Making a major expansion into Asia in 2008 with its acquisition of a 300-attorney Hong Kong firm, this law firm now has more than 1,800 lawyers working in 21 offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The firm's clients include more than half of the world's major investment banks as well as 89 of the Fortune 100 companies. Core practice areas at the firm include corporate, securities, and finance work, as well as Supreme Court and appellate litigation. Lateral Link Members praise the "sophisticated practice." The firm is known to heavily recruit among judicial clerks and Ivy League law schools, and Lateral Link Members report that although attorneys at the firm are not particularly social, they are "great people to work with."