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Reaction to New U.S. News Law Firm Rankings

By Eric Lipman

Today is the day. The long-awaited-first-ever-omigodomigodomigod U.S. News rankings of the "Best Law Firms" in the country are out. And people don't seem to know what to think. The rankings are not structured the same way as the publication's ever-popular law school rankings. There's no sequential numerical ranking of firms; even today, no first-year document monkey can claim to work at a U.S. News T14 firm. Rather, firms are broken up into tiers, and rankings are done by practice area, with no "overall" category. For those of you who want to explore the survey's methodology in detail, have at it. What's the verdict on the rankings? Well, Above the Law didn't even wait until the morning to react. That's right -- Elie Mystal posted a link to the rankings at 12:01 am. In the initial post, presumably drafted before Elie had actually gotten an in-depth look at the goods, he speculated that the rankings might be "a total game changer." As the post was updated in the wee hours, his enthusiasm seems to have waned a bit. Ashby Jones at the WSJ Law Blog was roundly unimpressed, even at 12:05 am: What good is a ranking like this? To be...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).