Profile: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP represents a combination, effective January 1, 2007, of the Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and Seattle-based Preston Gates & Ellis. Prior to the merger, Preston Gates & Ellis was a Seattle-based law firm with multiple offices in the U.S., one in Hong Kong, and one in Taipei, Taiwan. With 419 attorneys (as of 9/30/06), the firm placed 99th on the National Law Journal's 2006 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size. Preston Gates ranked 115th on The American Lawyer's 2007 Am Law 200 rankings of firms based on revenue with $208,500,000 in gross annual revenue in 2005. Preston Gates' practice groups included corporate, environmental and land use, technology, homeland security, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. In addition to multiple West Coast offices, the firm had branches in Washington, D.C. and Asia. Details from surveys beginning with the 2007 NLJ 250 will be found under the new firm name of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP.