Dorsey & Whitney LLP vs. Fredrikson & Byron vs. Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Category by category. Sources: Vault 2027, Am Law 200 FY2025, and reported Chambers records from the years shown.
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Est. 1912
A full-service firm with Upper Midwest roots and a broad corporate, finance, litigation, energy, and intellectual-property practice.
Est. 1948
Fredrikson & Byron is a ~377-attorney firm. Jurisdiction-specific Chambers rankings include Band 1 in Corporate/M&A, Energy & Natural Resources, and Healthcare.
Est. 2020 · Merger
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is a 1,000-plus-attorney firm. Jurisdiction-specific Chambers rankings include Band 1 in Antitrust, Banking & Finance, and Capital Markets: Debt & Equity. Operates from 19 offices worldwide.
- Not Reported
- #99
- 14 records
- Vault rank
- Not Reported
- Am Law rank
- #145
- Reported Chambers Band 1 records
- 6 records
- Vault rank
- #85
- Am Law rank
- #56
- Reported Chambers Band 1 records
- 22 records
- $190,000
- $1.35M
- $578.28M
- Revenue per lawyer
- $1.02M
- First-Year Comp
- $225,000
- Profits Per Partner
- $788K
- Firm revenue
- $302.80M
- Revenue per lawyer
- $804K
- First-Year Comp
- $225,000
- Profits Per Partner
- $1.61M
- Firm revenue
- $1.19B
- Revenue per lawyer
- $1.16M
- Not Reported
- Not Reported
- Not Reported
- Firm size (rounded to 50)
- ~600
- Offices
- 22
- Billable target
- Not Reported
- Partnership track
- Not Reported
- US associates per partner
- Not Reported
- Firm size (rounded to 50)
- ~400
- Offices
- 9
- Billable target
- 1,900
- Partnership track
- Not Reported
- US associates per partner
- 0.8:1
- Firm size (rounded to 50)
- ~1,200
- Offices
- 19
- Not Reported
- Class size
- 37 (year not confirmed)
- Not Reported
- Not Reported
- Offer rate
- Not Reported
- Class size
- 17 (year not confirmed)
- How associates get work
- Not Reported
- Specific practice area
- Not Reported
- Offer rate
- 98.5%
- Class size
- 72 (year not confirmed)
- How associates get work
- Not Reported
- Specific practice area
- Case by Case
Green marks the stronger for the same practice, market and year. Shared results are listed once. split some top tables.
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Data sources: Vault 2027, Am Law 200 FY2025, and reported Chambers records from the years shown. Chambers record counts can span years and reporting coverage varies; missing years or markets are not compared. Current Chambers bands were checked against each firm’s Chambers profile on Sep 26, 2026; where Chambers splits a table, every Elite firm ranks above every Highly Regarded firm. Missing values read “Not Reported”.