Top Legal Companies

StarCompliance partners with compliance teams around the world to provide configurable, user-friendly software solutions designed to simplify every-day compliance processes, while ensuring you meet the strictest regulatory standards. Our expertise and technology help to optimize your compliance program, offering you the highest standards of vigilance and security.s

Kirkland & Ellis is one of the world’s leading law firms, providing elite legal services and a relentless commitment to client service. We are a market leader in each of our core practice areas, including private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions; investment fund formation and alternative asset management; restructurings; high-stakes commercial and intellectual property litigation; and government, regulatory and internal investigations. With 6,500 employees (including approximately 3,500 lawyers ) operating from offices in 19 cities across the United States, Europe and Asia, we are one of the largest law firms in the world and a top financial performer.

DLA Piper is one of the largest business law firms in the world and one of the most recognized law firm brands globally. We are an innovative and entrepreneurial firm, deeply committed to our values: our people, our clients and our community. In fact, it is the individual members of the DLA Piper team – the combination of talented lawyers and business professionals working together – who define our success and drive our growth.

BAL is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of blue-chip corporations around the world, in a wide range of industries. We accomplish this in ways that help make immigration programs more strategic and our clients more successful. By employing a uniquely holistic approach, we combine our extensive knowledge of immigration law with a tactical understanding of our client's goals and requirements. Here at BAL, we also apply processes together with our award-winning technology to deliver highly efficient and compliant solutions. We approach every interaction — with each company and each of its employees — with an unwavering commitment to service. From our humble beginnings in 1980 as a two-attorney operation in San Francisco, BAL now has eleven offices throughout the United States, with over 1,200 employees, and serves more than 180 countries globally.

As the original global law firm, we bring the right talent to every client issue, regardless of where the client is. We partner with our clients to deliver solutions in the world's largest economies as well as newly opening markets. We are global citizens, industry savvy, diverse and have a thirst for innovation. Our strength is our ability to adopt a new type of thinking and use cutting-edge legal technologies to help clients overcome the challenges of competing in today's new world economic order. Helping clients overcome the challenges of competing in the global economy through a new type of thinking and a different mindset. We understand that in a rapidly changing legal market, clients have new expectations, constantly evolving choices and operate in an environment of heightened reputational and commercial risk. Our strength is our ability to solve complex legal problems by collaborating across borders and practice areas, using transformative technology and dealing with people with empathy. We are The New Lawyers.

The US Department of Labor labors for laborers. The department looks out for job seekers, workers, and retirees in the US. It works to advance work opportunities, improve work conditions, and protect retirement and health benefits. It helps employers find workers and tracks changes in employment, prices, and other economic measurements. The department also administers federal labor laws that govern safe working conditions, minimum wage and overtime pay, employment discrimination, and unemployment insurance. An act of Congress created the department in 1913. Hilda L. Solis was confirmed as Secretary of Labor in February 2009. The agency has a $53 million annual budget.

Latham & Watkins' founders Dana Latham and Paul Watkins flipped a coin in 1934 to determine which of their names would go first on the law firm's shingle. From that coin toss, the firm has grown into one of the largest in the US and boasts more than 2,000 lawyers in about 30 offices around the world, from Europe to Asia. Latham & Watkins organizes its practices into five main areas: corporate; environment, land, and resources; finance; litigation; and tax. The firm has counted companies such as Amgen, Time Warner Inc., and Morgan Stanley among its clients.

With a practice highly attuned to the ever-changing international legal landscape, Sidley has built a reputation for being a powerful legal adviser for global businesses. With more than 2,000 lawyers across 20 offices worldwide, Sidley maintains a commitment to providing quality legal services and to offering advice in litigation, transactional and regulatory matters spanning virtually every area of law.

Have you heard about the law firm that sued the business-information publisher for a profile that opened with a wickedly clever lawyer joke? Neither have we, and we would like to keep it that way. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a leading US law firm and one of the largest in the world, has some 2,000 attorneys in some 25 offices around the globe, from Boston to Beijing and from London to Los Angeles. The firm is best known for its work in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and corporate finance, but it represents businesses in a wide variety of practice areas, including intellectual property and litigation. Skadden was founded in 1948.