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.