To the poster above, I think that's the basic idea. Naturally, the firms with the most "prestige" but relatively low GPA floors seem like the ones that would go first.
Tentative Bidlist:
3.38 GPA (slightly above median?)
Leaning heavily toward transactional
No journal (LR or secondary)
Any firms that stick out as horribly misplaced or out of reach?
1 Proskauer Rose (New York, NY)
2
paul hastings llp (New York, NY)
3 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP (New York, NY)
4 Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York, NY - Corporate Department)
5
sidley austin llp (New York, NY)
6 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (New York, NY)
7 White & Case LLP (New York, NY)
8 Jones Day (New York, NY)
9 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP (New York, NY)
10 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (New York, NY)
11 Latham & Watkins LLP (New York, NY)
12 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (New York, NY)
13 Hogan Lovells US LLP (New York, NY)
14 King & Spalding (New York, NY)
15 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP (New York, NY)
16 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP (New York, NY)
17 Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (New York, NY)
18 Dechert LLP (New York, NY)
19 Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP (New York, NY)
20 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (New York, NY)
21 Ropes & Gray LLP (New York, NY)
22 Baker Botts LLP (Dallas, TX)
23 Vinson & Elkins LLP (Houston, TX)
24 Locke Lord (Dallas, TX)
25 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Dallas, TX)
26 Norton Rose Fulbright (Dallas, TX)
27 Bracewell (New York, NY)
28 O'Melveny & Myers LLP (New York, NY - Transactional ONLY)
29 Shearman & Sterling LLP (New York, NY)
30
troutman sanders llp (New York, NY)
31 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP (New York, NY)
32 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (New York, NY)
33 McDermott Will & Emery LLP (New York, NY)
34 K&L Gates LLP (New York, NY)
35 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (New York, NY)
36 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (New York, NY)
37 Kaye Scholer LLP (New York, NY)
38 Simpson Thacher &
bartlett llp (New York, NY)
39 Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York, NY)
40 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (New York, NY)
41 Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York, NY)
42 Alston & Bird LLP (Atlanta, GA)
43
mayer brown llp (New York, NY)
44 Kramer Levin (New York, NY)
45 Reed Smith (New York, NY)
46 Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP (Wilmington, DE)
47 Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP (Wilmington, DE)
48 Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP (Wilmington, DE)
49 Greenberg Traurig LLP (Miami, FL)
50 Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod, LLP (Miami, FL)
I've heard you can bid Texas firms lower, but I don't want to risk getting conflicted out of BB/VE/LL/NRF.
