Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies?

The annual list that answers that question—Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies (aka/ Who Counsels Who)—is in the current issue (September) of Corporate Counsel magazine and a version will appear also in The National Law Journal. As editor Anthony Paonita writes, the research methodology changed this year. Instead of surveying General Counsel at the Fortune 250, asking them to name their “go-to” firms in four key areas (litigation, corporate, IP, and labor & employment), this year Corporate Counsel combed through public records -- court papers, filings, etc. -- to tally which law firms were being used by the Fortune 250. “And guess what?,” Paonita says, “Despite the change in methodology, the same Am Law 200 law firms topped our lists of the most-mentioned.”

To read the stories accompanying the list, click here. To see the list, you’ll need to register for a free Law.com account, if you don’t already have one. To have access to this data and much, much more on law firm/client representations, the ALM Research Store offers the 2006 and 2007 Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies (Who Counsels Who) data in searchable spreadsheet format. The 2007 list is updated on an on-going basis, so those who purchase it are given a link to access the updates. Premium subscribers, of course, have access to all the historical archives in the database.