The saturation of the world’s principal legal centre has not always been conducive to the established, historic group of mid-market New York leaders getting the credit it deserves.

Firms like Kaye Scholer, Proskauer Rose, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Chad-bourne & Parke have found themselves battling for exposure with Wall Street’s elite, Manhattan’s international expansionists and aggressive out-of-towners.