Our Credentials

• Our 800 attorneys are in nine major markets, representing world-class companies including UPS, The Dow Chemical Company, Bank of America, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Aflac Incorporated, Nokia, The Prudential Insurance Company of America and Twentieth Century Fox.
• The Best Lawyers in America 2010 features 132 of our attorneys.
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009) recognizes 10 Alston & Bird practices in its national rankings. They are Climate Change; Energy: Electricity; Energy: Renewables & Alternative Energy; ERISA Litigation; Financial Services Regulation: Banking & Securities (Regulatory Compliance); Government: Government Relations; Outsourcing; Privacy & Data Security; Tax: Controversy; and Tax: Corporate & Finance. Eighty-six of our attorneys are included in the publication’s prestigious rankings.
• Corporate Counsel magazine’s 2008 list of “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies” recognized Alston & Bird among the top 10 law firms in the country.
• 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.
• For 2009, Mergerstat ranked Alston & Bird #18 based on the number of U.S. announced deals (U.S. Targets Only), and #12 based on the number of deals in the "Any U.S. Middle-Market Participants" category.
• In The American Lawyer’s 2009 “Corporate Scorecard,” Alston & Bird ranked 1st for 2008 in the “REIT Debt Securities Offerings” category based on number of offerings, and 15th in the mergers & acquisitions category of “Counsel to Investment Advisor” based on number of transactions.
• Our 330 litigators have handled cases in all 50 states and include an attorney 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.
• In 2009, Corporate Counsel recognized Alston & Bird’s intellectual property practice as a national leader in corporate IP law, ranking it among the top 10 practices in the country.
• In 2009 IP Law & Business magazine recognized Alston & Bird as having one of the top practices in the nation for handling U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 claims.
• International Tax Review described our tax practice as being “one of the best in North America.” Its “World Tax 2009” ranked Alston & Bird as a leading tax firm in both New York and Washington, D.C.
• Five of our tax lawyers are profiled in The Legal Media Group’s 2008 Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers.

Our Culture

• Alston & Bird has been ranked on FORTUNE’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 11 consecutive years, including placement in the top 25 for seven consecutive years, four of which were in the top 10.
• Alston & Bird was ranked 4th on The BTI Client Service 30 among U.S. law firms in providing superior client service. The ranking resulted from interviews with 240 corporate counsel at Fortune 1000 companies.
• Alston & Bird has been named by Working Mother magazine as one of the 2009 “50 Best Law Firms for Women.” Firms were evaluated according to workforce profile; family friendly benefits and policies; flexibility; leadership, compensation and advancement of women; and development and retention of women.
• In Vault/MCCA’s national survey of the diversity programs at more than 250 major law firms, Alston & Bird ranked 10th for overall diversity, 5th with respect to GLBT and 7th with respect to minorities.