Debtor's attorneys—Study summary

This study includes 1,217 cases

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Study results

Cases by attorney

Number of cases

Debtor's attorneys	Frequency	Percentage
Weil Gotshal	124	10.2%
Kirkland Ellis	121	9.9%
Skadden Arps	83	6.8%
Latham Watkins	45	3.7%
Jones Day	36	3.0%
Willkie Farr	34	2.8%
Sidley Austin	27	2.2%
Pachulski Stang	27	2.2%
Paul Weiss	21	1.7%
Stutman Treister	21	1.7%
Young Conaway	21	1.7%
Akin Gump	19	1.6%
Gibson Dunn	19	1.6%
Proskauer Rose	15	1.2%
Shearman Sterling	14	1.2%
Haynes Boone	13	1.1%
Davis Polk	13	1.1%
Kaye Scholer	12	1.0%
Fried Frank	12	1.0%
Levin Weintraub	12	1.0%
Stroock Stroock	11	0.9%
Milbank	11	0.9%
Greenberg Traurig	10	0.8%
Andrews Kurth	10	0.8%
Bryan Cave	9	0.7%
Vinson Elkins	9	0.7%
no data	9	0.7%
Cleary Gottlieb	9	0.7%
Morris Nichols	8	0.7%
O'Melveny Myers	8	0.7%
Dechert	8	0.7%
DLA Piper	8	0.7%
Squire Sanders	8	0.7%
Fulbright Jaworski	8	0.7%
Debevoise Plimpton	7	0.6%
Ropes Gray	7	0.6%
Baker Botts	7	0.6%
Dewey LeBoeuf	6	0.5%
Sheinfeld Maley	6	0.5%
Paul Hastings	6	0.5%
Cadwalader Wickersham	6	0.5%
Wilmer Cutler	6	0.5%
Alston Bird	5	0.4%
Hughes Hubbard	5	0.4%
Kramer Levin	5	0.4%
Winstead Sechrest	5	0.4%
White Case	5	0.4%
Murphy Sheneman	5	0.4%
Sullivan Cromwell	5	0.4%
Simpson Thacher	5	0.4%
Saul Ewing	5	0.4%
King Spalding	4	0.3%
Angel Frankel	4	0.3%
Kronish Lieb	4	0.3%
Sonnenschein Nath	4	0.3%
Reed Smith	4	0.3%
Kasowitz Benson	4	0.3%
Morrison Foerster	4	0.3%
Mayer Brown	4	0.3%
Honigman Miller	4	0.3%
Barnes Thornburg	4	0.3%
Foley Lardner	4	0.3%
Holland Knight	4	0.3%
Morgan Lewis	3	0.3%
Cole Schotz	3	0.3%
Baker McKenzie	3	0.3%
Landau Gottfried	3	0.3%
Winston Strawn	3	0.3%
Parker Hudson	3	0.3%
Gordon Silver	3	0.3%
Hunton Williams	3	0.3%
Hennigan Bennett	3	0.3%
McGuireWoods	3	0.3%
Lowenstein Sandler	3	0.3%
Richards Layton	3	0.3%
McDermott Will	3	0.3%
Pepper Hamilton	3	0.3%
Troutman Sanders	3	0.3%
Rochelle King	2	0.2%
Baker Daniels	2	0.2%
Baker Hostetler	2	0.2%
Kilpatrick Townsend	2	0.2%
Thompson Knight	2	0.2%
Arnold Porter	2	0.2%
Dinsmore Shohl	2	0.2%
Swidler Berlin	2	0.2%
Ravin Sarasohn	2	0.2%
LeBoeuf Lamb	2	0.2%
Moses Singer	2	0.2%
O'Sullivan Graev	2	0.2%
Santoro Driggs	2	0.2%
Mudge Rose	2	0.2%
Stichter Riedel	2	0.2%
Danning Gill	2	0.2%
Patton Boggs	2	0.2%
Sills Cummis	2	0.2%
Burns Summit	2	0.2%
Carlton Fields	2	0.2%
Blank Rome	2	0.2%
Orrick Herrington	2	0.2%
Togut Segal	2	0.2%
Levene Neale	2	0.2%
Katten Muchin	2	0.2%
Duane Morris	2	0.2%
Heller Draper	2	0.2%
Thompson Hine	2	0.2%
Jenkins Gilchrist	2	0.2%
Floyd Isgur	2	0.2%
Smith Gambrell	2	0.2%
Anderson Russell	2	0.2%
Cohn Kelakos	2	0.2%
Robinson Silverman	1	0.1%
Michaelson Susi	1	0.1%
Malhotra Malhotra	1	0.1%
Harwell Howard	1	0.1%
Bracewell Giuliani	1	0.1%
Thompson Coburn	1	0.1%
Perkins Coie	1	0.1%
Campbell Levine	1	0.1%
Althheimer Gray	1	0.1%
Hale Dorr	1	0.1%
Porter Hedges	1	0.1%
Poyner Spruill	1	0.1%
In house counsel	1	0.1%
Myerson Kuhn	1	0.1%
