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 2 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Bfsng Law Group LLP 15 100% Biedermann Hoenig Semprevivo 20 100% Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP 15 100% Binder & Schwartz LLP 13 100% Bird & Bird 19 89% Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP 17 100% Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP 25 96% Blank Rome LLP 267 99% Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP 36 100% Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP 25 96% Blitman & King LLP 19 95% Block O’Toole & Murphy, LLP 18 100% Block, Longo, Lamarca & Brzezinski, P.C. 22 100% Blustein, Shapiro, Frank & Barone, LLP 15 87% Bochner PLLC 25 100% Boies Schiller Flexner LLP 123 100% Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC 316 97% Bongiorno, Montiglio, Mitchell & Palmieri, PLLC 13 100% Borah, Goldstein, Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C. 42 100% Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 13 92% Bortstein Legal Group 15 100% Bousquet Holstein PLLC 53 100% Bowman and Brooke LLP 15 93% Boyd Richards Parker & Colonnelli, P.L. 15 100% Bracewell LLP 59 98% Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP 36 97% Brand, Glick & Brand P.C. 19 100% Brandon J. Broderick, LLC 10 80% Braunhagey & Borden LLP 27 96% Braverman Greenspun, P.C. 24 100% Bredhoff & Kaiser PLLC 10 80% Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. 42 93% Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors 11 91% Brick & Patel LLP 15 100% Broadfield US LLP 15 100% Brody Law Group 27 100% Bronster LLP 17 100% Brooks & Berne, PLLC 21 90% Brown Chiari LLP 15 100% Brown Rudnick LLP 107 93% Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP 34 91% Bruno, Gerbino, Soriano & Aitken, LLP 12 100% Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 119 92% Buchalter 31 97% Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 72 96% Buhler Duggal & Henry 10 90% Buratti, Turpin & Lenoff 14 100% Burghergray LLP 12 100% Burke, Scolamiero & Hurd, LLP 10 100% Burr & Forman LLP 14 100%
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.