The Firms Most List

Partner approachability

Within grade boundaries firms are listed alphabetically not in order of merit.

• Accutrainee

  A*

• Akin

  A*

• Ashfords

  A*

• Brabners

  A*

• Bristows

  A*

• Cooley

  A*

• Dentons

  A*

• Eversheds Sutherland

  A*

• Farrer & Co

  A*

• Fieldfisher

  A*

• Forsters

  A*

• Howard Kennedy

  A*

• Irwin Mitchell

  A*

• K&L Gates

  A*

• Katten Muchin Rosenman

  A*

• Kennedys

  A*

• Kingsley Napley

  A*

• Mills & Reeve

  A*

• Orrick

  A*

• Osborne Clarke

  A*

• RPC

  A*

• Shoosmiths

  A*

• Squire Patton Boggs

  A*

• TLT

  A*

• Trowers & Hamlins

  A*

• Wedlake Bell

  A*

• Wiggin

  A*

• Willkie Farr & Gallagher

  A*

• Addleshaw Goddard

  A

• Allen & Overy

  A

• Ashurst

  A

• Baker McKenzie

  A

• Bates Wells

  A

• Bevan Brittan

  A

• Bird & Bird

  A

• Birketts

  A

• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

  A

• Burges Salmon

  A

• CMS

  A

• Charles Russell Speechlys

  A

• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

  A

• Clifford Chance

  A

• Clyde & Co

  A

• DLA Piper

  A

• DWF

  A

• Davis Polk & Wardwell

  A

• Debevoise & Plimpton

  A

• Dechert

  A

• Express Solicitors

  A

• Fletchers Solicitors

  A

• Foot Anstey

  A

• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

  A

• Fried Frank

  A

• Gateley

  A

• Gibson Dunn

  A

• Goodwin Procter

  A

• Gowling WLG

  A

• Greenberg Traurig

  A

• HFW

  A

• Harbottle & Lewis

  A

• Herbert Smith Freehills

  A

• Hill Dickinson

  A

• Hogan Lovells

  A

• Jones Day

  A

• Kirkland & Ellis

  A

• Latham & Watkins

  A

• Lewis Silkin

  A

• Linklaters

  A

• Macfarlanes

  A

• Mayer Brown

  A

• Michelmores

  A

• Milbank

  A

• Mishcon de Reya

  A

• Morrison Foerster

  A

• Norton Rose Fulbright

  A

• Paul Hastings

  A

• Penningtons Manches Cooper

  A

• Pinsent Masons

  A

• RWK Goodman

  A

• Reed Smith

  A

• Ropes & Gray

  A

• Russell-Cooke

  A

• Shakespeare Martineau

  A

• Shearman & Sterling

  A

• Sidley Austin

  A

• Simmons & Simmons

  A

• Slaughter and May

  A

• Stephenson Harwood

  A

• Stevens & Bolton

  A

• Taylor Wessing

  A

• Travers Smith

  A

• Vinson & Elkins

  A

• Walker Morris

  A

• Watson Farley & Williams

  A

• Weightmans

  A

• Weil Gotshal & Manges

  A

• White & Case

  A

• Winckworth Sherwood

  A

• Withers

  A

• Womble Bond Dickinson

  A

• Sullivan & Cromwell

  B