How does Vault come up with its list of the Top 100 firms in the country? The first step is to compile a list of the most renowned law firms in the land by reviewing the feedback we receive from previous surveys, consulting our previous lists, poring over legal newspapers, talking to lawyers in the field and checking out other published rankings. This year, our list was made up of 165 law firms. We asked these 165 law firms to distribute a password-protected online survey to their associates. More than 15,000 attorneys returned anonymous surveys to Vault. Associates from all over the country and the world responded. We heard from lawyers in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Miami, Cleveland, Seattle, Orlando, Phoenix and Atlanta, among many other domestic locations, not to mention Hong Kong, London, Paris and beyond. The online survey asked attorneys to score each of the 165 law firms on a scale of 1 to 10 based on how prestigious it is to work for the firm. Associates were asked to ignore any firm with which they were unfamiliar and were not allowed to rank their own firm.
We collected all the surveys and averaged the score for each firm. The firms were then ranked in order, starting with the highest average prestige score as No. 1 on down to determine the Vault Top 100. Remember that in the Top 100, Vault is not assessing firms by profit, size, lifestyle, number of deals or quality of service; we are ranking the most prestigious law firms based on the perceptions of currently practicing lawyers at peer firms.
Many thanks to the 15,000+ survey respondents for your insights!
| 2011 RANK | 2010 RANK | CHANGE | FIRM | PRESTIGE SCORE | LOCATION |
| 1 | 1 |  | Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | 8.953 | New York, NY |
| 2 | 2 | | Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | 8.653 | New York, NY |
| 3 | 4 |  | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | 8.335 | New York, NY |
| 4 | 3 |  | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates | 8.181 | New York, NY |
| 5 | 5 | | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 8.103 | New York, NY |
| 6 | 7 | | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | 7.855 | New York, NY |
| 7 | 6 | | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | 7.847 | New York, NY |
| 8 | 11 | | Williams & Connolly LLP | 7.749 | Washington, DC |
| 9 | 8 | | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | 7.735 | New York, NY |
| 10 | 9 | | Covington & Burling LLP | 7.540 | Washington, DC |
| 11 | 10 | | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | 7.514 | Chicago, IL |
| 12 | 13 | | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | 7.388 | New York, NY |
| 13 | 12 | | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | 7.354 | New york, NY |
| 14 | 14 | | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP | 7.220 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 15 | 17 | | Latham & Watkins LLP | 7.212 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 16 | 15 | | Sidley Austin LLP | 7.088 | Chicago, IL |
| 17 | 16 | | WilmerHale | 6.973 | Washington, DC |
| 18 | 19 | | Jones Day | 6.927 | Washington, DC |
| 19 | 23 | | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP | 6.844 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 20 | 20 | | White & Case LLP | 6.777 | New York, NY |
| 21 | 18 | | Arnold & Porter LLP | 6.775 | Washington, DC |
| 22 | 21 | | Shearman & Sterling LLP | 6.751 | New York, NY |
| 23 | 30 | | Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP | 6.742 | New York, NY |
| 24 | 22 | | O'Melveny & Myers LLP | 6.707 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 25 | 24 | | Ropes & Gray LLP | 6.618 | Boston, MA |
For more : http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa/rankings/individual?rankingId1=2&rankingId2=-2&rankings=1&rankingYear=2011®ionId=0
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