Student View: Most Prestigious Firms – #1 Clifford Chance
A new survey, conducted in February by Legal Week Intelligence has found that Clifford Chance was named by 61% of students as the most prestigious law firm. 2,500 students at Russell Group Universities and GDL course providers were asked to name the five firms they regarded as the most prestigious. Allen & Overy came second, one percentage point behind CC with Linklaters, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer filling the other top spots. According to the survey, …
A new survey, conducted in February by Legal Week Intelligence has found that Clifford Chance was named by 61% of students as the most prestigious law firm. 2,500 students at Russell Group Universities and GDL course providers were asked to name the five firms they regarded as the most prestigious. Allen & Overy came second, one percentage point behind CC with Linklaters, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer filling the other top spots. According to the survey, Linklaters was the only other firm to be named by more than half (53%) of the respondents and brand recognition declined significantly for the five other firms making it onto the top ten table of results – in 10th place Baker & McKenzie only got 6%.
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Legal Week also broached the issue of redundancies – given the havoc wreaked across the profession by the downturn there is obviously going to be some impact on student perception by the layoffs. Accordingly, the survey asked whether news that a law firm had made redundancies would make a difference to prospective training contract applicants. Tellingly, 60% said it would make them less likely to apply, 36% said that it would make no difference, while 4% said it would make them more likely to apply. For those 4% of tough guys/gals out there we attach the gladiators application form .
March 19, 2009
shows you how mis-informed students are these days
March 19, 2009
surely does, have they not looked at any of the legal rags recently
March 19, 2009
the thought of that small minority of law students being so impressed by their own self importance that they think they would be the ones to avoid the current culls just reminds me how naive one can be about the ways of the world
March 19, 2009
Its just the harmless bravado of people who don’t know any better.
March 19, 2009
I always though Linklaters were meant to be the top MC firm.
March 19, 2009
What you are seeing is the results of Law Firms’ marketing to students, not a bona fide view of the industry from people that either work in it or use it for their businesses. You are probably not far off the mark though if you did actually poll that demographic.
March 19, 2009
Wait till those 4% reach practice and its their throats being cut.
March 19, 2009
Am I being thick? How can 61% of students rate CC as the most prestigious law firm, 60% rate A&O as the most prestigious and 53% rate Linklaters as the most prestigious? Either there is some other meaning of the phrase “the most” that I haven’t grasped, or they have surveyed over 200% of students…
March 19, 2009
i can’t get it either i always assumed percentages were out of 100, guess that’s why i did law not accounting
March 24, 2009
The figures aren’t all percentages referring to the same 100%
March 26, 2009
They were asked to name the five firms they regarded as the most prestigious, i.e. the five most prestigious firms.
so 61% had CC as one of the 5 and 60% had A&O as one of the 5.