Profile: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, based in New York, ranks second on The American Lawyer's 2010 Am Law 100 with $2,100,000,000 in gross revenue in 2009. In terms of its global ranking, the firm placed fourth on the 2009 Global 100 revenue rankings. With respect to number of attorneys, the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 ranks Skadden as the fifth largest law firm in the United States with 1,990 attorneys in office locations worldwide. Skadden, Arps was the first law firm to ever break a billion dollars in annual revenues, which it did in 1999, and represents some of the country's largest corporations.