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Skadden was founded in New York in 1948 by Marshall Skadden, Les Arps, and John Slate. Joe Flom joined as its first associate that year, and Bill Meagher joined in 1959. The firm's history connects its growth to…
First-year comp
$225,000+
Market rate
Profits per partner
$7.01M
Latham & Watkins brings together transactional, litigation, and regulatory practices across major business and financial centers. Its firm materials describe a broad platform designed to combine disciplines around a…
$8.65M
Sullivan & Cromwell's practice combines corporate transactions with litigation, investigations, and advice to boards and senior executives. Its published work includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity,…
$235,000+
$7.57M
Kirkland & Ellis advises on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, investment funds, restructuring, commercial and intellectual property litigation, and white collar matters. The firm describes an open assignment…
$11.12M
Davis Polk advises on corporate transactions, financing and disputes, with financial institutions forming a particularly visible part of its practice. Its work for banks and other financial businesses connects…
$9.80M
Gibson Dunn's law student materials describe a practice covering litigation, appeals, and major business transactions. Summer associates can encounter work involving financing, mergers and acquisitions, public…
$8.89M
Simpson Thacher's published work includes private equity, fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and business litigation. Its client matters show recurring connections to investment managers, financial…
$8.57M
Sidley Austin's investment funds practice combines advice on financial products with securities regulation, tax, derivatives, capital markets, and enforcement. Its registered funds work includes traditional…
$5.97M
Covington & Burling advises clients on legal and public-policy matters. The firm's international practice addresses business issues involving law and government policy.
$225,000
$3.25M
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…
$9.54M
White & Case handles cross-border transactions, arbitration, and litigation through a platform combining US, English, and local-law capabilities. Its work involves international businesses and investors whose matters…
$4.41M
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…
$8.33M
Cooley's practice is closely associated with technology, life sciences and the investors that finance growing businesses. Its work includes company formation, venture financing, public offerings, acquisitions and…
$255,000+
$4.58M
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
Morrison Foerster is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Its practice serves clients on business legal matters across jurisdictions.
$3.29M
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader brings together the practices of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The combined firm's launch materials describe a platform centered on the intersection of business, finance,…
$3.52M
Morgan Lewis combines litigation, transactional advice, and regulatory services across an international platform. Its published offering includes corporate finance and investment management, business disputes,…
$2.27M
Orrick organizes its practice around energy and infrastructure, technology and innovation, finance, and life sciences and health technology. Its international platform serves businesses and investors working in those…
$4.20M
Clifford Chance is a Magic Circle firm with 3,700 attorneys globally, offering something no American firm can: a truly integrated international platform with the depth and prestige of a century-old London…
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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
Freshfields is an international law firm with a history stretching back nearly three centuries. It advises on transactions and disputes across borders, placing its US work within a wider international practice. Its…
Linklaters advises corporations, banks, investment funds, and financial sponsors on corporate, finance, and contentious matters across borders. Its history extends back nearly two centuries, and its current materials…
A&O Shearman was created in 2024 through the combination of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. Its identity rests on bringing English-law, US-law and local-law capabilities into the same international practice.…
Norton Rose Fulbright provides business-law services to corporations and financial institutions. Its industry coverage includes financial services, energy and infrastructure, technology, transport, life sciences and…
$2.06M