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SCORE
9.032
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Relatively tiny Williams & Connolly has resisted
globalization and continues to hold its own against firms ten times
its size by following a basic...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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2
SCORE
8.985
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Over the last few decades, Paul Hastings has grown from a
mid-market U.S. firm to an international outfit with strengths in
employment, tax, and business...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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3
SCORE
8.883
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Born of a January 2011 merger between the Atlanta-based
Kilpatrick Stockton and Bay Area firm Townsend and Townsend and
Crew, Kilpatrick Townsend &...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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4
SCORE
8.878
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Each year, a significant chunk of the world's dealmaking-major
mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and shareholder litigation,
big-name restructurings,...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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5
SCORE
8.876
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An influential player in the development of
American intellectual property law, Fish & Richardson has
evolved with the inventions of its clients:...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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6
SCORE
8.824
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Ropes & Gray has expanded in every measurable way in the
21st century, acquiring smaller boutique firms in the States while
claiming new turf in Asia...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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7
SCORE
8.750
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Hailing from the land of red socks and chowder, Foley Hoag has
stayed close to its Boston roots. With only four locations-in
Massachusetts, New York, DC,...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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8
SCORE
8.714
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A Southern California power for the past 75
years, Irell & Manella matches or exceeds its multinational
peers in salary, prestige and high-stakes...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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9
SCORE
8.698
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For 75 years, Littler has been a leader in the area of labor and
employment law on a national, and recently, international
scale.
Bay Area...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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10
SCORE
8.674
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One of SoCal's elites, Munger, Tolles &
Olson has only recently expanded beyond the Golden State. The firm
is similarly consistent in its recruiting:...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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11
SCORE
8.664
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been cultivating the
persona of an eccentric genius-shocking the often-staid (OK,
uptight) legal world with its...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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12
SCORE
8.624
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With a full name like Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, it's no
surprise that this firm is the product of big mergers between
well-established practices....
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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13
SCORE
8.610
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McGuireWoods' roots stretch back to 1834 in Charlottesville,
Virginia, when Egbert R. Watson began his law practice. Today, the
firm regularly serves the...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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13
SCORE
8.610
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Schiff Hardin is a mid-sized firm with a national practice. Its
300 lawyers practice in the firm's headquarters in Chicago and in
five other offices in...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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14
SCORE
8.588
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In January 2014, the law firms of Carlton Fields, PA and Jorden
Burt, LLP merged to form Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, which now
boasts more than 375...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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15
SCORE
8.585
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Starting as a two-man outfit in 1947, Holland & Hart has
become one of the largest firms in the Rocky Mountain West. Among
its most notable practices...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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16
SCORE
8.572
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Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has been known as one of the
nation's pre-eminent law firms for nearly 200 years. With
industry-leading practices on both...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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17
SCORE
8.564
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Founded in Texas in 1945, Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has grown to become one of the world's
largest law firms, with over 900 lawyers...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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18
SCORE
8.558
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Cooley LLP was founded in 1920 in San
Francisco by Arthur Cooley and Louis Crowley. The practice they
started went on to become a major player in...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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19
SCORE
8.548
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Squire Patton Boggs has a multi-disciplinary
team of more than 1,500 lawyers in 46 offices across 21 countries
on five continents. Their expansion has...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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