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 C: 104 firms, page 1 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Cabanillas & Associates, P.C. 13 100% Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 151 91% Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP 282 99% Caitlin Robin & Associates, PLLC 10 100% Calcagni & Kanefsky LLP 18 100% Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP 12 92% Callagy Law 13 100% Callahan & Fusco, LLC 25 100% Callinan & Smith LLP 15 100% Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP 19 100% Cannon Heyman & Weiss, LLP 26 100% Cantor Colburn LLP 14 79% Cantor, Wolff, Nicastro & Hall 12 100% Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. 13 77% Capell Barnett Matalon & Schoenfeld LLP 22 95% Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered 27 100% Carella, Byrne, Cecchi, Olstein, Brody & Agnello 13 92% Carlton Fields, P.A. 62 100% Carman, Callahan & Ingham, LLP 20 100% Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP 25 100% Carroll Guido Groffman Cohen Bar & Karalian, LLP 19 100% Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP 93 95% Carter, Deluca & Farrell LLP 17 94% Cascone & Kluepfel, LLP 21 100% Cassin & Cassin LLP 28 100% Cellino Law LLP 31 100% Cerchione Hurowitz Law Group LLP 18 100% Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP 68 99% Cerussi & Spring 10 90% Chadbourne & Parke LLP 11 0% Chaffetz Lindsey LLP 28 93% Chapman and Cutler LLP 92 97% Charles Russell Speechlys LLP 15 100% Chartwell Law 56 95% Chasan Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo, PC 11 73% Chaves Perlowitz Luftig LLP 15 100% Chelus, Herdzik, Speyer & Monte, P.C. 16 100% Chemtob Moss Forman & Beyda, LLP 15 93% Chesney, Nicholas & Brower, LLP 15 100% Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC 135 99% Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP 38 87% Cipriani & Werner 20 95% Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP 19 95% Clark Peshkin 10 100% Clark Smith Villazor LLP 20 100% Clausen Miller P.C. 32 97% Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder LLP 12 100% Clean Energy Counsel, LLP 16 100% Cleary Giacobbe Alfieri Jacobs, LLC 19 100% Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 649 94%
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.