{"id":230,"date":"2009-06-02T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/amy\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:19:02","slug":"am-law-200-is-out-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2009\/06\/02\/am-law-200-is-out-for-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Am Law 200 Is Out for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/tal\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The American Lawyer<\/em><\/a> has published its annual listing of the top 200 law firms. They slice and dice it a few ways \u2014 by gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, profits per partner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to be a registered user to read much of the information, however, the lead article below is accessible to all. It reveals that conventional legal marketing wisdom hasn&#8217;t necessarily been the road to success during this economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Am Law 200 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/tal\/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202430852464\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Where the Work Was<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t in New York \u2014 or at Am Law 100 firms. Think middle markets and out-of-favor practice areas.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/tal\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The American Lawyer<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nBy Amy Kolz<br \/>\nJune 01, 2009<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"LEADIN_S65\">Reports of their demise,<\/span> it turns out, were premature. For years, the regional firms that constitute much of the Second Hundred were told that they were exactly the wrong size: too big to compete with the narrow focus of boutiques and too small to match The Am Law 100&#8217;s national footprints and marquee names. But last year, as the financial sector began its meltdown, the Second Hundred&#8217;s slow-growth strategies were vindicated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read full article here: <a href=\"too big to compete with the narrow focus of boutiques and too small to match The Am Law 100's national footprints and marquee names. But last year, as the financial sector began its meltdown, the Second Hundred's slow-growth strategies were vindicated.\" target=\"_blank\">Where the work was<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Lawyer has published its annual listing of the top 200 law firms. They slice and dice it a few ways \u2014 by gross revenue, revenue per lawyer, profits per partner&#8230; You&#8217;ll need to be a registered user to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2009\/06\/02\/am-law-200-is-out-for-2009\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Am Law 200 Is Out for 2009<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-firm-marketing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}