The 2024 Midlevel Associates Survey: The Rankings
Which firms kept their midlevel associates happiest over the past year? Below is our ranking of firms based on a combined score across 12 different categories.
September 04, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
To find out how third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates rate their firms, our survey examines 12 aspects of job satisfaction, including: compensation and benefits; training and guidance; relationships with partners and other associates; interest in and satisfaction level with the work; the firm's policy on billable hours; and management's openness about firm strategies and partnership chances.
Midlevels graded their workplaces in these categories on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score. Below, firms with 10 or more responses are ranked by their average scores on these questions. The response rate is the percentage of eligible midlevels at the firm who participated in the survey. All data can be found in Law.com Compass. Read our analysis of the results here.
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- Proskauer Rose
- Reed Smith
- Robins Kaplan LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Susman Godfrey
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Holland & Hart LLP
- Benesch
- Blank Rome
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Clifford Chance
- Cooley
- Thompson Coburn
- Dechert
- DLA Piper
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Gibbons PC
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Kelley Drye & Warren
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Paul Hastings
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
- Shook Hardy & Bacon
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
- Fox Rothschild
- Goodwin Procter
- Greenberg Traurig
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Hogan Lovells
- Arnold & Porter
- Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
- Latham & Watkins
- Lowenstein Sandler
- Mayer Brown
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
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