Rankings
Venable is nationally ranked by a number of legal and business journals. It ranked 77th in the 2010 AmLaw 100 list, and 78th on the National Law Journal's top 250 law firms list. Venable was ranked 82nd in the 2011 Vault 100 Survey. Regionally, the Washington Business Journal listed Venable among the 10 largest D.C. law firms in 2010 and the Baltimore Business Journal listed Venable as the largest law firm in the Baltimore, MD area.
A number of Venable practices have garnered national recognition. U.S. News and World Report’s Best Law Firms survey ranked five Venable practices nationally, including Advertising Law, Employment Law - Management, Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and General Commercial Litigation, and 36 in local markets. Chambers USA ranked 16 Venable practices in 2009 and presented its Award for Excellence to Venable's Privacy and Data Security (2009) and Advertising, Marketing and New Media (2010) practices. The firm's Advertising, Privacy and Data Security, and M&A practices also received favorable rankings in Legal 500's 2010 edition. Legal Times ranked Venable 13th among law firm lobbying practices in 2010 and the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights practice ranked among Law360’s top five bankruptcy practices in the nation in 2010. Additionally, Venable topped the Maryland Daily Record's list of top ten verdicts in 2010 for its work in a major land development case. According to Intellectual Property Today, Venable assisted clients in 617 trademark registrations, ranking it 12th among law firms nationwide. Computerworld's survey of corporate clients in the privacy and data protection arena determined that Venable's privacy advisers ranked in the top tier in 2007, singling out the firm for its compliance, investigative and international capabilities.
Venable's community service and philanthropy efforts have been recognized by the Washington Business Journal, which ranked the firm among the top 20 corporate philanthropists in Washington, D.C. in 2010.
Venable attorneys also garnered favorable rankings in a number of publications including Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers.
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