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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is devoted to business litigation and arbitration. Its international office network extends across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia, while maintaining a…
First-year comp
$235,000+
Market rate
Profits per partner
$9.54M
Paul Hastings was founded in 1951 and has developed an international practice serving investment banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its current firm materials emphasize financial and business clients, with…
$225,000+
$8.33M
Jones Day presents itself as an integrated international firm in which clients can draw on lawyers across offices, disciplines, and continents. Its recruiting materials emphasize institutional client relationships…
$1.73M
King & Spalding traces its history to Atlanta in the 1890s and operates across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Its firm materials describe an international practice built around industry…
$7.26M
DLA Piper combines an international legal practice with an industry-based approach to client work. Its materials describe legal teams working across markets and overlaying practice expertise with sector knowledge.…
$4.14M
McDermott Will & Schulte advises on corporate transactions, investment management, litigation, tax, and restructuring. Its services also include intellectual property, employment, and regulatory matters.
$255,000+
$5.17M
Holland & Knight's services cover corporate transactions, finance, regulated industries, and disputes. Its finance offering includes commercial and asset-based lending, asset finance, fund finance, private credit,…
$2.51M
Greenberg Traurig is one of the largest and most entrepreneurial law firms in the world, and its growth trajectory over the past two decades has been remarkable. With approximately 3,200 attorneys in offices across…
Varies by office
$2.90M
Alston & Bird traces its roots to predecessor firms dating to 1893; the merger that created the Alston & Bird name took place in 1982. Its history records expansion from Georgia into Washington, North Carolina, New…
$4.55M
Dentons was launched in 2013 through the combination of Salans, Fraser Milner Casgrain and SNR Denton. Further combinations have shaped its development. The firm describes its organization as polycentric: it is…
$959K
BakerHostetler's practice addresses the legal risks that arise across a business, including transactions, disputes, privacy, intellectual property and regulatory issues. Its public materials organize some of this…
$215,000
Base salary
$2.48M
McGuireWoods' practice includes debt finance and government investigations, serving financial institutions, businesses, and individuals. Its financing work covers secured and unsecured credit arrangements,…
$2.68M
Troutman Pepper Locke advises clients in energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, and real estate. Its services span transactions, litigation, and…
$1.85M
Fox Rothschild is a national firm whose practice combines a broad geographic network with office-level industry and client relationships. Its firm materials emphasize the connection between that larger platform and…
$205,000
$1.34M
Squire Patton Boggs advises private businesses and public-sector clients across an international platform. Its client base ranges from established multinational companies to emerging businesses, individuals, and…
$200,000
Gunderson Dettmer focuses on emerging companies and the venture capital and growth equity investors that finance them. Its practice follows businesses from their initial formation through growth and maturity, while…
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Fish & Richardson is an intellectual property firm founded in 1878, with a practice spanning litigation, patent prosecution, and the management of intellectual property portfolios. Its work combines legal analysis…
Polsinelli's healthcare work combines business transactions with real estate and regulatory advice. Its published representations include buying, selling, and growing healthcare businesses, with clients ranging from…
$225,000
$3.07M
Cozen O'Connor combines a broad business-law practice with a distinctive history in insurance-related disputes. Subrogation and recovery are particularly visible parts of the firm: that practice seeks recovery from…
$180,000 - $215,000
$1.29M
Seyfarth combines legal practice with a visible focus on the way legal services are organized and delivered. Its work includes employment matters, transactions, and disputes, while its public materials address…
$1.90M
Ballard Spahr combines litigation, transactions and regulatory advice with a substantial real-estate and finance practice. Its work includes development, land use, construction, housing, financing and disputes over…
$210,000
$1.00M
Hunton's practice has substantial connections to energy, financial services, real estate, retail and consumer products, and technology. Its history brings together practices with longstanding roots in Virginia and…
$2.63M
Duane Morris is a full-service law firm with an international practice and a history extending over a century. Its client work covers both disputes and business advice, with established practices in trial work,…
$1.68M
Akerman's practice combines business transactions with disputes, real estate and advice on regulated industries. Its service offering includes corporate law, bankruptcy and reorganization, healthcare, intellectual…
$1.50M