Last year, DLA Piper increased its gross revenue by 17 percent, or $250 million, globally. Two years after the merger between DLA, Piper Rudnick, and Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, the resulting firm is thriving. Though the firm prefers to monitor its overall performance, its revenue in the U.S. did increase as well, by about 14.6 percent. A large part of DLA Piper’s profitable 2006 was due to work done in its five core areas. Mergers and acquisitions, large litigation matters, intellectual property, real estate and government affairs are the practice areas in which the firm most wants to gain an expertise.
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