AmLaw 2027 Standard Rates Set for Historic Rise Due to Technology Deals
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Through this process the Platform provides actionable data to our users - mainly law firms, corporations and consulting firms - to make:
- Direct comparisons between attorneys and firms (as opposed to general averages of a collection of various firms' rates as found in surveys or e-billing services) and
- Important pricing and strategy decisions enterprise-wide or engagement-by-engagement.
In the Platform, all hourly rates, hours and fees for each individual attorney are cited as to the source. For example, the citation from a court filing includes Case Name, Case Number, Court, Case Filing Date, Filing Number, Filing Description, Attorney and Support Staff listed by Full Name, Client Name, hourly rate of each Timekeeper, hours billed, total hours and the time period in which the work was performed. As mentioned, further secondary research is required to confirm experience levels (graduation and bar licensure years), bar state (in the United States) or bar region, province and / or country, practice area(s) and primary industry of the client.
In order to provide this detailed level of clarity and transparency, the Platform processes and uploads public disclosure documents identified in:
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Legal services engagement letters and budgets from municipalities, districts (school, water, environmental and others), counties and states where attorneys were hired and / or budgeted to perform legal work for the public entity for a specific period time or for a specific engagement
- Federal Department, Commission and Agency Registrations such the Security Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Government affairs fees
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Valeo Research and Reporting Methodology
Section 1: Average Standard and Billed Hourly Rates and Discounts for all Law Firms Combined
- AmLaw 10
- Overall
- AmLaw 25
- Overall
- AmLaw 50
- Overall
- AmLaw 51-100
- Overall
- AmLaw 100
- Overall
- AmLaw 101-200
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- AmLaw 200
- Overall
Section 2: Average Standard and Billed Hourly Rates and Discounts by Individual Law Firms
- #1 Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Overall
- #2 Latham & Watkins LLP
- Overall
- #3 DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Overall
- #4 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Overall
- #5 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Overall
- #6 Sidley Austin LLP
- Overall
- #7 Ropes & Gray LLP
- Overall
- #8 Baker & McKenzie LLP
- Overall
- #9 White & Case LLP
- Overall
- #10 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Overall
- #11 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Overall
- #12 Hogan Lovells LLP
- Overall
- #13 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Overall
- #14 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Overall
- #15 Jones Day
- Overall
- #16 McDermott Will & Schulte
- Overall
- #17 Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Overall
- #18 Dentons
- Overall
- #19 Norton Rose Fulbright
- Overall
- #20 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
- Overall
- #21 Goodwin Procter LLP
- Overall
- #22 Paul Hastings LLP
- Overall
- #23 King & Spalding LLP
- Overall
- #24 Cooley LLP
- Overall
- #25 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Overall
- #26 Holland & Knight LLP
- Overall
- #27 Mayer Brown LLP
- Overall
- #28 Milbank LLP
- Overall
- #29 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- Overall
- #30 Covington & Burling LLP
- Overall
- #31 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- Overall
- #32 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Overall
- #33 Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
- Overall
- #34 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
- Overall
- #35 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Overall
- #36 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Overall
- #37 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
- Overall
- #38 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Overall
- #39 Dechert LLP
- Overall
- #40 Reed Smith LLP
- Overall
- #41 Proskauer Rose LLP
- Overall
- #42 Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Overall
- #43 Foley & Lardner LLP
- Overall
- #44 Alston & Bird LLP
- Overall
- #45 Squire Patton Boggs
- Overall
- #46 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Overall
- #47 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
- Overall
- #48 K&L Gates LLP
- Overall
- #49 Winston & Strawn LLP
- Overall
- #50 Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
- Overall
- #51 Perkins Coie LLP
- Overall
- #52 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Overall
- #53 Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
- Overall
- #54 McGuireWoods LLP
- Overall
- #55 Polsinelli PC
- Overall
- #56 Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Overall
- #57 O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Overall
- #58 Vinson & Elkins LLP
- Overall
- #59 Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Overall
- #60 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
- Overall
- #61 Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Overall
- #62 Littler Mendelson P.C.
