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 2 of 3 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Sidley Austin LLP 800 96% Silberstein & Miklos, P.C. 10 100% Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. 138 96% Silver Golub & Teitell LLP 13 100% Silverman Shin & Schneider PLLC 14 100% Silverson Pareres & Lombardi 14 93% Simmons & Simmons LLP 20 90% Simmons Hanly Conroy 29 100% Simmons Jannace Deluca, LLP 12 100% Simon Greenstone Panatier, PC 16 100% Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 1,308 98% Siri & Glimstad LLP 10 100% Sive Paget & Riesel P.C. 28 100% Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 843 94% Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP 27 100% Skoloff & Wolfe, P.C. 12 92% Slater Slater Schulman LLP 31 100% Slaughter and May 12 100% Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes Lawco LLP 10 100% Smith Mazure, P.C. 42 98% Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP 16 94% Smith, Buss & Jacobs, LLP 26 96% Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP 80 95% Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C. 21 100% Snell & Wilmer LLP 24 100% Snyder & Snyder, LLP 11 100% Sobo & Sobo 29 100% Sokoloff Stern LLP 20 100% Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci, P.C. 12 67% Spencer Fane LLP 67 100% Spiro Harrison & Nelson 17 94% Spivak Lipton LLP 13 100% Squire Patton Boggs (Us) LLP 136 99% SRD Legal Group 15 93% Stagg Wabnik Law Group 13 100% Stamm Law Firm 14 100% Stark & Stark 28 100% Starr Associates LLP 13 100% Stein Adler Dabah & Zelkowitz LLP 18 100% Stenger, Glass, Hagstrom, Lindars & Iuele, LLP 11 100% Stephenson Harwood 11 82% Steptoe & Johnson LLP 27 70% Steptoe LLP 138 99% Sterlington PLLC 38 100% Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC 11 100% Stevens & Lee 50 100% Stikeman Elliott LLP 25 96% Stinson LLP 40 100% Stoel Rives LLP 21 86% Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 66 95%
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.