Who Represents Who?
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Due to fact-checking and administrative errors, the master chart for our Who Represents America's Biggest Companies survey [September] contained several errors. The master chart records the outside law firms that appeared in public filings by Fortune 250 companies in 2006 for commercial law and contracts litigation, corporate transactions, labor and employment litigation, and intellectual property. As part of our Who Reps research, we also added up all the mentions in each practice area by law firm. Here are the corrected results.
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| Battle for the Minds |
| Three firms tie for the lead in the IP category this year |
| Firm |
Number of Mentions |
| Banner & Witcoff |
4 |
| Fish & Richardson |
4 |
| Hogan & Hartson |
4 |
| Baker Botts |
3 |
| Blakely Sokoloff |
3 |
| Foley & Lardner |
3 |
| Harness, Dickey |
3 |
| Keker & Van Nest |
3 |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
3 |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart |
3 |
| Perkins Coie |
3 |
| Sidley Austin |
3 |
| Wilmer Cutler |
3 |
| Down to Business |
| Kirkland & Ellis inches to the top of the commercial law and contracts litigation list. |
| Firm |
Number of Mentions |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
4 |
| DLA Piper |
3 |
| Law offices of Howard Lee Schiff |
3 |
| Adorno & Yoss |
2 |
| Baker & Daniels |
2 |
| Bowman and Brooke |
2 |
| Drinker Biddle |
2 |
| Greenberg Traurig |
2 |
| Hogan & Hartson |
2 |
| Hunton & Williams |
2 |
| King & Spalding |
2 |
| Morrison & Foerster |
2 |
| Ogletree, Deakins |
2 |
| Paul, Hastings |
2 |
| Quinn Emanuel |
2 |
| Schnader, Harrison |
2 |
| Shook, Hardy |
2 |
| Stroock & Stroock |
2 |
| The Upper Crust |
| Skadden is number one this year in overall mentions. |
| Firm |
Number of Mentions |
| Skadden |
26 |
| Littler Mendelson |
20 |
| Davis Polk |
18 |
| Ogletree, Deakins |
18 |
| Morgan, Lewis |
17 |
| Sidley Austin |
17 |
| Sullivan & Cromwell |
17 |
| Cleary Gottlieb |
14 |
| Paul, Hastings |
14 |
| Shearman & Sterling |
14 |
| Jones Day |
13 |
| Richards, Layton |
12 |
| Seyfarth Shaw |
12 |
| Kirkland & Ellis |
11 |
| Cravath |
10 |
| Hogan & Hartson |
10 |
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| Job Well Done |
| Littler Mendelson's hard work pays off in labor and employment litigation. |
| Firm |
Number of Mentions |
| Littler Mendelson |
19 |
| Morgan, Lewis |
16 |
| Ogletree, Deakins |
16 |
| Seyfarth Shaw |
12 |
| Paul, Hastings |
9 |
| Jackson Lewis |
8 |
| McGuireWoods |
7 |
| Akin Gump |
5 |
| Ballard Spahr |
5 |
| Fisher & Phillips |
5 |
| Ford & Harrison |
5 |
| Quarles & Brady |
5 |
| Reed Smith |
5 |
| Transaction Packed |
| Twenty-four mentions in corporate transactions helped Skadden take the lead. |
| Firm |
Number of Mentions |
| Skadden |
24 |
| Davis Polk |
18 |
| Sullivan & Cromwell |
16 |
| Cleary Gottlieb |
14 |
| Shearman & Sterling |
13 |
| Richards, Layton |
12 |
| Simpson Thacher |
11 |
| Cravath |
10 |
| Sidley Austin |
10 |
| Weil, Gotshal |
8 |
| Debevoise & Plimpton |
7 |
| Dewey Ballantine |
7 |
| Jones Day |
7 |
| Mayer, Brown |
7 |
| Osler, Hoskin |
7 |
| Wachtell |
7 |
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