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 October 1, 2007, the firm merged with New Tokyo International Law Office, a premier insolvency, corporate and litigation firm of approximately 22 lawyers. With $767,000,000 in gross revenue in 2008, the firm ranked 32nd on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 100, and 39th on the 2008 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 thirty-third largest in the U.S. by the National Law Journal's 2008 NLJ 250, with a total of 903 attorneys (as of 9/30/08) working out of offices worldwide. Bingham McCutchen's practice areas include corporate, financial, litigation, and environmental and land use. 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. | |