Rank in city

Score for office/city

Respondents

Arizona

Phoenix

CITY AVERAGE

4.520

Lewis and Roca

1

4.700

10

Snell & Wilmer

2

4.658

17

Greenberg Traurig

3

4.520

6

Quarles & Brady

4

4.437

14

Bryan Cave

5

4.283

9

California

Los Angeles

CITY AVERAGE

4.541

Morgan, Lewis

1

5.000

9

Winston & Strawn

2

4.969

7

Heller Ehrman

3

4.933

5

Sidley Austin

4

4.857

18

O’Melveny & Myers (Century City)

5

4.840

16

Pillsbury Winthrop

6

4.833

10

DLA Piper

7

4.822

5

Bingham McCutchen

8

4.772

12

Gibson, Dunn

9

4.766

29

Thelen Reid

10

4.756

5

Paul, Hastings

11

4.714

20

McDermott Will

12

4.703

12

Morrison & Foerster

13

4.676

12

Akin Gump

14

4.628

8

Milbank, Tweed

15

4.556

9

Katten Muchin

16

4.537

6

Manatt, Phelps

17

4.533

10

O’Melveny & Myers

18

4.527

23

White & Case

19

4.522

7

Irell & Manella

20

4.482

25

Orrick

21

4.464

6

Mayer Brown

22

4.452

5

Latham & Watkins

23

4.422

20

Bryan Cave

24

4.417

5

Skadden

25

4.406

21

Best Best (Riverside)

26

4.397

8

Munger, Tolles

27

4.371

13

Proskauer Rose

28

4.350

7

Kirkland & Ellis

29

4.322

10

Reed Smith

30

4.301

7

Sullivan & Cromwell

31

4.267

5

Sheppard, Mullin

32

4.182

11

Jones Day

33

4.146

13

Nossaman Guthner

34

4.133

5

Fulbright & Jaworski

35

3.872

7

Orange County

CITY AVERAGE

4.539

Morrison & Foerster (Irvine)

1

5.000

5

Gibson, Dunn (Irvine)

2

4.943

6

Paul, Hastings (Costa Mesa)

3

4.932

8

Snell & Wilmer (Costa Mesa)

4

4.530

8

Latham & Watkins (Costa Mesa)

5

4.460

8

Irell & Manella (Newport Beach)

6

4.289

6

O’Melveny & Myers (Newport Beach)

7

4.244

9

Bryan Cave (Irvine)

8

3.911

5

Sacramento

Orrick

4.511

5

San Diego

CITY AVERAGE

4.671

DLA Piper

1

4.938

7

Cooley Godward

2

4.769

9

Paul, Hastings

3

4.747

8

Morrison & Foerster

4

4.641

13

Luce, Forward

5

4.640

8

Fish & Richardson

6

4.578

5

Latham & Watkins

7

4.386

13

San Francisco Bay Area

CITY AVERAGE

4.498

Morgan, Lewis

1

4.907

14

Morgan, Lewis (Palo Alto)

2

4.878

9

Gibson, Dunn

3

4.856

10

Pillsbury Winthrop (Palo Alto)

4

4.841

7

Orrick (Menlo Park)

5

4.760

14

Gunderson Dettmer (Menlo Park)

6

4.757

11

Bingham McCutchen

7

4.750

16

O’Melveny & Myers (Menlo Park)

8

4.741

6

Jones Day (Palo Alto)

9

4.712

8

Gibson, Dunn (Palo Alto)

10

4.684

8

Ropes & Gray

11

4.683

6

Jones Day

12

4.638

12

Sedgwick, Detert

13

4.594

5

Fish & Richardson (Redwood City)

14

4.587

7

Sidley Austin

15

4.578

5

Latham & Watkins (Menlo Park)

16

4.572

14

Heller Ehrman (Menlo Park)

17

4.537

11

Howard, Rice

18

4.526

10

Morrison & Foerster

19

4.524

23

Cooley Godward (Palo Alto)

20

4.518

27

DLA Piper (Palo Alto)

21

4.508

7

Pillsbury Winthrop

22

4.491

16

Orrick

23

4.461

25

Latham & Watkins

24

4.449

19

Cooley Godward

25

4.439

7

Morrison & Foerster (Palo Alto)

26

4.429

15

Nixon Peabody

27

4.427

6

Fenwick & West

28

4.413

7

O’Melveny & Myers

29

4.403

10

Wilson Sonsini (Palo Alto)

30

4.396

31

Fenwick & West (Mountain View)

31

4.383

20

Skadden (Palo Alto)

32

4.356

5

Davis Polk (Menlo Park)

