For those who’re working in-house and coping with bet-the-company litigation, you need the perfect litigators on the earth to be in your facet. You desire a agency with litigators so sturdy that opponents gasp in worry on the very point out of its title. You desire a agency that’s identified internationally for going for the jugular and popping out on prime.
However how can you make sure that you’ve picked the fitting agency? BTI Consulting Group simply made it a little bit simpler with the discharge of its annual rating of the companies almost certainly to set off dread in opposing counsel, as decided by a ballot of in-house counsel. Per BTI’s Michael Rynowecer, “These companies strike the utmost worry into the hearts of seasoned common counsel and authorized decision-makers alike. They’re unflinching. Strategically unpredictable. Prepared for each state of affairs. And are fast to remind everybody they don’t litigate – they win.” The “Fearsome Foursome” are the most-feared litigation companies within the nation. These are the companies you don’t want to see on the opposite facet, the companies that give GCs nightmares.
So, which companies are being honored this 12 months for his or her capacity to strike worry of their opponents’ hearts and minds?
- Quinn Emanuel (that is the agency’s fourth 12 months within the prime spot)
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Skadden
- Gibson Dunn
The BTI report additionally named 12 companies as “Feared Opponents” — companies with attorneys company counsel would favor to avoid in litigation (in alphabetical order):
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Cravath
- Greenberg Traurig
- Husch Blackwell
- Latham & Watkins
- Susman Godfrey
- Troutman Pepper Locke
- Wachtell Lipton
- Weil
- Williams & Connolly
- WilmerHale
BTI has additionally launched a further 45 regulation companies as “Superior Opponents” and 37 companies as “Intimidating Opponents” (i.e., companies purchasers would “moderately not see” in litigation). Click on here to see the complete lists.
Congratulations to all of those hardworking companies, and good luck to those that oppose them in court docket — it definitely sounds such as you’ll want it.
Clients Single Out the 98 Most Feared Law Firms [Mad Clientist / BTI Consulting Group]
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