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 2 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Clifford Chance US LLP 497 92% Clifton Budd & Demaria, LLP 24 92% Clyde & Co US LLP 153 99% CM Law LLP 10 100% Coffey Modica LLP 51 100% Cohen & Buckmann PC 10 100% Cohen & Cohen Personal Injury Lawyers, P.C. 12 92% Cohen & Gresser LLP 55 95% Cohen and Wolf, P.C. 19 89% Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson LLP 24 100% Cohen Cunningham Derose Higgins Lyon LLP 10 100% Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC 49 100% Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC 21 100% Cohen Tauber Spievack & Wagner P.C. 17 100% Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP 36 100% Cohen, Labarbera & Landrigan, LLP 10 100% Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP 33 91% Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP 15 80% Cohnreznick LLP 20 95% Cole Schotz P.C. 151 98% Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A. 13 92% Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP 13 92% Colleran, O’Hara & Mills L.L.P. 13 100% Colligan Law LLP 16 100% Collins & Collins Attorneys, LLC 10 90% Colucci & Gallaher, P.C. 11 100% Commerce & Finance Law Offices 33 82% Cona Elder Law PLLC 12 100% Condon & Forsyth LLP 40 93% Connell Foley LLP 85 96% Connors & Ferris, LLP 16 100% Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP 32 100% Constantine Cannon LLP 17 100% Conway, Farrell, Curtin & Kelly, P.C. 11 100% Cooley LLP 422 98% Cooper Erving & Savage LLP 14 100% Cornell Grace, P.C. 13 92% Costello, Cooney & Fearon, PLLC 36 97% Couch White, LLP 32 97% Coughlin & Gerhart LLP 49 96% Coughlin Midlige & Garland LLP 21 95% Covington & Burling LLP 472 94% Cowan, Debaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP 19 100% Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. 45 96% Cozen O’Connor 241 97% Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 550 98% Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres LLC 11 100% Crowell & Moring LLP 181 98% Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP 14 100% Cuddy & Feder LLP 38 95%
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.