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TiGGer

Joined: 11 May 2007
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Best Law Firms in the world
Sun Jun 22, 2008 01:52 PM
Hey!
I just wondered which are the Top 5 Law Firms in the world. Any suggestions?

I would say: Freshfields, Linklaters, Lovells, Clifford Chance, and maybe Taylor Wessing.
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york


Joined: 04 Feb 2005
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Mon Jun 23, 2008 09:16 PM
You forgot to mention American law firms ;-)

If you rank law firms by turnover, the list would be

Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Skadden
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins

www.thelawyer.com/global100/2006/tb_1-25.html

Taylor Wessing is nowhere in that list.

[Edited 23 Jun 2008 by york]
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Pitch

Joined: 25 Mar 2008
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Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:58 PM
In the UK the 4 Magic Circle Firms are:

Clifford Chance,
Allen & Overy,
Linklaters, and
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

In the USA the white shoe firms are:

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft,
Cravath, Swaine & Moore,
Davis Polk & Wardwell,
Debevoise & Plimpton,
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP,
Shearman & Sterling,
Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett,
Sullivan & Cromwell,
White & Case,
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison,
Proskauer Rose,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom,
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton.
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