The firm has been recognized by American Lawyer magazine as one of the country's best law firms to work for (2008).
He left the firm after three years, in 1979, to become executive editor of the American Lawyer magazine.
The Lawyer magazine said that the ruling "professionalised the expert witness industry".
The American Lawyer magazine named the firm its litigation boutique of the year for 2009.
Last year, according to American Lawyer magazine, the firm took in more than $700 million in revenue.
The term was first coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005.
By 1994 The Lawyer magazine reported that the firm had the 34th largest family law department in England.
American Lawyer magazine called the firm one of the "best places" in the country for legal staff to work.
News of the possible merger was first reported yesterday by American Lawyer magazine.
Ten years had passed since he launched his iconoclastic American Lawyer magazine.