The Prestige London Law Firms - The Vault Rankings

Surveying law firms is a major industry with more awards and categories than you could shake a stick at. However, always interesting reading, the latest is a Vault survey of the most prestigious London law offices. Vault surveyed the firms between November 2005 and March 2006 - that's a heck of a survey period - and came out with their "prestige rankings".

The rankings are based on issues such as treatment by partners, formal training, informal training and mentoring, hours and compensation and then scored the firms against each other.

The top five - open the envelope please - are Slaughter and May, Freshfields, Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Clifford Chance. A US firm is next up? Guess who?

No prizes, sorry.