Profile: Latham & Watkins is a national firm based in Los Angeles. With $1,923,000,000 in gross revenues in 2008, it ranked third on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 100. Latham & Watkins has been in the top 20 of The American Lawyer's annual rankings of U.S. firms by revenue since 1985, and has ranked in the top four since 1996. In the 2008 Global 100, the firm was ranked as the seventh highest grossing firm in the world. According to the National Law Journal's 2008 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size, Latham & Watkins is also the fourth largest law firm in the United States with 2,322 attorneys (as of 9/30/08). In addition to corporate representation, Latham & Watkins' practice areas include finance, real estate, litigation, environmental, and tax law.