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2025 Rankings
The definitive ranking of U.S. law firms by attorney headcount — updated for 2025 with over a decade of historical data. Sort by size, partners, or region, search for any firm, and open a detailed profile with year-over-year trends.
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| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
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| No. | Law Firm | Base Office | Attorneys | Partners | Attorneys | Change | Region | Profile |
| 120 | Steptoe | Washington | 428 | 165 | 410 | 4.3% | South | |
| 161 | Gunster | West Palm Beach | 288 | 165 | 275 | 4.9% | South | |
| 173 | Armstrong Teasdale | St. Louis | 266 | 166 | 349 | -23.8% | Midwest | |
| 174 | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick | Tampa | 261 | 166 | 254 | 2.8% | South | |
| 143 | Bracewell | Houston | 337 | 167 | 317 | 6.2% | South | |
| 252 | FisherBroyles | Washington | 170 | 168 | 293 | -42.0% | South | |
| 107 | Wood Smith Henning & Berman | New York | 500 | 170 | 450 | 11.1% | Northeast | |
| 131 | Hall Booth Smith | Atlanta | 364 | 172 | 350 | 4.0% | South | |
| 152 | Vedder Price | Chicago | 317 | 172 | 317 | 0.0% | Midwest | |
| 163 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Los Angeles | 286 | 173 | 280 | 2.1% | West | |
| 175 | Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott | Pittsburgh | 258 | 173 | 270 | -4.5% | Northeast | |
| 128 | Freeman Mathis & Gary | Atlanta | 374 | 174 | 347 | 7.8% | South | |
| 147 | Ice Miller | Indianapolis | 335 | 175 | 336 | -0.4% | Midwest | |
| 151 | Fish & Richardson | Washington | 322 | 176 | 319 | 1.0% | South | |
| 184 | Williams Mullen | Richmond | 249 | 176 | 231 | 7.9% | South | |
| 118 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | Pittsburgh | 434 | 177 | 409 | 6.1% | Northeast | |
| 65 | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 879 | 178 | 840 | 4.6% | Northeast | |
| 144 | Steptoe & Johnson PLLC | Charleston | 337 | 181 | 311 | 8.2% | South | |
| 157 | Carlton Fields | Tampa | 305 | 181 | 305 | -0.1% | South | |
| 35 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | New York | 1,175 | 182 | 1,089 | 7.9% | Northeast | |
| 76 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | New York | 718 | 184 | 688 | 4.3% | Northeast | |
| 138 | Michael Best & Friedrich | Milwaukee | 347 | 184 | 268 | 29.5% | Midwest | |
| 114 | Jenner & Block | Chicago | 459 | 186 | 461 | -0.5% | Midwest | |
| 127 | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff | Cleveland | 384 | 187 | 325 | 18.2% | Midwest | |
| 135 | Dykema Gossett | Chicago | 355 | 190 | 349 | 1.7% | Midwest | |
| 39 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | New York | 1,078 | 191 | 1,075 | 0.3% | Northeast | |
| 133 | Thompson Hine | Cleveland | 363 | 191 | 347 | 4.5% | Midwest | |
| 77 | Vinson & Elkins | Houston | 681 | 194 | 700 | -2.7% | South | |
| 42 | Morgan & Morgan | Orlando | 1,062 | 195 | 1,041 | 2.0% | South | |
| 169 | Shutts & Bowen | Miami | 274 | 195 | 267 | 2.6% | South | |
| 160 | Smith, Gambrell & Russell | Atlanta | 292 | 198 | 326 | -10.4% | South | |
| 98 | Buchalter | Los Angeles | 549 | 201 | 474 | 15.8% | West | |
| 149 | Epstein Becker & Green | New York | 330 | 201 | 325 | 1.5% | Northeast | |
| 134 | Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease | Columbus | 362 | 202 | 353 | 2.5% | Midwest | |
| 171 | Offit Kurman | New York | 269 | 202 | 273 | -1.4% | Northeast | |
| 126 | Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr | Philadelphia | 390 | 209 | 382 | 2.0% | Northeast | |
| 141 | Fennemore Craig | Phoenix | 342 | 211 | 242 | 41.3% | West | |
| 54 | Milbank | New York | 961 | 212 | 912 | 5.4% | Northeast | |
| 150 | Honigman | Detroit | 325 | 214 | 327 | -0.5% | Midwest | |
| 30 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton | New York | 1,250 | 217 | 1,010 | 23.8% | Northeast | |
| 142 | McCarter & English | Newark | 342 | 218 | 340 | 0.5% | Northeast | |
| 97 | Ballard Spahr | Philadelphia | 550 | 220 | 574 | -4.2% | Northeast | |
| 124 | Fredrikson & Byron | Minneapolis | 401 | 221 | 391 | 2.6% | Midwest | |
| 130 | Butler Snow | Ridgeland | 366 | 224 | 373 | -1.8% | South | |
| 96 | Locke Lord | Houston | 553 | 225 | 556 | -0.6% | South | |
| 117 | Holland & Hart | Denver | 437 | 225 | 442 | -1.1% | West | |
| 73 | O'Melveny & Myers | Los Angeles | 761 | 227 | 751 | 1.3% | West | |
| 140 | Jones Walker | New Orleans | 345 | 227 | 334 | 3.3% | South | |
| 121 | Loeb & Loeb | New York | 427 | 229 | 419 | 2.0% | Northeast | |
| 139 | Burr & Forman | Birmingham | 345 | 232 | 346 | -0.3% | South | |