Law firms
Associate Mentorship factor
The number of partners and senior associates relative to the size of the incoming class This isn't a guide to the quality of the mentoring – for that you'll have to read the Inside View – but this table gives an idea of how many experienced lawyers you'll have on hand to ask stupid questions from and generally mould you into a competent lawyer.
| Partners | Associates | Intake Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
A&O Shearman | 143 | 297 | 42 |
Akin | 273 | 417 | 67 |
Alston & Bird | 396 | 416 | 69 |
Arnold & Porter | 308 | 461 | 36 |
Ashurst Perkins Coie | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
Axinn | Undisclosed | 59 | Undisclosed |
Baker Botts | 239 | 260 | 42 |
BakerHostetler | 526 | 295 | 37 |
Bracewell | 157 | 78 | 18 |
Brown Rudnick | 97 | 53 | 4 |
Cahill | 88 | 185 | 36 |
Cleary Gottlieb | 189 | 427 | Undisclosed |
Clifford Chance | 117 | 277 | 40 |
Cooley | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | 74 |
Covington & Burling | 290 | 730 | 130 |
Cozen O'Connor | 556 | 276 | 28 |
Cravath | 107 | 348 | 89 |
Davis Polk & Wardwell | 171 | 738 | 160 |
Debevoise & Plimpton | 132 | 547 | Undisclosed |
Dechert | 247 | 318 | 50 |
DLA Piper | 605 | 586 | 76 |
Duane Morris | Undisclosed | 184 | 17 |
Elsberg Baker & Maruri | 8 | 24 | 5 |
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath (US) | 501 | 404 | 70 |
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (US) | 115 | 124 | 18 |
Fish & Richardson | 240 | 110 | 21 |
Foley & Lardner | 515 | 389 | 65 |
Foley Hoag | 147 | 109 | Undisclosed |
Fox Rothschild | 637 | 290 | 36 |
Freshfields | 105 | 343 | 62 |
Fried Frank | 154 | 403 | 64 |
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | Undisclosed | 936 | 144 |
Goodwin | 465 | 669 | 88 |
Goulston & Storrs | 110 | 66 | 5 |
Greenberg Glusker | 74 | 39 | 4 |
Greenberg Traurig | 1,187 | 956 | 70 |
Gunderson | 129 | 157 | 13 |
Haynes and Boone | 317 | 227 | 31 |
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
Holland & Knight | 1,116 | 670 | 57 |
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg | 20 | 40 | 3 |
HSF Kramer | Undisclosed | 120 | 10 |
Hunton Andrews Kurth | 299 | 205 | 21 |
Irell & Manella | 23 | 41 | 9 |
Jackson Walker | 317 | 161 | 15 |
Jenner & Block | 212 | 201 | 28 |
Jones Day | 615 | 824 | 119 |
Katten | 280 | 202 | 30 |
King & Spalding | 482 | 476 | 93 |
Kirkland & Ellis | 1,581 | 1,920 | 466 |
Latham & Watkins | 699 | 1,874 | 341 |
Linklaters | Undisclosed | 117 | 12 |
Mayer Brown | 474 | 497 | 61 |
McDermott Will & Schulte | 648 | 564 | 71 |
Milbank | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
Mintz Levin | 270 | 174 | 21 |
Morgan Lewis | 682 | 885 | 108 |
Morrison & Foerster | 302 | 451 | 51 |
Munger, Tolles & Olson | 77 | 114 | 7 |
Norton Rose Fulbright | 363 | 312 | 66 |
O'Melveny & Myers | 234 | 515 | 56 |
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | 394 | 564 | Undisclosed |
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler | 53 | 66 | 3 |
Paul Hastings | 274 | 656 | 81 |
Paul, Weiss | 237 | 811 | 150 |
Pillsbury | 310 | 195 | 32 |
Polsinelli | 647 | 421 | 27 |
Proskauer Rose | 258 | 340 | 52 |
Reed Smith | 414 | 421 | 41 |
Richards, Layton & Finger | 83 | 90 | 24 |
Seward & Kissel | 59 | 74 | Undisclosed |
Seyfarth Shaw | 439 | 259 | 19 |
Sheppard Mullin | 430 | 513 | 60 |
Sidley Austin | 589 | 1,115 | 211 |
Simpson Thacher | 343 | 1,026 | 242 |
Skadden | 263 | 727 | 155 |
Sterne Kessler | 83 | 59 | 7 |
Sullivan & Cromwell | 155 | 536 | 131 |
Vedder Price | 178 | 126 | 12 |
Venable | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
Vinson & Elkins | 195 | 394 | 84 |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges | Undisclosed | 594 | Undisclosed |
White & Case | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | 75 |
Wiley | 120 | 61 | 7 |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 354 | 626 | 111 |
WilmerHale | 250 | 646 | 89 |
Wilson Sonsini | 285 | 562 | 78 |
Winston Taylor | Undisclosed | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |