Profile: Shook, Hardy & Bacon is a Kansas City, Missouri-based law firm. It placed 86th on the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings of U.S. law firms based on size, with 484 attorneys working out of offices worldwide. In terms of revenue, the firm ranked 83rd on The American Lawyer's 2009 Am Law 100 rankings of U.S. firms, with gross revenue of $330,500,000 in 2008. The firm placed 99th on the 2005 Global 100 rankings of firms worldwide. Shook, Hardy & Bacon is a business law firm. Its practice groups include antitrust, commercial law, energy, health law, intellectual property, real estate, and tax. The firm is best known for its products liability litigation, and in particular for its defense of the tobacco industry.