What is the best resource for firm rankings?

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Chambers USA. They do a great job of ranking firms by practice area and location, which I think matters more than some general list. Also they’re ranked by tiers, not one-by-one which can be so arbitrary

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Agreed

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Chambers is the only meaningful one. Everything else is fluff, and Vault in particular is only relied upon by people who simply don't know any better (i.e., law students and some low-info juniors).

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Vault and AmLaw make it easy to see groups of peer firms. From there, if you’re splitting hairs about which firm is ranked higher than another, you’re an idiot or severely misguided.

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Law Clerk 1, what specific examples do you have re how OMM games satisfaction surveys? Interested to know because I’m interviewing there currently.

Agreed vault means nothing. Firms pressure associates to give high vault rankings (says a lot).

For what purpose?

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