Corporate Counsel Have Spoken: These Are The Law Firms They Love

Which Biglaw firms have clients who can’t stop singing their praises? That’s what the BTI Consulting Group set out to answer with its latest ranking, the Client Service A-Team. This isn’t a list of the biggest firms or the ones with the flashiest profits-per-partner figures. Instead, BTI looked at the firms that inspire genuine client loyalty — the ones companies trust with their toughest problems, rely on repeatedly, and consider indispensable business partners. According to BTI, those firms earn that love by understanding clients’ businesses, communicating before they’re asked, assembling the right teams, and delivering practical advice that clients can put to work immediately.

“Clients prefer to work with firms they like. They will pour their hearts out about their deepest, most vexing problems to firms they love,” BTI’s Michael B. Rynowcer notes at the Mad Clientist blog. “The loved firms get first access to everything. Especially the plum work with the record-setting rates.”

So, which Biglaw firms have forged the strongest relationships with their corporate clients? Which Biglaw firms have truly become “indispensable”? According to BTI, 113 firms stand out above all the rest, as the most loved primary firms by in-house counsel.

Those hundred-plus firms have been broken down into the following groups: “Best of the Best”; “Leaders”; “Distinguished”; and “Standouts.” Take a look at the 15 firms that make up the “Best of the Best,” below:

• Baker McKenzie
• Davis Wright Tremaine
• DLA Piper
• Eversheds Sutherland
• Gibson Dunn
• Hogan Lovells
• King & Spalding
• Kirkland & Ellis
• Latham & Watkins
• Mayer Brown
• Morrison & Foerster
• Ogletree Deakins
• O’Melveny
• Sidley
• Sullivan & Cromwell

Click here to see the full ranking.

If attorneys at your firm make more of an effort to better understand your clients’ businesses and become “deeply embedded” in client success, then you may find your place of work on this list next time around. Congratulations to all 113 firms that made the list, and especially to the 15 firms that are now known as the “Best of the Best.” You’ve proven yourselves to be outstanding when it comes to making corporate clients happy, and that’s worth celebrating.

The 113 Law Firms Clients Love Most [Mad Clientist / BTI Consulting Group]

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