Seven Big-Tex firms made The AmLaw 100 list this year, with Bracewell & Giuliani of Houston vaulting onto the list with a 98th-place ranking to join six Texas firms making repeat appearances. The ranking, compiled by Texas Lawyer affiliate The American Lawyer, is based on the firms’ 2009 gross revenue, rounded to the nearest $500,000. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld of Dallas was 31st on the list of the highest-grossing firms in the country, maintaining the same place as last year, with $719 million in revenue. Fulbright & Jaworski of Houston was next on the list at 40th, down from 36th last year, with $642.5 million in revenue. Houston’s Baker Botts was 45th with $575 million in revenue, down from 43rd. Vinson & Elkins, also of Houston, was close behind at 47th, down from 45th place last year, with $562 million in revenue. Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell of Dallas kept its 69th spot on the list, with $399 million in revenue for 2009, while Dallas firm Haynes and Boone advanced to 87th on the list, up from 94th last year, with $306.5 million in revenue. Bracewell cracked the AmLaw 100 with $277 million in revenue, slotting the firm at 98th place, up from 101 last year (and a position on the AmLaw 200 list.) The AmLaw 100 is published in the May issue of The American Lawyer, and the AmLaw 200, which reports on the gross revenue of the next 100 highest-grossing firms, is published in the June issue.
-- Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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