Profile: Cooley Godward was a Palo Alto, California-based law firm that completed a merger with New York's Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman, to become Cooley Godward Kronish. In 2009, the firm ranked 51st on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 rankings of U.S. law firms with gross revenue of $552,000,000 in 2008. In the 2009 Global 100, the firm was ranked as the 62nd highest grossing law firm in the world. In terms of size, Cooley Godward ranked 59th on the National Law Journal's 2009 NLJ 250 rankings, with 665 attorneys. Cooley Godward represents emerging growth and public companies and the financial institutions that serve their markets. Practice areas include antitrust, emerging companies, intellectual property litigation, life sciences transactions, patent and technology, and technology transactions. Its office locations include San Diego and San Francisco.