Baker & McKenzie Announces Record Revenues.PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998-- Fiscal Year '98 Results Announced at Firm's Annual Partners' Meeting in Paris At the conclusion of Baker & McKenzie's Annual Partners' Meeting, which was held from October 14-17 in Paris, John Klotsche, Chairman of the law firm's Executive Committee, announced today that the Firm's fiscal year 1998 revenues reached a record $785 million, a 13 percent increase over 1997. "Financially, we have just completed one of the stronger performances that Baker & McKenzie has experienced in recent years," said Klotsche. "Our offices in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. led the way with exceptionally strong years. And, despite the economic and financial turmoil in the Asia Pacific region and swings in the currency markets in Europe, our offices there fared quite well under very difficult circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or ." In addition to exceeding its financial goals, the Firm also made progress on several other key initiatives, including: -- Establishing its European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. Law Centre in Brussels and World Trade Organization Practice Group in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. , which serve as central resources for the Firm's global expertise in EU law and WTO See World Trade Organization. issues. -- Opening new offices in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Baku, Azerbaijan, the 58th and 59th cities where Baker & McKenzie is represented, as well as an affiliated office in Kuala Lampur. -- In partnership with the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. (Evanston, IL), launching the Kellogg Management Executive Education Program, which provides Baker & McKenzie Partners from around the globe with the latest in management theory. Since 1949, Baker & McKenzie has built a legal practice of global proportion. Today, Baker & McKenzie is the world's largest law firm with 59 offices in 34 countries, giving it unparalleled geographical coverage. A multinational network of 2,400 attorneys offers clients something no other law firm can match--resources and knowledge in every area of business law in virtually every important financial and commercial centre in the world. "As we kick off our year-long observance of the Firm's 50th anniversary, it is with the awareness that we cannot rest on our laurels," added Klotsche. "In the year ahead, we look forward to finding new and improved ways to deliver timely and top quality legal solutions to our clients, helping them navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. in what will undoubtedly continue to be turbulent economic waters." |
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