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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 |
| 51 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | Washington | 993 | 255 | 981 | 1.2% | South | |
| 52 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | Atlanta | 977 | 545 | 924 | 5.7% | South | |
| 53 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton | New York | 964 | 411 | 931 | 3.5% | Northeast | |
| 54 | Milbank | New York | 961 | 212 | 912 | 5.4% | Northeast | |
| 55 | Womble Bond Dickinson | Winston-Salem | 960 | 447 | 941 | 2.0% | South | |
| 56 | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer | Washington | 959 | 312 | 976 | -1.7% | South | |
| 57 | Husch Blackwell | St. Louis | 939 | 401 | 861 | 9.1% | Midwest | |
| 58 | Alston & Bird | Atlanta | 935 | 401 | 901 | 3.8% | South | |
| 59 | Fox Rothschild | New York | 934 | 342 | 917 | 1.8% | Northeast | |
| 60 | Winston & Strawn | Chicago | 932 | 346 | 888 | 4.9% | Midwest | |
| 61 | Debevoise & Plimpton | New York | 932 | 151 | 898 | 3.8% | Northeast | |
| 62 | McGuireWoods | Richmond | 922 | 405 | 923 | -0.1% | South | |
| 63 | Seyfarth Shaw | Chicago | 894 | 446 | 911 | -1.9% | Midwest | |
| 64 | Akin | New York | 893 | 320 | 893 | 0.0% | Northeast | |
| 65 | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 879 | 178 | 840 | 4.6% | Northeast | |
| 66 | Dechert | New York | 872 | 304 | 957 | -8.9% | Northeast | |
| 67 | Taft Stettinius & Hollister | Indianapolis | 824 | 470 | 782 | 5.4% | Midwest | |
| 68 | Venable | Washington | 788 | 410 | 779 | 1.2% | South | |
| 69 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy | New York | 783 | 144 | 778 | 0.7% | Northeast | |
| 70 | Cozen O'Connor | Philadelphia | 782 | 407 | 750 | 4.3% | Northeast | |
| 71 | Proskauer Rose | New York | 771 | 235 | 788 | -2.2% | Northeast | |
| 72 | Barnes & Thornburg | Indianapolis | 770 | 481 | 740 | 4.0% | Midwest | |
| 73 | O'Melveny & Myers | Los Angeles | 761 | 227 | 751 | 1.3% | West | |
| 74 | Duane Morris | Philadelphia | 746 | 387 | 736 | 1.3% | Northeast | |
| 75 | Hunton Andrews Kurth | Richmond | 739 | 292 | 753 | -1.9% | South | |
| 76 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | New York | 718 | 184 | 688 | 4.3% | Northeast | |
| 77 | Vinson & Elkins | Houston | 681 | 194 | 700 | -2.7% | South | |
| 78 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | Chicago | 663 | 324 | 682 | -2.8% | Midwest | |
| 79 | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings | Birmingham | 663 | 361 | 615 | 7.8% | South | |
| 80 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz | Nashville | 661 | 317 | 638 | 3.6% | South | |
| 81 | Blank Rome | New York | 659 | 355 | 603 | 9.3% | Northeast | |
| 82 | Dinsmore & Shohl | Cincinnati | 657 | 335 | 631 | 4.2% | Midwest | |
| 83 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | Washington | 651 | 276 | 637 | 2.2% | South | |
| 84 | Clark Hill | Chicago | 642 | 313 | 641 | 0.1% | Midwest | |
| 85 | Baker Botts | Houston | 630 | 249 | 625 | 0.8% | South | |
| 86 | Haynes and Boone | Dallas | 625 | 290 | 600 | 4.1% | South | |
| 87 | Nixon Peabody | Boston | 610 | 282 | 576 | 5.9% | Northeast | |
| 88 | Akerman | New York | 606 | 379 | 617 | -1.8% | Northeast | |
| 89 | Davis Wright Tremaine | Seattle | 603 | 279 | 591 | 2.1% | West | |
| 90 | Crowell & Moring | Washington | 599 | 247 | 608 | -1.4% | South | |
| 91 | Cole, Scott & Kissane | Miami | 597 | 270 | 596 | 0.2% | South | |
| 92 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | Atlanta | 590 | 253 | 570 | 3.5% | South | |
| 93 | ArentFox Schiff | Washington | 575 | 318 | 580 | -0.9% | South | |
| 94 | Fisher & Phillips | Irvine | 568 | 283 | 511 | 11.2% | West | |
| 95 | Maynard Nexsen | Birmingham | 562 | 310 | N/A | N/A | South | |
| 96 | Locke Lord | Houston | 553 | 225 | 556 | -0.6% | South | |
| 97 | Ballard Spahr | Philadelphia | 550 | 220 | 574 | -4.2% | Northeast | |
| 98 | Buchalter | Los Angeles | 549 | 201 | 474 | 15.8% | West | |
| 99 | Frost Brown Todd | Louisville | 548 | 338 | 521 | 5.1% | South | |
| 100 | Dorsey & Whitney | Minneapolis | 547 | 299 | 525 | 4.2% | Midwest | |