Profile: Bryan Cave, a national firm based in St. Louis and specializing in corporate law and litigation, merged with the Atlanta based Powell Goldstein on January 1, 2009. The pre-merger firm of Bryan Cave had 991 attorneys practicing out of offices worldwide, making it the twenty-first largest law firm in the United States according to the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings. In terms of revenue, the pre-merger firm ranked 48th on The American Lawyer's 2010 Am Law 100, with gross revenue of $555,000,000 in 2009. The firm appeared on the Global 100 rankings of firms worldwide as the 70th highest-grossing law firm in the world. Pre-merger, Powell Goldstein ranked 183rd on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 200, with gross revenues of $118,000,000 in 2008. The firm's office locations include Phoenix, Arizona, Kansas City, Mo., Washington, D.C., London, Hong Kong and Paris. The Bryan Cave web site indicates a total of 1,200 attorneys in the merged firm.