3. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Profits per partner: $4,085,000
Paul, Weiss treats law as not only a profession but as a science and art; the company states in its principles its struggle to achieve utmost excellence in its work, without ignoring the responsibilities it owes to the country. The firm takes pride in knowing that the people who have been or are associated with it, as partners or lawyers, include the likes of Theodore Sorensen (adviser to John F. Kennedy), Arthur Goldberg (former associate justice of the Supreme Court) and Adlai E Stevenson (former governor of Illinois). Paul, Weiss also considers itself to be the first major NYC based firm to include Jews as well as African-Americans into its ranks, thus proving its concern for diversity in the firm.
