Awards & Recognitions

Our Credentials

• Our 800 attorneys are in six major markets, representing world-class companies including UPS, The Dow Chemical Company, Wachovia Corporation, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Aflac Incorporated, Nokia and The Prudential Insurance Company of America.
• The Best Lawyers in America 2008 features 115 of our attorneys.
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007) recognizes six Alston & Bird practices in its national rankings. They are Business Process Outsourcing, Energy: Electricity, ERISA Litigation, Financial Services Regulation, Food & Beverages and Government Relations. Sixty-five of our attorneys are included in the rankings.
• The BTI Consulting Group ranked Alston & Bird 5th in the U.S. on its first “Masters of the Deal” list. The ranking resulted from a survey of 150 major corporations about the law firms they use for corporate transactions.
• In The American Lawyer’s 2007 “Corporate Scorecard,” Alston & Bird ranked 11th by number of deals and 14th by value of deals in the “mergers and acquisitions — counsel to investment advisors” category, among other rankings.
• In Mergerstat’s and Thomson Financial’s 2007 year-end rankings, Alston & Bird ranked 14th and 12th, respectively, among U.S. law firms based on U.S. deals closed.
• Our 280+ litigators have handled cases in all 50 states and include an attorney twice named among The National Law Journal’s “Ten of the Top Litigators in America.”
• A team of Alston & Bird litigators joined Oregon counsel to represent MAN AG of Munich, Germany, in an international fraud case that resulted in The National Law Journal’s largest verdict of 2006 — $850 million.
• IP Law & Business recognized Alston & Bird’s intellectual property practice in their list of “Who Protects Innovation in America.” The list reflects companies ranked in the BusinessWeek-Boston Consulting Group 2007 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Alston & Bird received multiple mentions in the patent prosecution area as well as among firms with the most overall mentions.
• International Tax Review described our tax practice as being “one of the best in North America.” Its “World Tax 2007” lists Alston & Bird as a leading tax firm in both New York and Washington, D.C.
• In their most recent survey, AmLaw Tech ranked Alston & Bird 4th among large national law firms in the quality, use and deployment of technology on behalf of clients.

Our Culture

• Alston & Bird has been ranked on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for nine consecutive years, including placement in the top 25 for seven consecutive years, four of which were in the top 10.
• Alston & Bird ranked 7th in BTI’s national survey of 250 corporate counsels at Fortune 1000 companies and large organizations. These in-house attorneys identified 17 key activities that drive client service and the law firms they consider the absolute best at each activity. The survey included 200 law firms with the top 30 making BTI’s Client Service A-Team for 2008.
• Alston & Bird has been named by Working Mother magazine as one of the “50 Best Law Firms For Women.” Firms were evaluated and selected according to workforce profile, benefits and compensation, parental leave and related benefits and policies, child care, flexibility, and retention and advancement of women.