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Corporate in Chicago?
In top 10% with LR at a T14. Interested in hearing what my best options are for corporate in Chicago. My current top firms in no real order are:
Kirkland
Skadden
Sidley
Latham
Mayer
Winston
Katten Muchin
I will clearly need more firms, but I'm not sure what other firms to consider. Definitely concerned about general instability at several of the Chicago firms, including a few on my list. Will also be using some bids on another market.
Kirkland
Skadden
Sidley
Latham
Mayer
Winston
Katten Muchin
I will clearly need more firms, but I'm not sure what other firms to consider. Definitely concerned about general instability at several of the Chicago firms, including a few on my list. Will also be using some bids on another market.
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Re: Corporate in Chicago?
The market has kind of been cornered, as far as I know your list is pretty damn comprehensive.
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Re: Corporate in Chicago?
Get rid of Katten and put in McDermott. That being said, you really really don't want to end up at McDermott (Unless you want to do tax or t&e).
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Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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Re: Corporate in Chicago?
Yeah, that's pretty much a more blunt way of putting what I was trying to convey...rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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Re: Corporate in Chicago?
Is katten's corporate that bad or the firm in general?Anonymous User wrote:Get rid of Katten and put in McDermott. That being said, you really really don't want to end up at McDermott (Unless you want to do tax or t&e).
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rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
Latham??? I'd take Kirkland, Sidley, Skadden, Mayer, and Winston above Latham if we are talking about a full service corp practice.
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barry wrote:Is katten's corporate that bad or the firm in general?Anonymous User wrote:Get rid of Katten and put in McDermott. That being said, you really really don't want to end up at McDermott (Unless you want to do tax or t&e).
It's not necessarily that bad, it's just not noteworthy. Not much different than Jenner, SNR, Baker, etc for corporate. Katten in general is a mess (but so is MWE).
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OP here. So Kirkland and Latham are the only legit corporate options in Chicago? Any particular reason to avoid Sidley?rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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This is ridiculous post by Rayiner. There are 5 firms I'd take before them in Chi. Do you know what you are interested within corp?Anonymous User wrote:OP here. So Kirkland and Latham are the only legit corporate options in Chicago? Any particular reason to avoid Sidley?rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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Not set on anything, possibly M&A.Anonymous User wrote:This is ridiculous post by Rayiner. There are 5 firms I'd take before them in Chi. Do you know what you are interested within corp?Anonymous User wrote:OP here. So Kirkland and Latham are the only legit corporate options in Chicago? Any particular reason to avoid Sidley?rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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There are not five firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice. There are not three firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice.Anonymous User wrote:This is ridiculous post by Rayiner. There are 5 firms I'd take before them in Chi. Do you know what you are interested within corp?Anonymous User wrote:OP here. So Kirkland and Latham are the only legit corporate options in Chicago? Any particular reason to avoid Sidley?rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
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Since this thread is probably gonna stall anyway, I don't feel too bad slightly derailing: what would you say are the three firms in Chicago with healthy litigation practices. And by healthy, I mean worth considering in contention with the top 20 NY firms or so.rayiner wrote:There are not five firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice. There are not three firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice.
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Re: Corporate in Chicago?
rayiner wrote:
There are not five firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice. There are not three firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice.
Latham certainly isn't one of them.
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Anonymous User wrote:rayiner wrote:
There are not five firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice. There are not three firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice.
Latham certainly isn't one of them.
If I had been interested in Lit, my preferences would have been: Kirkland, Jenner, Sidley, Winston, Mayer
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I was giving Latham the benefit of the doubt, since the firm seems to be busy across the board. Then let's just say there is only one healthy corporate practice in Chicago.Anonymous User wrote:rayiner wrote:
There are not five firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice. There are not three firms in Chicago with a healthy corporate practice.
Latham certainly isn't one of them.
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"Corporate" encompasses a lot of stuff, much of which falls outside of the general corporate practice group umbrella. For example, if you want to do banking, IP transactional, or insurance/financial services transactional, Sidley arguably has the best practice in the city. If you want to do real estate, on the other hand, dla piper is much better.
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The firms ranked Band 1 for Chicago in Corporate M&A are: Kirkland, Sidley, Skadden, and Latham. Kirkland is obviously better. Sidley isn't doing so hot (epic deferrals even compared to other firms that deferred) and rumor is that Skadden Chicago is extremely slow and not getting better.Anonymous User wrote:rayiner wrote:Kirkland
Latham
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Cravath
S&C
Davis Polk
Simpson Thacher
Cleary
Skadden NY
Latham??? I'd take Kirkland, Sidley, Skadden, Mayer, and Winston above Latham if we are talking about a full service corp practice.
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In my opinion, if one wants to do corporate in Chicago, go to Kirkland. If you can't get Kirkland, then go to pretty much any V10 in NYC (Debevoise and Paul Weiss included). Bite the bullet. Job security is way too tenuous at any other firm in Chicago.
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