THE AMERICAN LAWYER JUNE 2010
After ADT Security
Systems’s Mexico
executives were arrested
and incarcerated, the
company turned to Thomas
Ajamie to sue the Mexican
businessmanw hom
ADT accused of
orchestrating the arrests.
SPECIAL REPORT
THE CHARTS
FEATURE
The Am Law 200
70 No Place to Hide
BY DREW COMBS
Just like their Am Law 100 counterparts,
Second Hundred firms felt the full force
of the recession.
83 Second Hundred: Firms A to Z
95 Second Hundred: Gross Revenue
103 Am Law 200: RPL/PPP/VPL
Plus: The Second Hundred
Pullout Poster
ROBERT SEALE (AJAMIE); ICONS BY MARTIN REFSAL
74 Strategic Response
How five Second Hundred firms adjusted
their business plans to deal with (or even
profit from) the downturn.
78 The Outlier
BY ROSS TODD
Florida’s GrayRobinson did everything a
law firm isn’t supposed to do—it stayed
independent and regional, and it kept its
leverage low. Guess what? It worked.
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■ Read all the feature stories, short
items, and analytical pieces.
Check out the charts for 2010,
including rankings by gross
revenue, profits per partner, and
revenue per lawyer.
Sidebar: Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr star
litigator Bill Lee talks about the hottest
cases in the patent bar.
64 Border Wars
BY ANDREW LONGSTRETH
When a contract dispute with its
Mexican dealers turned ugly, ADT
Security Services could have tried to
settle the matter quietly. Instead, the
multinational fought back and won a
$112 million RICO case.
ON THE COVER: GrayRobinson banking partner
David Hendrix says that in the seven years since
he joined the firm, his book of business has grown
from less than $500,000 to more than $3 million.
Even so, that’s not his car on the cover. Photograph
by Jenny Acheson.
