Top 100 Law Firms for Third, Fourth, and Fifth-Year Associates

Summary: Midlevel associates ranked their law firms based a number of criteria to create a list of the top 100 law firms to work at.

By looking at compensation and benefits, training and guidance, relations with partners and other associates, policy on billable hours, managements openness to firm strategies and partnerships chances, and the interest and satisfaction level of the work at law firms among third, fourth, and fifth year associates, American Lawyer was able to create a ranking of the top law firms for associates of those years.

Here are the top 20 spots:

1. Paul Hastings (National) with an average score of 4.902
2. Cozen O’Connor in Philadelphia with an average of 4.741
3. O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles with an average score of 4.703
4. Blank Rome in Philadelphia scored 4.616
5. Ropes & Gray in Boston scored 4.599
6. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York scored 4.543
7. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (National) scored 4.515
8. BuckleySandler in Washington D.C. scored 4.495
9. Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Williams & Connolly in New York scored 4.493
10. Latham & Watkins (National) scored 4.457
11. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (National) scored 4.435
12. Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Memphis scored 4.400
13. Cadwalader, Wickersahm & Taft in New York scored 4.377
14. Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix scored 4.355
15. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York scored 4.337
16. Goulston & Storrs in Boston scored 4.328
17. Debevoise & Plimpton in New York scored 4.318
18. Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles scored 4.315
19. Kirkland & Ellis (National) scored 4.280
20. Holland & Knight (National) scored 4.263

Source: http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202735469012?slreturn=20150731212857

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