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Top Transactional Firms By Law School Pedigree

The law remains the only profession in which, even decades after graduation, your peers actually care about where you went to school.

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2016-transactional-law-firms-by-pedigreeThe law remains the only profession in which, even decades after graduation, your peers actually care about where you went to school. Part of that is because lawyers have few objective measures of competence: you can’t point to a won-lost record, and bragging about your billing rates is not something clients really want to hear.

Part of it is because the risk averse people attracted to the law use prestige as a proxy for safety and success.

With that in mind, we present the second installment of the ATL Pedigree rankings: Top Transactional Firms By Pedigree. (Last year, we published the Litigation version of this ranking. Based on your clicks, your derision of the concept of “prestige” is matched only by your desire to see it ranked.)

This ranking continues our Kafkaesque look at the interplay between law school and law firm rankings, focusing on transactional practice. Do firms confer prestige on schools? Do prestigious law students self-select the most prestigious firms? How much prestige do you need before clients will pay for it?

Our Top Transactional Firms By Pedigree ranking is the fulfillment of its own prophecy. Are you not entertained?

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