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U.S. News Ranks Best Law Firms in the United States by Practice Areas Based on Answers to Questions in a Mailed Survey

By Andis Kaulins

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U.S. News, based primarily on a mailed survey, ranked the best law firms in the United States:

"A client survey was sent to 52,480 clients; a lawyer survey was sent to 43,900 lawyers, including every U.S. lawyer listed in Best Lawyers; surveys were sent to 2,314 marketing officers and 2,322 recruiting officers as well as to 8,597 firms without marketing- or recruiting-office contacts; and associate surveys were sent to 2,322 firm associates and 1,775 summer associates. The marketing-officer, recruiting-officer, associate, and summer-associate surveys included a total of 724 questions.

The level of response from this vast group exceeded our most optimistic expectations: 1,859 firms participated in the marketing-officer and recruiting-officer surveys; 9,514 clients ? including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies ? provided 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations; 6,190 clients provided 11,181 comments about law firm practice areas and individual lawyers; and 8,842 lawyers provided 594,012 firm practice-area evaluations. "

The firms are ranked by Tiers, e.g. Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3.

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Rankings by Practice Area

Full post as published by LawPundit on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).