Who Represents America's Biggest Companies

Corporate Counsel queried the general counsel of Fortune 250 companies regarding their primary outside counsel to compile this year's "Who Represents America's Biggest Companies" survey. Corporate America ranks Kirkland & Ellis as follows:

The Fight Club:
Kirkland & Ellis is listed as the number one "go-to" firm for litigation for the second year in a row.

Brain Trust:
Kirkland ties for first with 12 mentions in the top-rated IP firms category.

All-Around Champs:
When it comes to representing the biggest companies in the combined areas of litigation, corporate transactions, labor and employment, and intellectual property, Kirkland ranks in the top four in the nation.

Kirkland was listed as primary outside counsel by these Fortune 250 companies:

Litigation:
Verizon
AES Corp.
Illinois Tool Works
Morgan Stanley
Motorola
International Paper Co.
BellSouth Corp.
Aon Corp.
Honeywell International Inc.
Abbott Laboratories
Raytheon Co.
UAL Corp.
Colgate-Palmolive
Weyerhaeuser Co.
Sara Lee Corp.

Intellectual Property:
Altria Group
ConocoPhillips
Illinois Tool Works
Morgan Stanley
H.J. Heinz
Motorola
Colgate-Palmolive
Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Honeywell International
Abbott Laboratories
3M
Lucent Technologies

Corporate Transactions:
Whirlpool
Motorola
Kellogg
Sara Lee Corp.