Best Corporate Law Firms in America

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Gerry Riskin

PR Newsire (United Business Media) announced the top 20 Corporate Law Firms in America ranked by Directors and General Counsel:

The top 20 national corporate law firms for 2005, according to the directors surveyed by Corporate Board Member (with their 2004 ranking in parentheses), are:
1. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York (1)
2. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York (3)
3. Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York (2)
4. Sullivan & Cromwell, New York (4)
5. Jones Day, Cleveland (7)
6. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York (5)
7. Baker & McKenzie, Chicago (6)
8. Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago (11)
9. Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles (10)
10. Shearman & Sterling, New York (13)
11. Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York (9)
12. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles (8)
13. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto (18)
14. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Dallas (16)
15. Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston (12)
16. O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles (15)
17. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York (-)
18. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Washington D.C. (-)
19. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago (20)
20. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York (17)

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom topped the list for five straight years according to Corporate Board Member Magazine.

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