Wake Up Call: Cravath Tops Law Firms on ‘Prestige’ Ranking

• Cravath, Swaine & Moore stayed atop the Vault 100 prestige rankings for law firms for a second-straight year, as law firm “associates clearly haven’t forgotten that the firm is responsible for industry-wide associate raises last year.” to $180,000. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which Cravath supplanted at No. 1 last year, stayed at No. 2 on the rankings, which are based on a survey of associates at Big Law firms. ( Above The Law )

• A group of senators led by Minnesota Democrat Al Franken wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to urge him to block AT&T’s proposed $85.4 billion merger ...