LAWFUEL Law Jobs – Between November 2005 and March 2006, Vault surveyed solicitors at major law firms and asked them to rank firms in terms of how prestigious it would be to work for them. We took these scores to calculate our prestige rankings. For our quality of life rankings, we asked associates to rate their own firms on issues such as treatment by partners, formal training, informal training and mentoring, hours and compensation and then scored the firms against each other.
The Top 25, (with their total scores):
1
Slaughter and May
8.447
2
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
8.220
3
Allen & Overy
7.994
4
Linklaters
7.982
5
Clifford Chance LLP
7.632
6
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
7.615
7
Herbert Smith
7.166
8
Sullivan & Cromwell
6.969
9
Macfarlanes
6.904
10
Shearman & Sterling
6.883
11
Lovells
6.824
12
Ashurst
6.749
13
White & Case
6.648
14
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
6.628
15
Latham & Watkins
6.419
16
Weil Gotshal & Manges
6.408
17
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
6.365
18
Davis Polk
6.148
19
Baker & McKenzie
6.117
20
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
6.103
21
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
6.000
22
Debevoise & Plimpton
5.933
23
Simmons & Simmons
5.930
24
Norton Rose
5.903
25
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