The reputation of America’s once highly-regarded technology specialists is in freefall, according to a wide-ranging survey of the US’s 100 most admired law firms.

The annual prestige survey of US recruitment consultant Vault, which ranks firms from 1 to 10, shows a number of leading technology firms such as Brobeck Phleger & Harrison and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati plunging in the rankings.