2025 Vault Rankings
- Prestige#35
At a Glance
“Colleagues who are extremely talented but also genuinely nice.”
“The firm has made an active effort to foster the collaborative, friendly, and respectful culture it embodies. From specific work-life initiatives to the quality of the training and flexibility to work on projects that interest me, it’s a great place to start a career.”
“The firm really invests in its people. Some highlights are providing us food and snacks every day, hosting events like new-hire meetups and happy hours, and the mentorship structure.”
“The culture is not at all competitive.”
“I wish the firm had more locations outside of D.C.”
“The firm has grown to a size where we have to start making decisions on how to best maintain a culture founded on collegiality and mentorship. I don’t think we have made any substantial compromises to date, but it’s easy to see them happening in the future.”
“The industry being so niche means there are fewer exit opportunities.”
“The hours can be very challenging. Although they are around deadlines that leadership typically communicates months in advance, they can be all-encompassing. This can be frustrating, but the firm makes an effort to minimize these experiences.”
About Bates White Economic Consulting
Bates White is a mid-sized consultancy specializing in advanced economic, financial and econometric analysis. The company's professional staff—among them consultants, economists, econometricians, financial analysts, and IT specialists—help law firms, corporations, and government entities address complex matters that require sophisticated problem solving and deep empirical analysis.
Co-founders Charles Bates and Halbert White set the bar as high for excellence as they did for diversity. They created a culture where bright minds from diverse backgrounds work together to build strong, collaborative relationships with clients, within teams, and in the community. The firm is uniquely focused on the cultivation of diversity within its ranks. It regularly tests, implements, and evaluates initiatives aimed at the heterogeneous widening of the staff and corporate culture, and ensures that all employees, regardless of their differences, have opportunities to learn, develop and contribute to the firm's success. Employees come from an array of ethnicities and backgrounds, having been recruited from many different institutions and an alphabet soup of academic fields, including biology, business administration, chemistry, economics, engineering, finance, mathematics, physics, political science, and statistics.
Data gurus
Bates White specializes in complex data-intensive cases in the areas of healthcare, life sciences, mergers, monopolization, collusion, product liability, mass torts, and financial securities litigation. The firm pays meticulous attention to uncovering relevant data, and its experts are skilled at delving into issues using sophisticated analytical techniques. In particular, the firm has developed a number of robust, complex databases containing information on such items as employment, epidemiology, insurance claims, product pricing, and financial records from public sources such as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the US Census, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition, the firm has extensive experience analyzing substantial amounts of company-specific information from transactional and financial data as well as business records spanning multiple industries, especially airlines, chemicals, electronics, pharmaceuticals, payment cards, and retail products. Bates White is widely recognized for its ability to collect and analyze vast amounts of data and has an IT infrastructure that enables it to quickly and efficiently respond to client requests for analyses.
Experts at antitrust and beyond
Bates White is at the forefront of applying economic theory and empirical methodologies to address issues that arise in the antitrust analysis of class certification, damages, mergers and acquisitions, monopolization, and collusion. The firm's hallmark approach to conducting business is to develop a deep understanding of relevant industry, factual, and legal contexts to support opinions with sound economic theory and rigorous empirical analyses that withstand intense scrutiny. Today, the firm has a team of more than 100 Ph.D. professionals who advise clients on case development and strategy, assess and analyze the relative strengths of economic arguments, and determine optimal strategies for discovery, motions, trial preparations, and settlement. In addition, Bates White has been a dominant market leader for more than a decade in asbestos litigation and valuation as well as in False Claims Act litigation. More recently, the firm has earned an outstanding reputation for its expertise in mortgage-backed securities.
Antitrust remains the largest practice area, but the firm also has recognized experts in mass torts, healthcare and life sciences, energy, and finance.
2001 K Street, NW
North Building, Suite 500
DC 20006
Phone: (202) 408-6110
Employer Type: Private
Chairman: Charlie Mullin
Managing Partner: Scott Weishaar
Chief Operations Officer: Page Imperial
2025 Employees (All Locations): 360
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