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 D: 56 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due D Arcambal Quesada Malyk Peters & Creed LLP 11 91% Dac Beachcroft LLP 26 96% Daniel Brown & Associates 14 100% Danielsen, Lawlor, Everett, Isaacs & Dischley, PLLC 11 100% Danziger & Markhoff LLP 12 100% Darger Errante Yavitz & Blau LLP 17 100% Darroweverett LLP 13 100% Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP 59 100% Davidson Fink LLP 11 100% Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP 13 92% Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP 33 97% Davis & Ferber, LLP 11 100% Davis & Gilbert LLP 140 99% Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP 17 88% Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 1,105 95% Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 182 98% Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. 13 100% Day Pitney LLP 135 92% Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 773 97% Dechert LLP 391 95% Decotiis, Fitzpatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP 18 89% Deheng Law Offices 14 86% Delbello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, LLP 22 100% Dell & Dean, PLLC 21 100% Denlea & Carton LLP 10 100% Dentons US LLP 335 96% Desena & Sweeney, LLP 16 100% Desmarais LLP 55 98% Devitt Spellman Barrett, LLP 15 93% Devlin Law Firm LLC 12 100% Dewey Pegno & Kramarsky LLP 15 93% Diamond McCarthy LLP 10 90% Dicello Levitt LLP 32 100% Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C. 15 100% Dickinson Wright PLLC 26 92% Dilworth Paxson LLP 26 96% Dinsmore & Shohl LLP 13 100% Diserio Martin O’Connor & Castiglioni LLP 16 94% DLA Piper LLP 628 97% Dolce Panepinto 10 100% Dopf, P.C. 18 94% Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP 54 98% Dorsey & Whitney LLP 135 89% Douglas & London, P.C. 12 100% Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC 11 91% Drake Loeb PLLC 14 100% Drew & Napier LLC 10 90% DT Legal Japan 13 100% Duane Morris LLP 240 97% Duffy & Duffy, PLLC 18 100%
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.