Profile: Lathrop & Gage is a Kansas City, Missouri-based law firm. It acquired Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP on January 1, 2009. According to the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings of firms based on size, Lathrop & Gage has 279 attorneys and is the 151st largest firm in the United States. According to The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 200 rankings of firms based on revenue, Lathrop & Gage, with a 2008 gross revenue of $115,000,000, ranked 186th on the list. 2005 is the first year that Lathrop & Gage appeared on the Am Law 200 list. The firm has multiple offices in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New York, and Washington, D.C. A litigation and business law firm, Lathrop and Gage's primary areas of practice include business litigation and dispute resolution, corporate finance and securities, financial institutions, government contracts, intellectual property, medical malpractice, real estate, and tax.