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Career Center: The Associate Experience

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Is my associate experience better than your associate experience?
One of the cooler features on the Above The Law Career Center, powered by Lateral Link, is the ability to compare firms based on associate experience in a number of areas including firm management, partnership prospects, parental leave policies, vacation policies, billable hours expectations, etc. You can see how your experience stacks up against the experience of associates at other firms by running your own side-by-side comparisons in the firm comparison section.
Thousands of readers have used this feature, and today we wanted to highlight which firms you have most often pitted against one another. We also want to remind all of you summer associates out there to take our short summer associate survey – Click Here for that (of course the survey is completely confidential).
So which firms do our readers compare most frequently?
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is the firm most often compared to others. Its most frequent "rivals" are Latham & Watkins, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. These firms are compared to Skadden more than 30% of the time a comparison including Skadden is generated.
Other frequent comparisons, after the jump.


Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the second most frequently compared firm, being checked out slightly less than 10% of the time.
Readers most often want to see how Kirkland compares to Ropes & Gray LLP and Sidley Austin LLP.
Coming in third in the comparison rankings is Alston & Bird LLP. Not surprisingly, this destination for people heading to the southeast is most often pitted against other firms that are prominent in the region, including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and King & Spalding LLP.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is the fourth most frequently compared firm. Our readers stack it up against, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Latham & Watkins most often.
Fifth on the list is Covington & Burling. Readers most often want to see how the experience of the all-star litigators in this shop compares to that of other DC powerhouses, Williams & Connolly LLP and Arnold & Porter LLP.
This just gives a flavor of how the firms overall compare in our readers’ minds. Next week we’ll
reveal which firms our readers with partnership ambitions are most curious about.
As always, we encourage to send information about your law firm experience to
careercenter@abovethelaw.com.
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