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 W: 62 firms, page 1 of 2 Firm Attorneys Registered, current or due Wachtel Missry LLP 28 100% Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 258 96% Wade Clark Mulcahy LLP 31 100% Wagner, Doman, Leto & Di Leo, P.C. 14 100% Walden Haran Williams LLP 31 100% Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP 22 100% Ward Law, LLC 13 100% Warshaw Burstein, LLP 55 89% Waters, McPherson, McNeill, P.C. 10 100% Watson Farley & Williams LLP 37 89% Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, LLP 11 100% Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP 43 98% Webster Szanyi LLP 18 100% Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 668 91% Weiner Law Group LLP 18 89% Weiss Zarett Brofman Sonnenklar & Levy, P.C. 18 100% Weiss, Wexler & Wornow, P.C. 35 91% Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. 73 97% Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP 19 100% Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP 10 100% Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein, LLP 43 98% Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP 13 100% White & Case LLP 830 94% White and Williams LLP 65 95% Whiteford Taylor & Preston 28 96% Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP 117 99% Wigdor LLP 17 100% Wiggin and Dana LLP 106 96% Wilbraham, Lawler & Buba 12 92% Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. 18 94% Wiley Rein LLP 23 96% Wilk Auslander LLP 41 95% Wilkinson Stekloff LLP 15 100% William Mattar, P.C. 15 100% William Schwitzer & Associates 17 100% Williams & Connolly LLP 96 98% Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 665 96% Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 194 94% Wilmerhale 197 95% Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP 450 97% Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 230 93% Wilson, Bave, Conboy, Cozza & Couzens 11 100% Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP 144 97% Wingate, Russotti, Shapiro, Moses & Halperin, LLP 17 94% Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP 22 95% Winne, Banta, Basralian & Kahn, P.C. 17 94% Winstead PC 33 94% Winston & Strawn LLP 119 85% Winston Taylor LLP 176 99% Withers 25 96%
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.