Grand Law Firm

Insider Rating Insufficient Data Industry Reputation Insufficient Data		Firm Size 3 lawyers	Top Practice by Headcount ^? Bankruptcy Personal Injury
Division Regional	Total Offices 2	Largest Office Baton Rouge, LA
Leadership Trenton A. Grand, Managing Partner Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, JD	Top Schools by Headcount^?

Ratings & Rankings *

Colored bars represent the range of average firm ratings. Black line is this firm's rating.

Insider Rating

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 5.13
Mean
Maximum: 8.91

Compensation

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 4.14
Mean
Maximum: 9.67

Hours

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 4.11
Mean
Maximum: 9

Training

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 3.38
Mean
Maximum: 10

Culture & Colleagues

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 5.77
Mean
Maximum: 9.6

Firm Morale

Overall
Firm vs. all biglaw

Minimum: 3.93
Mean
Maximum: 9.83

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What do these ratings mean?

from Brian Dalton, Breaking Media Director of Research

The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey asks self-identified current students, alumni, and practicing lawyers to rate major aspects of life at their law school (academics, social life, clinical training, career services, financial aid advising) and/or law firm (compensation, hours, morale, culture, training). We then translate these ratings into letter grades, where the mean score for each particular ratings category is the equivalent of a “B.”

We require a minimum threshold of responses for each institution before we publish any survey-based ratings content. Using a standard formula for statistical validity, we adhere to a threshold that gives us an 85% confidence level and a 10% margin of error. The precise threshold number will of course vary depending on the size of the individual institution. For example, for a law firm of 1,000 attorneys, we would require 50 responses in order to publish ratings for the firm.

Top Practice by Headcount and Top Schools data is provided by Leopard Solutions. Leopard Solutions is a leading provider of attorney data to legal recruiters, law firms and law schools. We track attorneys in over 1500 law firms around the country and document their practice area, specialties, honors, languages advanced degrees and more. We provide an overview of each law firm as well as detailed information on individual attorneys. The data can be used to track trends, movements, growth and more.

Leverage is the number of attorneys minus equity partners, divided by equity partners.

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