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 B: 102 firms, page 1 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Bae, Kim & Lee LLC 96 59% Bailey Duquette P.C. 17 94% Baker & Hostetler LLP 252 99% Baker Botts LLP 159 93% Baker McKenzie LLP 358 88% Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC 36 100% Baker, McEvoy & Moskovits, PC 12 92% Ballard Spahr LLP 108 97% Ballon Stoll P.C. 15 100% Bamundo Zwal Schermerhorn & Caffrey, LLP 12 92% Bangel, Cohen & Falconetti, LLP 10 100% Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP 10 100% Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson 26 92% Barbiero Bisch O’Connor & Commander LLP 18 100% Barclay Damon LLP 251 99% Barker Patterson Nichols, LLP 60 98% Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco, LLP 14 100% Barnes & Thornburg LLP 110 99% Barry McTiernan & Moore 28 93% Bartko Pavia LLP 12 100% Bartlett LLP 28 93% Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C. 13 100% Bartlit Beck LLP 14 93% Barton LLP 27 100% Barun Law LLC 10 80% Bass, Berry & Sims PLC 24 96% Baughman Kroup Bosse PLLC 17 100% Baxter & Smith, P.C. 10 100% BBC Law, LLP 13 100% Becker LLC 14 100% Becker Ne P.C. 17 100% Becker, Glynn, Muffly, Chassin & Hosinski LLP 30 100% Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP (Shanghai) 22 91% Beijing Zhonglun Law Firm 10 50% Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP 17 100% Bell Law Group, PLLC 15 100% Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP 76 99% Bennett Bricklin & Saltzburg LLC 20 95% Bennett Jones LLP 21 90% Berger Montague PC 17 94% Bergstein Flynn Knowlton & Pollina PLLC 12 100% Berkman Bottger Newman & Schein, LLP 29 97% Berkman Henoch Peterson & Peddy, P.C. 11 100% Berkowitz, Lichtstein, Kuritsky, Giasullo & Gross, LLC 10 90% Berkowitz, Trager & Trager, LLC 17 100% Bernstein Liebhard LLP 13 92% Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP 70 100% Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 27 96% Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. 33 94% Bevilacqua PLLC 10 100%
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.