Rankings
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Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 41 – 60 (2011)
We’re doing our annual march through the Vault prestige rankings, to give ATL readers the opportunity to have their say about perks and pitfalls at these firms. If your firm actually let you swap your Blackberry for your iPhone, brag here. Or if your firm has such a strong stench that it makes you nauseous, […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Can Stanford Become the #1 Law School? Outlook Not So Good.
Late last month, we posed a question: Can Stanford overtake Harvard and Yale and become the #1 law school? We consulted our Magic 8 Ball, which gave this answer: “Outlook Not So Good.” And it’s not just the Magic 8 Ball. Professor Bill Henderson, one of the leading academics studying the legal profession, constructed a […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Rankings, Vault rankings, Williams & Connolly
The Best Firms To Work For, When It Comes To 'Quality of Life'
Forget about prestige (momentarily). Which firms have the best quality of life? Vault has compiled its annual Law Firm Quality of Life Rankings, based on associate surveys. Associates were asked to rate their firms on “overall satisfaction, associate/partner relations, firm culture, hours, compensation, office space, training, and pro bono and green initiatives.” Williams & Connolly […]
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Biglaw, Rankings, Vault rankings
Is Wachtell Overrated?
As we mentioned on Friday, in discussing a retired partner’s messy divorce from a European beauty, Wachtell Lipton is one of the country’s most prestigious and most profitable law firms. Its partners make millions — even years after they have left the firm. In the new Vault practice group rankings, the M&A powerhouse came out […] -
Akin Gump, Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings, Willkie Farr
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 31 – 40 (2011)
We’ve gotten away from plowing through the latest Vault Rankings, but fear not. Your firm is coming up soon. We’ve been through the top 30 firms. But now we’re getting into a group of firms that really utilized the cost-cutting measures of salary cuts and layoffs to weather the recession of 2009. Did these guys […] -
Law Schools, Rankings
Is Law School Prestige Wildly Overrated?
I don’t know how I missed this last week, but a study reported in the WSJ Law Blog claims that law school prestige is overrated. Significantly overrated. The ABA Journal — which picked up the story this morning — summarizes the work of a professor from UCLA and a professor from Brooklyn Law: [UCLA law […] -
Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Munger Tolles & Olson, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 21 – 30 (2011)
We’re rolling through the Vault 2011 list of the “prestigiest” firms in the land, so that you can comment on what it’s like to actually live, work, and breathe those firms (when you’re not choking on all the prestige in the air). We’ve covered #1-10 and #11-20. Here’s the next round-up. Now it’s time for […] -
Law Schools, Martha Minow, Rankings
Can Stanford Overtake Harvard and Yale and Become the #1 Law School?
Hello, West Coast readers! How’s it hangin’ out there past the Rockies? Here at Above the Law, we try to overcome any suggestion of East Coast bias by consistently publishing a post later in the day for our readers in the Pacific time zone. And we try to be generally aware of West Coast firms […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Rankings, Vault rankings
Vault Practice Group Rankings
We’re taking a break from our march through the Vault prestige rankings to look at another way of pitting law firms against each other: practice group strength. It’s an approach that’s favored by groups such as Chambers and Partners. Instead of focusing on overall firm prestige, these rankings focus on which firms are great at […] -
Movies, Old People, Rankings, Television
The 25 Greatest Fictional Lawyers
The courtroom lends itself to dramatization. A trial has a natural story arc: The adversarial system makes for a clear conflict between characters. There’s a natural end point when both sides rest their cases and the verdict comes down. Plus, lawyers are such loveable characters. And so there are many great movies and TV shows […] -
Biglaw, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 1 - 10 (2011)
The real utility of the Vault law firm rankings isn’t the opportunity they give to prestige whores who want to lord their status over others. The rankings — conveniently released just before the start of on-campus recruiting — allow law students to get an inside peek at the firms that will soon be coming to […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News
Law School Transparency Group Seeks Data from Law Schools
Back in April, we reported on an admirable organization called Law School Transparency. The goal of LST: “encouraging and facilitating the transparent flow of law school employment information.” Given what’s typically at stake — three years of your life, and six figures of cash (or student loans) — the decision to attend law school is […] -
Biglaw, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings, Williams & Connolly
The 2011 Vault Rankings Are Out!
Oh yeah, it’s time to get your prestige on. The 2011 Vault prestige rankings went live this morning. It’s the time of the year when associates get to make fun of their friends, and partners get to brag to their peers. Law is a prestige-conscious field, and the Vault rankings will set the tone for […]
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General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Money, Rankings
The Highest-Paid General Counsel (Kind of)
Corporate Counsel has released its annual list of the highest-paid general counsel in the land. The trend this year is a leveling-off, says Corporate Counsel, thanks to the recession and the belt-tightening that results from a greater transparency for executive compensation. The party slows down when the lights come on. These GCs still managed to […] -
BuckleySandler, McKool Smith, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Rankings
The Best Midsized Lifeboats Law Firms
Have you fallen off the Biglaw bandwagon and can’t get up? Were you lucky enough to hang onto your Biglaw job and are just now realizing that the blessing was actually a horrible curse on your lifestyle? Well, then maybe you’re in the mood to downsize to a midsized law firm, but you just don’t […] -
In-House Counsel, Law Schools, Rankings
In-House Counseling: Splitting Hairs
Ed. note: This post is written by Will Meyerhofer, a Biglaw attorney turned psychotherapist, whom we profiled. A former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney, he holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work. He blogs at The People’s Therapist. An editor at Above the Law suggested some months back that […] -
Bad Ideas, Law Professors, Law Schools, LSAT, Media and Journalism, Rankings, U.S. News
Law Profs Want Schools to Stop Reporting LSAT Scores to U.S. News
From the files of “things that will never freaking happen,” the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) is telling law schools to discontinue divulging LSAT scores to U.S. News for the publication’s annual rankings. SALT should duck before that flying pig smacks it upside its head. The National Law Journal reports: [SALT] has urged law […] -
In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings
The Tier System Within The Law School Tiers (According to Shell Oil)
Lawyers are obsessed with rankings. When the new U.S. News law school rankings come out each year, our readers swarm around them like sharks who smell blood in the water. And with good reason. Where you went to school matters in this profession. In our series of open threads about the rankings, Elie commented in […] -
listserv, Rankings
Cornell Law Ranked #4 By Cornell Student Who Reads Above the Law
Last week, we told you about a Cornell contracts exam gone bad. It’s just one exam, but you know that Cornell law students can be somewhat skittish. The school is ranked #13 by U.S. News, and so their spot in the top-14 is always under attack. After our story about the contracts exam, one Cornell […] -
Law Schools, Rankings, Screw-Ups, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (Fourth Tier)
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end We’ve come to the end of the U.S. News Law School Rankings. The Fourth Tier. The schools that are friends to those who will do anything in order to go to law school. Here is an open thread to discuss […]