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LAW & LOBBY Some law firms also have active lobbying practices, an important business in Washington. Law firms are ranked by the number of lawyers they have in Washington, and lobby firms are ranked by how much they were paid by clients through Sept 30, 2011, based on an October report from the Center for Responsive Politics. Rank Law firm Local attorneys Total attorneys 1 Covington & Burling 517 809 2 Hogan Lovells 473 2,363 (global) 3 Arnold & Porter 453 707 4 WilmerHale 405 1,127 5 Steptoe & Johnson 316 522 6 Skadden Arps 293 1,876 7 Crowell & Moring 289 450 8 Finnegan 282 383 9 Wiley Rein 275 275 10 Patton Boggs 257 517 SOURCE: Full-time equivalent self-reported by law firms as of Nov. 2011 Rank Lobby firm 2011 revenue No. of lobbyists 1 Patton Boggs (incl. Breaux Lott Leadership Group) $35,920,000 137 2 Akin Gump 25,770,000 565 3 Podesta Group 20,500,000 69 4 Van Scoyoc Associates 17,935,000 76 5 Brownstein Hyatt 16,380,000 40 6 Cassidy & Associates 15,100,000 53 7 Ogilvy Government Relations 14,990,000 23 8 K&L Gates 14,090,000 390 9 Holland & Knight 13,850,000 376 10 Williams & Jensen 13,390,000 49 SOURCE: Revenue figures from the Center for Responsive Politics as of Oct. 2011 (end of Q3). No. of registered lobbyists self-reported by firms as of July 2011. LAW FIRMS ARNOLD & PORTER 555 12th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 942-5000 Founded: 1946 Chairman: Thomas H. Milch Managing partner: Richard M. Alexander Lawyers (local): 1,376 (908) Arnold & Porter was founded by three veterans of the New Deal, including one, Abe Fortas, who would later become a U.S. Supreme Court justice. <strong>The</strong> firm has a reputation of hiring former senior officials from the White House, State and Justice departments. It has seven U.S. offices — Washington is its largest and oldest — and two abroad, in Brussels and London. In 2011, the firm hired a 13-lawyer patent litigation team in Washington and Los Angeles, and absorbed the California firm Howard Rice. COVINGTON & BURLING 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20004 202-662-6000 Founded: 1919 Chairman: Timothy C. Hester Employees (local): 1,530 (998) Covington is one of the world’s largest law firms with a long history in Washington dating back to its founding by Edward B. Burling and former Maryland congressman and judge J. Harry Covington. Dean Acheson, who would later serve as secretary of state, was one of the firm’s early partners. Covington has more 800 attorneys in eight offices worldwide, and this year, advised several Fortune 500 companies in major acquisitions, including Microsoft in its bid for thousands of Nortel patents. CROWELL & MORING 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C., 20004 202-624-2500 Founded: 1979 Chairman: Kent A. Gardiner Employees (local): 985 (665) Crowell & Moring was founded by 53 lawyers who left Jones Day more than 30 years ago to form a “a different kind of law firm” that prides itself as being down to earth and less stuffy than traditional big firms. <strong>The</strong> Washingtonbased firm has offices in New York; Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange County in California; Anchorage; London; Brussels; Cairo; and Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Crowell has long incorporated alternative billing arrangements, charging clients through a mix of flat, success, blended and contingency fees. FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER 901 New York Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20001 202-408-4000 Founded: 1965 Managing partner: Barbara Clarke McCurdy Employees (local): 1,006 (751) Finnegan is an international law firm that represents clients in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret counseling, litigation and prosecution. <strong>The</strong> firm’s first and largest office is in Washington. Over the past 45 years, the firm has expanded to U.S. technology hubs such as Cambridge, Mass.; Boston; and Palo Alto, Calif., as well as other offices overseas. In the past five years, the firm has filed and defended 600 U.S. trademark disputes and has litigated more than 75 civil cases in the United States involving domain names. HOGAN LOVELLS 555 13th St. NW Washington, D.C. 20004 202-637-5600 Founded: 1899 Co-CEOs: J. Warren Gorrell Jr. and David Harris Employees (local): 2,363 — global (996) Hogan Lovells is the product of the 2010 merger between one of Washington’s oldest law firms, Hogan & Hartson, and the