Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms,9781581312546

Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms

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ISBN13: 9781581312546
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
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Summary

The only annually updated insider's guide to U.S. law firms, recognized as the best of its kind--an unbiased, investigative look at corporate culture, compensation and other legal lifestyles.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(2)
The State of the Law
3(3)
A Guide to this Guide
6(5)
THE VAULT PRESTIGE RANKINGS
11(22)
The Ranking Methodology
13(1)
The Vault 100
14(4)
Regional Rankings
18(6)
Departmental Rankings
24(9)
QUALITY OF LIFE RANKINGS
33(32)
Methodology
35(1)
Best 20 Law Firms to Work For
36(3)
Quality of Life Rankings by Category
39(26)
DIVERSITY RANKINGS
65(14)
Best 20 Law Firms for Diversity
67(5)
Diversity for Women
72(2)
Diversity for Minorities
74(2)
Diversity for Gays/Lesbians
76(3)
THE VAULT 100: FIRMS 1-50
79(408)
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
80(8)
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
88(10)
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
98(8)
Davis Polk & Wardwell
106(8)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
114(8)
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
122(8)
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
130(8)
Covington & Burling
138(8)
Latham & Watkins LLP
146(8)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
154(8)
Kirkland & Ellis
162(8)
Shearman & Sterling
170(8)
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
178(8)
Williams & Connolly LLP
186(8)
Debevoise & Plimpton
194(8)
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
202(8)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
210(8)
Arnold & Porter
218(8)
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
226(8)
White & Case LLP
234(8)
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
242(8)
Jones Day
250(8)
Hale and Dorr LLP
258(8)
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
266(8)
Ropes & Gray
274(8)
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
282(10)
Morrison & Foerster LLP
292(8)
Dewey Ballantine LLP
300(8)
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
308(8)
Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.
316(8)
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
324(8)
Clifford Chance LLP
332(10)
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
342(8)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
350(8)
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
358(8)
King & Spalding LLP
366(8)
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
374(8)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
382(8)
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
390(8)
Winston & Strawn
398(8)
Proskauer Rose LLP
406(8)
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
414(8)
Baker Botts L.L.P.
422(8)
Baker & McKenzie
430(8)
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
438(8)
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
446(8)
McDermott, Will & Emery
454(8)
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
462(8)
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
470(8)
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
478(9)
THE VAULT 100: FIRMS 51-100
487(102)
Jenner & Block, LLC
488(2)
Irell & Manella LLP
490(2)
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
492(2)
Alston & Bird LLP
494(2)
Kaye Scholer LLP
496(2)
Cooley Godward LLP
498(2)
Goodwin Procter LLP
500(2)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
502(2)
Dechert LLP
504(2)
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
506(2)
Allen & Overy
508(2)
Fish & Neave
510(2)
Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP
512(2)
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP
514(2)
Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.
516(2)
Hunton & Williams LLP
518(2)
Holland & Knight LLP
520(2)
Coudert Brothers LLP
522(2)
Foley & Lardner
524(2)
Perkins Coie LLP
526(2)
Piper Rudnick LLP
528(2)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
530(2)
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
532(2)
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP
534(2)
Crowell & Moring LLP
536(2)
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP
538(2)
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
540(2)
Fish & Richardson P.C.
542(2)
Patton Boggs LLP
544(2)
Bryan Cave LLP
546(2)
Bingham McCutchen LLP
548(2)
Fenwick & West LLP
550(2)
Pennie & Edmonds LLP
552(2)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
554(2)
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP
556(2)
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
558(2)
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
560(2)
Shaw Pittman LLP
562(2)
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
564(2)
Choate, Hall & Stewart
566(2)
Baker & Hostetler LLP
568(2)
Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman
570(2)
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
572(2)
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
574(2)
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
576(2)
Thelen Reid & Priest LLP
578(2)
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
580(2)
McGuireWoods LLP
582(2)
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP
584(2)
Preston Gates & Ellis LLP
586(3)
THE BEST OF THE REST
589(50)
Altheimer & Gray
590(1)
Andrews & Kurth L.L.P.
591(1)
Arter & Hadden LLP
592(1)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
593(1)
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP
594(1)
Blank Rome LLP
595(1)
Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.
596(1)
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
597(1)
Buchanan Ingersoll, Professional Corporation
598(1)
Cozen O'Connor
599(1)
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
600(1)
Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP
601(1)
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
602(1)
Duane Morris LLP
603(1)
Edwards & Angell, LLP
604(1)
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
605(1)
Foley Hoag LLP
606(1)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
607(1)
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP
608(1)
Haynes and Boone, LLP
609(1)
Hinshaw & Culbertson
610(1)
Jackson Lewis LLP
611(1)
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
612(1)
Jenkens & Gilchrist, A Professional Corporation
613(1)
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
614(1)
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
615(1)
Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP
616(1)
Lord Bissell & Brook
617(1)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
618(1)
Nixon Peabody LLP
619(1)
Palmer & Dodge LLP
620(1)
Pepper Hamilton LLP
621(1)
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP
622(1)
Reed Smith
623(1)
