Perhaps I was misinterpreted -- I wasn't responding to OP, but rather the other poster who asked about overall reputations (not sure if that was OP or not since both were anonymous). Regardless, while I would agree that Weil's transactional practice is better than Paul Weiss', it has fewer transactional Bank 1 rankings than Debevoise. And while Vault rankings are silly, it's a much bigger stretch IMO to say that a firm with 1 nationwide transactional ranking is "right behind" firms like Davis Polk and S&C, which have 6/7 Bank 1 rankings in transactional work respectively (not to mention many others in litigation).Anonymous User wrote: Weil is not below Debevoise and Paul Weiss for corporate work in New York. It's more like Cravath, Skadden, SullCrom, Davis Polk and Simpson (firms in Band 1 Elite for both corporate and litigation in New York) and then Weil is right behind along with a handful of others. Weil's corporate group has been killing it and its Vault ranking isn't far off. Having said that, Willkie is also awesome and wouldn't be a wrong choice to pick it over Weil.
But that's all beside the point. I was just trying to say that the difference between Weil and Willkie isn't as stark as a #8 and #49 ranking would lead one to believe.
