Profile: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, based in New York, ranks first on The American Lawyer's 2008 Am Law 100 with $2,170,000,000 in gross revenue in 2007. The firm has held the number one spot for the past twelve years. In terms of its global ranking, the firm placed third on the 2007 Global 100 revenue rankings. With respect to number of attorneys, the National Law Journal's 2007 NLJ 250 ranks Skadden as the fifth largest law firm in the United States with 2,086 attorneys (as of 9/30/07) in office locations worldwide. Skadden, Arps was the first law firm to ever break a billion dollars in annual revenues, which it did in 1999, and represents some of the country's largest corporations.