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 L: 80 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP 78 100% Labaton Sucharow LLP 16 100% Lachtman Cohen & Belowich LLP 11 100% Lacy Katzen LLP 22 95% Ladas & Parry LLP 18 94% Lambzankel, LLP 11 100% Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford P.C. 51 90% Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP 23 96% Larson LLP 12 100% Latham & Watkins LLP 1,434 97% Law Firm of Alex Dell, PLLC 17 100% Law Library 20 80% Law Offices of Brian Rayhill 21 100% Law Offices of Fishman and Cabrera 12 100% Law Offices of Jan Meyer & Associates, P.C. 10 80% Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams 45 100% Law Offices of John J. Bello, JR. 16 100% Law Offices of John Wallace 18 94% Law Offices of Jonathan Ivezaj 10 100% Law Offices of Kevin P. Westerman 23 100% Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff, PLLC 12 100% Law Offices of Rae L. Voss 10 100% Law Offices of Regina Skyer & Associates 18 94% Law Offices of Richard Schoenberg 92 100% Law Offices of Robert Tsigler, PLLC 11 100% Law Offices of Rothenberg & Romanek 23 100% Law Offices of Shahab Katirachi 25 100% Law Offices of Tina Newsome-Lee 34 100% Law Offices of Wyatt & Associates 15 100% Lax, Neville & Intelisano, LLP 15 100% Lazare Potter Glazer & Moyle LLP 10 100% Lazarus Karp Ehrlich McCourt, LLP 11 91% Leader Berkon Colao & Silverstein LLP 16 100% Leary Bride Mergner & Bongiovanni, P.A. 10 100% Leason Ellis LLP 34 100% Leav & Steinberg, LLP 14 100% Lee & Ko 101 67% Lee Anav Chung White Kim Ruger & Richter LLP 13 100% Lee and Li, Attorneys-At-Law 46 65% Leech Tishman Robinson Brog PLLC 17 100% Leeds Brown Law, P.C. 10 100% Lenz & Staehelin 15 87% Lerner David LLP 17 100% Lerner, Arnold & Winston, LLP 10 100% Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP 41 100% Levene Gouldin & Thompson, LLP 35 100% Levi & Korsinsky, LLP 24 100% Levine Plotkin LLP 10 100% Levy Konigsberg, LLP 20 100% Levy Ratner, P.C. 21 95%
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.