from the Wilmington, Del., 

office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. 

Saul Ewing’s head count remained relatively 

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 ROTHSCHILD 

Philadelphia-based Fox Rothschild was able 

to increase gross revenue and net profits 

by significant margins in 2009 while increasing 

its equity partner tier and avoiding 

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RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

RPL 

PPP 

$515,000 

$550,000 

$510,000 

$535,000 

$505,000 

$495,000 








Equity Partners: 100 


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most of the cost-cutting measures undertaken 

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 percent 

to $66.8 million, bringing Fox Rothschild’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 percent 

to 68 non-equity partners and the 

equity partner tier grew nearly 12 percent 

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from 109 equity partners to 122 last year. 

The growth in the equity tier ate away at 

the net profits, allowing the PPP to increase 

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 because 

the firm “added a number of really 

productive lateral partners over the last 

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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, deferrals, 

salary reductions, or any of the other 

cost cutting measures used by competitors 

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 

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