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 K: 63 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due K&L Gates LLP 237 93% Kagan Lubic Lepper Finkelstein & Gold, LLP 12 92% Kahana Feld LLP 55 100% Kane Kessler, P.C. 37 100% Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP 23 100% Kaplan Martin LLP 16 100% Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP 22 91% Kasowitz LLP 102 100% Katsky Korins LLP 39 100% Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 241 94% Katz Banks Kumin LLP 12 100% Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP 25 100% Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP 112 98% Kaufman Dolowich LLP 103 97% Kavinoky Cook LLP 11 91% Kaye Scholer LLP 10 0% Keane & Beane, P.C. 32 100% Keker, van Nest & Peters LLP 15 100% Keller O’Reilly & Watson 11 100% Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 211 96% Kelley Kronenberg 34 91% Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman LLP 17 100% Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C. 43 100% Kelly, Rode & Kelly, LLP 52 100% Kelner & Kelner 11 100% Kennedys CMK LLP 145 100% Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP 32 97% Kerley, Walsh, Matera & Cinquemani, P.C. 29 97% Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP 16 94% Kevin Kerveng Tung, P.C. 12 100% Kiernan Trebach LLP 36 100% Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 88 95% Kim & Chang 222 64% King & Spalding LLP 433 96% King & Wood Mallesons 182 81% Kirby McInerney LLP 19 100% Kirkland & Ellis LLP 1,464 98% Kirschenbaum & Kirschenbaum, P.C. 12 92% KKL LLP 13 100% Klaris Law PLLC 18 100% Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP 14 100% Klein Hornig LLP 10 100% Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. 66 95% Klestadt Winters Jureller Southard & Stevens, LLP 11 91% Kma Zuckert LLP 15 100% Knobbe Martens 21 95% Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, P.C. 10 90% Knuckles & Manfro, LLP 10 100% Kobre & Kim LLP 79 96% Konner Gershburg Melnick Darouvar 10 100%
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.