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 S: 110 firms, page 1 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Sacco & Fillas, LLP 39 100% Sacks & Sacks, LLP 13 100% Sadis & Goldberg LLP 26 100% Safeguard Law Group, PLLC 16 100% Sahn Ward Braff Coschignano PLLC 20 100% Samaan Sheehy & Gillespie, LLP 19 100% Sanders Law Group 13 92% Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. 21 100% Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP 25 100% Sarah C. Varghese & Associates 17 100% Saul Ewing LLP 78 95% Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. 25 100% Saxena White P.A. 10 100% Scahill Law Group, P.C. 35 97% Scale LLP 18 100% Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC 30 90% Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP 46 89% Schiavetti, Corgan, Diedwards, Weinberg & Nicholson, LLP 15 100% Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP 11 100% Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP 26 100% Schneider Buchel LLP 12 100% Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham LLP 16 100% Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP 40 53% Schwab & Gasparini PLLC 10 90% Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP 58 100% Scolaro Fetter Grizanti & McGough, P.C. 14 100% Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP 39 100% Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser 14 100% Seeger Weiss LLP 25 96% Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD. 29 97% Seiden Law LLP 16 100% Selendy Gay PLLC 102 100% Selip & Stylianou, LLP 14 100% Seward & Kissel LLP 164 94% Seyfarth Shaw LLP 215 97% Shapiro Arato Bach LLP 12 100% Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP 59 100% Sheeley LLP 30 100% Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 266 98% Sher Tremonte LLP 31 97% Sherman Atlas Sylvester & Stamelman LLP 23 100% Shin & Kim 86 69% Shinder Cantor Lerner LLP 12 100% Shipman & Goodwin LLP 48 98% Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. 43 100% Shulman & Hill, PLLC 20 95% Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP 17 100% Shutts & Bowen LLP 25 84% Siben & Siben 14 100% Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP 57 98%
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.