Pritzker Legal Research Center: Researching Legal Employers: Guide to Researching Legal Employers

Introduction to Researching Legal Employers

This guide is designed to help law students research potential employers and prepare for job interviews. It is intended to supplement the resources provided by the Career Strategy Center, including Career Space.

Law Firm and Attorney Profiles

Use these sites to learn more about legal markets, law firms, practice groups, and attorneys.

Chambers
Guides and rankings for practice areas, leading firms, and lawyers throughout the U.S.
Chambers Associate
Law student-focused website with extensive information about law firms, including reviews, rankings, starting salaries, billable hours targets, and diversity information.
Leadership Connect
Directory of employees at 40,000 U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Firm listings include committees and practice groups. Provides contact and biographical information on federal and state judges. Also includes contact information on judicial staff, court staff and law clerks.
Martindale
Extensive directory of lawyers, law firms, and organizations. Listings often contain contact information, a list of practice areas, a list of representative clients, and peer and client reviews.
NALP Directory of Legal Employers
Directory of more than 1,300 law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, and corporations. Includes statistical data on firms, such as practice group sizes and demographic information.
Vault Career Insider
A compilation of career information and management tools that allows access to downloadable career guides, employer profiles and rankings, discussion boards, industry blogs, and news.
West Legal Directory
Contains more than one million profiles of law firms and branch offices, in addition to biographical records of attorneys in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada, and Europe.

Cases, Clients, and Jurisdictions

If you are interested in learning more about a law firm's business, including the types of matters it handles most frequently, its major clients, as well as its geographical scope, these sites will prove helpful.

Bloomberg Law - Litigation Analytics
Use this site to learn more about a law firm's book of business, as well as to identify the federal jurisdictions in which the firm most often appears.
Westlaw Edge - Litigation Analytics
This tool enables you to learn more about the types of cases a law firm handles, the major clients it represents, and the state and federal jurisdictions in which it appears.

Legal News

Legal news sites can provide valuable current awareness relating to law firms and attorneys. We recommend utilizing the search feature on each of these sites.

Above the Law
Blog providing news and commentary on the legal industry
Bloomberg Law
From the Bloomberg Law homepage, select "Browse," then "News & Analysis," and, finally, "Bloomberg Law News." Newsfeeds are available for a variety of practice areas.
Law360
Provides news and analysis for 60 different areas of law. Use the search feature to locate news involving a particular law firm.
Lexis+ - Legal News
Includes a variety of state- and practice-area specific legal news sources, as well as American Lawyer Media publications, including American Lawyer and National Law Journal.
U.S. Law Week
This newsletter is a helpful guide to recent developments within the U.S. legal system.
Westlaw Edge - Legal Newspapers and Newsletters
Includes over 400 legal newspapers and newsletters, including several ABA publications. Try the topic or jurisdiction filters to locate the most relevant information.