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