DPW v. S&C (NYC Lit) Forum

[Anonymous User]

Partner at a litigation-dominant firm down the rankings. I view S&C as a strong, well-rounded litigation shop. (I put Cravath and PW in this bucket as well.) DPW, in contrast, is not a player in this space and I can’t think of a notable litigator who works there or a notable case it litigated. I view it as an elite firm for transactional work, creditor-side bankruptcy, and financial regulatory work, but it’s not a firm I’d pick if I wanted to be a litigator.

[Anonymous User]

Both are good NY firms, but SullCrom is widely regarded as more prestigious. It's better in litigation, too. Maybe someone on here can correct me, but it has among the smallest lit teams of any NY biglaw firm, no?

Not sure SullCrom is “widely regarded as more prestigious.” The two are peer firms in every sense of that phrase.

Yeah, DPW outranks SullCrom in the regional rankings so idk what this poster is referring to

referring to Vault as "the rankings" is amazingly law-student-brained lol

In fairness, they're typically in the same range raw score-wise (https://legacy.vault.com/best-companies ... n/new-york). They're both within less than a point of each other. So I would agree w/ previous poster that they're comparably prestigious in NYC.

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