Six Law Firms Make Fortune’s List of Top 100 Places to Work

Six law firms are on Fortune magazine’s list of the best 100 companies to work for in 2010, up from five last year. New on this year’s list is Baker Donelson, cited for increasing its number of minority lawyers from 12 to 40 and for reporting no layoffs. The other law firms are Bingham McCutchen; Alston & Bird; Arnold & Porter; Perkins Coie; and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. To pick the best companies, Fortune surveys a random sample of company employees to learn their attitudes about management's credibility, job satisfaction and camaraderie, according to a Perkins Coie press release. Two-thirds of each company’s score is based on the answers. The other third is based on company responses to questions about pay, benefits, diversity and communication. Here are the law firms’ rankings and Fortune's summaries of why they made the list: No. 12 is Bingham McCutchen No. 30 is Alston & Bird No. 65 is Arnold & Porter No. 75 is Perkins Coie No. 77 is Baker Donelson No. 95 is Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

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