33

4.351

6

Winston & Strawn

34

4.276

11

Thelen Reid

35

4.259

12

Kirkland & Ellis

36

4.244

23

Paul, Hastings

37

4.201

11

Reed Smith (Oakland)

38

4.194

5

Paul, Hastings (Palo Alto)

39

4.178

5

Simpson Thacher (Palo Alto)

40

4.156

8

Heller Ehrman

41

4.131

28

Baker & McKenzie (Palo Alto)

42

4.110

6

Colorado

Denver

CITY AVERAGE

4.691

Snell & Wilmer

1

4.911

5

Hogan & Hartson

2

4.798

6

Holland & Hart

3

4.711

5

Faegre & Benson

4

4.682

8

Holme Roberts

5

4.352

10

Connecticut

Hartford

Day Pitney

4.630

11

Delaware

Wilmington

CITY AVERAGE

4.525

Skadden

1

4.710

13

Morris, Nichols

2

4.517

14

Connolly Bove

3

4.463

6

Young Conaway

4

4.411

10

District of Columbia

Washington, D.C.

CITY AVERAGE

4.460

Mayer Brown

1

4.988

9

Morgan, Lewis

2

4.929

23

Willkie Farr

3

4.906

5

Thelen Reid

4

4.876

8

Blank Rome

5

4.844

10

Dickstein Shapiro

6

4.812

19

McKenna Long

7

4.764

9

Morrison & Foerster

8

4.738

8

Sidley Austin

9

4.700

15

Ropes & Gray

10

4.696

8

McDermott Will

11

4.691

22

Alston & Bird

12

4.684

13

Heller Ehrman

13

4.679

9

Pillsbury Winthrop

14

4.674

14

Dechert

15

4.669

9

Covington & Burling

16

4.646

37

Arent Fox

17

4.639

12

Patton Boggs

18

4.633

7

Skadden

19

4.629

28

Jones Day

20

4.626

17

King & Spalding

21

4.620

12

Crowell & Moring

22

4.619

16

Orrick

23

4.614

11

Sutherland Asbill

24

4.600

10

O’Melveny & Myers

25

4.580

19

DLA Piper

26

4.550

11

Dow, Lohnes

27

4.506

13

Kirkland & Ellis

28

4.501

24

Latham & Watkins

29

4.462

26

Reed Smith

30

4.460

7

Kelley Drye

31

4.447

7

Winston & Strawn

32

4.446

7

Hogan & Hartson

33

4.433

51

Cadwalader

34

4.421

10

Steptoe & Johnson

35

4.408

24

Paul, Hastings

36

4.401

19

Sonnenschein Nath

37

4.400

5

Cleary Gottlieb

38

4.397

10

Wilmer

39

4.388

26

Hunton & Williams

40

4.370

6

Cooley Godward

41

4.361

5

Baker Botts

42

4.348

12

Arnold & Porter

43

4.344

37

Akin Gump

44

4.336

33

Bingham McCutchen

45

4.334

8

Dewey Ballantine

46

4.333

5

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

47

4.330

11

Sullivan & Cromwell

48

4.316

7

Fried, Frank

49

4.312

21

Ross, Dixon

50

4.311

5

Wiley Rein

51

4.290

17

Powell Goldstein

52

4.289

5

Nixon Peabody

53

4.226

8

Foley & Lardner

54

4.171

12

Fulbright & Jaworski

55

4.168

6

Baker & Hostetler

56

4.158

7

Goodwin Procter

57

4.156

5

Gibson, Dunn

58

4.150

20

White & Case

59

4.053

35

Howrey

60

4.048

10

McKee Nelson

61

4.037

9

Baker & McKenzie

62

2.978

5

Florida

Miami

CITY AVERAGE

4.640

Hunton & Williams

1

4.981

6

Carlton Fields

2

4.722

6

Greenberg Traurig

3

4.611

8

Holland & Knight

4

4.529

8

White & Case

5

4.358

9

Orlando

Baker & Hostetler

4.356

5

Tampa

Carlton Fields

4.733

5

Georgia

Atlanta

CITY AVERAGE

4.550

McKenna Long

1

4.930

18

Arnall Golden

2

4.822

10

Alston & Bird

3

4.737

38

DLA Piper

4

4.703

6

Paul, Hastings

5

4.666

18

Jones Day

6

4.622

10

Morris, Manning

7

4.599

13

King & Spalding

8

4.564

22

Troutman Sanders

9

4.530

26

Hunton & Williams

10

4.506

7

Smith, Gambrell

11

4.472

16

Thompson Hine

12

4.422

5

Kilpatrick Stockton

13

4.361

27

Sutherland Asbill

