Profile: Dewey Ballantine was a New York-based law firm. Effective October 1, 2007, the firm merged with the firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP; the combined firm operates under the name of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Pre-merger, the firm ranked 66th on The American Lawyer's 2008 Am Law 100 rankings of U.S. law firms with $431,000,000 in gross revenue in FY 2007. Dewey Ballantine ranked in the top 75 of the annual Am Law 100 rankings since 1986. In the 2008 Global 100 rankings of firms worldwide, Dewey Ballantine was ranked as the 81st highest grossing law firm in the world. Dewey Ballantine specialized in project finance, capital markets, and leasing and structured finance. Practice areas included antitrust, emerging markets, municipal bonds, tax, litigation, real estate and corporate. Details from surveys beginning with the 2007 NLJ 250 will be found under the new firm name of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. | |