Have we tried this before? This forum gets thousands of views every day. Vault rankings are dumb but firms care about them (or at least the recruiting/ADR people who sit in on firm committee meetings do). Maybe if we coordinate responses to the Vault survey we can better punish/reward firms that deserve it. Also, having a TLS response guide would make the survey way quicker to fill out (like, I haven't filled it out in years for this reason, but probably would if I was just giving 0s/10s while looking at this thread). As I recall, they have you rate firms on a scale of 0 to 10 (let me know if I'm remembering wrong, maybe it's 1 to 10).
I think response rate is pretty low so if we have a few hundred people filling them out based on this thread, it could make a big impact.
I figure the rule could be simple. We have two lists in this OP -- firms that get zeros, and firms that get 10s. Firms not listed get nothing/whatever. Can discuss the lists ITT and add/remove as needed. Initial list below.
TENS
- Cooley [fall bonus first mover]
- Davis Polk [fall bonus]
- Milbank [fall bonus]
- Hueston Hennigan [fall bonus]
- Irell [fall bonus]
- Sullivan & Cromwell [fall bonus]
- Debevoise [fall bonus]
- Simpson Thatcher [fall bonus]
- Freshfields [fall bonus]
- Weil [fall bonus]
- Shearman [fall bonus]
- Willkie [fall bonus]
ZEROS
- Cravath [no fall bonus]
- Kirkland [no fall bonus]
- Skadden
- Paul Wiess
- who else?
I figure I'll update the OP as I read the thread/am convinced (or someone else can do it if I get busy or whatever). When the Vault surveys go out (when is that again?) someone will remember to bump this and people can remember to do the survey based on the list. Thoughts?
Edited by AdminMegan (October 15 10 am)
