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 G: 69 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Gair Gair Conason Rubinowitz Bloom Hershenhorn Steigman & Mackauf 14 100% Gale Gale & Hunt, LLC 12 100% Gallardo, Levin, Reiter & Rogers, LLP 14 100% Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP 24 96% Gallo & Iacovangelo, LLP 16 100% Gallo Vitucci Klar LLP 123 99% Garfunkel Wild, P.C. 77 99% Garson Jakub & Morris LLP 14 100% Gartner & Bloom, P.C. 23 100% Gemini Law LLP 12 100% Genova Burns LLC 28 96% Gerber Ciano Kelly Brady LLP 62 97% Gfeller Laurie LLP 12 92% Giannuzzi Lewendon, LLP 12 100% Gibbons P.C. 36 86% Gibney Anthony & Flaherty 32 94% Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 894 97% Gibson, McAskill & Crosby, LLP 22 100% Gide Loyrette Nouel 17 94% Gilbert + Tobin 16 81% Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane, LLC 11 100% Giordano, Glaws, Fenstermacher & Nash, LLP 10 100% Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. 30 93% Girvin & Ferlazzo, P.C. 17 100% Gish PLLC 11 100% Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP 14 93% Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP 10 100% Gleason, Dunn, Walsh & O’Shea 20 95% Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP 37 100% Global Law Office 41 78% Goetz Platzer LLP 28 100% Goetz Schenker Blee & Wiederhorn 21 95% Goldberg Segalla LLP 249 98% Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP 33 97% Goldberg, Miller & Rubin 36 97% Golden, Rothschild, Spagnola, Lundell, Boylan, Garubo & Bell, P.C. 13 100% Goldfarb & Fleece LLP 22 100% Goldstein Hall PLLC 10 100% Goodwin Procter LLP 552 97% Gorayeb & Associates, P.C. 15 100% Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani 253 97% Gorlick, Kravitz & Listhaus, P.C. 12 100% Gottlieb, Rackman & Reisman, P.C. 12 100% Goulston & Storrs PC 75 96% Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP 14 86% Grandall Law Firm (Shanghai) 10 60% Granderson Des Rochers LLP 15 100% Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. 31 97% Grant, Herrmann, Schwartz & Klinger LLP 11 91% Gray Robinson, P.A. 11 91%
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.