Description When the urge to merge strikes corporate America, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is ready to serve. The firm's specialties include transactional work and litigation, and it has built a substantial mergers and acquisitions practice over the years. Other practice areas include capital markets, government investigations, intellectual property, labor, real estate, and tax. Simpson Thacher's 800 lawyers practice from four offices in the US (Los Angeles; New York; Palo Alto, California; and Washington, DC), as well as in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo, and São Paulo. The firm was founded in 1884 by three former Columbia Law School graduates: John Woodruff Simpson, Thomas Thacher, and William Milo Barnum.
Simpson Thacher has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 264 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Simpson Thacher employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Legal industry (3.8 stars).
Overall, 51% of employees would recommend working at Simpson Thacher to a friend. This is based on 269 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
55% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Simpson Thacher as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Simpson Thacher.