London-based Lovells. Hogan Lovells has more than 2,300 attorneys around the world with more than 40 offices in Germany, France, China, Japan, Venezuela and more than a dozen other countries. <strong>The</strong> Washington office is one of the firm’s largest and houses a bustling lobbying practice. PATTON BOGGS 2550 M St. NW Washington, D.C. 20037 202-457-6000 Founded: 1962 Chairman: Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. Employees (local): 1,001 (517) Patton Boggs is one of the District’s largest law firms and its highest-grossing lobbying shop, with more registered lobbyists than any other K Street operation. Chairman Thomas Hale Boggs Jr. — son of Louisiana congressman Thomas Boggs — has for decades been regarded as one D.C.’s most powerful Democratic lobbyists. In 2010, the firm acquired Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, the lobbying firm founded by former senators John Breaux and Trent Lott. SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM 1440 New York Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20005 202-371-7000 Founded: 1948 Executive partner: Eric J. Friedman Employees (local): 3,975 (534) Skadden consistently ranks among the world’s largest and most profitable law firms by revenue. <strong>The</strong> forte of the New York City-based firm remains in the corporate world with mergers and acquisitions, securities, tax, bankruptcy and litigation. Its Washington office, the second largest after New York, has nearly 300 attorneys and strong patent and white-collar practices. Some of the firm’s high-profile clients in 2011 included Filene’s Basement, Merrill Lynch, MF Global Holdings and Pfizer. STEPTOE & JOHNSON 1330 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20036 202-429-3000 Founded: 1902 Chairman: Robert E. Warin Employees (local): 1,107 (702) Steptoe is an international law firm whose roots in Washington date back to 1945. Steptoe is known for its energy, insurance, intellectual property, tax, and white-collar criminal defense practices. In 2011, the firm became counsel for the committee representing 17,000 ticket holders in the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy case, and won an acquittal for a former GlaxoSmith- Kline lawyer who was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice in a Food and Drug Administration investigation into the anti-depressant Wellbutrin. 51 WILEY REIN 1776 K St. NW Washington, D.C. 20006 202-719-7000 Founded: 1983 Managing partner: Richard E. Wiley Employees (local): 532 (532) Wiley Rein was founded 28 years ago with the vision that it would become a strictly Washington firm, and it has stayed that way. It has since grown from 39 to more than 275 attorneys in the District and McLean who practice in areas including antitrust, aviation, bankruptcy, election, labor and employment, intellectual property, trade and media law. In 2011, the firm worked with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland to successfully represent a voting rights group in a case against the state for restricting its ability to register voters at transit stops. WILMERHALE 1875 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20006 202-663-6000 Founded: 2004 Co-managing partners: William F. Lee and William J. Perlstein Employees (local): 2,357 (753) WilmerHale is the product of the 2004 merger between Boston’s Hale & Door and Washington-based Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. With more than 1,000 attorneys in 12 cities in the United States, Asia and Europe, the firm has strong securities, regulatory and intellectual property practices. Its largest office is in Washington, where it has more than 400 lawyers. LOBBY FIRMS AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELDER 1333 New Hampshire Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20036 202-887-4000 Founded: 1945 Chairman: R. Bruce McLean Managing partner: Kim Koopersmith Employees (local): 1,719 (565) Although the firm was founded in Dallas, Akin Gump’s largest office is in Washington, where it has built itself into a formidable law and lobbying force, with 260 attorneys. <strong>The</strong> firm’s lobbying group is one of the most lucrative in town, and its clients include AT&T, Chevron, Dow Chemical and American <strong>Express</strong>. This year, the firm beefed up its public policy group by bringing in former Texas congressman Tom Loeffler. Jeffrey MacMillan/Capital Business POST 200. CAPITAL BUSINESS . 12/19/11
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