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| Rank | Law Firm Name | Headquarters | Attorneys | Partners | Associates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baker McKenzie LLP | Chicago | 4720 | 1547 | 3173 |
| 2 | DLA Piper LLP | New York | 3702 | 1246 | 2456 |
| 3 | Norton Rose Fulbright LLP | New York | 3376 | 1166 | 2210 |
| 4 | Hogan Lovells | Washington | 2636 | 803 | 1833 |
| 5 | Latham & Watkins LLP | New York | 2540 | 730 | 1810 |
| 6 | Jones Day | Washington | 2518 | 919 | 1599 |
| 7 | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Chicago | 2307 | 996 | 1311 |
| 8 | White & Case LLP | New York | 2150 | 530 | 1620 |
| 9 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | Washington | 2015 | 774 | 1241 |
| 10 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | New York | 1962 | 1014 | 948 |
| 11 | Sidley Austin LLP | Chicago | 1943 | 668 | 1275 |
| 12 | K&L Gates LLP | Pittsburgh | 1756 | 812 | 944 |
| 13 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | New York | 1744 | 349 | 1395 |
| 14 | Mayer Brown LLP | Chicago | 1570 | 623 | 947 |
| 15 | Reed Smith LLP | New York | 1544 | 646 | 898 |
| 16 | Squire Patton Boggs LLP | Washington | 1497 | 479 | 1018 |
| 17 | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | St. Louis | 1425 | 544 | 881 |
| 18 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | Los Angeles | 1308 | 740 | 568 |
| 19 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | New York | 1307 | 378 | 929 |
| 20 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | New York | 1235 | 186 | 1049 |
| 21 | Ropes & Gray LLP | Boston | 1210 | 250 | 960 |
| 22 | Holland & Knight LLP | Miami | 1141 | 606 | 535 |
| 23 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | New York | 1117 | 264 | 853 |
| 24 | King & Spalding LLP | Atlanta | 1081 | 412 | 669 |
| 25 | Littler Mendelson PC | Los Angeles | 1068 | 501 | 567 |
| 26 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | New York | 1022 | 145 | 877 |
| 27 | Covington & Burling LLP | Washington | 1020 | 286 | 734 |
| 28 | McGuireWoods LLP | Richmond | 1014 | 423 | 591 |
| 29 | McDermott Will & Emery LLP | Chicago | 1013 | 536 | 477 |
| 30 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York | 982 | 157 | 825 |
| 31 | Foley & Lardner LLP | Milwaukee | 975 | 450 | 525 |
| 32 | Perkins Coie LLP | Seattle | 973 | 467 | 506 |
| 33 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | New York | 964 | 342 | 622 |
| 34 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New York | 964 | 196 | 768 |
| 35 | Goodwin Procter LLP | Boston | 955 | 352 | 603 |
| 36 | Morrison & Foerster LLP | San Francisco | 951 | 296 | 655 |
| 37 | Paul Hastings LLP | New York | 948 | 271 | 677 |
| 38 | Cooley LLP | Palo Alto | 946 | 319 | 627 |
| 39 | Baker & Hostetler LLP | Cleveland | 941 | 378 | 563 |
| 40 | Womble Bond Dickinson LLP | Winston-Salem | 940 | 456 | 484 |
| 41 | Dechert LLP | New York | 940 | 288 | 652 |
| 42 | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP | Washington | 939 | 309 | 630 |
| 43 | Winston & Strawn LLP | Chicago | 893 | 380 | 513 |
| 44 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Washington | 885 | 324 | 561 |
| 45 | Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York | 882 | 203 | 679 |
| 46 | Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | Richmond | 869 | 385 | 484 |
| 47 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | Washington | 859 | 252 | 607 |
