2020 Best Law Firms in the Midwest
Jones Day
A heavy-hitter with a hand in most major areas of law and an internationally recognized prowess in litigation, Jones Day boasts offices in 19 countries spread over five continents. Among the firm’s booming practices include antitrust, appellate...
Squire Patton Boggs
Through a mix of organic growth and strategic combinations, Squire Patton Boggs has created one of the most comprehensive legal platforms, spanning 47 offices across 20 countries on five continents. A multi-disciplinary team of more than 1500...
Baker & Hostetler LLP
A Cleveland native with a largely domestic focus, BakerHostetler is home to nearly 1,000 lawyers across 14 offices throughout the U.S. The firm maintains the requisite laundry list of BigCorp clients as well as a small yet respectable lobbying...
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
In early 2012, Minnesota-based Faegre Benson joined with Indianapolis firm Baker & Daniels to form Faegre Baker Daniels, a 770-attorney firm with more than 20 practice areas. Founded by Grover Cleveland's #2 Baker & Daniels was...
Dentons
The megafirm known as Dentons is the product of a flurry of mergers in the last half decade, most recently with McKenna Long & Aldridge in April 2015, which left the firm with more than 7,000 lawyers and professionals in more than 150...
Foley & Lardner LLP
While Foley & Lardner handles a wide range of business matters, the majority of the firm’s major clients come from the automotive, energy, health care, life sciences, and technology fields. With an excellent healthcare practice and a client...
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Employing a combination of expansion, foreign alliances, and domestic mergers, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has established itself in the 21st century as an ambitious upstart on the global scene while retaining its historic ties to the Show Me...
Husch Blackwell LLP
Formed from a 2008 combination of two midwestern law firms--Husch & Eppenberger and Blackwell Sanders--Husch Blackwell is a full-service law firm with strengths in business law and litigation. With about 600 attorneys and still growing, the...
Polsinelli PC
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 800 attorneys across 22 offices, serving corporations, institutions and entrepreneurs nationally. In 1972, Jim Polsinelli and colleagues formed the firm to serve business and real estate clients in...
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Dorsey & Whitney was founded in 1912 when William Lancaster, a prominent Minneapolis lawyer, joined forces with David Simpson, a Minnesota Supreme Court justice. The pair established their practice for one very simple reason: the First...