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 R: 48 firms Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Raines Feldman Littrell LLP 17 94% Raphaelson & Levine Law Firm, P.C. 11 100% Rappaport, Glass, Levine & Zullo, LLP 10 100% Rawle & Henderson LLP 35 89% Reavis Page Jump LLP 11 100% Reed Smith LLP 294 96% Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP 18 100% Reid & Wise LLC 19 100% Reid Collins & Tsai LLP 16 100% Reinhardt Savic Foley LLP 10 100% Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP 41 100% Renzulli Law Firm, LLP 19 100% Resnick & Louis, P.C. 17 94% Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. 18 100% Riemer & Braunstein LLP 64 98% Riker Danzig LLP 72 92% Rimon, P.C. 50 98% Ritholz Levy Fields LLP 16 100% Rivkin Radler LLP 215 99% RLGC Law Group, PLLC 11 100% Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP 45 100% Roberts & Holland LLP 30 100% Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 39 100% Robins Kaplan LLP 48 98% Robinson & Cole LLP 116 97% Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. 14 79% Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP 15 100% Rolnick Kramer Sadighi LLP 12 100% Romer Debbas LLP 21 100% Ropers Majeski PC 40 100% Ropes & Gray LLP 623 97% Rose & Rose 16 94% Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. 86 99% Rosenberg Fortuna Filosa & Laitman, LLP 10 100% Rosenblum Bianco & Byrne LLP 11 100% Rosewaldorf PLLC 10 100% Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck 11 91% Rottenberg Lipman Rich P.C. 13 100% Rottenstreich Farley Bronstein Fisher Potter Hodas LLP 24 100% Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC 16 94% RSM US LLP 44 100% Rubin & Rothman, LLC 23 91% Rubin Paterniti Gonzalez Rizzo Kaufman, LLP 30 100% Rupp Pfalzgraf LLC 66 100% Rusk Wadlin Heppner & Martuscello, LLP 10 100% Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. 57 96% Russo & Gould, LLP 25 100% Russo Law Group, P.C. 12 100%
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.