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 F: 73 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Fabiani Cohen & Hall, LLP 36 97% Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 161 96% Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP 57 100% Family Legal Care 12 100% Fangda Partners 127 80% Faraci Lange, LLP 10 100% Farber Brocks & Zane L.L.P. 20 90% Farella Braun + Martel LLP 12 83% Farrell Fritz, P.C. 87 98% Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP 16 100% Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP 20 100% FBT Gibbons LLP 109 100% Federico Schwartz Merolesi & Lyddane LLP 16 100% Federman Steifman LLP 14 100% Feerick Nugent Maccartney, PLLC 10 90% Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard, P.C. 16 81% Feldman, Kramer & Monaco, P.C. 32 100% Fennemore Craig, P.C. 11 100% Fenwick & West LLP 180 95% Ferrara Fiorenza PC 27 100% Feuerstein Kulick LLP 21 100% Fieldfisher LLP 11 91% Filippatos PLLC 10 100% Finazzo Cossolini O’Leary Meola & Hager, LLC 10 100% Fine, Olin & Anderman, LLP 11 100% Finkelstein & Partners 26 96% Finkelstein, Blankinship, Frei-Pearson & Garber, LLP 10 90% Finn Dixon & Herling LLP 58 100% Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP 19 100% Fish & Richardson P.C. 63 94% Fisher & Phillips LLP 77 99% Fisherbroyles, LLP 25 88% Fishkin Lucks LLP 17 100% Fitzgerald Morris Baker Firth, P.C. 19 89% Flaster Greenberg PC 17 94% Fleischner Potash LLP 25 100% Flicker, Garelick & Associates, PLLC 25 100% Foley & Lardner LLP 135 92% Foley Hoag LLP 120 95% Foley, Smit, O’Boyle & Weisman 20 95% Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC 15 93% Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP 70 99% Ford & Harrison LLP 20 80% Ford O’Brien Landy LLP 14 100% Foster Garvey PC 23 96% Fox Horan & Camerini LLP 14 100% Fox Rothschild LLP 277 98% Fragomen 19 100% Fragomen, del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP 177 96% Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC 88 98%
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.