The Top 20 Firms
Last Years Rank
1. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York 1
2. Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York 2
3. Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 3
4. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York 4
5. Jones Day, Cleveland 6
6. Baker & McKenzie, Chicago 7
7. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York 5
8. Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago 9
9. Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles 8
10. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles 10
11. Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York 11
12 (tie). Shearman & Sterling, New York
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto
14. O’Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles 14
15. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Dallas 12
16. Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston 17
17. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago 18
18. Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.
19. Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York 16
20. Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C. –
