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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 |
| 163 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Los Angeles | 286 | 173 | 280 | 2.1% | West | |
| 166 | Knobbe Martens | Irvine | 278 | 151 | 279 | -0.4% | West | |
| 170 | Chartwell Law Offices | Miami | 270 | 145 | 222 | 21.5% | South | |
| 125 | Phelps Dunbar | New Orleans | 391 | 150 | 357 | 9.4% | South | |
| 128 | Freeman Mathis & Gary | Atlanta | 374 | 174 | 347 | 7.8% | South | |
| 130 | Butler Snow | Ridgeland | 366 | 224 | 373 | -1.8% | South | |
| 131 | Hall Booth Smith | Atlanta | 364 | 172 | 350 | 4.0% | South | |
| 120 | Steptoe | Washington | 428 | 165 | 410 | 4.3% | South | |
| 119 | Williams & Connolly | Washington | 429 | 116 | 392 | 9.5% | South | |
| 137 | Moore & Van Allen | Charlotte | 349 | 159 | 349 | -0.1% | South | |
| 139 | Burr & Forman | Birmingham | 345 | 232 | 346 | -0.3% | South | |
| 111 | Jackson Walker | Dallas | 484 | 287 | 459 | 5.4% | South | |
| 110 | Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer | Miami | 494 | 255 | 468 | 5.5% | South | |
| 140 | Jones Walker | New Orleans | 345 | 227 | 334 | 3.3% | South | |
| 143 | Bracewell | Houston | 337 | 167 | 317 | 6.2% | South | |
| 144 | Steptoe & Johnson PLLC | Charleston | 337 | 181 | 311 | 8.2% | South | |
| 148 | Bass, Berry & Sims | Nashville | 333 | 158 | 349 | -4.7% | South | |
| 99 | Frost Brown Todd | Louisville | 548 | 338 | 521 | 5.1% | South | |
| 151 | Fish & Richardson | Washington | 322 | 176 | 319 | 1.0% | South | |
| 96 | Locke Lord | Houston | 553 | 225 | 556 | -0.6% | South | |
| 95 | Maynard Nexsen | Birmingham | 562 | 310 | N/A | N/A | South | |
| 93 | ArentFox Schiff | Washington | 575 | 318 | 580 | -0.9% | South | |
| 92 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | Atlanta | 590 | 253 | 570 | 3.5% | South | |
| 91 | Cole, Scott & Kissane | Miami | 597 | 270 | 596 | 0.2% | South | |
| 90 | Crowell & Moring | Washington | 599 | 247 | 608 | -1.4% | South | |
| 86 | Haynes and Boone | Dallas | 625 | 290 | 600 | 4.1% | South | |
| 85 | Baker Botts | Houston | 630 | 249 | 625 | 0.8% | South | |
| 83 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | Washington | 651 | 276 | 637 | 2.2% | South | |
| 156 | Winstead | Dallas | 305 | 144 | 296 | 3.0% | South | |
| 157 | Carlton Fields | Tampa | 305 | 181 | 305 | -0.1% | South | |
| 80 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz | Nashville | 661 | 317 | 638 | 3.6% | South | |
| 79 | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings | Birmingham | 663 | 361 | 615 | 7.8% | South | |
| 77 | Vinson & Elkins | Houston | 681 | 194 | 700 | -2.7% | South | |
| 75 | Hunton Andrews Kurth | Richmond | 739 | 292 | 753 | -1.9% | South | |
| 160 | Smith, Gambrell & Russell | Atlanta | 292 | 198 | 326 | -10.4% | South | |
| 161 | Gunster | West Palm Beach | 288 | 165 | 275 | 4.9% | South | |
| 162 | Wicker Smith O'Hara McCoy & Ford | Coral Gables | 288 | 127 | 271 | 6.3% | South | |
| 68 | Venable | Washington | 788 | 410 | 779 | 1.2% | South | |
| 165 | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner | Washington | 282 | 123 | 281 | 0.3% | South | |
| 169 | Shutts & Bowen | Miami | 274 | 195 | 267 | 2.6% | South | |
| 216 | Greenspoon Marder | Fort Lauderdale | 199 | 119 | 207 | -4.0% | South | |
| 7 | Hogan Lovells | Washington | 2,703 | 812 | 2,562 | 5.5% | South | |
| 12 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | Washington | 1,960 | 807 | 2,012 | -2.6% | South | |
| 210 | Balch & Bingham | Birmingham | 211 | 124 | 213 | -0.8% | South | |
| 14 | Holland & Knight | Nashville | 1,791 | 877 | 1,711 | 4.7% | South | |
| 203 | Kelley Kronenberg | Fort Lauderdale | 220 | 139 | 208 | 5.8% | South | |
| 202 | Susman Godfrey | Houston | 221 | 94 | 207 | 6.8% | South | |
| 23 | Squire Patton Boggs | Washington | 1,458 | 458 | 1,446 | 0.8% | South | |
| 26 | King & Spalding | Atlanta | 1,331 | 522 | 1,315 | 1.2% | South | |
| 28 | Covington & Burling | Washington | 1,263 | 319 | 1,211 | 4.3% | South | |