Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates (often shortened to Skadden Arps; Skadden; or SASM&F), founded in 1948, is a law firm based in New York City. With nearly 2,000 attorneys, it is one of the highest-grossing law firms in the world.Forbes magazine called Skadden "Wall Street's most powerful law firm," and the firm has been named as America's best Corporate Law firm every year since 2001.

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In 2014, Skadden was the fourth largest law firm in the U.S. by revenue; in 2010 it was the second-largest in the world by revenue. Skadden had about 1,886 attorneys in 23 offices in 2011. The total number of employees at the firm is nearly 4,200. Measured by the number of attorneys, Skadden is the second-largest law firm in the state of New York, the sixth largest in the United States. In 2010, the National Law Journal ranked Skadden 4th in its list of the 250 largest law firms in the United States. In 1995, Forbes's Largest Private Companies ranked Skadden as 335th on the list of the largest private U.S. companies by revenue. By 2003 Skadden had risen to 194th before falling back to 213th in 2010.