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 2 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due McMahon, Martine & Gallagher, LLP 18 94% McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC 22 91% McManus Ateshoglou Aiello & Apostolakos PLLC 14 100% McMillan LLP 13 92% McPhillips, Fitzgerald & Cullum LLP 13 100% Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP 22 100% Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC 10 90% Meister Seelig & Schuster PLLC 77 100% Meitar Law Offices 17 94% Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP 77 99% Melvin & Melvin, PLLC 15 100% Mendes & Mount, LLP 73 95% Mental Hygiene Legal Service 115 99% Merchant & Gould P.C. 15 93% Merson Law, PLLC 15 100% Methfessel & Werbel 22 95% Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C. 32 97% Meyerson, Fox & Conte, P.A. 10 100% Meyner and Landis LLP 13 77% Mg+M the Law Firm 18 100% Michael Best & Friedrich LLP 18 94% Michelman & Robinson, LLP 16 100% Milbank LLP 677 95% Milber Makris Plousadis & Seiden, LLP 114 99% Milberg LLP 15 73% Miles & Stockbridge P.C. 13 100% Miller & Caggiano, LLP 11 100% Miller & Chevalier Chartered 16 88% Miller Barondess LLP 10 100% Miller Zeiderman LLP 20 100% Milman Labuda Law Group PLLC 10 100% Mintz 20 100% Mintz & Gold LLP 41 98% Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. 194 94% Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris & Willis PLLC 13 100% Miranda Slone Sklarin Verveniotis LLP 14 100% Mirkin & Gordon, P.C. 11 100% Mishcon de Reya LLP 17 88% Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP 32 91% Miura & Partners 13 100% Molod Spitz & Desantis, P.C. 10 90% Mololamken LLP 30 100% Momo-O, Matsuo & Namba 22 91% Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC 15 100% Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP 34 94% Moore & van Allen PLLC 45 100% Morelli Law Firm 10 100% Morgan & Morgan 74 97% Morgan Legal Group, P.C. 10 100% Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 532 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.