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I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
[Background: the vault rankings are nothing but a compilation of survey results sent to big firm associates. we are asked to assign a PRESTIGE SCORE of 1 to 10 to each firm in a list of hundreds. below is some live blogging as I judge firms].
There are like 4 different firms that start with "Baker" and I've never heard of or interacted with any of them.
How... unprestigious.
* assigns 1/10 prestige score *
Update: First 10 goes to Cleary. Not the best at everything, but peerless enough in enough respects to earn a big fat 1-0 from me.
Update: I don't know what Cooley does but it's got the same name as a shitty law school so minus one prestige point.
Update: Covington gets a gentleman's 10. We all know they used to be really impressive and aren't asking hard questions about current performance.\
Update: DLA Piper gets a 2/10, to preserve 1/10 for "no but really, I've never heard of you"
Update: I met somebody nice from Fried, Frank one. 7/10.
Update: Latham gets a 4. Never forget.
Update: Munger snags a 10, based solely on what I researched while a law student.
Update: Crap, I just remembered it was the guy from Wilkie I remembered who was nice to me, not the guy from Fried Frank. Oh well, too late now. Wilkie gets an 8 because I feel bad for forgetting the first time around.
There are like 4 different firms that start with "Baker" and I've never heard of or interacted with any of them.
How... unprestigious.
* assigns 1/10 prestige score *
Update: First 10 goes to Cleary. Not the best at everything, but peerless enough in enough respects to earn a big fat 1-0 from me.
Update: I don't know what Cooley does but it's got the same name as a shitty law school so minus one prestige point.
Update: Covington gets a gentleman's 10. We all know they used to be really impressive and aren't asking hard questions about current performance.\
Update: DLA Piper gets a 2/10, to preserve 1/10 for "no but really, I've never heard of you"
Update: I met somebody nice from Fried, Frank one. 7/10.
Update: Latham gets a 4. Never forget.
Update: Munger snags a 10, based solely on what I researched while a law student.
Update: Crap, I just remembered it was the guy from Wilkie I remembered who was nice to me, not the guy from Fried Frank. Oh well, too late now. Wilkie gets an 8 because I feel bad for forgetting the first time around.
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
The Vault rankings are nothing but a compilation of surveys filled out by associates at big law firms. I am an associate at a big law firm live blogging as I fill out my LAW FIRM PRESTIGE survey. I am literally ranking every law firm they could think of from 1 to 10, on the basis of PRESTIGE.greenchair wrote:wat
They will then tabulate their results and create the Vault 100 rankings. Based on the responses of myself and other similarly well informed consumers of legal services.
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
Stop it. You're making vault rankings seem so unprefstigious.
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
(that's the point)drmguy wrote:Stop it. You're making vault rankings seem so unprefstigious.
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
(Doesn't understand sarcasm)Anonymous User wrote:(that's the point)drmguy wrote:Stop it. You're making vault rankings seem so unprefstigious.
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
I want to do either IP in Des Moines or litigation in Denver. Do you think it's career suicide to take a V43 over a V16?
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
Justified use of anonymous posting, no doubt.Anonymous User wrote:I want to do either IP in Des Moines or litigation in Denver. Do you think it's career suicide to take a V43 over a V16?
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
Do they screen for people that don't take it seriously?
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no. the only safeguard is that you can't rank your own firm.drmguy wrote:Do they screen for people that don't take it seriously?
probably. as a custodian of the vault rankings, my word is your career trajectory.Anonymous User wrote:I want to do either IP in Des Moines or litigation in Denver. Do you think it's career suicide to take a V43 over a V16?
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
Are you going to give all the V10 firms the lowest ranking?
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Re: I am doing Vault's survey, ranking firms by prestige. AMA.
Can you write-in firms?
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Yes.LeDique wrote:Can you write-in firms?
No. I work at such a firm, so I guess it would be game theoretic, but you do start to respect your peers (and bear grudges against your non-peers or your peers who are dicks as opposing counsel)drmguy wrote:Are you going to give all the V10 firms the lowest ranking?
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