Cities Starting with "P" - NY-Licensed Attorney Office Locations

Browse 140 cities ranked by registered NY-licensed attorney office locations. Cities listed are office addresses on file with the NY OCA, not coverage geography: many NY-licensed attorneys maintain offices outside New York. Filter by state, sort by name or count, jump by letter.

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Showing 1-50 of 140 cities starting with P

# City State Attorneys Relative
1 Philadelphia PA 1,854
2 Princeton NJ 641
3 Parsippany NJ 445
4 Poughkeepsie NY 437
5 Purchase NY 429
6 Palo Alto CA 385
7 Pittsburgh PA 367
8 Phoenix AZ 341
9 Portland OR 294
10 Paris 276
11 Pittsford NY 271
12 Port Washington NY 262
13 Paris 75008 209
14 Paramus NJ 202
15 Providence RI 172
16 Plainview NY 165
17 Portland ME 158
18 Palm Beach Gardens FL 147
19 Pasadena CA 126
20 Plattsburgh NY 113
21 Plano TX 107
22 Pearl River NY 101
23 Pleasantville NY 90
24 Patchogue NY 90
25 Plantation FL 86
26 Paterson NJ 85
27 Pelham NY 84
28 Palm Beach FL 82
29 Port Chester NY 81
30 Potomac MD 72
31 Pound Ridge NY 59
32 Peekskill NY 53
33 Pittsfield MA 51
34 Port Jefferson NY 49
35 Piscataway NJ 48
36 Paris 75009 46
37 Paris 75116 45
38 Paris 75001 43
39 Penfield NY 39
40 Pleasanton CA 39
41 Pomona NY 38
42 Portsmouth NH 37
43 Port Jefferson Station NY 36
44 Plainsboro NJ 35
45 Passaic NJ 32
46 Pawling NY 32
47 Paris 75017 32
48 Paris 75007 32
49 Park City UT 31
50 Pine Brook NJ 30

How to read this list

Each city above is the office address on file with the New York Office of Court Administration for one or more registered NY-licensed attorneys. The same attorney can appear in only one city at a time - their currently registered office address, but many NY-admitted attorneys maintain offices outside New York (most commonly in Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Newark). Attorneys with NY admission practicing from non-NY offices remain in this list because they are still registered with NY.

The relative-bar visualization in the rightmost column shows the city's attorney count as a percentage of the leading city in the current view. New York City dominates by such a wide margin that nearly every other city renders as a thin slice; switch to a state filter or a starting-letter filter to see relative scale within a tighter group.

Sort options surface different perspectives: Most attorneys highlights legal-market scale, Name (A-Z) supports lookup by city name, and State, then count groups out-of-state offices together to reveal the geographic spread of the NY bar across other jurisdictions.

Why offices, not coverage

PlainAttorney covers only NY-admitted attorneys. We do not (yet) cover the bar registries of California, Texas, Florida, or other states; if you see "Los Angeles" in this list, those are NY-admitted attorneys with offices in LA, not LA-admitted attorneys. To verify a CA-admitted attorney, use the State Bar of California search; for TX, the State Bar of Texas; etc. Cross-jurisdiction verification links are listed on our methodology page.

Data freshness

The NY OCA refreshes its open-data attorney registry quarterly. We re-import the dataset on each refresh and recompute city aggregates. Status changes (suspensions, disbarments, address moves) propagate within one quarter. For real-time status of any individual attorney, follow the link from any name in this list to the attorney profile page, then click the "Verify with NY OCA" link to query the live OCA registry.

Why some "small" cities have surprisingly high counts

Several cities in the list have attorney counts that look outsized relative to their population. White Plains, for example, holds thousands of NY-licensed attorneys despite a relatively modest population, because it serves as the legal-services hub for Westchester County and as the venue for the federal courthouse and state supreme court. Albany ranks high not because of municipal population, but because it is the state capital and the venue for the New York Court of Appeals. Garden City and Mineola have law-firm clusters that serve Long Island's commercial and matrimonial bar. Reading "city size" as "metro size" matters: an attorney's registered office is a real-estate decision driven by client base and court access, not by population density.

Cross-state offices and federal-system clusters

Washington DC consistently appears in the top ten of cities, even though DC is not part of New York State, because thousands of NY-admitted attorneys work at federal agencies (Department of Justice, SEC, CFPB, Treasury), in DC-headquartered law firms, or in policy roles at think tanks and trade associations. They retain NY admission while practicing federal law from a DC base. Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, and Stamford CT show similar patterns: NY-admitted attorneys who work at firms with strong NY-bar concentration but happen to be physically based in nearby major-market cities.

Using city pages for outreach research

If you're researching where to recruit, where to advertise, or where a particular firm has its NY presence, the city detail pages are the fastest entry point. Each city's detail page lists the top firms with NY-registered attorneys at that city's address, the dominant law schools (institutions whose alumni concentrate in that city), and the per-status breakdown of the local NY-admitted population. Click any city name in the table above to access these per-city pages.

Patterns visible in the city distribution

Three patterns recur across the city distribution. First, federal courthouses act as gravitational centers: the cities ranked highest correlate with the seat of a federal district court (Southern District of NY in Manhattan, Eastern District in Brooklyn, Northern District in Albany and Syracuse, Western District in Buffalo and Rochester). Second, state-court venues amplify regional bar concentration: Albany hosts the Court of Appeals; White Plains the Westchester Supreme Court; Mineola the Nassau County Supreme Court. Third, business-cluster cities punch above population weight: Garden City (real estate and matrimonial bars), Melville (corporate law for the Long Island tech corridor), and Stamford CT (financial-services general counsel offices spilling across the state line).

Source: NY OCA, Attorney Registrations Statewide attorney registry · 2026 Counts reflect registered attorneys in each city (any bar status).

Download the office-state aggregate extract cited on this page: plainattorney-statistics.csv (CC BY-SA 4.0; aggregate only, not individual attorney rows).