The 2025 Exterior Counsel Rankings: High Legislation Corporations By Business

Editorial Team
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Final week, we launched our Exterior Counsel Rankings, an annual take a look at the Biglaw corporations company regulation departments rely on most. As we speak, we spotlight the corporations rated highest by in-house counsel primarily based on the industries by which they work. 

Drawing on survey responses from greater than 500 GCs and in-house legal professionals, we’ve compiled rankings for 3 industries: Finance/Banking, Healthcare/Life Sciences, and Expertise. 

Whereas six regulation corporations made the record for a couple of trade, only one — Latham & Watkins — seems in all three trade classes. (Latham was additionally the one agency to make all the trade rankings in 2024.) All six corporations are featured within the High Tier of our total rating throughout sectors.

The next regulation corporations are prime ranked in a couple of trade this 12 months:

  • Latham* (Finance, Healthcare, Expertise)
  • Cooley* (Finance, Healthcare)
  • Jones Day (Finance, Healthcare)
  • Kirkland & Ellis* (Finance, Expertise)
  • Sidley Austin (Finance, Healthcare)
  • WilmerHale (Finance, Healthcare)

*Additionally ranked in these classes in 2024

Congratulations to all of the acknowledged corporations! 

To see who else made the lower, try the total set of trade rankings.

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