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

Browse 316 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 51-100 of 316 cities starting with S

# City State Attorneys Relative
51 Sag Harbor NY 62
52 Shanghai 200031 61
53 Sydney 60
54 Seoul 06164 59
55 Spring Valley NY 58
56 Seaford NY 58
57 Somers NY 56
58 Santa Barbara CA 54
59 Scranton PA 54
60 Slingerlands NY 53
61 Somerville NJ 52
62 Seoul 110-720 52
63 Seoul 03170 52
64 Sayville NY 51
65 Stanford CA 50
66 Santa Ana CA 49
67 Shrewsbury NJ 45
68 Southport CT 43
69 San Rafael CA 42
70 Spring TX 42
71 Setauket NY 42
72 Sherman Oaks CA 41
73 Somerville MA 41
74 Stuart FL 40
75 Seoul 04532 40
76 Santiago 40
77 Savannah GA 39
78 Springfield VA 39
79 Seoul 03161 38
80 South Salem NY 37
81 Southold NY 36
82 Saint James NY 36
83 South Richmond Hill NY 35
84 Stratford CT 35
85 Sea Cliff NY 35
86 Santa Rosa CA 34
87 Skaneateles NY 34
88 Saddle Brook NJ 33
89 Seoul 03155 33
90 Schaumburg IL 32
91 Sugar Land TX 31
92 Sunnyside NY 31
93 Scotch Plains NJ 30
94 San Ramon CA 29
95 Spokane WA 28
96 Stony Point NY 26
97 Salem OR 25
98 Spring Lake NJ 24
99 Saint Petersburg FL 24
100 Spencerport NY 23

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).