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Archive: This is the 2019 edition of the largest law firms rankings. View current rankings →

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2018 2017
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%