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 P: 57 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP 27 96% Paduano & Weintraub LLP 25 100% Pag.Law PLLC 13 100% Pallas Partners (Us) LLP 17 100% Pantheon Ventures (Uk) LLP 10 90% Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLP 10 100% Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP 21 100% Parker Waichman LLP 19 100% Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP 10 100% Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, P.C. 57 91% Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP 22 100% Patrick Doerr LLP 10 100% Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP 166 96% Paul Hastings LLP 596 95% Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 1,148 97% Pearl Cohen LLP 36 94% Peckar & Abramson, P.C. 43 88% Peirce & Salvato PLLC 19 100% Pem Law LLP 11 100% Pena & Kahn, PLLC 14 100% Penino & Moynihan, LLP 16 94% Penn State Dickinson Law 10 100% Perry, van Etten, Rainis & Kutner, LLP 22 100% Peter & Kim 11 91% Petrillo Klein & Boxer LLP 10 100% Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC 10 100% Phelps Dunbar LLP 11 100% Pheterson Spatorico LLP 10 100% Phillips & Associates, PLLC 31 100% Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP 13 92% Phillips Lytle LLP 153 98% Phillips Nizer LLP 42 98% Pierce Atwood LLP 23 91% Pierro, Connor & Strauss, LLC 13 92% Pierson Ferdinand LLP 89 100% Pillinger Miller Tarallo, LLP 70 96% Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 247 96% Pinsent Masons LLP 20 100% Pitta LLP 20 100% Podell, Schwartz, Schechter & Banfield, LLP 11 91% Pollack Pollack Isaac & Decicco 15 87% Polsinelli PC 163 96% Pomerantz LLP 37 100% Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP 10 100% Porzio Bromberg & Newman 63 89% Post Polak, P.A. 10 90% Potomac Law Group, PLLC 52 100% Practising Law Institute 24 96% Practus LLP 18 100% Pressler, Felt & Warshaw, LLP 11 100%
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.