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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
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
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
Milbank's practice includes financing work connected to projects, technology, and infrastructure. Its public materials highlight transactions involving telecommunications, media, and technology finance, including…
$235,000+
$7.62M
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
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
Weil's practice is organized around corporate work, litigation, restructuring, and tax, executive compensation, and benefits. Its international offices operate under an integrated approach intended to combine…
$5.59M
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
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
Willkie Farr & Gallagher began in New York in 1888 with four lawyers and has developed a US and European practice. Its current firm materials describe a coast-to-coast American presence alongside offices in major…
$4.96M
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…
$255,000+
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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
McDermott Will & Schulte advises on corporate transactions, investment management, litigation, tax, and restructuring. Its services also include intellectual property, employment, and regulatory matters.
$5.17M
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…
Dechert advises asset managers, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, life sciences businesses, and multinational companies. Its practice addresses complex business legal matters.
$6.20M
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…
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
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
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…
Ogletree Deakins began practice in Greenville and Atlanta in 1977. Its employer-focused services include labor relations, employment litigation, workplace safety, immigration, benefits and investigations. A 2027…
$1.20M