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Leading Law Firms

Bloomberg Law’s Leading Law Firms is a ranking that recognizes excellence and growth across a variety of success metrics including—but not limited to—financial strength, talent, growth, and business & innovation. The ranking is open to law firms of all sizes.

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Bloomberg Law’s Leading Law Firms is a ranking of law firms based on information including revenue, headcount, growth, and innovation. The program recognizes excellence and growth across a variety of success metrics including, but not limited to, revenue and headcount. Get details on the survey and request a link for your firm to participate.

Leading Law Firms: Redefining Success

Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Leading Law Firms list started with a deceptively simple question: What makes a best-in-class law firm in 2025? Is it money? Is it headcount? Is it the same thing that propelled law firms to the top decades ago? And what will a best-in-class law firm look like a decade from now, given the entirely new set of norms—political and otherwise—the legal market is facing? Read the full story and explore all the data now.

An Innovation Race Is on for Top Firms of the Future

Tech in all its forms is table stakes for law firms these days. In addition to embracing AI, firms are also tapping into internal data analytics to boost their attorneys’ productivity, attract new business, and help expand their offerings to clients.

Associate Salaries Plateau as Big Law Faces Listless M&A

Big Law associates should get used to the current pay scales at their firms.

Litigation Steps Out of Corporate Law’s Shadow, Owns Growth Opps

The tide of growth is shifting, particularly for mid-size firms outside of New York City. For those firms, litigation is an opportunity to carve their own space in an area clients increasingly emphasize.

Why Susman Godfrey Lawyers Are Happy to Tackle Risky Litigation

DLA Piper Chief to Associates: Be Curious, Not 'Overly Partisan'

Cahill’s Washer: ‘Rethinking Overall Strategy’ at Storied Firm

McDermott Chief Bets on 'Scale' With Schulte Merger