14

4.358

12

Powell Goldstein

15

4.318

15

Greenberg Traurig

16

4.183

8

Illinois

Chicago

CITY AVERAGE

4.518

Chapman and Cutler

1

4.878

10

Vedder, Price

2

4.812

9

Greenberg Traurig

3

4.744

5

Jones Day

4

4.700

14

Mayer Brown

5

4.691

51

DLA Piper

6

4.690

14

Wildman, Harrold

7

4.656

9

Schiff Hardin

8

4.607

15

McDermott Will

9

4.602

25

Paul, Hastings

9

4.602

7

Dykema Gossett

11

4.598

8

Seyfarth Shaw

12

4.597

11

Bell, Boyd

13

4.594

20

Baker & McKenzie

14

4.563

12

Sidley Austin

15

4.557

64

Kirkland & Ellis

16

4.549

66

Lord Bissell

17

4.539

13

Latham & Watkins

18

4.436

16

Drinker Biddle

19

4.429

7

Jenner & Block

20

4.396

62

Sonnenschein Nath

21

4.383

11

Skadden

22

4.381

28

Katten Muchin

23

4.101

21

Winston & Strawn

24

4.091

19

Foley & Lardner

25

3.756

5

Indiana

Indianapolis

CITY AVERAGE

4.396

Barnes & Thornburg

1

4.487

18

Baker & Daniels

2

4.304

31

Iowa

Des Moines

Belin Lamson

3.822

5

Maryland

Baltimore

CITY AVERAGE

4.487

Miles & Stockbridge

1

4.829

9

Whiteford, Taylor

2

4.587

7

DLA Piper

3

4.527

12

Venable

4

4.003

10

Massachusetts

Boston

CITY AVERAGE

4.637

Nutter McClennen

1

4.989

10

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

2

4.944

10

Mintz, Levin

3

4.917

16

McDermott Will

4

4.822

8

Choate, Hall

5

4.809

14

Bingham McCutchen

6

4.800

16

Sullivan & Worcester

7

4.791

7

Goodwin Procter

8

4.777

60

Seyfarth Shaw

9

4.689

5

Goulston & Storrs

10

4.682

8

Proskauer Rose

11

4.664

12

Foley Hoag

12

4.650

28

Holland & Knight

13

4.642

8

Wilmer

14

4.569

30

Ropes & Gray

15

4.558

55

Fish & Richardson

16

4.539

7

Nixon Peabody

17

4.531

8

Edwards Angell

18

4.490

22

Brown Rudnick

19

4.443

15

Greenberg Traurig

20

4.378

5

Weil, Gotshal

21

4.253

9

Skadden

22

4.067

5

Michigan

Detroit

CITY AVERAGE

4.523

Honigman Miller

1

4.681

7

Dykema Gossett

2

4.364

8

Minnesota

Minneapolis

CITY AVERAGE

4.567

Lindquist & Vennum

1

4.753

9

Fish & Richardson

2

4.711

8

Faegre & Benson

3

4.587

21

Dorsey & Whitney

4

4.533

18

Oppenheimer Wolff

5

4.502

9

Leonard, Street

6

4.476

18

Robins, Kaplan

7

4.406

15

Missouri

Kansas City

CITY AVERAGE

4.227

Shook, Hardy

1

4.520

25

Bryan Cave

2

4.222

6

Blackwell Sanders

3

3.939

9

St. Louis

CITY AVERAGE

4.530

Bryan Cave

1

4.927

20

Sonnenschein Nath

2

4.133

5

New Jersey

Florham Park

Day Pitney

4.433

9

Newark

CITY AVERAGE

4.645

Patton Boggs

1

4.756

5

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

2

4.533

5

Roseland

Lowenstein Sandler

4.499

12

New York

New York

CITY AVERAGE

4.549

Bingham McCutchen

1

4.990

11

Hunton & Williams

2

4.950

11

Morgan, Lewis

3

4.941

24

Pillsbury Winthrop

4

4.931

24

Blank Rome

5

4.919

8

Gibson, Dunn

6

4.917

22

Milbank, Tweed

7

4.866

63

Dechert

8

4.859

12

Mintz, Levin

9

4.844

5

DLA Piper

10

4.834

19

Brown Rudnick

11

4.822

5

Willkie Farr

11

4.822

55

Kelley Drye

13

4.802

16

Dorsey & Whitney

14

4.800

5

Arent Fox

15

4.794

6

Dickstein Shapiro

16

4.791

9

Fulbright & Jaworski

17

4.768

12

Goodwin Procter

18

4.751

24

Schulte Roth

19

4.734

34

Wilmer

20

4.722

5

Orrick

21

4.713

19

