Take a look at the top five cities with the most lawyers among this year’s NLJ 500 firms. And see which firms have their largest offices in these markets.

The data is presented below in a sortable graphic and table. The full 2024 NLJ 500 report can be found here. For more ways to analyze the data, go to Law.com Compass.

2024 Top 5 City Charts (New York)
New York Law Firms Market Overview
Rank of market by headcount 1
# of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market 28,192
# of NLJ 500 offices in this market 259
% of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market 15.0%
Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market 109
% change in size in NLJ 500 firms 4.3%
Rank in market Law Firm Total lawyers
1 Kirkland & Ellis 842
2 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 803
3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 782
4 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 735
5 Latham & Watkins 717
6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 650
7 Debevoise & Plimpton 648
8 Sullivan & Cromwell 535
9 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 493
10 Milbank 481
11 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 454
12 Ropes & Gray 453
13 Sidley Austin 448
14 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 448
15 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 429
16 Goodwin Procter 388
17 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan 384
18 Proskauer Rose 376
19 Paul Hastings 321
20 Greenberg Traurig 320
21 Schulte Roth & Zabel 317
22 Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer 292
23 Dechert 269
24 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 261
25 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 261
NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market
Akerman
Akin
Baker & Hostetler
Boies Schiller Flexner
Brown Rudnick
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Carter Ledyard & Milburn
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cohen & Gresser
Cooley
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Cullen and Dykman
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
Davis & Gilbert
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dechert
DLA Piper
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole
Epstein Becker & Green
FisherBroyles
Fox Rothschild
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Greenberg Traurig
Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach
Herrick Feinstein
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Jones Day
Kasowitz Benson Torres
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kirkland & Ellis
Kobre & Kim
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Labaton Sucharow
Latham & Watkins
Loeb & Loeb
McLaughlin & Stern
Milbank
Morrison Cohen
Moses & Singer
Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass
Norton Rose Fulbright
Olshan Frome Wolosky
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
Paul Hastings
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Proskauer Rose
Pryor Cashman
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Reed Smith
Ropers Majeski
Rosenberg & Estis
Schulte Roth & Zabel
Selendy Gay Elsberg
Seward & Kissel
Shearman & Sterling
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Weitz & Luxenberg
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker
Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf
Wood Smith Henning & Berman
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin
2024 Top 5 City Charts (Washington, DC)
Washington, DC Law Firms Market Overview
Rank of market by headcount 2
# of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market 14,588
# of NLJ 500 offices in this market 226
% of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market 7.8%
Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market 65
% change in size in NLJ 500 firms 0.04%
Rank in market Law Firm Total lawyers
1 Covington & Burling 624
2 Latham & Watkins 452
3 Williams & Connolly 391
4 Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer 386
5 Hogan Lovells 384
6 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 330
7 Crowell & Moring 287
8 Sidley Austin 285
9 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 285
10 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 269
11 Kirkland & Ellis 264
12 Wiley Rein 256
13 Venable 254
14 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 226
15 Steptoe 215
16 Jones Day 213
17 Akin 212
18 King & Spalding 188
18 Mayer Brown 188
20 DLA Piper 180
21 Cooley 174
22 ArentFox Schiff 170
23 McDermott Will & Emery 169
24 Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner 164
25 Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox 161
NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market
ArentFox Schiff
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider
Banner & Witcoff
Beveridge & Diamond
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Fish & Richardson
Groom Law Group
Hogan Lovells
Hollingsworth
Keller and Heckman
Kiernan Trebach
Miller & Chevalier
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Squire Patton Boggs
Steptoe
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
Van Ness Feldman
Venable
Wiley Rein
Williams & Connolly
