Law Firm Rankings 2011: Vault Law 100

The 2011 Vault Law 100 is here! This year, more than 15,000 law associates rated law firms on a scale of 1 to 10 based on prestige. (Associates were not allowed to rate their own firms, and were asked only to rate firms with which they were familiar.) [Please note: this year's Vault Law Firm Associate Survey was conducted prior to the Hogan Lovells merger and both pre-merger firms appear on the rankings chart.] See methodology

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1 1 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 8.953 New York, NY
2 2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 8.653 New York, NY
3 4 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 8.335 New York, NY
4 3 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates 8.181 New York, NY
5 5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 8.103 New York, NY
6 7 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 7.855 New York, NY
7 6 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 7.847 New York, NY
8 11 Williams & Connolly LLP 7.749 Washington, DC
9 8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 7.735 New York, NY
10 9 Covington & Burling LLP 7.540 Washington, DC
11 10 Kirkland & Ellis LLP 7.514 Chicago, IL
12 13 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 7.388 New York, NY
13 12 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 7.354 New York, NY
14 14 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP 7.220 Los Angeles, CA
15 17 Latham & Watkins LLP 7.212 New York, NY
16 15 Sidley Austin LLP 7.088 Chicago, IL
17 16 WilmerHale 6.973 Washington, DC
18 19 Jones Day 6.927 Washington, DC
19 23 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP 6.844 Los Angeles, CA
20 20 White & Case LLP 6.777 New York, NY
21 18 Arnold & Porter LLP 6.775 Washington, DC
22 21 Shearman & Sterling LLP 6.751 New York, NY
23 30 Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP 6.742 New York, NY
24 22 O'Melveny & Myers LLP 6.707 Los Angeles, CA
25 24 Ropes & Gray LLP 6.618 Boston, MA

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NR=Not rated (insufficient sample size or score below published rankings)



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