Client service dropped like a rock in the last year, and client recommendations have dropped along with it. The number of law firms earning client recommendations dropped by 9.0% or 33 law firms. This is after a drop of 12.5% in 2015—an ominous trend for law firms on the wrong side of this equation. The good news is the firms improving their client recommendations are well positioned to win new work at competitor expense.
The law firms climbing the ranks for Client Recommendations in the just-released BTI Brand Elite 2016 are:
Best of the Best:
Alston & Bird
Foley & Lardner
Jones Day
Kirkland & Ellis
McGuireWoods
Ropes & Gray
Sidley Austin
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Leaders:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Arnold & Porter
Baker & McKenzie
Baker Botts
BakerHostetler
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Bryan Cave
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dechert
Dentons
DLA Piper
Duane Morris
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fish & Richardson
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Greenberg Traurig
Hogan Lovells
Holland & Hart
Holland & Knight
Hunton & Williams
Jackson Lewis
Jenner & Block
K&L Gates
King & Spalding
Latham & Watkins
Littler Mendelson
Mayer Brown
Miller Canfield
Morgan Lewis
Morrison & Foerster
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Paul, Weiss
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Reed Smith
Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary
Seyfarth Shaw
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Squire Patton Boggs
Steptoe & Johnson
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sutherland
Thompson Hine
Troutman Sanders
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Learn how your firm can earn client recommendations in the new BTI Brand Elite 2016: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms, available now.