Profile: The law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, with thirteen office throughout the world, was created by the May 31, 2004 merger of Washington D.C.'s Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering with Boston's Hale and Dorr. The merged firm placed nineteenth on the National Law Journal's 2008 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size, with 1,180 attorneys (as of 9/30/08). With $955,000,000 in gross revenue in 2008, the firm ranked 21st on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 100 rankings of U.S. law firms based on revenue. In the 2008 Global 100 rankings, the firm ranked as the 23rd highest grossing law firm in the world. The firm's attorneys practice out of offices in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe and Beijing. The firm's practice areas include representing U.S. and multinational corporations in business transactions, intellectual property, litigation, trade controversies, international regulatory matters, and corporate.