The 2015 Vault Law 100 is here! This year, nearly 17,000 law associates rated law firms on a scale of 1 to 10 based on prestige. (Associates were not allowed to rate their own firms, and were asked only to rate firms with which they were familiar.)
| 2015 Rank | 2014 Rank | Change | Company | Score | Location |
| 1 | 1 | — | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 8.982 | New York, NY |
| 2 | 2 | — | Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | 8.961 | New York, NY |
| 3 | 4 | ▲ | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates | 8.489 | New York, NY |
| 4 | 3 | ▼ | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | 8.483 | New York, NY |
| 5 | 5 | — | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | 8.127 | New York, NY |
| 6 | 7 | ▲ | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | 7.793 | New York, NY |
| 7 | 8 | ▲ | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | 7.722 | New York, NY |
| 8 | 6 | ▼ | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | 7.691 | New York, NY |
| 9 | 9 | — | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | 7.661 | Chicago, IL |
| 10 | 10 | — | Latham & Watkins LLP | 7.636 | New York, NY |
| 11 | 12 | ▲ | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | 7.583 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 12 | 11 | ▼ | Covington & Burling LLP | 7.424 | Washington, DC |
| 13 | 15 | ▲ | Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP | 7.356 | New York, NY |
| 14 | 14 | — | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | 7.321 | New York, NY |
| 15 | 17 | ▲ | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP | 7.295 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 16 | 13 | ▼ | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | 7.263 | New York, NY |
| 17 | 18 | ▲ | Sidley Austin LLP | 7.225 | Chicago, IL |
| 18 | 16 | ▼ | Williams & Connolly LLP | 7.141 | Washington, DC |
| 19 | 19 | — | Jones Day | 7.106 | Washington, DC |
| 20 | 20 | — | White & Case LLP | 6.938 | New York, NY |
| 21 | 21 | — | WilmerHale | 6.844 | Washington, DC |
| 22 | 23 | ▲ | Ropes & Gray LLP | 6.693 | Boston, MA |
| 23 | 24 | ▲ | Morrison & Foerster LLP | 6.643 | San Francisco, CA |
| 24 | 22 | ▼ | Arnold & Porter LLP | 6.636 | Washington, DC |
| 25 | 25 | — | O’Melveny & Myers LLP | 6.52 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 26 | 28 | ▲ | Paul Hastings LLP | 6.434 | New York, NY |
| 27 | 26 | ▼ | Clifford Chance US LLP | 6.354 | New York, NY |
| 28 | 27 | ▼ | Shearman & Sterling LLP | 6.315 | New York, NY |
| 29 | 29 | — | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | 6.203 | Washington, DC |
| 30 | 32 | ▲ | Baker & McKenzie | 6.159 | Chicago, IL |
| 31 | 34 | ▲ | Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP | 6.115 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 32 | 38 | ▲ | Proskauer Rose LLP | 6.099 | New York, NY |
| 33 | 30 | ▼ | Mayer Brown LLP | 6.093 | Chicago, IL |
| 34 | 35 | ▲ | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP | 6.049 | New York, NY |
| 35 | 40 | ▲ | Hogan Lovells US LLP | 6.047 | Washington, DC |
| 36 | 36 | — | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP | 6.046 | New York, NY |
| 37 | 31 | ▼ | Linklaters LLP (US) | 6.032 | New York, NY |
| 38 | 43 | ▲ | Goodwin Procter LLP | 5.989 | Boston, MA |
| 39 | 37 | ▼ | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | 5.969 | New York, NY |
| 40 | 33 | ▼ | Allen & Overy LLP | 5.966 | New York, NY |
| 41 | 39 | ▼ | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP | 5.95 | New York, NY |
| 42 | 41 | ▼ | DLA Piper | 5.907 | New York, NY |
| 43 | 42 | ▼ | Baker Botts LLP | 5.875 | Houston, TX |
| 44 | 45 | ▲ | K&L Gates LLP | 5.818 | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 45 | 55 | ▲ | Cooley LLP | 5.813 | Palo Alto, CA |
| 46 | 47 | ▲ | Irell & Manella LLP | 5.725 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 47 | 52 | ▲ | Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP | 5.724 | New York, NY |
| 48 | 44 | ▼ | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP | 5.679 | New York, NY |
