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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…
First-year comp
$225,000+
Market rate
Profits per partner
$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
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…
$235,000+
$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
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
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
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
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
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…
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.…
Pillsbury advises companies and investors in technology, energy and infrastructure, financial services, life sciences and digital health, and real estate and construction. Its firm materials place the intersection of…
$2.89M
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
Base salary
$2.51M