The 2003 Global 100 ranks the top law firms in the world by gross annual revenue for fiscal year 2002 through 2003. The rank and gross revenues for each firm appear in the accompanying chart. To receive the complete information and rankings from the 2003 Global 100 -- including profits per partner, number of lawyers and key marketing contact information -- in an easy-to-use searchable spreadsheet, click here.

Rank	Firm	Location	FY Revenue
1	Clifford Chance	International (U.K.)	$1,467,000,000
2	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	New York	$1,310,000,000
3	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	International (U.K.)	$1,200,000,000
4	Linklaters	International (U.K.)	$1,080,000,000
5	Baker & McKenzie	International (U.S.)	$1,060,000,000
6	Allen & Overy	International (U.K.)	$970,500,000
7	Jones Day	National (U.S.)	$908,000,000
8	Latham & Watkins	National (U.S.)	$906,000,000
9	Sidley Austin Brown & Wood	National (U.S.)	$831,000,000
10	Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw	National (U.S.)	$705,000,000
11	Shearman & Sterling	New York	$700,000,000
12	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	New York	$688,000,000
13	White & Case	International (U.S.)	$675,000,000
14	McDermott, Will & Emery	National (U.S.)	$628,000,000
15	Sullivan & Cromwell	New York	$624,000,000
16	Kirkland & Ellis	Chicago	$611,000,000
17	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld	National (U.S.)	$575,000,000
18	Davis Polk & Wardwell	New York	$570,000,000
19	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	Los Angeles	$569,000,000
20	O'Melveny & Myers	Los Angeles	$565,000,000
21	Lovells	International (U.K.)	$562,500,000
22	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	National (U.S.)	$557,500,000
23	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	New York	$543,500,000
24	Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton	New York	$531,000,000
25	Holland & Knight	National (U.S.)	$514,500,000
26	Morrison & Foerster	San Francisco	$505,000,000
27	Foley & Lardner	Milwaukee	$489,500,000
28	Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker	National (U.S.)	$488,000,000
29	Hogan & Hartson	Washington, D.C.	$480,000,000
30	Greenberg Traurig	National (U.S.)	$465,000,000
31	Vinson & Elkins	Houston	$456,500,000
32	Piper Rudnick	National (U.S.)	$455,000,000
33	Winston & Strawn	Chicago	$442,000,000
34	Bingham McCutchen	National (U.S.)	$433,500,000
35	Eversheds	National (U.K.)	$427,350,000
36	Pillsbury Winthrop	San Francisco	$416,000,000
37	Arnold & Porter	Washington, D.C.	$415,000,000
38	Fulbright & Jaworski	Houston	$412,500,000
39	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	New York	$409,500,000
40	Hunton & Williams	Richmond	$406,000,000
41	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	San Francisco	$400,000,000
42	King & Spalding	Atlanta	$387,000,000
42	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	Palo Alto	$387,000,000
44	Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy	New York	$381,000,000
45	Dechert	National (U.S.)	$372,500,000
46	Baker Botts	Houston	$365,000,000
47	Slaughter and May	London	$364,500,000
47	Squire, Sanders & Dempsey	National (U.S.)	$364,500,000
49	Herbert Smith	London	$361,500,000
50	Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe	San Francisco	$354,000,000
51	Dewey Ballantine	New York	$350,000,000
52	DLA	National (U.K.)	$349,500,000
53	LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae	National (U.S.)	$346,000,000
54	Debevoise & Plimpton	New York	$344,000,000
55	Proskauer Rose	New York	$343,500,000
56	Bryan Cave	National (U.S.)	$337,000,000
57	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	New York	$329,500,000
58	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	New York	$328,000,000
59	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	New York	$320,000,000
59	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	New York	$320,000,000
61	Alston & Bird	Atlanta	$314,500,000
62	Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman	National (U.S.)	$314,000,000
62	Reed Smith	National (U.S.)	$314,000,000
64	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	New York	$313,000,000
65	Kaye Scholer	New York	$311,000,000
66	Howrey Simon Arnold & White	Washington, D.C.	$310,000,000
67	Dorsey & Whitney	Minneapolis	$307,000,000
68	Hale and Dorr	Boston	$306,500,000
69	Norton Rose	International (U.K.)	$306,000,000
70	Cooley Godward	Palo Alto	$301,000,000
71	Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering	Washington, D.C.	$296,500,000
72	Jenkens & Gilchrist	Dallas	$296,000,000
73	Ashurst Morris Crisp	London	$295,500,000
74	Covington & Burling	Washington, D.C.	$291,500,000
75	Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal	Chicago	$287,500,000
76	Kirkpatrick & Lockhart	National (U.S.)	$282,000,000
77	Ropes & Gray	Boston	$278,000,000
78	Shook, Hardy & Bacon	Kansas City, Missouri	$273,500,000
79	Goodwin Procter	Boston	$270,000,000
80	Denton Wilde Sapte	London	$265,500,000
81	Simmons & Simmons	International (U.K.)	$265,350,000
82	CMS Cameron McKenna	London	$261,000,000
83	Nixon Peabody	National (U.S.)	$259,500,000
84	Coudert Brothers	International (U.S.)	$251,500,000
85	Perkins Coie	Seattle	$244,000,000
86	McCarthy Tétrault	National (Canada)	$242,309,464
87	McGuireWoods	Richmond	$241,000,000
88	Seyfarth Shaw	National (U.S.)	$238,000,000
89	Mallesons Stephen Jaques	National (Australia)	$236,203,800
90	Baker & Hostetler	Cleveland	$229,500,000
91	Minter Ellison Legal Group	National (Australia)	$226,080,780
92	Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky	Washington, D.C.	$223,000,000
93	Freehills	National (Australia)	$220,456,880
94	Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo	Boston	$220,000,000
95	Kilpatrick Stockton	Atlanta	$214,000,000
96	Chadbourne & Parke	New York	$211,000,000
97	Jenner & Block	Chicago	$209,500,000
98	Thelen Reid & Priest	San Francisco	$209,000,000
99	Hammonds1	National (U.K.)	$205,650,000
100	Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich	Palo Alto	$205,000,000
1Hammonds was previously known as Hammond Suddards Edge.

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