Sidley Austin

22

4.703

38

Katten Muchin

23

4.697

15

McDermott Will

24

4.694

21

Cooley Godward

25

4.689

5

Holland & Knight

26

4.668

6

Mayer Brown

27

4.652

25

Alston & Bird

28

4.638

12

Troutman Sanders

29

4.636

7

Greenberg Traurig

30

4.611

15

Heller Ehrman

31

4.599

16

Chadbourne & Parke

32

4.589

25

Weil, Gotshal

33

4.579

70

Arnold & Porter

34

4.576

10

Fitzpatrick, Cella

35

4.556

18

Kasowitz, Benson

35

4.556

11

McKee Nelson

35

4.556

12

Patterson Belknap

35

4.556

10

Seyfarth Shaw

35

4.556

6

Kramer Levin

40

4.549

16

Fried, Frank

41

4.548

59

Sullivan & Cromwell

42

4.543

68

Allen & Overy

43

4.542

17

Bryan Cave

44

4.541

14

Ropes & Gray

45

4.536

32

Curtis, Mallet

46

4.533

10

Kirkland & Ellis

47

4.532

29

Latham & Watkins

48

4.528

37

Proskauer Rose

49

4.523

41

Clifford Chance

50

4.517

43

Thelen Reid

51

4.511

17

Reed Smith

52

4.507

9

Akin Gump

53

4.506

11

Hogan & Hartson

54

4.492

18

King & Spalding

55

4.491

15

Bracewell & Giuliani

56

4.489

5

Morgan & Finnegan

56

4.489

10

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart

58

4.488

11

Paul, Hastings

59

4.486

46

Cahill Gordon

60

4.480

35

Covington & Burling

61

4.467

5

Kaye Scholer

62

4.456

21

Shearman & Sterling

63

4.449

39

Skadden

64

4.446

86

Hughes Hubbard

65

4.407

26

Davis Polk

66

4.406

56

Cravath

67

4.404

60

Paul, Weiss

68

4.401

62

Cleary Gottlieb

69

4.392

69

Thacher Proffitt

70

4.369

19

Simpson Thacher

71

4.334

76

O’Melveny & Myers

72

4.330

13

LeBoeuf, Lamb

73

4.314

32

Morrison & Foerster

74

4.313

12

Wachtell

75

4.307

17

Linklaters

76

4.283

13

Debevoise & Plimpton

77

4.272

45

Dewey Ballantine

78

4.236

29

White & Case

79

4.219

34

Jones Day

80

4.213

16

Cadwalader

81

4.197

35

Winston & Strawn

82

4.153

9

Baker & Hostetler

83

4.000

5

Nixon Peabody

84

3.969

7

Wilson Sonsini

85

3.814

6

Rochester

CITY AVERAGE

4.676

Nixon Peabody

1

4.742

9

Harris Beach

2

4.609

6

North Carolina

Charlotte

CITY AVERAGE

4.276

Alston & Bird

1

4.488

13

Hunton & Williams

2

4.370

6

Mayer Brown

3

4.300

7

Katten Muchin

4

4.111

5

Cadwalader

5

4.109

12

Ohio

Cincinnati

CITY AVERAGE

4.481

Frost Brown

1

4.611

6

Vorys, Sater

2

4.528

5

Taft, Stettinius

3

4.517

8

Thompson Hine

4

4.267

5

Cleveland

CITY AVERAGE

4.496

Benesch, Friedlander

1

4.696

8

Calfee, Halter

2

4.533

5

Jones Day

3

4.478

21

Baker & Hostetler

4

4.453

12

Thompson Hine

5

4.322

8

Columbus

CITY AVERAGE

4.477

Jones Day

1

4.667

5

Vorys, Sater

2

4.543

8

Porter Wright

3

4.366

7

Baker & Hostetler

4

4.333

6

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

CITY AVERAGE

4.680

Buchanan Ingersoll

1

5.000

5

Fox Rothschild

2

4.883

5

Blank Rome

3

4.822

25

Ballard Spahr

4

4.821

23

White and Williams

5

4.800

5

Morgan, Lewis

6

4.799

28

Drinker Biddle

7

4.794

19

Cozen O’Connor

8

4.773

11

Dechert

9

4.724

36

Wolf, Block

10

4.642

10

Reed Smith

11

4.631

9

Stradley Ronon

12

4.581

9

Pepper Hamilton

13

4.529

12

Duane Morris

14

4.510

11

Saul Ewing

15

4.468

11

Montgomery, McCracken

16

4.457

9

Schnader Harrison

17

4.333

6

Pittsburgh

CITY AVERAGE

4.674