Texas firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Thompson & Knight are among the 10 highest-ranked firms on The American Lawyer’s 2020 Midlevel Associate Satisfaction Survey, where associates weighed in on what their firms are doing well and, perhaps, not so well.

Akin Gump, founded in Dallas 75 years ago, is ranked 6th on the survey, moving up from a 15th-place ranking last year. Thompson & Knight, also based in Dallas, is 9th this year, up from 17th in the 2019 version of the survey.