| 49 | 46 | ▼ | King & Spalding | 5.677 | Atlanta, GA |
| 49 | 49 | — | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | 5.677 | New York, NY |
| 49 | 48 | ▼ | Winston & Strawn LLP | 5.677 | Chicago, IL |
| 50 | 50 | — | Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP | 5.67 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 51 | 54 | ▲ | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 5.651 | Palo Alto, CA |
| 52 | 53 | ▲ | Dechert LLP | 5.636 | New York, NY |
| 53 | 54 | ▲ | Jenner & Block LLP | 5.62 | Chicago, IL |
| 54 | 51 | ▼ | Bingham McCutchen LLP | 5.575 | Boston, MA |
| 55 | 56 | ▲ | McDermott Will & Emery LLP | 5.53 | Chicago, IL |
| 56 | 58 | ▲ | Alston & Bird LLP | 5.52 | Atlanta, GA |
| 57 | 59 | ▲ | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | 5.482 | Miami, FL |
| 58 | 57 | ▼ | Vinson & Elkins LLP | 5.45 | Houston, TX |
| 59 | 65 | ▲ | Perkins Coie LLP | 5.264 | Seattle, WA |
| 60 | 60 | — | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | 5.241 | New York, NY |
| 61 | 61 | — | Holland & Knight LLP | 5.236 | Miami, FL |
| 62 | 64 | ▲ | Reed Smith LLP | 5.191 | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 63 | 63 | — | Baker & Hostetler LLP | 5.146 | Cleveland, OH |
| 64 | 62 | ▼ | Fish & Richardson P.C. | 5.129 | Boston, MA |
| 65 | 67 | ▲ | Crowell & Moring LLP | 5.113 | Washington, DC |
| 66 | 66 | — | Nixon Peabody LLP | 5.043 | Boston, MA |
| 67 | 68 | ▲ | Foley & Lardner LLP | 4.958 | Milwaukee, WI |
| 68 | 69 | ▲ | Kaye Scholer LLP | 4.953 | New York, NY |
| 69 | 70 | ▲ | Steptoe & Johnson LLP | 4.911 | Washington, DC |
| 70 | 72 | ▲ | Bryan Cave LLP | 4.86 | Saint Louis, MO |
| 71 | 71 | — | Squire Patton Boggs LLP | 4.848 | Washington, DC |
| 72 | 73 | ▲ | Chadbourne & Parke LLP | 4.768 | New York, NY |
| 73 | 74 | ▲ | Hunton & Williams LLP | 4.744 | Washington, DC |
| 74 | 75 | ▲ | Arent Fox LLP | 4.721 | Washington, DC |
| 75 | 76 | ▲ | McGuireWoods LLP | 4.68 | Richmond, VA |
| 76 | 79 | ▲ | Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP | 4.665 | New York, NY |
| 77 | 78 | ▲ | Venable LLP | 4.621 | Washington, DC |
| 78 | 81 | ▲ | Bracewell & Giuliani LLP | 4.602 | Houston, TX |
| 79 | 80 | ▲ | Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP | 4.578 | New York, NY |
| 80 | 77 | ▼ | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | 4.572 | Chicago, IL |
| 81 | 82 | ▲ | Fenwick & West LLP | 4.531 | Mountain View, CA |
| 82 | 85 | ▲ | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | 4.474 | Chicago, IL |
| 83 | 86 | ▲ | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | 4.414 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 84 | 84 | — | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP | 4.401 | New York, NY |
| 85 | 83 | ▼ | Blank Rome LLP | 4.395 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 86 | 92 | ▲ | Locke Lord LLP | 4.321 | Dallas, TX |
| 87 | 48 | ▼ | Norton Rose Fulbright | 4.31 | Houston, TX |
| 88 | 93 | ▲ | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. | 4.297 | Boston, MA |
| 89 | 93 | ▲ | Dentons | 4.248 | New York, NY |
| 90 | 94 | ▲ | Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP | 4.222 | New York, NY |
| 91 | 99 | ▲ | Duane Morris LLP | 4.218 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 92 | 90 | ▼ | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP | 4.217 | Washington, DC |
| 93 | 91 | ▼ | Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | 4.213 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 94 | 87 | ▼ | Dorsey & Whitney LLP | 4.196 | Minneapolis, MN |
| 95 | 96 | ▲ | Squire Sanders | 4.192 | Cleveland, OH |
| 96 | 89 | ▼ | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP | 4.184 | Los Angeles, CA |
| 97 | 95 | ▼ | Pepper Hamilton LLP | 4.181 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 98 | NR | — | Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP | 4.152 | New York, NY |
| 99 | 98 | ▼ | Haynes and Boone, LLP | 4.147 | Dallas, TX |
| 100 | 100 | — | Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP | 4.129 |
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