How big are the law firms on the New York register?
Law firms by attorneys on the register, in size bands
- Firms with 10 or more
- 1,229
- Their attorneys
- 76,009
- File of
- Sep 29, 2026
1,229 law firms have ten or more attorneys on the New York register file of Sep 29, 2026, together 76,009 attorneys. The 26 firms with 500 or more hold 27% of them; the largest, Kirkland & Ellis, has 1,464.
Computed from the register file of Sep 29, 2026; the pipeline checks the figures against the file’s own totals. PlainAttorney’s data editor answers for them.
How many firms, and how many attorneys, in each size band
| Firm size | Firms | Attorneys | Registered, current or due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 to 24 | 714 | 10,625 | 96% |
| 25 to 49 | 236 | 7,844 | 96% |
| 50 to 99 | 118 | 8,266 | 96% |
| 100 to 249 | 96 | 15,147 | 95% |
| 250 to 499 | 39 | 13,607 | 96% |
| 500 or more | 26 | 20,520 | 96% |
Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged.
Method, limits and the data
Employer spellings are merged into firms by a key that ignores case, punctuation, “&”/“and”, spacing and entity suffixes; only employers whose names mark a law practice count as firms.
To cite this analysis: How big are the law firms on the New York register?, PlainAttorney, Sep 29, 2026, plainattorney.com/research/firm-sizes.
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