Profits may be surging. But law firm’s client service just peaked.
Top legal decision makers adopted a new world view on managing the legal department — and managing outside counsel. Clients are looking for new mission critical behaviors to define client service — and selecting law firms accordingly.
Clients virtually doubled the number of core activities they use to separate excellent client service from the good. Of the 17 activities, clients tell us are most influential — the 7 most important client service activities during the pandemic are:
Long considered the gold standard in measuring client service performance, by clients and law firms alike the BTI Client Service A-Team 2022 is the only source for measuring client service solely from the client perspective.
Now in its 21st year — this is the most important edition ever with 350 new, in-depth interviews conducted during the pandemic.
It’s a crazy client service world out there — and there is only one road map:
BTI Client Service A-Team 2022: Survey of Law Firm Client Service Performance
These elite firms outperform everyone else. Clients are clear and specific as to why and what they do.
Learn how they do it and why clients love it.
1 Jones Day
2 DLA Piper
3 Gibson Dunn
4 Ogletree Deakins
5 Kirkland & Ellis
6 Littler
7 Sidley
8 Morgan Lewis
9 Shook, Hardy & Bacon
10 Latham & Watkins
11 King & Spalding
12 Duane Morris
13 McGuireWoods
14 Jackson Lewis
15 Reed Smith
716.25
584.74
460.32
446.16
445.00
407.90
374.80
373.58
360.49
357.45
332.20
303.64
275.33
268.31
264.17
16 Mintz
17 WilmerHale
18 Dentons
19 Thompson Hine
20 Mayer Brown
21 Davis Polk
22 Hogan Lovells
23 Fish & Richardson
24 Arnold & Porter
25 Cravath, Swaine & Moore
26 Pillsbury
27 Foley & Lardner
28 Ropes & Gray
29 Faegre Drinker
30 Skadden
257.66
256.61
244.89
243.94
242.52
238.15
235.00
223.52
221.08
219.15
216.78
214.66
196.76
193.27
192.74
Akerman
Arent Fox
Baker Donelson
Bartlit Beck
Bradley
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Butler Snow
Cadwalader
Calfee
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
Chambliss
Clifford Chance
Clyde & Co
Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
Cooley
Cozen O’Connor
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Crowell & Moring
Davis Wright Tremaine
Fish & Richardson
Foley Hoag
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Frost Brown Todd
Goodwin
Greensfelder
Henson Efron
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Hogan Lovells
Holland & Hart
Jones Walker
Katten
Kelley Drye
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
Lewis Brisbois
Liskow & Lewis
Mintz
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Nelson Mullins
Ogletree Deakins
O’Melveny
Parker Hudson
Parker Poe
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss
Payne & Fears
Proskauer
Reed Smith
Shearman & Sterling
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Steptoe
Thompson Hine
Vernis & Bowling
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Warner Norcross + Judd
Weil
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Winston & Strawn
Womble Bond Dickinson
These firms stepped up in a big way and saw their performance soar.
These firms improved at more than twice the rate of all other law firms. They were able to step up and help clients in new and unexpected ways — and some old fashioned ways as well.
The BTI Client Service A-Team details exactly where your law firms stand, you can see:
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BTI Client Service A-Team 2022 draws on data collected in BTI’s ongoing Annual Survey of General Counsel. This study includes between 50% and 55% of companies participating in prior years. This approach provides for accurate analysis of longitudinal trends while simultaneously allowing for insights into new, changing, and coming shifts in the legal market.
This research is independent and unbiased — no law firm or organization other than BTI sponsors this study.
Each year, BTI reaches out to a strategically designed group of top legal decision makers at large organizations with $700 million or more in revenue. We target the decision makers in the industries who spend the most on legal affairs as well as thought leaders and innovative Chief Legal Officers. Our survey also includes Chief Legal Operating Officers and business executives who hire and influence the selection and hiring of law firms.
We grant interviewees confidentiality at the individual and organizational level.
BTI Client Service A-Team 2022: Survey of Law Firm Client Service Performance is your guide to client service excellence.
Client needs in 2022 are wider, require more rapid response, and many are new. And clients want law firms who know how to help — and act instead of asking what to do. A savvy group of 281 law firms jumped all over these new mandates. Learn who they are and how they did it in the new BTI Client Service A-Team 2022.
