Perkins Coie Chicago Places Third on 2011 Midlevel Associates Survey

The Perkins Coie Chicago office placed third in the 2011 American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey with a score of 4.069.

American Lawyer surveyed 5,361 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates from 149 law firm offices around the globe. The score is the average of 12 questions that summarize the firm's qualities, including the interest and satisfaction levels of work; benefits and compensation; relations between associates and partners; training and guidance; management's openness about firm strategies and partnership chances; the firm's attitude toward pro bono work; billable hours policy; and the likelihood of the associate being at the firm in two years.

A branch office was included in the results if there were five or more completed responses from associates in that office.

Firmwide, Perkins Coie improved to 34 from 63 in 2010.