Schiff Hardin & Waite
624(1)
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
625(1)
Seyfarth Shaw
626(1)
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
627(1)
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
628(1)
Stoel Rives LLP
629(1)
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
630(1)
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP
631(1)
Thompson & Knight LLP
632(1)
Troutman Sanders LLP
633(1)
Venable LLP
634(1)
Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.
635(1)
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP
636(1)
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
637(2)
LEGAL EMPLOYER DIRECTORY
639(44)
Arizona
640(1)
Bryan Cave LLP
California
640(10)
Bryan Cave LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Cooley Godward
Fenwick & West LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP
Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe
Irell & Manella LLP
Latham & Watkins
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Morrison & Foerster
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
O'Melveny & Myers
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Pillsbury Winthrop
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Thelen Reid & Priest
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn
Colorado
650(1)
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Connecticut
650(1)
Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP
Distict of Columbia
650(5)
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
Arnold & Porter
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring LLP
Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Hogan & Hartson
Holland & Knight
Howrey Simon Arnold & White
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Patton Boggs LLP
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Shaw Pittman
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Steptoe & Johnson
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman
Venable
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Winston & Strawn
Florida
655(2)
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
Greenberg Traurig
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Georgia
657(1)
Alston & Bird
Ford & Harrison LLP
Kilpatrick Stockton
King & Spalding LLP
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Troutman Sanders
Illinois
658(3)
Altheimer & Gray
Baker & McKenzie
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Jenner & Block
Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman
Kirkland & Ellis
Lord Bissell & Brook
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
McDermott, Will & Emery
Piper Rudnick
Schiff Hardin & Waite
Seyfarth Shaw
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Winston & Strawn
Massachusetts
661(4)
Bingham McCutchen
Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart
Edwards & Angell
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Foley Hoag LLP
Goodwin Procter
Goulston & Storrs, PC
Hale and Dorr
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
Nixon Peabody
Palmer & Dodge LLP
Ropes & Gray
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault
Maryland
665(1)
Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
Piper Rudnick
Michigan
665(1)
Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey, P.L.C.
Minnesota
665(1)
Dorsey & Whitney
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Missouri
666(1)
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
New Jersey
667(1)
Lowenstein Sandler PC
New York
667(8)
Allen & Overy
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Chadbourne & Parke
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance LLP
Coudert Brothers
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dewey Ballantine
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Epstein Becker & Green
Fish & Neave
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Jackson Lewis
Kaye Scholer
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP
LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pennie & Edmonds LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop
Proskauer Rose
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Shearman & Sterling
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Sullivan & Cromwell
Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman
Thelen Reid & Priest
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Winston & Strawn
North Carolina
675(1)
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Ohio
675(3)
Arter & Hadden
Baker & Hostetler
Jones Day
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Oregon
678(1)
Stoel Rives LLP
Pennsylvania
678(1)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley
Buchanan Ingersoll
Cozen O'Connor
Dechert
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Duane Morris
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Pepper Hamilton
Reed Smith
Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP
Texas
679(2)
Andrews & Kurth
Baker Botts
Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.
Fulbright & Jaworski
Gardere Wynne Sewell
Haynes and Boone
Hughes & Luce
Jackson Walker
Jenkens & Gilchrist
Locke Liddell & Sapp
Thompson & Knight
Vinson & Elkins
Winstead Sechrest & Minick
Virginia
681(1)
Hunton & Williams
McGuireWoods
Washington
682(1)
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Perkins Coie
Preston Gates & Ellis LLP
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
Wisconsin
682(1)
Foley & Lardner
London, UK
682(1)
Allen & Overy
LEGAL RECRUITER FIRM DIRECTORY
683(24)
Arizona
685(1)
Phyllis Hawkins & Associates, Inc.
California
685(4)
Garb Jaffe & Associates Legal Placement, LLC
JM Associates
Kass/Abell Associates
Katharine C Patterson Consulting
Reece Legal Search
Russo & Fondell, Inc.
Seltzer Fontaine Beckwith
Swan Legal Search
Wolk Associates
District of Columbia
689(1)
Garrison & Sisson
GroupMagellan Attorney Placement LLC
Florida
690(1)
Hertner Block and Associates
Phillips & Juarez
Georgia
690(1)
BG Search Associates
Hughes Consultants
Illinois
691(1)
Haydon Legal Search
McCormack Schreiber Legal Search
Vera L. Rast Partners
Massachusetts
692(1)
Bickerton & Gordon LLC
New England Legal Search
New Jersey
692(3)
EM Messick Consulting
Myra Binstock Legal Search
Oliveras and Company Inc.
Reign Enterprises
New York
695(6)
Ann Israel & Associates
Conduit Recruiting Inc.
Gardiner Simpson Legal Search
Greene Levin Snyder LLC
J. Smith Associates, Inc.
Klausner Group
Klein Windmiller, LLC
Lexolution
Michael Lord & Co.
Sivin Tobin Associates, LLC
The Legal Recruiters
Toby Spitz Associates, Inc.
Wise Counsel
Pennsylvania
701(2)
Abelson Legal Search
Carpenter Legal Search, Inc.
Sacks Legal Search
Tennessee
703(1)
American Legal Search
Canada
704(1)
ZSA Legal Recruiting
Intellectual Property
704(3)
Janet Zykorie Legal Search
William K. McLaughlin
APPENDIX
707(2)
Alphabetical List of Law Firms
709(2)
Firms by Main Offices
711(2)
About the Authors
715

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