PlainAttorney Register file of Sep 29, 2026 · NY Office of Court Administration, via data.ny.gov

New York-admitted attorneys in Chicago, IL

Attorneys admitted in New York with an office here

On the register
2,265
Currently registered
1,781
File of
Sep 29, 2026

2,265 living attorneys on the New York register file of Sep 29, 2026 give an office in Chicago, IL; 1,781 are currently registered. Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the employer most listed (75), and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law the most common school.

Attorneys with an office in Chicago, page 83

Currently registered, most recently admitted first.

AttorneyEmployerAdmitted
Jonathan A. ReissChicago Rabbinical Council1993
Melissa Ann SilvermanHSBC Technology and Services Inc.1993
Karol K. SparksBarack Ferrazzano LLP1993
Jeffrey Peter TaftMayer Brown LLP1993
Oksanna Ioana ZanftQuadrant Law Group1993
Luci Staller AltmanCooley LLP1992
Peter Emanuel KanarisHinshaw & Culbertson, LLP1992
David Michael KroegerJenner & Block LLP1992
Joseph J. O’Hara JrRiley Safer Holmes & Cancila1992
Bridget Roe O’NeillSidley Austin LLP1992
Martha Anne PampelPricewaterhousecoopers LLC1992
Michael Seth ResnickTallwoods Partners1992
Meredith Martin RountreeMeredith Martin Rountree Esq.1992
Sanjit ShahRyan Specialty, LLC1992
Keith Austin WellerUbs Business Solutions US LLC1992
Robert Alan WhitmanFitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP1992
Douglas Edward ArendGreenberg Traurig, LLP1991
Felice Janine BatlanChicago Kent College of Law1991
John Tyler BlatchfordVedder Price, P.C.1991
David L. CavickeWolverine1991

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026.

When they were admitted, against the state

Chicago: share of attorneys by decade of admission, against all attorneys with a New York office <1%1950s<1%1960s2%1970s6%1980s12%1990s25%2000s37%2010s18%2020s
Chicago: share of attorneys by decade of admission, against all attorneys with a New York office <1%1950s<1%1960s2%1970s6%1980s12%1990s25%2000s37%2010s18%2020s
Chicago: share of attorneys by decade of admission, against all attorneys with a New York office <1%1950s<1%2%1970s6%12%1990s25%37%18%2020s
Chicago: share of attorneys by decade of admission, against all attorneys with a New York office <1%1950s<1%1960s2%1970s6%1980s12%1990s25%2000s37%2010s18%2020s
Share of Chicago’s living attorneys admitted in each decade (columns) against all living attorneys with a New York office (dashed).
DecadeChicagoAll New York
1950s<1%<1%
1960s<1%2%
1970s2%6%
1980s6%13%
1990s12%18%
2000s25%20%
2010s37%24%
2020s18%18%

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026.

Firms with the most attorneys in Chicago

FirmAttorneys
Kirkland & Ellis LLP75
Mayer Brown LLP42
Latham & Watkins LLP29
Sidley Austin LLP26
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP18
Jenner & Block LLP18
Baker McKenzie LLP18
Greenberg Traurig, LLP17

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged.

Where Chicago’s attorneys studied

Law schoolAttorneys
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law145
New York University School of Law119
University of Chicago Law School113
University of Michigan Law School105
Columbia Law School104
Harvard Law School98
Chicago-Kent College of Law80
Fordham University School of Law68

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026.

Questions this place leads to

  1. New York attorneys in IllinoisEvery place in Illinois with its count, its firms and its schools.
  2. Everyone who lists Kirkland & Ellis LLP75 of them give an office in Chicago; 1,464 on the register in all.
  3. Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law graduates on the register145 of Chicago’s attorneys studied there, more than at any other school.
  4. New York attorneys, state by stateWhere the attorneys admitted in New York have their office.
  5. Check another New York lawyerBy name, firm, city, school or registration number.

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