Clients prefer to work with firms they like. They will pour their hearts out about their deepest, most vexing problems to firms they love.

The loved firms get first access to everything. Especially the plum work with the record-setting rates.

Love easily eclipses satisfaction and trust – think client devotion.

Fee discussions are easier, and you are always the first to know of anything remotely meaningful. These clients will advocate for you inside and outside their organization – and make you better at what you do.

The 113 law firms earning this rare emotional support:

•  Help clients succeed
    Making in-house counsel look effective and insightful to business leaders and executives.

•  Are unfailingly reliable
    Clients never wonder whether the firm will show up when it counts.

•  Act quickly and decisively
    Especially when clients face uncertainty or change.

•  Make it easy to work with them
    Forget friction, false starts, and clunky administrative processes – everything runs smoothly.

•  Understand client’s business deeply
    They connect legal advice to business outcomes.

•  Anticipate needs
    Jump in and proactively address the problems clients have not articulated quite yet.

•  Include clients early in strategy discussions
    It’s a collaboration where clients want to make their law firms as successful as outside counsel want to make their clients.

•  Field the absolute best team for each matter
    No such thing as a “B” team for these clients.

•  Communicate without being prompted, keeping clients informed and prepared
    Ongoing dialogue with clients is the norm – the information is constantly flowing on a real time basis.

•  Deliver practical, actionable recommendations clients can immediately use
    So down to earth clients can forward them to their CEO without editing.

These firms are deeply embedded in client success. They become part of it – making them indispensable.

Congratulations to the 113 firms loved by clients:

Best of the Best

Baker McKenzie
Davis Wright Tremaine
DLA Piper
Eversheds Sutherland
Gibson Dunn

Hogan Lovells
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown

Morrison & Foerster
Ogletree Deakins
O’Melveny
Sidley
Sullivan & Cromwell

Leaders

Alston & Bird
Covington
Faegre Drinker

Holland & Hart
Jones Day
K&L Gates

Littler
Nelson Mullins

Distinguished

Baker Botts
Cooley
Dentons
Duane Morris
Dykema
Foley & Lardner
Freshfields
Germer
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Husch Blackwell
Jackson Lewis
Kilpatrick Townsend
Manatt
Milbank
Morgan Lewis
Orrick
Perkins Coie
Polsinelli

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Ropes & Gray
Seyfarth Shaw
Sheppard Mullin
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Troutman Pepper Locke
Vinson & Elkins
WilmerHale
Wilson Sonsini

Standouts

A&O Shearman
Akin
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Baker Donelson
BakerHostetler
Ballard Spahr
Barnes & Thornburg
Bird & Bird
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Butzel Long
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass
Crowell & Moring
Davis Polk
Debevoise
Desmarais
Dinsmore
Dorsey
Eimer Stahl
Epstein Becker Green
FBT Gibbons
Fieldfisher

Fox Rothschild
Goldberg Segalla
Goodwin
Goulston & Storrs
Greenberg Traurig
Hall Render
Haynes and Boone
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Honigman
Hudson Cook
Hueston Hennigan
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jackson Walker
Kelley Drye
Knobbe Martens
Kullman
Kutak Rock
Lewis Brisbois
Maynard Nexsen
McGuireWoods
Messner Reeves

Paul Hastings
Proskauer
Reed Smith
Rumberger Kirk
Saul Ewing
Scopelitis
Skadden
Smith Anderson
Steptoe
Taft
Thompson Coe
Thompson Hine
Vedder Price
Venable
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
White & Case
Williams Mullen
Wilson Elser
Winston & Strawn
Young Conaway
ZwillGen

You can learn all the details on how these elite firms earn the love – and the new business coming with it in the just-released 25th annual BTI Client Service A-Team. Get your copy today.

Best in earning the love –

MBR

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