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 M: 117 firms, page 1 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Mack & Mikullitz, P.C. 10 100% Mackenzie Hughes LLP 30 97% Mackey Catania & Whalen LLP 17 100% Mahon, Rider, McKay, Bauer & Furst, PLLC 12 100% Malapero Prisco & Klauber LLP 24 92% Mallilo & Grossman 13 100% Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP 88 91% Mandel, Katz & Brosnan LLP 13 100% Mandelbaum Barrett PC 71 99% Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP 24 96% Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP 42 98% Mantel McDonough Riso, LLP 12 100% Margolin, Weinreb & Nierer, LLP 11 100% Mark Music & Media Law, P.C. 11 91% Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C. 25 96% Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy LLC 21 100% Marshall Conway Bradley & Gollub, P.C. 15 87% Marshall Dennehey 107 96% Martenson, Hasbrouck & Simon LLP 10 100% Martin Clearwater & Bell LLP 76 92% Martin LLP 13 100% Mason Hayes & Curran 10 80% Massumi + Consoli LLP 37 100% Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, LLC 15 100% Mauro Lilling Naparty LLP 22 100% Mavrides, Moyal, Packman & Sadkin, LLP 20 100% Mayer Brown LLP 492 95% Maynard Nexsen PC 27 100% Maynard, O’Connor, Smith & Catalinotto, LLP 16 94% Mazzola Lindstrom LLP 11 100% McAloon & Friedman, P.C. 25 92% McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC 21 95% McCabe, Collins, McGeough, Fowler, Levine & Nogan, LLP 20 90% McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC 10 90% McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP 32 100% McCarter & English, LLP 176 94% McCarthy Fingar LLP 22 100% McCarthy Tetrault LLP 34 76% McConville, Considine, Cooman & Morin, P.C. 13 100% McCullough, Goldberger & Staudt, LLP 13 100% McDermott Will & Schulte LLP 589 98% McDonald Hopkins LLC 12 92% McDonnell Adels & Klestzick, PLLC 13 92% McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP 54 85% McGivney, Kluger, Clark & Intoccia, P.C. 49 98% McGrail & Bensinger LLP 11 100% McGuirewoods LLP 154 95% McIntyre, Donohue, Accardi, Salmonson & Riordan, LLP 11 100% McKool Smith 43 95% McLaughlin & Stern, LLP 99 97%
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.