Where Are You From? 2012 Edition Part II
By David Feldman at 14 January, 2012, 2:37 pm
This is always fascinating to me. It’s time for our annual review of which regulators, law firms, accounting firms, Wall Street firms, news media, academics and others make up the over 30,000 annual visitors to our humble blog. I cannot thank you all enough for your loyalty and support, many of you started with us back in November 2006 when the whole blogging thing was pretty new! Our following has tripled since then which is pretty amazing to me since we cover a relatively narrow topic. There are so many different categories of visitors I’m going to divide them into two blog entries. Note that it can be hard to tell from Google Analytics exactly where everyone is from since many log on from major networks such as AOL or a China network. But we try anyway!
So let’s see who has been here in the last year (I only list those who have been here pretrty regularly):
The Regulators: Since the beginning we’ve been proud to see our friends at the Securities and Exchange Commission visiting regularly. FINRA is also here (guys, your network is still called the National Association of Securities Dealers!). We also have regular visits from Nasdaq, the NYSE Euronext, the Korean Stock Exchange, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the US House of Representatives, the US Senate and the FDIC. Cool no? Just waiting to see when the White House will check in!
The Law Firms: In truth it appears the bulk of our visitors are from major law firms. And several of my more direct competitors are here, thanks for checking in but sorry no free plugs! We also see regularly visitors from (this is in no particular order but all in this sentence were also regulars last year): Skadden Arps, Pillsbury Madison, Nixon Peabody, Kramer Levin, Haynes & Boone, Jones Day, Perkins Coie, Paul Hastings, Sidley & Austin, Foley Lardner, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Dechert Price, Wachtell Lipton, Gibson Dunn, Hodgson Russ, Duane Morris, O’Melveny & Myers, Cadwalader, Morgan Lewis, Holland & Knight, Shearman & Sterling, Bryan Cave, Carter Ledyard, Kirkland & Ellis, Lowenstein Sandler, Proskauer Rose, Seyfarth Shaw, Andrews & Kurth, Hale & Dorr, Mayer Brown, Paul Weiss, Fulbright & Jaworski, and McGuire Woods.
There are a whole bunch of new law firms that made the radar this year, here are some: Morrison & Foerster, Debevoise & Plimpton, Cooley Godward, Akerman Senterfitt, Patton Boggs, Fenwick & West, Kaye Scholer, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Shepperd Mullin, Morgan Lewis, Ballard Spahr, Hogan & Hartson, King & Spalding, Covington & Burling, Cahill Gordon, Cleary Gottlieb, Simpson Thacher, Baker & McKenzie, Goodwin Procter, Orrick Herrington, Pitney Hardin, Venable Baetjer and Pepper Hamilton. Wow, and welcome all!
Accountants: Great to see KPMG, Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse and BDO all here. I continue to wonder why more accountants and auditors don’t visit our friendly site!
In the next entry we hit Wall Street firms, academics and others.
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