The 140 Law Firms GCs Recommended Most
Client recommendations sit at the epicenter of law firm hiring and recurring business. Virtually every top legal decision maker looks to peer recommendations when first thinking of hiring a new law firm. Fully 64% of these decision makers will hire the first firm recommended — even if this firm is recommended just once — hence the power of the unprompted recommendation.
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The Law Firms Top Legal Decision Makers Recommend Above All Others
The peer-to-peer recommendation is serious business. Every recommendation is a personal statement about the type of provider — the commitment, service, quality, and demeanor — you are willing to entrust to a peer — from whom they would expect the same.
"Which law firm do you recommend to your peers?"
Based on more than 350 in-depth interviews with top legal decision makers conducted between April 3, 2020 — June 17, 2021.
Superior client service is consistently the leading driver of law firm recommendations by General Counsel and accounts for nearly 4 times more recommendations (75%) than any other single factor.
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BTI’s Most Recommended Law Firms by General Counsel
The 11 Law Firms Most Recommended
Arnold & Porter
DLA Piper
Eversheds Sutherland
Foley & Lardner
Gibson Dunn
Jones Day
King & Spalding
Latham & Watkins
Littler
McDermott Will & Emery
McGuireWoods
The 21 Law Firms Highly Recommended
Baker Botts
Baker McKenzie
BakerHostetler
Covington
Dentons
Duane Morris
Goodwin
Hall Render
Hogan Lovells
Holland & Knight
Jackson Lewis
K&L Gates
Manatt
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree Deakins
Orrick
Ropes & Gray
Seyfarth Shaw
Sheppard Mullin
Simpson Thacher
Wilson Sonsini
The 26 Law Firms Frequently Recommended
Alston & Bird
Arent Fox
Bradley
Buckley
Cooley
Davis Polk
Debevoise
Faegre Drinker
Fieldfisher
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Ice Miller
Kirkland & Ellis
Locke Lord
Mayer Brown
Mintz
Morgan Lewis
Morrison & Foerster
Pillsbury
Quarles & Brady
Reed Smith
Sidley
Skadden
Squire Patton Boggs
Venable
Winston & Strawn
Womble Bond Dickinson
The 82 Law Firms Recommended
| Adams and Reese | Kilpatrick Townsend |
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | Kutak Rock |
| Allen & Overy | Lash & Goldberg |
| Ballard Spahr | Lightfoot |
| Barnes & Thornburg | Maddin Hauser |
| Bass, Berry & Sims | McLane Middleton |
| Benesch | Michael Best |
| Blank Rome | Milbank |
| Bond | Moore & Van Allen |
| Bowman and Brooke | Nyemaster Goode |
| BoyarMiller | Paul Hastings |
| Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson | Paul, Plevin |
| Bricker & Eckler | Paul, Weiss |
| Burns & Levinson | Troutman Pepper |
| Carlton Fields | Perkins Coie |
| Choate | Polsinelli |
| Day Pitney | Riley Warnock & Jacobson |
| Dickinson Wright | Robbins Russell |
| Dinsmore | Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr |
| Fenwick | Schulte Roth & Zabel |
| Fish | Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary |
| Foley Hoag | Shearman & Sterling |
| Franzén and Salzano | Shook |
| Fredrikson & Byron | Smith, Gambrell & Russell |
| Freeborn & Peters | Sterne Kessler |
| Fried Frank | Stinson |
| Gordon Arata Montgomery Barnett | Stokes Wagner |
| Gowling WLG | Stradley Ronon |
| Greenberg Traurig | Sullivan & Cromwell |
| Groom | Taft |
| Grünecker | Ulmer |
| Haynes and Boone | Van Ness Feldman |
| Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd | Vedder Price |
| Hinckley Allen | Vinson & Elkins |
| Hudson Cook | von Briesen |
| Husch Blackwell | Vorys |
| Hyman, Phelps & McNamara | Weil |
| Jones Walker | White & Case |
| Kean Miller | Williams & Connolly |
| Keegan Werlin | Willkie |
| Keller and Heckman | ZwillGen |
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Methodology
No law firm submissions, self-referrals, firm referrals, suggestions, or payments are accepted for inclusion.
All interviews with top legal decision makers are confidential and anonymous, by company and person.
Probed more than 350 top legal decision makers at large organizations with $700 million or more in revenue.
The BTI Most Recommended 2021 draws solely on in-depth, telephone-based interviews as part of BTI’s ongoing Annual Survey of General Counsel, now in its 20th year.
BTI is the sole sponsor of this research. BTI funds the research and controls the editorial content.
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