Dataset 5

US Cities: Law Firm Office Geographies, 1998

Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor


These data are derived from the now defunct web site entitled ‘Law Journal Extra’ describing the top 250 law firms in the US. Here only the 100 law firms with foreign offices are included. These firms are found in just 20 US cities and their offices are distributed across 72 foreign cities. Some analyses of these data can be found in Geographies of Globalization: United States Law Firms in World Cities (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 4).

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Numbers of lawyers in foreign offices of US law firms arranged by cities (Cities are ordered by number of firms with foreign offices).XLS
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Inter city matrix of US cities and foreign cities: numbers of lawyers in foreign cities for law firms from US cities.XLS
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Acknowledgement: These data were collected by Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor as part of their ESRC project ‘The Geographical Scope of London as a World City’ (R000222050) and constitute Dataset 5 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.