Streamlining and making corporate counsel’s lives easier translates into better value.
Corporate counsel report the same number of law firms making changes in service delivery to increase value as last year, with 138 firms earning recognition in both 2015 and 2016, based on more than 600 interviews with corporate counsel. This may suggest legal project management has plateaued.
The lack of an increase in law firms delivering this attribute means the law firms making these changes have found a source of potent advantage.
The law firms climbing the Value Driver ranks and bucking the overall trend in the just-released BTI Brand Elite 2016 are:
Best of the Best:
Baker & McKenzie
Bryan Cave
Faegre Baker Daniels
Foley & Lardner
Jones Day
K&L Gates
Kirkland & Ellis
McGuireWoods
Sutherland
Leaders:
Alston & Bird
Arnold & Porter
BakerHostetler
Crowell & Moring
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Morgan Lewis
Reed Smith
Ropes & Gray
Seyfarth Shaw
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Stinson Leonard Street
Thompson Hine
Vinson & Elkins
Learn how to become a value driver in the new BTI Brand Elite 2016: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms, available now.