Best Law Firms for Substantive Work

Associates were asked to rate their firm on a 1-to-10 scale for each of several quality of life categories. The firm's score in each quality of life category is simply the average of the scores its associates gave in that area. It is important to note that those firms without a high enough aggregate of associates completing the survey were ineligible to appear in these rankings.

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2014 Rank	2013 Rank	Change	Company	Score	Location
1	NR	—	Williams & Connolly LLP	9.032	Washington, DC
2	NR	—	Paul Hastings LLP	8.985	New York, NY
3	NR	—	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	8.883	Atlanta, GA
4	NR	—	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	8.878	New York, NY
5	NR	—	Fish & Richardson P.C.	8.876	Boston, MA
6	NR	—	Ropes & Gray LLP	8.824	Boston, MA
7	NR	—	Foley Hoag LLP	8.750	Boston, MA
8	NR	—	Irell & Manella LLP	8.714	Los Angeles, CA
9	NR	—	Littler Mendelson P.C.	8.698	San Francisco, CA
10	NR	—	Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	8.674	Los Angeles, CA
11	NR	—	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP	8.664	Los Angeles, CA
12	NR	—	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP	8.624	New York, NY
13	NR	—	McGuireWoods LLP	8.610	Richmond, VA
13	NR	—	Schiff Hardin LLP	8.610	Chicago, IL
14	NR	—	Carlton Fields Jorden Burt	8.588	Tampa, FL
15	NR	—	Holland & Hart LLP	8.585	Denver, CO
16	NR	—	Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	8.572	New York, NY
17	NR	—	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	8.564	Washington, DC
18	NR	—	Cooley LLP	8.558	Palo Alto, CA
19	NR	—	Squire Patton Boggs LLP	8.548	Washington, DC
20	NR	—	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	8.542	Los Angeles, CA
21	NR	—	Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC	8.529	Memphis, TN
22	NR	—	Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP	8.519	Boston, MA
23	NR	—	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP	8.500	Los Angeles, CA
24	NR	—	Akerman LLP	8.492	Miami, FL
25	NR	—	Alston & Bird LLP	8.488	Atlanta, GA

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