| 48 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC | Los Angeles | 847 | 403 | 444 |
| 49 | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Chicago | 844 | 392 | 452 |
| 50 | Jackson Lewis PC | Los Angeles | 838 | 447 | 391 |
| 51 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP | New York | 829 | 250 | 579 |
| 52 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | New York | 826 | 164 | 662 |
| 53 | Alston & Bird LLP | Atlanta | 817 | 369 | 448 |
| 54 | Polsinelli | Kansas City | 810 | 485 | 325 |
| 55 | Fox Rothschild LLP | Philadelphia | 788 | 325 | 463 |
| 56 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP | White Plains | 787 | 307 | 480 |
| 57 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC | Palo Alto | 764 | 201 | 563 |
| 58 | Milbank LLP | New York | 728 | 168 | 560 |
| 59 | Proskauer Rose | New York | 726 | 242 | 484 |
| 60 | Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP | San Diego | 717 | 338 | 379 |
| 61 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | Los Angeles | 714 | 335 | 379 |
| 62 | Baker Botts LLP | Houston | 708 | 280 | 428 |
| 63 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP | Atlanta | 707 | 404 | 303 |
| 64 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC | Nashville | 681 | 362 | 319 |
| 65 | O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Los Angeles | 673 | 178 | 495 |
| 66 | Duane Morris LLP | Philadelphia | 671 | 346 | 325 |
| 67 | Faegre Baker Daniels LLP | Minneapolis | 669 | 342 | 327 |
| 68 | Cozen O'Connor | Philadelphia | 665 | 340 | 325 |
| 69 | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | Chicago | 662 | 319 | 343 |
| 70 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | New York | 658 | 156 | 502 |
| 71 | Venable LLP | Washington | 657 | 290 | 367 |
| 72 | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | New York | 655 | 136 | 519 |
| 73 | Akerman LLP | Miami | 651 | 391 | 260 |
| 74 | Troutman Sanders LLP | Atlanta | 645 | 284 | 361 |
| 75 | Locke Lord LLP | Dallas | 641 | 294 | 347 |
| 76 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | Washington | 629 | 295 | 334 |
| 77 | Vinson & Elkins LLP | Houston | 622 | 199 | 423 |
| 78 | Nixon Peabody LLP | Boston | 607 | 312 | 295 |
| 79 | Husch Blackwell LLP | St. Louis | 602 | 313 | 289 |
| 80 | Ballard Spahr LLP | Philadelphia | 602 | 263 | 339 |
| 81 | Clark Hill PLC | Detroit | 584 | 310 | 274 |
| 82 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP | New York | 582 | 122 | 460 |
| 83 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | Atlanta | 575 | 239 | 336 |
| 84 | Barnes & Thornburg LLP | Indianapolis | 557 | 390 | 167 |
| 85 | Blank Rome LLP | Philadelphia | 551 | 306 | 245 |
| 86 | Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | Cincinnati | 544 | 283 | 261 |
| 87 | Haynes and Boone, LLP | Dallas | 537 | 237 | 300 |
| 88 | Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | Philadelphia | 530 | 248 | 282 |
| 89 | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP | Seattle | 521 | 276 | 245 |
| 90 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | New York | 519 | 83 | 436 |
| 91 | Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin PC | Philadelphia | 518 | 266 | 252 |
| 92 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP | New York | 514 | 139 | 375 |
| 93 | Dorsey & Whitney LLP | Minneapolis | 508 | 280 | 228 |
| 94 | Kutak Rock LLP | Omaha | 503 | 307 | 196 |
