Altman Weil MergerLine™

Welcome to Altman Weil MergerLine™, tracking law firm mergers and acquisitions as they are reported by the press. MergerLine compiles news of mergers and acquisitions of all sizes. Our focus is U.S. firms, but we will report on significant combinations wherever they occur. Lawyer headcounts are derived from published league tables, directories and law firm websites.

Our strategic alliance partner, Jomati Consultants LLP, is tracking all mergers involving UK-based law firms in The Lawyer 100 or which are likely to be in The Lawyer 100 as a result of their merger, starting from January 2011. The list is available at MergerLine UK.

Latest Headlines

Report Date	Headline	Source
2/02/12	K&L Gates Acquires Milan Firm	The Legal Intelligencer
2/01/12	Baker Donelson Acquires Another Houston Firm	Memphis Business Journal
1/31/12	Womble Carlyle Acquires Columbia SC Firm	Winston-Salem Journal
1/19/12	Jackson Lewis Acquires Milwaukee Labor & Employment Boutique	The AmLaw Daily
1/19/12	Littler Mendelson Acquires Memphis Labor & Employment Boutique	Memphis Business Journal

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2010 Mergers

Link	Report Date	Firm 1	Main Office	Size	&	Firm 2	Main Office	Size
	10/01/10	McMahon Surovik Suttle	Abilene TX	12	&	Wagstaff & Watson	Abilene TX	2
	11/03/10	Kilpatrick Stockton	Atlanta	465	&	Townsend and Townsend and Crew	San Francisco	175
	10/04/10	Kilpatrick Stockton	Atlanta	462	&	Bell Rosenberg & Hughes	Oakland	10
	10/01/10	Steptoe & Johnson PLLC	Bridgeport WV	197	&	Carpenter Lane	Columbus	5
	6/23/10	Allen Kopet & Associates	Chatanooga TN	63	&	Francis Nelson & Brison	Charleston WV	7
	5/26/10	Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal	Chicago	655	&	Denton Wilde Sapte	London	600
	12/27/10	SmithAmundsen	Chicago	140	&	Madsen Farkas & Powen	Chicago	7
	10/01/10	Baker & McKenzie	Chicago	3950	&	Findling Collin Fessmann	Luxembourg	15
	11/08/10	Squire Sanders & Dempsey	Cleveland	761	&	Hammonds	London	500
	6/30/10	Squire Sanders & Dempsey	Cleveland	838	&	Miki & Yoshida	Tokyo	4
	3/02/10	Benesch Friedlander	Cleveland	145	&	Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman	Indianapolis	26
	10/07/10	Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough	Columbia SC	397	&	Lahive & Cockfield	Boston	19
	1/05/10	Rogers Townsend & Thomas	Columbia SC	49	&	Kellam & Pettit	Charlotte NC	8
	12/17/10	Shackelford Melton & McKinley	Dallas	40	&	Zumwalt Almon & Hayes	Nashville	5
	8/23/10	Dickinson Wright	Detroit	259	&	Gibson Lowry Burris	Las Vegas	3
	6/29/10	Clark Hill	Detroit	200	&	Trexler Bushnell Giangiori Blackstone & Marr	Chicago	8
	1/08/10	Ferrara Firoenza Larrison	East Syracuse NY	19	&	Norton Radin Hoover & Freedman	Kenmore NY	2
	4/20/10	Dowling Aaron & Keeler	Fresno CA	44	&	Hurley & Laird	Visalia CA	2
	12/03/10	Lam Lyn & Philip	Houston	9	&	Walker Bright	Dallas	6
	9/03/10	Lathrop & Gage	Kansas City MO	302	&	Kamlet Reichert	Denver	24
	3/17/10	Polsinelli Shugart	Kansas City MO	470	&	Hendren Andrae	Jefferson City MO	7
	12/27/10	Apperson Crump	Memphis	26	&	Smith-Kimbrough	Memphis	2
	5/14/10	Adorno & Yoss	Miami	290	&	Wong Fleming	Princeton	15
	3/23/10	McElroy Deutsch	Morristown NJ	245	&	Pepe & Hazard	Hartford CT	44
	6/16/10	Phelps Dunbar	New Orleans	259	&	Lyons Pipes and Cook	Mobile	25
	3/29/10	Jones Walker	New Orleans	280	&	Walston Wells & Birchall	Birmingham AL	22
	12/07/10	Drinker Biddle & Reath	Philadelphia	659	&	Eisenberg Raizman Thurston & Wong	Los Angeles	6
	7/27/10	Cozen O'Connor	Philadelphia	530	&	Sher & Blackwell	Washington DC	13
	9/23/10	Anapol Schwartz	Philadelphia	25	&	Coben & Associates	Scottsdale AZ	3
	7/06/10	Saul Ewing	Philadelphia	229	&	Ruben & Aronson	Bethesda MD	4
	10/06/10	Dickey McCamey & Chilcote	Pittsburgh	132	&	Golian McCaffrey	Columbus	3
	3/30/10	Babst Calland	Pittsburgh	76	&	Law Office of Jennifer Bierly	State College PA	2
	11/18/10	McGuire Woods	Richmond	900	&	Nickens Keeton Lawless Farrell & Flack	Houston	5
	3/08/10	Ward Norris Heller & Reidy	Rochester NY	25	&	Daller Greenberg & Dietrich	Conshohocken PA	9
	4/21/10	Boylan Brown	Rochester NY	37	&	Schatz Law Offices	West Hartford	2
	6/23/10	Carroll Burdick & McDonough	San Francisco	67	&	Smith & Partners	Stuttgart Germany	12
	4/05/10	Hoge Fenton	San Jose	43	&	Law Offices of Kathryn Schlepphorst	San Jose	3
	1/12/10	Chartwell Law Offices	Valley Forge PA	52	&	Kenneth Goldberg & Associates	New York City	5
	10/01/10	Martin Pringle Oliver Wallace & Bauer	Wichita	35	&	Holman Hanson & Colville	Overland Park KS	7
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