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These legislation corporations rank highest for midlevel affiliate satisfaction; Trump offers and AI are on their minds
The highest legislation agency for midlevel affiliate satisfaction is O’Melveny & Myers, based on an American Lawyer survey printed by Legislation.com. (Picture from Shutterstock)
The highest legislation agency for midlevel affiliate satisfaction is O’Melveny & Myers, based on an American Lawyer survey printed by Legislation.com.
Greater than 3,000 associates of their third, fourth and fifth years responded to the survey asking them to grade their corporations in 12 classes on a scale of 1 to five, Legislation.com experiences.
The classes included compensation and advantages, coaching and steerage, relationships with companions and different associates, satisfaction with the work, billable-hours coverage, and administration transparency about agency methods and partnership possibilities.
The highest 10 corporations for affiliate satisfaction are:
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O’Melveny & Myers
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Clean Rome
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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
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Winston & Strawn
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Munger, Tolles & Olson
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McDermott Will & Emery
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
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Baker & Hostetler
The survey was distributed as corporations had been deciding how to reply to punitive govt orders by President Donald Trump, directed at corporations primarily based on their shoppers, causes and variety initiatives. Greater than 100 associates talked about both the impression of Trump on the authorized career, professional bono offers made by corporations to keep away from the orders, and dedication to range, Legislation.com experiences in a separate story.
Hit exhausting by the controversy is Willkie Farr & Gallagher, criticized by 25 associates for its take care of Trump to offer $100 million in professional bono authorized providers to causes supported by Trump and the agency.
On the expertise entrance, associates are pissed off with their laptops and nervous that entry-level authorized jobs can be changed by synthetic intelligence, based on the American Lawyer’s 2025 Midlevel Affiliate Tech Survey. Associates at 66 bigger corporations participated within the survey, Legislation.com experiences.
At about 56% of the corporations within the survey, at the very least one affiliate complained about expertise or mentioned they want to inform the managing companion in regards to the issues, if they’d the prospect. Some complained that safety software program was slowing down their laptops or previous tools was inflicting crashes.
“The outdated expertise is borderline unusable and considerably slows down my workflow and severely impedes my effectivity,” one affiliate wrote.
About 34% of associates, in the meantime, mentioned the most important menace to their authorized profession was alternative by expertise.
The highest-ranked agency for expertise was O’Melveny, adopted by Morgan Lewis, Clean Rome, Gibson Dunn and Lowenstein Sandler.
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