- Overall
- #63 Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Overall
- #64 Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Overall
- #65 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Overall
- #66 Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- Overall
- #67 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
- Overall
- #68 Venable LLP
- Overall
- #69 Fenwick & West LLP
- Overall
- #70 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
- Overall
- #71 Fox Rothschild LLP
- Overall
- #72 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
- Overall
- #73 Blank Rome LLP
- Overall
- #75 Baker Botts LLP
- Overall
- #76 Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Overall
- #77 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
- Overall
- #78 Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Overall
- #79 Jackson Lewis P.C
- Overall
- #80 Cozen O'Connor
- Overall
- #81 Jenner & Block LLP
- Overall
- #82 Husch Blackwell LLP
- Overall
- #84 Duane Morris LLP
- Overall
- #85 Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Overall
- #86 Crowell & Moring LLP
- Overall
- #88 Nixon Peabody LLP
- #89 Ballard Spahr LLP
- Overall
- #90 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Overall
- #91 ArentFox Schiff LLP
- Overall
- #92 Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
- Overall
- #93 Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
- Overall
- #94 Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
- Overall
- #95 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Overall
- #96 Akerman LLP
- Overall
- #99 Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Overall
- #100 Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Overall
- #102 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Overall
- #103 Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Overall
- #104 Lowenstein Sandler PC
- #105 Jackson Walker LLP
- Overall
- #106 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Overall
- #108 Loeb & Loeb LLP
- Overall
- #109 Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
- Overall
- #110 Fisher & Phillips LLP
- Overall
- #111 Holland & Hart LLP
- Overall
- #112 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Overall
- #113 Clark Hill PLC
- Overall
- #114 Honigman LLP
- Overall
- #115 Quarles & Brady LLP
- #116 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
- Overall
- #117 Buchalter, APC
- Overall
- #118 Spencer Fane LLP
- Overall
- #119 FBT Gibbons LLP
- Overall
- #120 Maynard Nexsen PC
- Overall
- #121 Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Overall
- #122 Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
- Overall
- #125 Bracewell LLP
- Overall
- #126 Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
- Overall
- #128 Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
- Overall
- #129 Kutak Rock LLP
- Overall
- #130 Stinson LLP
- Overall
- #131 Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Overall
- #132 McCarter & English, LLP
- Overall
- #133 Winstead PC
- Overall
- #134 Foley Hoag LLP
- Overall
- #136 Saul Ewing LLP
- Overall
- #137 Thompson Hine LLP
- Overall
- #139 Stoel Rives LLP
- Overall
- #140 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Overall
- #141 Brown Rudnick LLP
- Overall
- #142 Thompson Coburn LLP
- Overall
- #144 Ice Miller LLP
- Overall
- #145 Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
- Overall
- #146 Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
- Overall
- #147 Burr & Forman LLP
- Overall
- #148 Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
- Overall
- #149 Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
- Overall
- #150 Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
- #151 Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C.
- #153 Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Overall
- #154 Lathrop GPM LLP
- Overall
- #155 Carlton Fields, P.A.
- Overall
- #156 Butler Snow LLP
- Overall
- #157 Phelps Dunbar LLP
- Overall
- #158 Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- Overall
- #159 Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Overall
- #161 Day Pitney LLP
- Overall
- #163 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- #164 Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
- Overall
- #165 Kobre & Kim L.L.P.
- Overall
- #166 Cole Schotz P.C.
- Overall
- #168 Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
- Overall
- #169 Pryor Cashman LLP
- Overall
- #170 Shutts & Bowen LLP
- Overall
- #171 Fennemore Craig, P.C.
- Overall
- #174 Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins, P.C.
