Profile: Bingham McCutchen was formed from the merger of Bingham Dana, a Boston-based law firm with 432 attorneys and McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson, a California-based firm. On August 1, 2009, the firm merged with McKee Nelson. The combined firm has approximately 1,100 attorneys as of August 1, 2009. On October 1, 2007, the firm merged with New Tokyo International Law Office, a premier insolvency, corporate and litigation firm of approximately 22 lawyers. With $860,000,000 in gross revenue in 2009, the firm ranked 24th on The American Lawyer's 2010 Am Law 100. The firm ranked 40th on the 2009 Global 100 rankings. The pre-merger Bingham Dana, had consistently appeared on the Am Law 100 since 1995. With respect to size, the merged firm was ranked as the twenty-seventh largest in the U.S. by the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250, with a total of 924 attorneys working out of offices worldwide. Bingham McCutchen's practice areas include corporate, financial, litigation, and environmental and land use. McKee Nelson, pre-merger, ranked 152nd on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 200 rankings of law firms by revenue with $162,000,000 in revenue in 2008. According to the National Law Journal's 2008 NLJ 250 rankings of firms by size, McKee Nelson had 202 attorneys (as of 9/30/08) and was the 210th largest firm in the United States ranked by attorney count. The firm's office locations include San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Tokyo. Effective May 1, 2007, and January 1, 2006, Bingham McCutchen acquired law firms Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan and Swidler Berlin, respectively. | |