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IN-DEPTH RESEARCH REPORT
on Jenner & Block LLP
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Jenner & Block
- Designation: Chicago
- Head Count: 432
- Gross Revenues: $387,500,000
- Revenue Per Lawyer: $895,000
- Profits Per Partner: $1,490,000
- Year Over Year Change: 3
Jenner & Block may not boast a global network of lawyers—indeed, its four offices are all based in the United States, and with 438 attorneys, Jenner is one of the smaller Am Law 100 firms, however it still stands out in a number of ways. First, there is Jenner’s highly regarded litigation group, a finalist for The American Lawyer’s 2006 Litigation Department of the Year award and an honorable mention in 2010 and 2012 (roughly three–quarters of Jenner’s attorneys are litigators). Then there is the firm’s chart–topping pro bono commitment: Jenner ranked first on our 2008 through 2010 surveys, and even when it dropped to fourth in 2011, lawyers were still racking up an annual average of 135 hours of pro bono work.
Jenner, which was founded in Chicago in 1914 and ranked seventy–second on the 2011 Am Law 100 list with $379 million in revenue, has also been involved in several of the highest–profile legal matters of recent years. The firm’s chairman, Anton Valukas, was the court–appointed examiner in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, and helped to untangle the events that led to the collapse of the doomed investment bank, an effort that earned him a Litigator of the Year award from The American Lawyer. Meanwhile, the firm’s transactional attorneys served as lead issuer’s counsel to General Motors in its $23.1 billion IPO—the largest in history—in 2010.
The firm has also seen a dramatic rise in its profits per equity partner. In 2006 the figure came in at $760,000 and by 2011, it had more than doubled to $1.55 million. Spurring these gains, in part, were a reduction in the equity partnership ranks, which dropped 11 percent in 2010 and another 7 percent in 2011. Like some of its Am Law 100 peers, Jenner has looked to a growing roster of nonequity partners (their ranks increased by some 15 percent in 2011) to take their place—but not their compensation.
—Updated as of 1/1/12
Firm Rankings
| Survey | Rank | Year Over Year Change | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Am Law 100 | 75 | 3 | Gross revenue |
| Am Law 200 | 75 | 3 | Gross revenue |
| NLJ 250 | 98 | 1 | Lawyer head count |
| The A-List | 20 | 4 | Overall excellence |
| Pro Bono Scorecard | 4 | 3 | Pro-bono commitment |
| Diversity Scorecard | 52 | 4 | Minority head count |
| Midlevel Associates Survey | 65 | 36 | Job satisfaction |
| Summer Associates Survey | 64 | 9 | Summer programs |
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