ATL March Madness for Law Firms, Round 2 (Part 1): The Sweet Sixteen

Last week, we brought you our NCAA-tournament style March Madness for Law Firms. We took the top 32 firms from the Vault prestige ratings and asked you to vote on which firms were the “safest” — the places where you’re least likely to get laid off.

After Round One, we’re down to the Sweet (Safe) Sixteen.

The higher-ranked teams firms won in all of last week’s contests but one: Magic Circle firm Linklaters (V26) upset 2008 March Madness tournament champ Latham (V7). Sadly, Latham’s bench was not as deep this year. Apparently, voters disagreed with this line of reasoning.

There were two particularly close matches. As predicted by one commenter:

Gibson v Wilmer in the first round is gonna be a close race.

Gibson Dunn won out, but barely, while Kirkland eked out a victory over Jones Day.

The most popular match with 6226 votes was Ropes & Gray vs Davis Polk & Wardwell. Check out which firms advanced, and vote on the first four match-ups of the Sweet Sixteen round, after the jump.

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Here are the new brackets, reflecting the firms that have advanced to the Sweet Sixteen.

Vote on the first four match-ups from the bracket’s Big Left. The other eight firms head to the courts on Thursday. Polls will close on Sunday at midnight.

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Earlier: ATL March Madness for Law Firms, Round 1: Which Biglaw Firm is Safest? — Part 1 and Part 2