Firm Recognitions

A Pre-eminent Firm

• King & Spalding represents more than 250 public companies, including half of the Fortune Global 100.
  
  
• King & Spalding placed 33rd in The American Lawyer’s 2011 “AmLaw 100” survey. The firm has ranked among the top 50 surveyed law firms each year since 1990.
  
  
• King & Spalding ranked as the 41st  highest grossing law firm in the world in The American Lawyer’s 2010 survey of the top 100 global law firms.
  
  
• In the National Law Journal’s annual NLJ 250 survey, King & Spalding ranked as the 37th largest law firms in the United States.
  
  
• In Corporate Counsel’s annual survey “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies?”, King & Spalding consistently ranks among the firms most mentioned overall for total representations of Fortune 100 companies.
  
  
• Inc. magazine named King & Spalding one of America’s fastest-growing private companies in the 2010 Inc. 5000 survey.
  
  
• For the seventh consecutive year, King & Spalding earned high marks in Multicultural Law Magazine’s list of “The 2011 Top Law Firms for Diversity.”
  
  
• King & Spalding earned a rating of 95 percent in the Corporate Equality Index 2010 - a report card on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality in corporate America. King & Spalding scored a maximum rating in 10 out of 11 categories.
  
  
• King & Spalding was named one of the best law firms in the United States for retaining and promoting women lawyers, according to a survey released by the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for Work Life Law at UC Hastings College of the Law.

International Expertise

• In 2010, The American Lawyer’s biennial “Litigation Department of the Year” survey named King & Spalding one of the top litigation firms for a fourth consecutive time.
  
  
• King & Spalding is among the nation’s top-5 law firms in dealing with general corporate governance issues according to a 2010 survey released by Directors & Boards magazine.

• King & Spalding is among the top 25  law firms in the United States advising on corporate governance matters according to Corporate Board Member magazine’s 2011 survey. The firm ranked 24th according to the survey of corporate directors and 21st based on responses from corporate board directors and corporate general counsel.

• In 2010, The Lawyer ranked King & Spalding 28th among the top 50 transatlantic law firms in its annual litigation survey.
  
  
• King & Spalding took top honors in the project finance, infrastructure and energy category at the 2010 International Legal Alliance Summit and Awards. The firm also received a “gold award” as best U.S. law firm and was a U.S. finalist in the international arbitration category.
  
  
• King & Spalding is consistently ranked among the 20 most active bankruptcy law firms according to The Deal’s bankruptcy league tables.
  
  
• For the eleventh year in a row, Latin Lawyer magazine has recommended King & Spalding in its annual Latin Lawyer 250 guide to the top law firms working in Latin America.
  
  
• King & Spalding earned the No. 3 spot in Focus Europe’s 2011 Arbitration Scorecard, a worldwide ranking of law firms by number and size of arbitrations. King & Spalding also was included in Focus Europe’s list of Ten Big Awards for securing a nearly $700 million award for Chevron Corporation against the government of Ecuador.
  
  
• Managing Intellectual Property magazine ranked King & Spalding in eight categories in its 2011 World IP Survey, receiving recognition in the categories of bio life sciences (national), copyright (national and regional), ITC (national), patent contentious (national and regional) and trademark contentious (national and regional).
  
  
• King & Spalding was selected as one of the world’s leading trademark legal service firms by World Trademark Review magazine’s 2011 inaugural edition of World Trademark Review 1000 – The Definitive Guide to Trademark Legal Services.

Exceptional Lawyers

• Including nine of our retired partners, King & Spalding has 20 members of the American College of Trial Lawyers, widely considered to be the premier litigation, trial practice and ethics association in the United States. Two of our lawyers, the late U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell and retired partner Frank Jones, have served as president of this prestigious association.
  
  
• King & Spalding lawyers received 49 listings and 25 of the firm's practice areas were recognized as leaders by peers and clients in the 2011 edition of Chambers Global.
  
  
• In the 2011 Chambers USA guide, King & Spalding lawyers earned 114 individual recognitions (including 38 at the national level) and 36 practice rankings (15 nationally, 22 at the state level).
  
  
• King & Spalding won both the Chambers USA and Chambers Latin America Awards of Excellence in the international arbitration category in 2010. In 2008 and 2009, the firm won the Chambers USA Award of Excellence in the international trade category.
  
  
• Legal 500 recognized 55 King & Spalding lawyers and 17 of the firm’s national practices in its annual guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in the U.S.
  
  
• In its 2011 Europe, Middle East and Africa guide, The Legal 500 recommended King & Spalding as a leading firm in 11 practice areas throughout the UAE, London and Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• In its 2010 edition, the IFLR 1000 recognized King & Spalding as one of the world’s leading law firms advising on financial and corporate matters, earning four rankings in this year’s guide.
  
  
• One hundred eighteen King & Spalding lawyers were selected by their peers to be included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.  The firm’s lawyers received 187 total mentions in 38 different categories of legal expertise.
  
  
• In 2011, the American Health Lawyers Association ranked King & Spalding’s health law practice as the largest in the United States, with 247 health industry practitioners.