| 95 | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | Birmingham | 498 | 293 | 205 |
| 96 | Jenner & Block LLP | Chicago | 467 | 209 | 258 |
| 97 | Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP | Kansas City | 463 | 215 | 248 |
| 98 | Crowell & Moring | Washington | 463 | 185 | 278 |
| 99 | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo | Boston | 457 | 223 | 234 |
| 100 | Frost Brown Todd | Cincinnati | 453 | 306 | 147 |
| 101 | Dickinson Wright | Troy | 451 | 267 | 184 |
| 102 | Quarles & Brady LLP | Milwaukee | 450 | 271 | 179 |
| 103 | Taft Stettinius & Hollister | Cincinnati | 445 | 257 | 188 |
| 104 | Morgan & Morgan | Orlando | 445 | 112 | 333 |
| 105 | Stinson Leonard Street | Minneapolis | 439 | 292 | 147 |
| 106 | Cole, Scott & Kissane | Miami | 433 | 160 | 273 |
| 107 | Pepper Hamilton | Philadelphia | 424 | 193 | 231 |
| 108 | Hinshaw & Culbertson | Chicago | 423 | 279 | 144 |
| 109 | Snell & Wilmer | Phoenix | 413 | 200 | 213 |
| 110 | Holland & Hart | Denver | 404 | 213 | 191 |
| 111 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | Pittsburgh | 403 | 185 | 218 |
| 112 | Goldberg Segalla | Buffalo | 396 | 240 | 156 |
| 113 | Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer | Miami | 386 | 165 | 221 |
| 114 | McCarter & English | Newark | 373 | 211 | 162 |
| 115 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | New York | 373 | 90 | 283 |
| 116 | Bracewell | Houston | 368 | 169 | 199 |
| 117 | Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP | Chicago | 365 | 201 | 164 |
| 118 | Loeb & Loeb | New York | 365 | 184 | 181 |
| 119 | Steptoe & Johnson LLP | Washington | 361 | 152 | 209 |
| 120 | Jones Walker | New Orleans | 360 | 231 | 129 |
| 121 | Dykema Gossett | Bloomfield Hills | 360 | 206 | 154 |
| 122 | Fish & Richardson | Boston | 356 | 172 | 184 |
| 123 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | New York | 356 | 79 | 277 |
| 124 | Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease | Columbus | 354 | 171 | 183 |
| 125 | Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott | Pittsburgh | 351 | 243 | 108 |
| 126 | Jackson Walker | Dallas | 351 | 231 | 120 |
| 127 | Fisher & Phillips | Atlanta | 351 | 184 | 167 |
| 128 | Thompson Hine | Cleveland | 340 | 193 | 147 |
| 129 | Stoel Rives | Portland | 339 | 203 | 136 |
| 130 | Arent Fox | Washington | 335 | 161 | 174 |
| 131 | Fenwick & West | Mountain View | 335 | 100 | 235 |
| 132 | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel | New York | 333 | 111 | 222 |
| 133 | Thompson Coburn | St. Louis | 331 | 227 | 104 |
| 134 | Williams & Connolly | Washington | 324 | 108 | 216 |
| 135 | Boies Schiller Flexner | New York | 320 | 145 | 175 |
| 136 | Winstead | Dallas | 312 | 163 | 149 |
| 137 | Butler Snow | Jackson | 309 | 204 | 105 |
| 138 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Los Angeles | 302 | 174 | 128 |
| 139 | Ice Miller | Indianapolis | 298 | 171 | 127 |
| 140 | Moore & Van Allen | Charlotte | 294 | 159 | 135 |
| 141 | Vedder Price | Chicago | 292 | 161 | 131 |
| 142 | Barclay Damon | Syracuse | 291 | 153 | 138 |
| 143 | Cahill Gordon & Reinde | New York | 291 | 67 | 224 |
| 144 | Fredrikson & Byron | Minneapolis | 287 | 160 | 127 |
| 145 | Lowenstein Sandler | Roseland | 287 | 107 | 180 |
| 146 | Steptoe & Johnson PLLC | Charleston | 285 | 141 | 144 |
| 147 | Kelley Drye & Warren | New York | 285 | 126 | 159 |
| 148 | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner | Washington | 284 | 123 | 161 |
