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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, region, or search for any firm. Click any firm for a detailed profile with year-over-year trends.
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
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| No. | Law Firm | Base Office | Attorneys | Partners | Attorneys | Change | Profile | |
| 6 | Norton Rose Fulbright | New York | 3,290 | 1,087 | 3,081 | 6.8% | ||
| 8 | Greenberg Traurig | New York | 2,644 | 1,312 | 2,537 | 4.2% | ||
| 9 | White & Case | New York | 2,598 | 698 | 2,560 | 1.5% | ||
| 10 | Jones Day | New York | 2,422 | 883 | 2,342 | 3.4% | ||
| 11 | Sidley Austin | New York | 1,979 | 661 | 2,042 | -3.1% | ||
| 13 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | New York | 1,940 | 480 | 1,835 | 5.7% | ||
| 15 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | New York | 1,774 | 343 | 1,734 | 2.3% | ||
| 17 | K&L Gates | Pittsburgh | 1,732 | 854 | 1,766 | -1.9% | ||
| 18 | Goodwin Procter | Boston | 1,675 | 609 | 1,754 | -4.5% | ||
| 20 | Reed Smith | Pittsburgh | 1,536 | 629 | 1,516 | 1.3% | ||
| 21 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | New York | 1,490 | 315 | 1,368 | 8.9% | ||
| 22 | Ropes & Gray | Boston | 1,466 | 298 | 1,482 | -1.1% | ||
| 24 | McDermott Will & Emery | New York | 1,336 | 633 | 1,348 | -0.9% | ||
| 27 | Cooley | New York | 1,318 | 384 | 1,305 | 1.0% | ||
| 30 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton | New York | 1,250 | 217 | 1,010 | 23.8% | ||
| 31 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | New York | 1,236 | 294 | 1,120 | 10.4% | ||
| 32 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges | New York | 1,228 | 285 | 1,217 | 0.9% | ||
| 33 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | New York | 1,183 | 355 | 1,120 | 5.6% | ||
| 34 | Paul Hastings | New York | 1,175 | 332 | 1,056 | 11.3% | ||
| 35 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | New York | 1,175 | 182 | 1,089 | 7.9% | ||
| 36 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker | New York | 1,164 | 336 | 1,018 | 14.3% | ||
| 39 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | New York | 1,078 | 191 | 1,075 | 0.3% | ||
| 49 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | New York | 994 | 381 | 1,060 | -6.2% | ||
| 50 | Baker & Hostetler | New York | 994 | 429 | 974 | 2.1% | ||
| 53 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton | New York | 964 | 411 | 931 | 3.5% | ||
| 54 | Milbank | New York | 961 | 212 | 912 | 5.4% | ||
| 59 | Fox Rothschild | New York | 934 | 342 | 917 | 1.8% | ||
| 61 | Debevoise & Plimpton | New York | 932 | 151 | 898 | 3.8% | ||
| 64 | Akin | New York | 893 | 320 | 893 | 0.0% | ||
| 65 | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 879 | 178 | 840 | 4.6% | ||
| 66 | Dechert | New York | 872 | 304 | 957 | -8.9% | ||
| 69 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy | New York | 783 | 144 | 778 | 0.7% | ||
| 70 | Cozen O'Connor | Philadelphia | 782 | 407 | 750 | 4.3% | ||
| 71 | Proskauer Rose | New York | 771 | 235 | 788 | -2.2% | ||
| 74 | Duane Morris | Philadelphia | 746 | 387 | 736 | 1.3% | ||
| 76 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | New York | 718 | 184 | 688 | 4.3% | ||
| 81 | Blank Rome | New York | 659 | 355 | 603 | 9.3% | ||
| 87 | Nixon Peabody | Boston | 610 | 282 | 576 | 5.9% | ||
| 88 | Akerman | New York | 606 | 379 | 617 | -1.8% | ||
| 97 | Ballard Spahr | Philadelphia | 550 | 220 | 574 | -4.2% | ||
| 102 | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo | Boston | 537 | 265 | 520 | 3.2% | ||
| 104 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore | New York | 532 | 106 | 500 | 6.4% | ||
| 107 | Wood Smith Henning & Berman | New York | 500 | 170 | 450 | 11.1% | ||
| 108 | Marshall Dennehey | Philadelphia | 498 | 278 | 504 | -1.2% | ||
| 116 | Goldberg Segalla | Buffalo | 450 | 289 | 433 | 3.9% | ||
| 118 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | Pittsburgh | 434 | 177 | 409 | 6.1% | ||
| 121 | Loeb & Loeb | New York | 427 | 229 | 419 | 2.0% | ||
| 122 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | New York | 427 | 125 | 433 | -1.4% | ||
| 126 | Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr | Philadelphia | 390 | 209 | 382 | 2.0% | ||
| 132 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | New York | 363 | 76 | 365 | -0.5% | ||