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The Biglaw Firms With The Highest Partner Billing Rates (2015)

Some partners are getting closer and closer to a $2,000 per hour rate. Which firms do they come from?

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Here’s the list of the 10 Biglaw firms with the highest hourly partner rates:

  • Gibson Dunn: $1,800
  • Dickstein Shapiro: $1,250
  • Kaye Scholer: $1,250
  • WilmerHale: $1,250
  • Akin Gump: $1,220
  • Kasowitz Benson: $1,195
  • MoFo: $1,195
  • Skadden: $1,150
  • Cozen O’Connor: $1,135
  • Baker & McKenzie: $1,130

This list looks almost exactly the same as last year’s, save for Kaye Scholer and Cozen O’Connor making moves to join the top 10 of the Four-Figure Club — and booting out Bracewell & Giuliani and Paul Weiss in the process. To see the full list of firms and their average, high, and low billing rates for both partners and associates, click here.

For those of you dying to know the name of the partner who bills a whopping $1,800 per hour, it’s none other than the man, the myth, the legend… Ted Olson. Congrats!

Since we know our readers love Biglaw schadenfreude, where the rich can’t command an hourly fee to make them rich enough for their own liking, we’ve got the details on the New York firms with the lowest partner billing rates:

  • Orrick: $715
  • White & Case: $700
  • Stroock: $675
  • Dechert: $670
  • Weil Gotshal: $625
  • Kasowitz Benson: $600
  • Greenberg Traurig: $535
  • Norton Rose: $525
  • DLA Piper: $450
  • Jones Day: $445

Where do you fall in comparison? Do you aspire to be a member of the Four-Figure Club? Feel free to discuss your rate’s prestige or lack thereof in the comments.

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Billing Rates Rise, Discounts Abound [National Law Journal]
Billing Rates at the Nation’s Priciest Firms [National Law Journal]

Earlier: The Biglaw Firms With The Highest Partner Billing Rates (2014)

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