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| No. | Law Firm | Base Office | Attorneys | Partners | Attorneys | Change | Profile | |||
| 1 | Baker McKenzie LLP | Chicago | 4,720 | 1,547 | 4,719 | 0.0% | ||||
| 2 | DLA Piper LLP | New York | 3,702 | 1,246 | 3,609 | 2.6% | ||||
| 3 | Norton Rose Fulbright LLP | New York | 3,376 | 1,166 | 3,339 | 1.1% | ||||
| 4 | Hogan Lovells | Washington | 2,636 | 803 | 2,685 | -1.8% | ||||
| 5 | Latham & Watkins LLP | New York | 2,540 | 730 | 2,436 | 4.3% | ||||
| 6 | Jones Day | Washington | 2,518 | 919 | 2,513 | 0.2% | ||||
| 7 | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Chicago | 2,307 | 996 | 1,997 | 15.5% | ||||
| 8 | White & Case LLP | New York | 2,150 | 530 | 2,039 | 5.4% | ||||
| 9 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | Washington | 2,015 | 774 | 1,943 | 3.7% | ||||
| 10 | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | New York | 1,962 | 1,014 | 1,944 | 0.9% | ||||
| 11 | Sidley Austin LLP | Chicago | 1,943 | 668 | 1,873 | 3.7% | ||||
| 12 | K&L Gates LLP | Pittsburgh | 1,756 | 812 | 1,793 | -2.1% | ||||
| 13 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | New York | 1,744 | 349 | 1,784 | -2.2% | ||||
| 14 | Mayer Brown LLP | Chicago | 1,570 | 623 | 1,571 | -0.1% | ||||
| 15 | Reed Smith LLP | New York | 1,544 | 646 | 1,550 | -0.4% | ||||
| 16 | Squire Patton Boggs LLP | Washington | 1,497 | 479 | 1,497 | 0.0% | ||||
| 17 | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | St. Louis | 1,425 | 544 | 847 | 68.2% | ||||
| 18 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | Los Angeles | 1,308 | 740 | 1,201 | 8.9% | ||||
| 19 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | New York | 1,307 | 378 | 1,275 | 2.5% | ||||
| 20 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | New York | 1,235 | 186 | 1,214 | 1.7% | ||||
| 21 | Ropes & Gray LLP | Boston | 1,210 | 250 | 1,162 | 4.1% | ||||
| 22 | Holland & Knight LLP | Miami | 1,141 | 606 | 1,079 | 5.7% | ||||
| 23 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | New York | 1,117 | 264 | 1,118 | -0.1% | ||||
| 24 | King & Spalding LLP | Atlanta | 1,081 | 412 | 1,007 | 7.3% | ||||
| 25 | Littler Mendelson PC | Los Angeles | 1,068 | 501 | 1,043 | 2.4% | ||||
| 26 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | New York | 1,022 | 145 | 1,000 | 2.2% | ||||
| 27 | Covington & Burling LLP | Washington | 1,020 | 286 | 941 | 8.4% | ||||
| 28 | McGuireWoods LLP | Richmond | 1,014 | 423 | 1,012 | 0.2% | ||||
| 29 | McDermott Will & Emery LLP | Chicago | 1,013 | 536 | 985 | 2.8% | ||||
| 30 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | New York | 982 | 157 | 967 | 1.6% | ||||
| 31 | Foley & Lardner LLP | Milwaukee | 975 | 450 | 822 | 18.6% | ||||
| 32 | Perkins Coie LLP | Seattle | 973 | 467 | 944 | 3.1% | ||||
| 33 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP | New York | 964 | 342 | 940 | 2.6% | ||||
| 34 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | New York | 964 | 196 | 988 | -2.4% | ||||
| 35 | Goodwin Procter LLP | Boston | 955 | 352 | 909 | 5.1% | ||||
| 36 | Morrison & Foerster LLP | San Francisco | 951 | 296 | 960 | -0.9% | ||||
| 37 | Paul Hastings LLP | New York | 948 | 271 | 921 | 2.9% | ||||
| 38 | Cooley LLP | Palo Alto | 946 | 319 | 897 | 5.5% | ||||
| 39 | Baker & Hostetler LLP | Cleveland | 941 | 378 | 906 | 3.9% | ||||
| 40 | Womble Bond Dickinson LLP | Winston-Salem | 940 | 456 | 468 | 100.9% | ||||
| 41 | Dechert LLP | New York | 940 | 288 | 928 | 1.3% | ||||
| 42 | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP | Washington | 939 | 309 | 950 | -1.2% | ||||
| 43 | Winston & Strawn LLP | Chicago | 893 | 380 | 849 | 5.2% | ||||
| 44 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Washington | 885 | 324 | 858 | 3.1% | ||||
| 45 | Shearman & Sterling LLP | New York | 882 | 203 | 853 | 3.4% | ||||
| 46 | Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | Richmond | 869 | 385 | 655 | 32.7% | ||||
| 47 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | Washington | 859 | 252 | 869 | -1.2% | ||||
| 48 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC | Los Angeles | 847 | 403 | 822 | 3.0% | ||||
| 49 | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | Chicago | 844 | 392 | 865 | -2.4% | ||||
| 50 | Jackson Lewis PC | Los Angeles | 838 | 447 | 771 | 8.7% | ||||