The Largest Firms By New York Headcount

Firms with the largest presence in New York have generally grown their headcounts and revenue.

July 24, 2024 at 04:00 PM

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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal

NYLJ 100: Firms By Headcount
Rank	Firm Name	Number of Lawyers	Number of Lawyers 2023	Year-to-Year Percent Change
1	Kirkland & Ellis	842	795	5.91%
2	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	803	766	4.78%
3	Davis Polk & Wardwell	782	791	-1.13%
4	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	735	693	6.11%
5	Latham & Watkins	717	651	10.04%
6	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	650	624	4.15%
7	Debevoise & Plimpton	648	610	6.24%
8	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	603	628	-3.98%
9	Sullivan & Cromwell	535	508	5.31%
10	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson	493	487	1.23%
11	Milbank	481	437	9.95%
12	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	458	372	23.12%
13	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	454	432	5.07%
14	Ropes & Gray	453	462	-2.03%
15 (tie)	Sidley Austin	448	435	3.03%
15 (tie)	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	448	441	1.59%
17	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	429	429	-0.04%
18	White & Case	428	447	-4.25%
19	Greenberg Traurig	394	320	23.13%
20	Goodwin Procter	388	361	7.28%
21	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan	384	278	38.13%
22	Proskauer Rose	376	368	2.17%
23	Paul Hastings	321	296	8.37%
24	Schulte Roth & Zabel	317	297	6.73%
25	Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker	315	289	8.96%
26	Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer	292	284	2.85%
27	Bond, Schoeneck & King	278	240	15.83%
28	Dechert	269	279	-3.52%
29	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	265	278	-4.65%
30 (tie)	Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel	261	254	2.78%
30 (tie)	Cahill Gordon & Reindel	261	259	0.57%
32	Shearman & Sterling	257	245	4.90%
33	DLA Piper	254	231	9.83%
34	Akin	253	227	11.51%
35	Mayer Brown	252	249	1.20%
36	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	250	254	-1.57%
37	Barclay Damon	247	245	0.82%
38	Jones Day	227	218	4.18%
39	Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr	223	195	14.75%
40	McDermott Will & Emery	221	211	4.77%
41	King & Spalding	220	197	11.68%
42	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	216	224	-3.57%
43	Covington & Burling	212	205	3.53%
44	Cooley	208	238	-12.67%
45	Rivkin Radler	206	203	1.48%
46	Harris Beach	204	213	-4.23%
47	Winston & Strawn	202	191	5.70%
48	Kasowitz Benson Torres	201	191	4.98%
49	Goldberg Segalla	198	194	2.06%
50	Norton Rose Fulbright	193	198	-2.58%
51	Pryor Cashman	191	175	9.19%
52	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	187	189	-1.37%
53	Reed Smith	181	173	4.45%
54 (tie)	Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith	178	169	5.33%
54 (tie)	Hodgson Russ	178	172	3.08%
55	Katten Muchin Rosenman	173	161	7.88%
56	Venable	172	170	1.06%
57	Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler	171	161	6.00%
58	Nixon Peabody	170	167	2.17%
59	Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy	164	183	-10.27%
60	Blank Rome	163	150	8.78%
61	Baker McKenzie	160	130	23.08%
62 (tie)	Jackson Lewis	155	151	3.16%
62(tie)	O'Melveny & Myers	155	150	3.33%
62(tie)	Baker & Hostetler	155	149	3.59%
65	Loeb & Loeb	147	155	-5.24%
66	Holland & Knight	146	140	4.53%
67 (tie)	Herrick Feinstein	145	146	-0.68%
67 (tie)	Morrison & Foerster	145	164	-11.59%
69	Phillips Lytle	144	135	6.85%
70 (tie)	Seyfarth Shaw	142	138	3.12%
70 (tie)	Cullen and Dykman	142	148	-4.02%
72	Seward & Kissel	139	124	12.19%
73 (tie)	Alston & Bird	135	129	4.36%
73 (tie)	Davis & Gilbert	135	130	3.73%
73 (tie)	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton	135	126	7.49%
76	Selendy Gay	132	97	36.08%
77	Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman	127	137	-7.30%
78 (tie)	Morrison Cohen	126	127	-0.79%
78 (tie)	ArentFox Schiff	126	123	2.69%
80	Hunton Andrews Kurth	125	121	3.14%
81	Hogan Lovells	123	115	6.98%
82	Lowenstein Sandler	122	122	-0.35%
83	Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman	121	117	3.42%
84	Kelley Drye & Warren	120	116	3.45%
85	Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo	119	120	-1.00%
86	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	118	114	3.92%
87 (tie)	Vinson & Elkins	114	100	14.00%
87 (tie)	Fenwick & West	114	112	1.50%
89 (tie)	Troutman Pepper	112	113	-0.88%
89 (tie)	Cozen O'Connor	112	107	4.42%
91	Harter Secrest & Emery	111	115	-3.48%
92 (tie)	Ellenoff Grossman & Schole	110	116	-5.17%
92 (tie)	Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan	110	104	5.77%
94	Hughes Hubbard & Reed	107	108	-1.17%
95	Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone	104	116	-10.27%
96	Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf	103	94	9.91%
97	Duane Morris	102	113	-9.81%
98	Akerman	100	104	-4.30%
99 (tie)	Epstein Becker & Green	99	95	4.21%
99 (tie)	Rosenberg & Estis	99	97	2.17%
100	Olshan Frome Wolosky	98	85	15.91%