Wachtell tops the revenue per lawyer leaderboard again this year, and once again by a comfortable margin, with $4.2 million. The No. 2 firm is Sullivan & Cromwell, while RPL for Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Kirkland & Ellis broke the $2 million threshhold.


NYLJ 100: Revenue per Partner
RankFirm NameRevenue per Partner
1Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz$4,272,000
2Sullivan & Cromwell$2,219,000
3Cravath, Swaine & Moore$2,200,000
4Kirkland & Ellis$2,051,000
5Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison$1,984,000
6Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom$1,886,000
7Davis Polk & Wardwell$1,865,000
8Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan$1,857,000
9Paul Hastings$1,720,000
10Simpson Thacher & Bartlett$1,707,000
11Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher$1,675,000
12Kobre & Kim$1,663,000
13Milbank$1,661,000
14Latham & Watkins$1,649,000
15Boies Schiller Flexner$1,608,000
16Proskauer Rose$1,562,000
17Cooley$1,559,000
18Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld$1,535,000
19Sidley Austin$1,518,000
20Debevoise & Plimpton$1,511,000
21Weil, Gotshal & Manges$1,503,000
22Schulte Roth & Zabel$1,494,000
23Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson$1,466,000
24Shearman & Sterling$1,420,000
25Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler$1,391,000