PlainAttorney Register file of Sep 29, 2026 · NY Office of Court Administration, via data.ny.gov

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.

How many firms, and how many attorneys, in each size band

Attorneys at law firms on the New York register, by firm size 10 to 2410,62525 to 497,84450 to 998,266100 to 24915,147250 to 49913,607500 or more20,520
Attorneys at law firms on the New York register, by firm size 10 to 2410,62525 to 497,84450 to 998,266100 to 24915,147250 to 49913,607500 or more20,520
Attorneys at law firms on the New York register, by firm size 10 to 2410,62525 to 497,84450 to 998,266100 to 24915,147250 to 49913,607500 or more20,520
Attorneys on the register at law firms of each size (the firm’s own count on the register), file of Sep 29, 2026.
Firm sizeFirmsAttorneysRegistered, current or due
10 to 2471410,62596%
25 to 492367,84496%
50 to 991188,26696%
100 to 2499615,14795%
250 to 4993913,60796%
500 or more2620,52096%

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.

The table is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a credit to PlainAttorney: download it as CSV. The full method is on the methodology page.