Top firms for trusts and estates Forum

[Anonymous User]

What are the top firms these days in this practice area? Any heavy hitters in litigation particularly? How is demand for hiring in this area?

[Anonymous User]

What are the top firms these days in this practice area? Any heavy hitters in litigation particularly? How is demand for hiring in this area?

Day Pitney is one of the few big firms that has an active T&E dept., even in NYC. I don't know if there are any firms in the V20 or whatnot that handle that type of work.

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss's Personal Representation Department and Sullivan & Cromwell's Estates & Personal Department do this type of work. Attorney positions in these departments are high-paying and much sought after.

[Anonymous User]

Is it a good market for a 1L coming into OCI to express interest in T and E?

[Anonymous User]

McDermott also has a very good T&E department AFAIK.

[Anonymous User]

Is it a good market for a 1L coming into OCI to express interest in T and E?

Not if the firm doesn't have an active T&E practice with multiple associates. You should check before interviews, my firm lists the practice but there is one associate in the department and would probably write you off if that's what you said you wanted to do.

[jake768]

McDermott Will & Emery generally, some standard player options are Skadden & K&E, see this list:

https://chambers.com/legal-rankings/pri ... 2633:225:1

[Anonymous User]

PW associate. Our T&E group is extraordinarily small and - as I understand it - entirely a courtesy group for (1) significant clients and (2) partners. I would be shocked if we hired a law student in; I expect that the group will only recruit lateral midlevels as needed - and that won't happen often.

FWIW a friend of mine from law-school was focused on NYC T&E from the jump, ended up at Katten, and says the group there is quite good and active, especially as far as biglaw firms go.

[Anonymous User]

Is T&E lucrative as a solo practitioner?

[Lacepiece23]

Is T&E lucrative as a solo practitioner?

Very. It's super easy. A lot of PI firms would even do it as a compliment to their contingency practices.

[mr_toad]

Milbank has a very well regarded and fairly active group, although it may be mainly for legacy clients at this point.

[Sackboy]

Is T&E lucrative as a solo practitioner?

Very. It's super easy. A lot of PI firms would even do it as a compliment to their contingency practices.

As a solo, it's "easy" because you're doing unsophisticated, low margin work. Biglaw T&E is pretty sophisticated and not something a solo would get to do.

[Sackboy]

McDermott Will & Emery generally, some standard player options are Skadden & K&E, see this list:

https://chambers.com/legal-rankings/pri ... 2633:225:1

Don't know about Skadden, but K&E doesn't remotely deserve to be on any T&E list. They have one equity partner in the group who probably wouldn't get equity in today's environment (he got equity in like 2002) and the group rarely hires. When he retires, they probably won't make a new equity partner in the group and will just replace whatever is lost with a highly paid nonequity partner, not that that's a terrible deal.

[Anonymous User]

Laura Twomey at STB, is hands, feet and legs above all others mentioned here. She doesn’t get a lot of play on the website but she is the premiere practitioner when it comes to HNW trusts and estates. Clintons, Steve Schwartzman, Henry Kravis, she is the real deal. Has a selective small team.

[Anonymous User]

Laura Twomey at STB, is hands, feet and legs above all others mentioned here. She doesn’t get a lot of play on the website but she is the premiere practitioner when it comes to HNW trusts and estates. Clintons, Steve Schwartzman, Henry Kravis, she is the real deal. Has a selective small team.

If you say so, Laura

[Anonymous User]

What are the top firms these days in this practice area? Any heavy hitters in litigation particularly? How is demand for hiring in this area?

Loeb & Loeb does a ton of T&E focused litigation, at least on the West Coast. Adam Streisand at Sheppard Mullin is a former Loeb guy and a huge heavy hitter in this space, but I'm not sure if he has been able to build a comparable practice around him.

[HarrisonK]

Is T&E lucrative as a solo practitioner?

Very. It's super easy. A lot of PI firms would even do it as a compliment to their contingency practices.

That's not true at all. T&E work is not easy if you have sophisticated clients.

[Lacepiece23]

Is T&E lucrative as a solo practitioner?

Very. It's super easy. A lot of PI firms would even do it as a compliment to their contingency practices.

That's not true at all. T&E work is not easy if you have sophisticated clients.

Yeah, that's true with all legal work. Car crashes are simple. Med mal cases are not. Most solos do volume estate work and systematize it for efficiency and maximum revenue generation. My only point is that this type of work can be lucrative and is not rocket science to break into.