The Am Law A-List: Ranking The Most Elite Law Firms In America (2019)

Your firm may be elite, but is it among the best of the best? Find out here.

Another day, another ranking for lawyers to ogle in a search for meaning as they attempt to get through the day’s billables. Such is the life of a Biglaw attorney, always on the hunt for confirmation that their firm is the best firm, the one that’s hitting all of its essential metrics year after year. If that sounds like you (and you might as well admit it, it probably does), then you should check out the latest offering from the American Lawyer, the annual A-List ranking.

Are you somehow unfamiliar with this ranking? Here are all of the metrics that it measures to determine which Biglaw firms are the best of the best:

The American Lawyer’s annual A-List ranking doesn’t measure size or profits. Rather, it highlights the best of the best law firms for their commitment to a variety of financial and cultural markers: revenue per lawyer, pro bono work, associate satisfaction, racial diversity and gender diversity among the partnership. The last metric was added to our calculation in 2017 to recognize firms for supporting women and making them partners.

With that said, the full top 20 firms and their scores are listed at the American Lawyer. Without further ado, here are the top 10 to satiate your rankings cravings (with the firms’ total scores noted parenthetically):

  1. Munger Tolles & Olson (89.8)
  2. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (88.8)
  3. Ropes & Gray (88.3)
  4. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (88.2)
  5. Covington & Burling (88.1)
  6. Debevoise & Plimpton (87.1)
  7. O’Melveny & Myers (86.8)
  8. Morrison & Foerster (86.4)
  9. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (85.9)
  10. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (84.6)

Congratulations to all of the firms that made this year’s Am Law A-List.

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Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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