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
2024 Top 5 City Charts (Chicago)
Chicago Law Firms Market Overview
Rank of market by headcount 3
# of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market 9,668
# of NLJ 500 offices in this market 158
% of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market 5.1%
Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market 61
% change in size in NLJ 500 firms 3.1%
Rank in market Law Firm Total lawyers
1 Kirkland & Ellis 750
2 Sidley Austin 406
3 Mayer Brown 372
4 Winston & Strawn 249
5 Katten Muchin Rosenman 236
6 McDermott Will & Emery 225
7 Latham & Watkins 218
8 Baker McKenzie 210
9 Jenner & Block 198
10 Greenberg Traurig 185
11 DLA Piper 173
12 Seyfarth Shaw 164
13 Vedder Price 161
14 Chapman and Cutler 160
15 Jones Day 157
16 Hinshaw & Culbertson 143
17 Taft Stettinius & Hollister 132
18 ArentFox Schiff 130
19 Polsinelli 130
20 Barnes & Thornburg 128
21 Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg 125
22 Reed Smith 121
23 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg 113
24 Perkins Coie 107
25 Foley & Lardner 107
NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market
Baker McKenzie
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg
Bartlit Beck
Cassiday Schade
Chapman and Cutler
Clark Hill
Clausen Miller
Dykema Gossett
Freeborn & Peters
Goldberg Kohn
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Jenner & Block
Johnson & Bell
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Levenfeld Pearlstein
Litchfield Cavo
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun
Mayer Brown
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce
McDermott Will & Emery
Much Shelist
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney
Seyfarth Shaw
SmithAmundsen
Swanson, Martin & Bell
Tressler
Vedder Price
Winston & Strawn
2024 Top 5 City Charts (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Law Firms Market Overview
Rank of market by headcount 4
# of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market 7,493
# of NLJ 500 offices in this market 162
% of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market 4.0%
Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market 46
% change in size in NLJ 500 firms 0.7%
Rank in market Law Firm Total lawyers
1 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 263
2 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith 239
3 Kirkland & Ellis 194
4 Latham & Watkins 174
5 O’Melveny & Myers 160
6 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan 154
7 Buchalter 146
8 Seyfarth Shaw 138
9 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 134
10 Loeb & Loeb 130
11 Munger, Tolles & Olson 119
12 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips 112
13 Greenberg Traurig 111
14 DLA Piper 107
15 Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger 102
16 Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis 98
17 Cox, Castle & Nicholson 85
18 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 84
19 Davis Wright Tremaine 83
20 Littler Mendelson 81
21 Proskauer Rose 81
22 Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell 80
23 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 79
24 Venable 79
25 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani 78
NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis
Best Best & Krieger
Bowman and Brooke
Buchalter
Burke, Williams & Sorensen
Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete
Cox, Castle & Nicholson
Foley & Mansfield
Glaser Weil
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger
Jackson Lewis
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Murchison & Cumming
Musick, Peeler & Garrett
Nossaman
O’Melveny & Myers
2024 Top 5 City Charts (Boston)
Boston Law Firms Market Overview
Rank of market by headcount 5
# of lawyers working at NLJ 500 offices in this market 5,741
# of NLJ 500 offices in this market 105
% of all NLJ 500 lawyers working in this market 3.1%
Average Headcount of NLJ 500 offices in this market 55
% change in size in NLJ 500 firms 1.1%
Rank in market Law Firm Total lawyers
1 Ropes & Gray 535
2 Goodwin Procter 402
3 Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo 253
4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 240
5 Choate Hall & Stewart 197
6 Foley Hoag 188
7 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 171
8 Goulston & Storrs 155
9 Nutter McClennen & Fish 129
10 Latham & Watkins 116
11 Nixon Peabody 113
12 Proskauer Rose 111
13 Holland & Knight 111
14 Burns & Levinson 110
15 Kirkland & Ellis 106
16 Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks 102
17 Prince Lobel Tye 99
18 Foley & Lardner 96
19 Cooley 91
20 K&L Gates 89
21 DLA Piper 87
22 Morrison Mahoney 85
23 Greenberg Traurig 83
24 Seyfarth Shaw 83
25 Sullivan & Worcester 79
NLJ 500 firms with their largest office in this market
Burns & Levinson
Choate Hall & Stewart
Foley Hoag
Goodwin Procter
Goulston & Storrs
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder
Manning Gross + Massenburg
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
Morrison Mahoney
Nixon Peabody
Nutter McClennen & Fish
Prince Lobel Tye
Riemer & Braunstein
Ropes & Gray
Sullivan & Worcester
Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks