Kirkland & Ellis LLP has the most attorneys on the New York register: 1,464 living registrants, wherever they work, list it as their employer on the file of Sep 29, 2026, followed by Latham & Watkins LLP (1,434) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (1,308). The count is not a firm’s head count or its New York office.
The 20 law firms with the most attorneys on the register The 20 law firms with the most attorneys on the New York register Kirkland & Ellis 1,464 Latham & Watkins 1,434 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1,308 Paul, Weiss 1,148 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1,105 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 894 Skadden, Arps 843 White & Case 830 Sidley Austin 800 Debevoise & Plimpton 773 Sullivan & Cromwell 763 Greenberg Traurig 753 Milbank 677 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 668 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 665 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 649 DLA Piper 628 Ropes & Gray 623 Paul Hastings 596 McDermott Will & Schulte 589
The 20 law firms with the most attorneys on the New York register Kirkland & Ellis 1,464 Latham & Watkins 1,434 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1,308 Paul, Weiss 1,148 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1,105 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 894 Skadden, Arps 843 White & Case 830 Sidley Austin 800 Debevoise & Plimpton 773 Sullivan & Cromwell 763 Greenberg Traurig 753 Milbank 677 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 668 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 665 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 649 DLA Piper 628 Ropes & Gray 623 Paul Hastings 596 McDermott Will & Schulte 589
The 20 law firms with the most attorneys on the New York register Kirkland & Ellis 1,464 Latham & Watkins 1,434 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1,308 Paul, Weiss 1,148 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1,105 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 894 Skadden, Arps 843 White & Case 830 Sidley Austin 800 Debevoise & Plimpton 773 Sullivan & Cromwell 763 Greenberg Traurig 753 Milbank 677 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 668 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 665 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 649 DLA Piper 628 Ropes & Gray 623 Paul Hastings 596 McDermott Will & Schulte 589
Living attorneys who list the firm as their employer, register file of Sep 29, 2026. The same 20 firms, as figures Rank Law firm Attorneys 1 Kirkland & Ellis LLP 1,464 2 Latham & Watkins LLP 1,434 3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 1,308 4 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 1,148 5 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 1,105 6 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 894 7 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 843 8 White & Case LLP 830 9 Sidley Austin LLP 800 10 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 773 11 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 763 12 Greenberg Traurig, LLP 753 13 Milbank LLP 677 14 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 668 15 Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 665 16 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 649 17 DLA Piper LLP 628 18 Ropes & Gray LLP 623 19 Paul Hastings LLP 596 20 McDermott Will & Schulte LLP 589
How we count Living registrants whose employer, as they wrote it on the register, names the firm. Spellings of one firm are merged (“Latham & Watkins LLP”, “LATHAM AND WATKINS”).
Registration is not office location: a New York-admitted lawyer in London counts here too. Surveys of lawyers in New York offices measure something else.
Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb) , downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged (methodology ).
All 1,229 firms with ten or more, A to Z A: 45 firms Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due A&O Shearman 586 89% A.Y. Strauss LLC 23 100% Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch, LLP 57 96% Abe, Ikubo & Katayama 10 100% Abell Eskew Landau LLP 12 100% Abrams Fensterman, LLP 106 100% Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP 21 100% Abrams, Gorelick, Friedman & Jacobson, LLP 16 100% Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. 24 100% Adams and Reese LLP 11 100% Adams Leclair LLP 21 100% Addleshaw Goddard LLP 15 100% Adler & Stachenfeld LLP 44 100% Ahmuty Demers & McManus LLP 56 98% Aidala Bertuna & Kamins 11 100% Akerman LLP 189 97% Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP 428 96% Albanese & Albanese LLP 10 90% Aldridge Pite, LLP 20 100% Allbright Law Offices 16 94% Allegaert Berger & Vogel LLP 24 100% Allen & Gledhill LLP 11 64% Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP 40 98% Alston & Bird LLP 257 98% Alter Wolff Foley & Stutman LLP 12 100% Amabile & Erman, P.C. 19 95% Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP 31 94% Anderson Kill P.C. 67 99% Anderson Law 10 100% Anderson Mori & Tomotsune 142 94% Ansell Grimm & Aaron, P.C. 18 83% Archer & Greiner, P.C. 48 96% Arciero & Burgess, PC 10 100% ArentFox Schiff LLP 204 99% Armienti, Debellis & Rhoden, LLP 15 87% Armstrong Teasdale LLP 27 96% Arnall Golden Gregory LLP 15 100% Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 425 94% Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP 25 100% Arthur Cox 14 71% Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP 287 98% Ask LLP 10 100% Atsumi & Sakai 31 100% Axinn LLP 59 100% Axiom Law 36 97%
Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb) , downloaded Sep 29, 2026.
Public and in-house employers with the most attorneys Employer Attorneys Registered, current or due The Legal Aid Society 1,140 96% Morgan Stanley 468 94% U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 421 97% New York City Law Department 415 97% New York County District Attorney’s Office 374 98% Kings County District Attorney’s Office 325 97% Ernst & Young LLP 309 89% Brooklyn Defender Services 300 98%
No pages for these Courts, agencies, public defenders and companies are counted here for scale; the site’s firm pages are for law firms.
Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb) , downloaded Sep 29, 2026.