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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 |
| 3 | Baker McKenzie | Chicago | 4,595 | 1,432 | 4,559 | 0.8% | Midwest | |
| 16 | Mayer Brown | Chicago | 1,766 | 651 | 1,891 | -6.6% | Midwest | |
| 37 | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner | St. Louis | 1,097 | 439 | 1,186 | -7.5% | Midwest | |
| 40 | Foley & Lardner | Milwaukee | 1,073 | 501 | 1,050 | 2.2% | Midwest | |
| 44 | Polsinelli | Kansas City | 1,027 | 582 | 963 | 6.6% | Midwest | |
| 47 | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath | Minneapolis | 1,009 | 500 | 958 | 5.3% | Midwest | |
| 57 | Husch Blackwell | St. Louis | 939 | 401 | 861 | 9.1% | Midwest | |
| 60 | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 932 | 346 | 888 | 4.9% | Midwest | |
| 63 | Seyfarth Shaw | Chicago | 894 | 446 | 911 | -1.9% | Midwest | |
| 67 | Taft Stettinius & Hollister | Indianapolis | 824 | 470 | 782 | 5.4% | Midwest | |
| 72 | Barnes & Thornburg | Indianapolis | 770 | 481 | 740 | 4.0% | Midwest | |
| 78 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | Chicago | 663 | 324 | 682 | -2.8% | Midwest | |
| 82 | Dinsmore & Shohl | Cincinnati | 657 | 335 | 631 | 4.2% | Midwest | |
| 84 | Clark Hill | Chicago | 642 | 313 | 641 | 0.1% | Midwest | |
| 100 | Dorsey & Whitney | Minneapolis | 547 | 299 | 525 | 4.2% | Midwest | |
| 101 | Kutak Rock | Omaha | 542 | 341 | 539 | 0.6% | Midwest | |
| 103 | Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Kansas City | 535 | 260 | 526 | 1.8% | Midwest | |
| 106 | Dickinson Wright | Troy | 519 | 315 | 484 | 7.2% | Midwest | |
| 109 | Hinshaw & Culbertson | Chicago | 495 | 292 | 427 | 15.8% | Midwest | |
| 112 | Quarles & Brady | Milwaukee | 481 | 262 | 473 | 1.7% | Midwest | |
| 114 | Jenner & Block | Chicago | 459 | 186 | 461 | -0.5% | Midwest | |
| 123 | Stinson | Kansas City | 416 | 256 | 407 | 2.1% | Midwest | |
| 124 | Fredrikson & Byron | Minneapolis | 401 | 221 | 391 | 2.6% | Midwest | |
| 127 | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff | Cleveland | 384 | 187 | 325 | 18.2% | Midwest | |
| 129 | Thompson Coburn | St. Louis | 371 | 239 | 377 | -1.5% | Midwest | |
| 133 | Thompson Hine | Cleveland | 363 | 191 | 347 | 4.5% | Midwest | |
| 134 | Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease | Columbus | 362 | 202 | 353 | 2.5% | Midwest | |
| 135 | Dykema Gossett | Chicago | 355 | 190 | 349 | 1.7% | Midwest | |
| 138 | Michael Best & Friedrich | Milwaukee | 347 | 184 | 268 | 29.5% | Midwest | |
| 147 | Ice Miller | Indianapolis | 335 | 175 | 336 | -0.4% | Midwest | |
| 150 | Honigman | Detroit | 325 | 214 | 327 | -0.5% | Midwest | |
| 152 | Vedder Price | Chicago | 317 | 172 | 317 | 0.0% | Midwest | |
| 167 | Lathrop GPM | Kansas City | 277 | 135 | 278 | -0.2% | Midwest | |
| 173 | Armstrong Teasdale | St. Louis | 266 | 166 | 349 | -23.8% | Midwest | |
| 178 | Chapman and Cutler | Chicago | 255 | 155 | 248 | 2.8% | Midwest | |
| 186 | UB Greensfelder | Cleveland | 246 | 152 | N/A | N/A | Midwest | |
| 189 | SmithAmundsen | Chicago | 244 | 138 | 234 | 4.4% | Midwest | |
| 190 | Cordell & Cordell | St. Louis | 242 | 29 | N/A | N/A | Midwest | |
| 192 | Tucker Ellis | Cleveland | 241 | 108 | 233 | 3.4% | Midwest | |
| 194 | Litchfield Cavo | Chicago | 236 | 114 | 241 | -2.2% | Midwest | |
| 197 | Miller Canfield | Detroit | 231 | 89 | 239 | -3.5% | Midwest | |
| 198 | Bricker Graydon | Columbus | 231 | 88 | N/A | N/A | Midwest | |
| 208 | Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren | Milwaukee | 215 | 141 | 208 | 3.4% | Midwest | |
| 212 | Warner Norcross + Judd | Grand Rapids | 208 | 116 | 203 | 2.3% | Midwest | |
| 218 | Varnum | Grand Rapids | 196 | 101 | 179 | 9.2% | Midwest | |
| 221 | Roetzel & Andress | Akron | 191 | 117 | 158 | 21.1% | Midwest | |
| 222 | Godfrey & Kahn | Milwaukee | 191 | 96 | 186 | 2.6% | Midwest | |
| 230 | Robins Kaplan | Minneapolis | 184 | 93 | 180 | 2.5% | Midwest | |
| 233 | McDonald Hopkins | Cleveland | 182 | 93 | 171 | 6.4% | Midwest | |
| 239 | Winthrop & Weinstine | Minneapolis | 179 | 75 | 167 | 7.1% | Midwest | |