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Top BigLaw Firms for Energy / Infrastructure

Transactions and regulatory work for power, renewables, oil and gas and infrastructure assets, often combined with project and finance work. Chambers USA 2026 ranks 53 firms in our directory nationwide for energy and infrastructure, 20 of them in Band 1. Pick a city for the local tables.

Ranked nationwide
53
Cities with 3+ ranked firms
22

Energy / Infrastructure by city

Ranked nationwide, Chambers USA 2026

  1. 1.Latham & Watkins LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  2. 2.Vinson & Elkins LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 1 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  3. 3.Kirkland & Ellis LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional); Band 1 · Oil & Gas Litigation
  4. 4.Baker Botts L.L.P.First-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 1 · Oil & Gas Litigation
  5. 5.Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy: Nuclear (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 2 · Energy Transition
  6. 6.Sidley Austin LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 2 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  7. 7.Holland & Knight LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Offshore Energy; Band 2 · Energy Transition
  8. 8.Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Energy: Nuclear (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 2 · Energy: Electricity (Finance)
  9. 9.Norton Rose Fulbright US LLPFirst-year base $235,000Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 2 · Oil & Gas Litigation
  10. 10.A&O Shearman LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Mining & Metals; Band 2 · Energy Transition
  11. 11.Steptoe LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 2 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  12. 12.Troutman Pepper Locke LLPFirst-year base $235,000+Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Finance)
  13. 13.Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional); Band 3 · Energy Transition
  14. 14.McGuireWoods LLPFirst-year base $215,000Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
  15. 15.Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Energy Transition; Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Finance)
  16. 16.Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional); Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
  17. 17.McDermott Will & Schulte LLPBand 1 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 3 · Energy Transition
  18. 18.Sullivan & Cromwell LLPFirst-year base $235,000+Band 1 · Mining & Metals; Band 4 · Energy Transition
  19. 19.Hunton Andrews Kurth LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 1 · Energy: Electricity (Finance); Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  20. 20.Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 1 · Mining & Metals
  21. 21.White & Case LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional); Band 2 · Mining & Metals
  22. 22.Hogan Lovells CadwaladerFirst-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Energy Transition; Band 2 · Energy: Nuclear (Regulatory & Litigation)
  23. 23.Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 2 · Energy Transition; Band 2 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  24. 24.Ashurst Perkins Coie LLPFirst-year base $255,000+Band 2 · Offshore Energy; Band 3 · Energy Transition
  25. 25.King & Spalding LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 2 · Energy Transition; Band 3 · Oil & Gas Litigation
  26. 26.K&L Gates LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Oil & Gas Litigation; Band 3 · Offshore Energy
  27. 27.Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 2 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional); Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Finance)
  28. 28.Haynes and Boone, LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 2 · Oil & Gas Litigation; Band 3 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  29. 29.Blank Rome LLPFirst-year base $210,000 - $225,000Band 2 · Offshore Energy; Band 3 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  30. 30.Winston Taylor LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Offshore Energy; Band 4 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  31. 31.Greenberg Traurig, LLPFirst-year base Varies by officeBand 2 · Energy Transition; Band 4 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  32. 32.Crowell & Moring LLPFirst-year base $215,000Band 2 · Mining & Metals; Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  33. 33.Milbank LLPFirst-year base $235,000+Band 2 · Mining & Metals; Band 5 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
  34. 34.DLA Piper LLP (US)First-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Mining & Metals; Band 5 · Energy Transition
  35. 35.Jenner & Block LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 2 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  36. 36.Baker & Hostetler LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 2 · Oil & Gas Litigation
  37. 37.Venable LLPFirst-year base $215,000Band 2 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  38. 38.Dorsey & Whitney LLPFirst-year base $190,000Band 2 · Mining & Metals
  39. 39.Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 3 · Energy Transition; Band 3 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
  40. 40.Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 3 · Energy Transition; Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  41. 41.Day Pitney LLPBand 3 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation); Band 5 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
  42. 42.Linklaters LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 3 · Offshore Energy
  43. 43.Davis Wright Tremaine LLPFirst-year base $225,000+Band 3 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  44. 44.Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLPBand 3 · Mining & Metals
  45. 45.Stoel RivesFirst-year base $225,000Band 3 · Mining & Metals
  46. 46.Paul Hastings LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 4 · Energy Transition; Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  47. 47.Jones DayFirst-year base $240,000Band 4 · Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional); Band 5 · Energy Transition
  48. 48.Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.First-year base $225,000Band 4 · Energy Transition
  49. 49.Clifford Chance US LLPFirst-year base $255,000+Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  50. 50.Mayer Brown LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
  51. 51.Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLPFirst-year base $215,000Band 4 · Energy Transition
  52. 52.StinsonFirst-year base $225,000Band 4 · Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
  53. 53.Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLPFirst-year base $225,000Band 5 · Energy Transition

Is energy and infrastructure a fit?

Who tends to thrive

  • People interested in energy transition and physical assets
  • Those who like regulated industries
  • Deal lawyers who want an industry focus

What a 1L can do this year

  • Take Energy Law or Administrative Law
  • Follow energy deals and policy news
  • Look at which firms in your target city have energy groups
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