- Overall
- #175 Robinson & Cole LLP
- #176 Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- Overall
- #177 Adams and Reese LLP
- Overall
- #178 Seward & Kissel LLP
- Overall
- #179 Greenspoon Marder LLP
- Overall
- #180 Offit Kurman, P.A.
- Overall
- #181 Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Overall
- #182 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
- Overall
- #183 GrayRobinson, P.A.
- Overall
- #185 Hodgson Russ LLP
- Overall
- #186 Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
- Overall
- #188 Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC
- Overall
- #189 Hanson Bridgett LLP
- Overall
- #190 Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
- Overall
- #191 Robins Kaplan LLP
- Overall
- #192 Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP
- Overall
- #194 Tucker Ellis LLP
- Overall
- #195 Sullivan & Worcester LLP
- Overall
- #196 Herrick Feinstein LLP
- Overall
- #197 UB Greensfelder LLP
- Overall
- #198 Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP
- Overall
Companies Mentioned
- Adams and Reese LLP
- Akerman LLP
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
- Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP
- Alston & Bird LLP
- ArentFox Schiff LLP
- Armstrong Teasdale LLP
- Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
- Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
- Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Baker & McKenzie LLP
- Baker Botts LLP
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Ballard Spahr LLP
- Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP
- Blank Rome LLP
- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC
- Bracewell LLP
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
- Brown Rudnick LLP
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
- Buchalter, APC
- Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Burr & Forman LLP
- Butler Snow LLP
- Carlton Fields, P.A.
- Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
- Clark Hill PLC
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Cole Schotz P.C.
- Cooley LLP
- Covington & Burling LLP
- Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
- Cozen O'Connor
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
- Crowell & Moring LLP
- Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Day Pitney LLP
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Dechert LLP
- Dentons
- Dickinson Wright PLLC
- Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Duane Morris LLP
- Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C.
- Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
- Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- FBT Gibbons LLP
- Fennemore Craig, P.C.
- Fenwick & West LLP
- Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Fisher & Phillips LLP
- Foley & Lardner LLP
- Foley Hoag LLP
- Fox Rothschild LLP
- Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Goodwin Procter LLP
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
- GrayRobinson, P.A.
- Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Greenspoon Marder LLP
- Hanson Bridgett LLP
- Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Herrick Feinstein LLP
- Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
- Hodgson Russ LLP
- Hogan Lovells LLP
- Holland & Hart LLP
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Honigman LLP
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Husch Blackwell LLP
- Ice Miller LLP
- Jackson Lewis P.C.
- Jackson Walker LLP
- Jenner & Block LLP
- Jones Day
- K&L Gates LLP
- Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
- Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- King & Spalding LLP
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Kobre & Kim L.L.P.
- Kutak Rock LLP
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- Lathrop GPM LLP
- Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
- Littler Mendelson P.C.
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- Lowenstein Sandler PC
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Maynard Nexsen PC
- McCarter & English, LLP
- McDermott Will & Schulte
- McGuireWoods LLP
- Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Milbank LLP
- Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
- Nixon Peabody LLP
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Offit Kurman, P.A.
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- Paul Hastings LLP
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Perkins Coie LLP
- Phelps Dunbar LLP
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Polsinelli PC
- Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- Pryor Cashman LLP
- Quarles & Brady LLP
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
- Reed Smith LLP
- Robins Kaplan LLP
- Robinson & Cole LLP
- Ropes & Gray LLP
- Rutan & Tucker, LLP
- Saul Ewing LLP
- Seward & Kissel LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
- Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- Shutts & Bowen LLP
- Sidley Austin LLP
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
- Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
- Spencer Fane LLP
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Stinson LLP
- Stoel Rives LLP
- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Sullivan & Worcester LLP
- Susman Godfrey L.L.P.
- Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
- Thompson Coburn LLP
- Thompson Hine LLP
- Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
- Tucker Ellis LLP
- UB Greensfelder LLP
- Venable LLP
- Vinson & Elkins LLP
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
- White & Case LLP
- Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins, P.C.
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
- Winstead PC
- Winston & Strawn LLP
- Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
