Profile: Kirkland & Ellis is a Chicago-based law firm, ranked at number five on The American Lawyer's 2010 Am Law 100 rankings of U.S. firms by revenue, with gross revenue of $1,428,000,000 in 2009. The firm ranked at number 11 on the 2009 Global 100 revenue rankings. Kirkland & Ellis has been in the top 50 of The American Lawyer's annual Am Law 100 rankings since 1986. The firm has 1,405 attorneys and ranks twelfth according to the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size. Kirkland & Ellis's practice areas include bankruptcy, intellectual property, interdisciplinary, litigation, tax and planning, and transactional. Its five U.S. offices are located in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., and the firm also has a London location.