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    The American Lawyer Student Edition/November 2007


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    Urban Planning As in real estate, location, location, location is key for law students weighing job offers. This chart ranks firms by city. Only offices with at least five respondents are included. Some firms listed here are not on the national charts, which required ten responses from each firm. The scores, rankings, and number of respondents on this chart pertain only to the firm's office in the indicated city. All responses were scored on a 5-point scale, with 5 being the highest score. For more details, see Methodology.

    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