| 149 | Thompson & Knight | Dallas | 282 | 146 | 136 |
| 150 | Bass, Berry & Sims | Nashville | 281 | 128 | 153 |
| 151 | Carlton Fields Jorden Burt | Tampa | 277 | 184 | 93 |
| 152 | Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle | New York | 277 | 59 | 218 |
| 153 | GrayRobinson | Orlando | 276 | 174 | 102 |
| 154 | Honigman LLP | Detroit | 275 | 204 | 71 |
| 155 | LeClairRyan | Richmond | 273 | 195 | 78 |
| 156 | Burr & Forman | Birmingham | 273 | 178 | 95 |
| 157 | Shutts & Bowen | Miami | 270 | 194 | 76 |
| 158 | Phelps Dunbar | New Orleans | 270 | 112 | 158 |
| 159 | Wood Smith Henning & Berman | Los Angeles | 270 | 65 | 205 |
| 160 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | New York | 267 | 80 | 187 |
| 161 | Epstein Becker & Green | New York | 265 | 136 | 129 |
| 162 | Litchfield Cavo | Chicago | 264 | 138 | 126 |
| 163 | Hughes Hubbard & Reed | New York | 264 | 74 | 190 |
| 164 | Adams and Reese | New Orleans | 261 | 150 | 111 |
| 165 | Buchalter | Los Angeles | 261 | 113 | 148 |
| 166 | Kasowitz Benson Torres | New York | 258 | 87 | 171 |
| 167 | Day Pitney | Parsippany | 254 | 128 | 126 |
| 168 | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick | Toledo | 252 | 188 | 64 |
| 169 | Knobbe Martens | Irvine | 252 | 163 | 89 |
| 170 | Bond, Schoeneck & King | Syracuse | 251 | 147 | 104 |
| 171 | McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter | Morristown | 251 | 121 | 130 |
| 172 | Maynard, Cooper & Gale | Birmingham | 247 | 152 | 95 |
| 173 | Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian | Redwood City | 247 | 78 | 169 |
| 174 | Stroock & Stroock & Lavan | New York | 244 | 76 | 168 |
| 175 | Spencer Fane | Kansas City | 243 | 134 | 109 |
| 176 | Wiley Rein | Washington | 242 | 117 | 125 |
| 177 | Foley Hoag | Boston | 242 | 114 | 128 |
| 178 | Schiff Hardin | Chicago | 241 | 145 | 96 |
| 179 | Robins Kaplan | Minneapolis | 238 | 82 | 156 |
| 180 | Chapman and Cutler | Chicago | 237 | 143 | 94 |
| 181 | Armstrong Teasdale | St. Louis | 234 | 130 | 104 |
| 182 | Greenspoon Marder | Fort Lauderdale | 232 | 111 | 121 |
| 183 | White and Williams | Philadelphia | 229 | 102 | 127 |
| 184 | Michael Best & Friedrich | Milwaukee | 228 | 148 | 80 |
| 185 | Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis | Nashville | 227 | 125 | 102 |
| 186 | Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie | Phoenix | 225 | 130 | 95 |
| 187 | Williams Mullen | Richmond | 223 | 155 | 68 |
| 188 | Smith, Gambrell & Russell | Atlanta | 222 | 129 | 93 |
| 189 | Warner Norcross & Judd | Grand Rapids | 222 | 118 | 104 |
| 190 | Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young | Philadelphia | 221 | 113 | 108 |
| 191 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck | Denver | 219 | 129 | 90 |
| 192 | Harris Beach | Rochester | 217 | 123 | 94 |
| 193 | Brown Rudnick | Boston | 217 | 103 | 114 |
| 194 | Miles & Stockbridge | Baltimore | 215 | 125 | 90 |
| 195 | Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren | Milwaukee | 214 | 128 | 86 |
| 196 | Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons | Dallas | 206 | 104 | 102 |
| 197 | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP | Cleveland | 205 | 117 | 88 |
| 198 | Lathrop & Gage | Kansas City | 205 | 115 | 90 |
| 199 | Wicker Smith O'Hara McCoy & Ford | Miami | 205 | 89 | 116 |
| 200 | Tucker Ellis | Cleveland | 205 | 88 | 117 |
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