Rankings & Awards 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.
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.
Small Firms Outpace Big Law in Relative Revenue, Salary Growth
Growth helps to define success in the legal industry. Growing financially, growing the talent base, and growing the office footprint. So what are firms doing to ensure that they continue to flourish? Data from Bloomberg Law’s Leading Law Firms survey offers some insights.
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