Weil or Simpson? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Interested in litigation, but would be open to the possibility of doing corporate work. Felt more or less the same about the people when I did my callbacks at both offices. What do you guys think?

[Tenzen]

Interested in litigation, but would be open to the possibility of doing corporate work. Felt more or less the same about the people when I did my callbacks at both offices. What do you guys think?

Weil, weil, weil... what have we here?

Someone trying to decide between Weil, which is, weil-known for its robust litigation practice, or Simpson, which is known for, among other things, its strong corporate practice. I worked at a ~v20 for a few years and went up against Weil in a high-stakes representation, and I weil never forget how impressed I was with them.

[+] Spoiler

They lost, ultimately, but really made us work for the victory. They also had a highly-qualified female as lead counsel, with male associates reporting to her, which made me respect them a bit more given the usual representation from firms.

[Anonymous User]

Interested in litigation, but would be open to the possibility of doing corporate work. Felt more or less the same about the people when I did my callbacks at both offices. What do you guys think?

Also going through the process. Multiple people I trust warned me away from Simpson's lit department, which they viewed as stagnating and not a priority for the firm's current management. I'm leaning corporate, and a partner I interviewed with wished they had a stronger lit department, he felt foreclosed from some more aggressive/innovative strategies without stronger support from that side. OFC that doesn't comment on what it's like to be a junior there. STB corporate is obviously top notch, great practice in capital markets, M&A, leveraged finance, funds with fantastic private equity clients.

No comment on Weil, didn't look into them.

[Anonymous User]

If you want to litigate go to Weil. Their corporate practice is decent enough where you won't be screwed if you decide to switch. You can always lateral somewhere else if you really do a 180 anyway.

[Anonymous User]

Bump - Anyone else?

[Anonymous User]

Not OP, but also interested in hearing more. Obviously STB better known for their corporate practice, but I was under the assumption that their litigation practice was relatively strong as well.

[Anonymous User]

Not OP, but also interested in hearing more. Obviously STB better known for their corporate practice, but I was under the assumption that their litigation practice was relatively strong as well.

Anon with partner interview above. The sense I got wasn't that STB's group was bad, but that it's not at the level you would expect of a V10 firm.

[stoopkid13]

Junior lit associate at one of the above. Feel free to pm.