A diverse group of law firms in the US are being utilised by the country’s largest companies for representation, a study of court filings and public documents reveal.
According to data from
Corporate Counsel which was summarised by
The American Lawyer, days when
Corporate America predictably hired the biggest big-city law firms for lawsuits are over.
Here are the go-to firms used by Fortune 50 companies in five key litigation areas last year:
Torts litigation
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon
- Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester
- Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
- Butler Snow
Securities litigation
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Shearman & Sterling
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
- Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
Labour and employment litigation:
- Littler Mendelson
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
- Jackson Lewis
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
IP litigation:
- Fish & Richardson
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
- Gillam Smith
- Potter Minton
- DLA Piper
Contracts litigation:
- Faegre Baker Daniels
- Hinshaw & Culbertson
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
- Troutman Sanders (tie)
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice (tie)
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