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&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, choosing a law firm hinges on its location—whether for industry focus, particular career goals, family, or other personal reasons, you may be committed to a specific location. When searching for a law firm, it is important to understand the leaders in your market as at least one factor in your decision-making process. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week, we shared &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/blog/vaults-law-blog-legal-careers-and-industry-news/the-best-law-firms-in-new-york/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Vault’s 2019 Best Law Firms in New York City&lt;/a&gt;. In addition to the Big Apple, Vault’s Annual Associate survey covers a dozen other &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/best-companies-to-work-for/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;regions across the U.S.&lt;/a&gt; We asked associates to rate the reputations of peer firms in the region where they work. Associates could only rate the firms in their specific region for these rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This year’s regional rankings included the following locations: Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Miami; the Mid-Atlantic; the Midwest; Mountain States; New York City; Northern California; the Pacific Northwest; Southern California; Texas; and Washington, DC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some interesting shifts in the 2019 regional rankings include:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gibson Dunn moved from No. 2 to No. 1 in Southern California. The firm dethroned Latham, although the lead was narrow: .048 points.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perkins Coie claimed the top spot in the Mountain States, up from No. 4 last year. The firm maintained its No. 1 spot in the Pacific Northwest and also bounded into a new ranking, claiming the No. 20 spot in Southern California.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A number of regions saw firms break in to the Top 10: Greenberg Traurig moved from No. 11 to No. 10 in Atlanta; Cooley moved from No. 13 to No. 10 in Boston; Morgan Lewis clinched the No. 10 spot in Miami, up from No. 14 the previous year; Snell &amp;amp; Wilmer leaped from No. 12 to No. 8 in the Mountain States; Skadden jumped from No. 11 to No. 9 in Northern California; and Miller Nash Graham &amp;amp; Dunn hopped forward from No. 12 to No. 10 in the Pacific Northwest.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Five was a lucky number for numerous firms. Weil launched into Miami’s Top 5 from its prior position at No. 7. Similarly, Greenberg Traurig moved from No. 7 to No. 5 in the Mountain States. Reed Smith claimed the No. 5 spot in the Mid-Atlantic, Foley &amp;amp; Lardner snagged the No. 5 spot in the Midwest, and Quinn Emanuel settled in at No. 5 in Southern California—all three firms inching up from their 2018 rankings of No. 6 in their respective regions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;One of the biggest jumps in the regional rankings was Ice Miller’s catapult from No. 18 to No. 9 in the Midwest.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Interestingly, the No. 1 firms in every region except Southern California and the Mountain States remained the same this year.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Below are the Top 10 firms in each region in Vault’s 2019 Best Law Firms by Region (aside from New York City). You can see the full &lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=15&amp;amp;pg=2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2019 law firm regional rankings here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Atlanta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 King &amp;amp; Spalding&lt;br /&gt;#2 Alston &amp;amp; Bird LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#4 Bondurant Mixson &amp;amp; Elmore LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Kilpatrick Townsend &amp;amp; Stockton LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Troutman Sanders LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Paul Hastings LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Arnall Golden Gregory LLP &lt;br /&gt;#10 Greenberg Traurig, LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=5&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boston&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Ropes &amp;amp; Gray LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 WilmerHale&lt;br /&gt;#3 Goodwin&lt;br /&gt;#4 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#5 Choate Hall &amp;amp; Stewart LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.&lt;br /&gt;#7 Foley Hoag LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Proskauer Rose LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 Cooley LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=6&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chicago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Kirkland &amp;amp; Ellis LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Sidley Austin LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#4 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Jenner &amp;amp; Block LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Mayer Brown LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Winston &amp;amp; Strawn LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#9 McDermott Will &amp;amp; Emery LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 Baker McKenzie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=7&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miami&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 White &amp;amp; Case LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Greenberg Traurig, LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Holland &amp;amp; Knight LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#5 Weil, Gotshal &amp;amp; Manges LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Akerman LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 McDermott Will &amp;amp; Emery LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Hogan Lovells&lt;br /&gt;#9 DLA Piper&lt;br /&gt;#10 Morgan, Lewis &amp;amp; Bockius LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=12&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mid-Atlantic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#2 Morgan, Lewis &amp;amp; Bockius LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Dechert LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#5 Reed Smith LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 K&amp;amp;L Gates LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Drinker Biddle &amp;amp; Reath LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Duane Morris LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Hogan Lovells&lt;br /&gt;#10 Pepper Hamilton LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=8&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Midwest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#2 Baker &amp;amp; Hostetler LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Squire Patton Boggs&lt;br /&gt;#4 Faegre Baker Daniels LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Foley &amp;amp; Lardner LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Dentons&lt;br /&gt;#7 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Dorsey &amp;amp; Whitney LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Ice Miller LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 Barnes &amp;amp; Thornburg LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=451&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mountain States&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Perkins Coie LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Gibson, Dunn &amp;amp; Crutcher LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Hogan Lovells&lt;br /&gt;#4 Holland &amp;amp; Hart LLP &lt;br /&gt;#5 Greenberg Traurig LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Cooley LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Davis Graham &amp;amp; Stubbs LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Snell &amp;amp; Wilmer L.L.P.&lt;br /&gt;#9 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 DLA Piper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=10&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Northern California&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Morrison &amp;amp; Foerster LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp;amp; Rosati&lt;br /&gt;#3 Cooley LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 Fenwick &amp;amp; West LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Orrick, Herrington &amp;amp; Sutcliffe LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp;amp; Sullivan LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Gibson, Dunn &amp;amp; Crutcher LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#10 Kirkland &amp;amp; Ellis LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=11&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pacific Northwest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Perkins Coie LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 K&amp;amp;L Gates LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 Stoel Rives LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp;amp; Rosati&lt;br /&gt;#6 Cooley LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 DLA Piper&lt;br /&gt;#8 Fenwick &amp;amp; West LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Foster Pepper PLLC&lt;br /&gt;#10 Miller Nash Graham &amp;amp; Dunn LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=13&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Southern California&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Gibson, Dunn &amp;amp; Crutcher LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Munger, Tolles &amp;amp; Olsen LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 O’Melveny &amp;amp; Myers LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp;amp; Sullivan LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#7 Irell &amp;amp; Manella LLP&lt;br /&gt;#8 Kirkland &amp;amp; Ellis LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Paul Hastings LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 Morrison &amp;amp; Foerster LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=14&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Texas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Vinson &amp;amp; Elkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Baker Botts LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#4 Susman Godfrey LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Kirkland &amp;amp; Ellis LLP&lt;br /&gt;#6 Norton Rose Fulbright&lt;br /&gt;#7 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#8 Gibson, Dunn &amp;amp; Crutcher LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Sidley Austin LLP&lt;br /&gt;#10 Weil, Gotshal &amp;amp; Manges LLP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; href=&quot;/company-rankings/law/best-law-firms-in-each-us-region/?sRankID=15&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Washington, DC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 Covington &amp;amp; Burling LLP&lt;br /&gt;#2 Williams &amp;amp; Connolly LLP&lt;br /&gt;#3 WilmerHale&lt;br /&gt;#4 Gibson, Dunn &amp;amp; Crutcher LLP&lt;br /&gt;#5 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp;amp; Flom LLP and Affiliates&lt;br /&gt;#6 Latham &amp;amp; Watkins LLP&lt;br /&gt;#7 Hogan Lovells&lt;br /&gt;#8 Arnold &amp;amp; Porter Kaye Scholer LLP&lt;br /&gt;#9 Jones Day&lt;br /&gt;#10 Kirkland &amp;amp; Ellis LLP&lt;/p&gt;

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