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The Biggest Law Firms in the World: Meet the Global 100

Say hello to the Global 100 for 2011. This is the American Lawyer's list of the world's 100 largest law firms, ranked by total revenue. Lawyers are a competitive lot. So you're probably less interested in the overall figures than in how different firms fared in the rankings....

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Say hello to the Global 100 for 2011. This is the American Lawyer’s list of the world’s 100 largest law firms, ranked by total revenue.

There’s a lot of economic anxiety these days, with fears of a double-dip recession running rampant. But looking back — the list is compiled based on 2010 revenue numbers — the legal business seems to be hanging in there. As noted by Am Law, total revenue for the Global 100 increased by 3 percent last year.

Lawyers are a competitive lot. So you’re probably less interested in the overall figures than in how different firms fared in the rankings….

There wasn’t a huge amount of movement at the top of the list. Here are the top ten on the Global 100:

Don’t see your firm listed above? Perhaps it’s on the extended list, which you can check out over at Am Law.

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The worldwide mega-firm of Baker & McKenzie takes the #1 spot for the second year in a row. This news should lift the spirits of demoralized San Diego support staff.

Right behind Baker & McKenzie and Skadden Arps is DLA Piper, at #3. DLA is a new entrant on the list; as Am Law explains in a footnote, this is the first time it’s publishing global statistics for DLA.

The only other new entrant to the top ten is Hogan Lovells. As you will recall, Ho-Love resulted from the mating of Hogan & Hartson with U.K.-based Lovells.

And what about the closely watched metric of profits per partner?

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