MacConaghy Barnier	1	0.1%
Buchanan Ingersoll	1	0.1%
Cifelli Stokes	1	0.1%
Whiteford Taylor	1	0.1%
Nadler Nadler	1	0.1%
Carrington Coleman	1	0.1%
Rogers Hardin	1	0.1%
Walker	1	0.1%
Goldberg Stinnett	1	0.1%
Crowe Dunlevy	1	0.1%
Myer Hedricks	1	0.1%
Curtis Mallet-Prevost	1	0.1%
Solochek Weber	1	0.1%
Procopio Cory	1	0.1%
Rose Law Firm	1	0.1%
Colvin Petrocchi	1	0.1%
Brown Rudnick	1	0.1%
Sherman Howard	1	0.1%
Ross Hardies	1	0.1%
Davis Wright	1	0.1%
O'Connor Cavenagh	1	0.1%
Saloman Green	1	0.1%
Winthrop Couchot	1	0.1%
Diamond McCarthy	1	0.1%
Reynolds Ridings	1	0.1%
Carson Fischer	1	0.1%
Covington Burling	1	0.1%
Tew Cardenas	1	0.1%
Stuffs Perdue	1	0.1%
Lawrence C. Meyerson	1	0.1%
Woods Aitken	1	0.1%
Schulte Roth	1	0.1%
Nelson Mullins	1	0.1%
Zirinsky	1	0.1%
Lynch Chappell	1	0.1%
McCarter English	1	0.1%
Chadbourne Parke	1	0.1%
Lamberth Bonapfel	1	0.1%
Seder Chandler	1	0.1%
Redmond Nazar	1	0.1%
Rutan Tucker	1	0.1%
Hinshaw Culbertson	1	0.1%
Foster Pepper	1	0.1%
Bracewell	1	0.1%
Stone Pigman	1	0.1%
Davidson Nix	1	0.1%
Hogan Hartson	1	0.1%
Piper Rudnick	1	0.1%
Davis Graham	1	0.1%
Dykema Gossett	1	0.1%
Ravin Greenberg	1	0.1%
Felderstein Fitzgerald	1	0.1%
Powell Goldstein	1	0.1%
Nicholls Crampton	1	0.1%
Locke Lord	1	0.1%
Murphy King	1	0.1%
Faegre Baker	1	0.1%
Phelps Dunbar	1	0.1%
Bradley Arant	1	0.1%
D'Ancona Pflaum	1	0.1%
WilmerHale	1	0.1%
Reid Hellyer	1	0.1%
Stevens Lee	1	0.1%
Westerman Ball	1	0.1%
Norton Rose	1	0.1%
Mintz Levin	1	0.1%
Bayard Firm	1	0.1%
Lindquist Vennum	1	0.1%
Gardere Wynne	1	0.1%
Godfrey Kahn	1	0.1%
Levene Eisenberg	1	0.1%
Sender Wasserman	1	0.1%
Steffes Vingiello	1	0.1%
Cahill Gordon	1	0.1%
Schwartz Cooper	1	0.1%
Pillsbury Winthrop	1	0.1%
Stinson Mag	1	0.1%
Miller Nash	1	0.1%
Stinson Leonard	1	0.1%
Robinson Diamant	1	0.1%
Childs Fortenbach	1	0.1%
Zack A. Clement	1	0.1%
Reavis McGrath	1	0.1%
Alexander Green	1	0.1%
Holmes Star	1	0.1%
Hance Scarborough	1	0.1%
Venable	1	0.1%
McCabe Gordon	1	0.1%
Goodwin Procter	1	0.1%
Klehr Harrison	1	0.1%
Hogan Lovells	1	0.1%
Wauson Probus	1	0.1%
Ashby Geddes	1	0.1%
Strasburger Price	1	0.1%
Smith Hulsey	1	0.1%
Howard Rice	1	0.1%
Venable Baetjer	1	0.1%
Reid Riege	1	0.1%
Lobel Winthrop	1	0.1%
Byrd Wiser	1	0.1%
Schiff Hardin	1	0.1%
Polsinelli	1	0.1%
Matthew A. Rosenstein	1	0.1%
Cox Smith	1	0.1%
Faegre Benson	1	0.1%
Fredrikson Byron	1	0.1%
Holleb Coff	1	0.1%
Lane Powell	1	0.1%
Womble Carlyle	1	0.1%
Hodgson Russ	1	0.1%
Drinker Biddle	1	0.1%
LeClair Ryan	1	0.1%
Dann Pecar	1	0.1%
Neligan Foley	1	0.1%
Jones Wallker	1	0.1%
Blackwell Sanders	1	0.1%
Macey Wilensky	1	0.1%
Lewis Roca	1	0.1%
Dewey Ballantine	1	0.1%
Sulmeyer Kupetz	1	0.1%
McDevitt Miller	1	0.1%
pending	1	0.1%
Gendel Raskoff	1	0.1%
Hanify King	1	0.1%
Snell Wilmer	1	0.1%
Kutak Rock	1	0.1%
Klee Tuchin	1	0.1%
Kerkman Dunn	1	0.1%
Squire Patton	1	0.1%
Johnson Gibbs	1	0.1%
Tonkon Torp	1	0.1%
Wolas Soref	1	0.1%
Goodwin Goodwin	1	0.1%
Data not available	0	0.0%
Total	1,217	100%