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 H: 74 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Hach & Rose, LLP 18 100% Hacker Murphy, LLP 16 100% Haiwen & Partners 56 79% Hall Booth Smith, P.C. 45 98% Halloran & Sage LLP 17 82% Halperin Battaglia Benzija, LLP 11 91% Hamberger & Weiss 27 96% Han Kun Law Offices 96 92% Hancock Estabrook, LLP 59 100% Hannum Feretic Prendergast & Merlino, LLC 36 100% Hanson Bridgett LLP 10 90% Hardin Kundla McKeon & Poletto 20 95% Harding Mazzotti, LLP 35 100% Harmon Linder & Rogowsky 20 100% Harney Westwood & Riegels 10 100% Harrington, Ocko & Monk, LLP 14 100% Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC 237 98% Harris St. Laurent LLP 16 100% Harris Trzaskoma LLP 13 100% Harris, Keenan & Goldfarb PLLC 16 100% Harter Secrest & Emery LLP 134 99% Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia LLP 25 100% Harwood Lloyd LLP 31 94% Haug Partners LLP 36 94% Hausfeld LLP 21 100% Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP 54 94% Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP 16 100% Haworth Barber & Gerstman, LLC 29 93% Haynes and Boone, LLP 158 97% Hecht Partners LLP 16 94% Hecker Fink LLP 70 100% Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP 84 98% Helbraun & Levey LLP 12 100% Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal LLP 14 100% Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP 374 97% Herman Law 25 88% Herrick, Feinstein LLP 143 94% Hertz, Cherson & Rosenthal, P.C. 22 100% Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. 14 86% Herzog Fox & Neeman 25 80% Herzog Law Firm, P.C. 11 100% Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. 21 100% Hill Wallack LLP 20 100% Hill, Betts & Nash LLP 12 83% Hiller Comerford Injury & Disability Law 14 100% Himmelstein Gribben & Joseph LLP 10 100% Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP 29 93% Hinman Straub P.C. 28 96% Hinman, Howard & Kattell, LLP 88 97% Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 110 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.