SOMETIMES THE BEST STORIES
ARE FOUND IN THE NUMBERS
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TALES WE
DISCOVERED IN OUR OWN LIST:
Fifty-seven percent of lawyers
selected this year have been on
the list for the past five years.
Five attorneys have been on
the Top 10 list for the past
five years:
• Cristina C. Arguedas of
Arguedas, Cassman &
Headley, Berkeley
• John W. Keker of Keker &
Van Nest, San Francisco
• James J. Brosnahan of
Morrison & Foerster,
San Francisco
• Joseph W. Cotchett of Cotchett,
Pitre & McCarthy, Burlingame
• Allen J. Ruby of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom,
Palo Alto
1
2
THE LIST BY FIRM SIZE
500+
1-10
FIRM SIZE IN NUMBER OF LAW YERS
51-100
100-500
11-50
THE LIST BY CITY
San Francisco
Sacramento: 225
Oakland: 198
Palo Alto: 186
San Jose: 130
1,392
The earliest bar admission
for attorneys on the Northern
California Super Lawyers list was
in 1951; the most recent, 2001.
3
30.06 Average years admitted to practice
THE LIST BY LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI
University of California Hastings College of the Law
University of California Berkeley School of Law—Boalt Hall
University of San Francisco
School of Law 232
172 Santa Clara University School of Law
157 Stanford Law School
476
408
STATISTICS COMPILED
FROM SUPER LAW YERS 2011
