Weil v. DPW v. Milbank

All NYC offices. Interested in restructuring and potentially litigation.

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Aside from the soft factors like culture, RTO, office location, billable requirement, etc., the biggest determining factor is whether you want to do more company side vs creditor side in the first few formative years of your career. Weil is a primarily debtor shop; DPW & Milbank’s bread and butter is organizing ad hoc groups. That being said, Weil has a sprinkle of creditor deals and DPW (Spirit, Purdue) and Milbank (all of Platnium’s shitcos) get headline company side mandates too. Generally the split is 70/30.

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Not weil if you want to survive intact. Their RX practice is an absolute nightmare. DPW or Milbank

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My body is a machine that converts coffee and bad posture into billable hours

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Don’t do restructuring. DPW.

Historically Weil but they’ve lost a lot of heavy hitters. I’d go with DPW for stability

Milbank isn’t in the same league (barring finance). Don’t let vault fool you.

Milbank is very reputable in the rx industry.

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