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?

By Staci Zaretsky on January 06, 2015 1:01 pm

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.

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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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