List of largest United States–based law firms by head count explained

This article lists the largest law firms in the United States by total number of attorneys. The table is also sortable by total number of partners, associates, and total revenue.^[1]

data-sort-type="number"	Rank	Firm name	Largest U.S. Office^[2]	Total number of lawyers (2022)	Number of associates (2022)	Number of partners (2018)	Total revenue (millions, in 2018)^[3]	Notes
1	Baker McKenzie	Chicago	4795	2865	1518	$2,900
2	DLA Piper	New York City	4028	2492	1317	$2,634
3	Norton Rose Fulbright	New York City	3084	1928	1087	$1,958
4	Latham & Watkins	New York City	3078	2004	821	$3,063
5	Kirkland & Ellis	Chicago	3025	1772	1158	$3,165
6	Hogan Lovells	Washington, D.C.	2532	1757	793	$2,036
7	White & Case	New York City	2464	1589	587	$1,804
8	Jones Day	Washington, D.C.	2406	1245	843	$1,959
9	Greenberg Traurig	New York City	2209	841	1087	$1,477
10	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	Washington, D.C.	1992	1051	788	$2,001
11	Sidley Austin	New York City	1893	1048	648	$2,036
12	Mayer Brown	Chicago	1748	900	657	$1,313
13	K&L Gates	Seattle	1698	855	757	$969
14	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom	New York City	1644	1078	320	$2,582
15	Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith	Los Angeles	1613	678	895	$470
16	Reed Smith	New York City	1673	758	678	$1,119
17	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher	New York City	1538	990	412	$1,642
18	Squire Patton Boggs	Washington, D.C.	1438	739	480	1,000
19	Holland & Knight	Dallas	1393	505	640	$846
20	Ropes & Gray	Boston	1372	986	265	$1,592
21	Goodwin Procter	Boston	1315	737	417
22	Cooley LLP	Palo Alto, California	1267	808	328
23	King & Spalding	Atlanta	1261	565	488	$1,138
24	Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner	St. Louis	1252	556	528	$592
25	Covington & Burling	Washington, D.C.	1217	708	322	$945
26	Weil, Gotshal & Manges	New York City	1180	749	263	$1,390
27	McDermott Will & Emery	Chicago	1177	459	607	$925
28	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	New York City	1163	750	228
29	Perkins Coie	Seattle	1124	507	515
30	Troutman Pepper	Atlanta	1121	479	479
31	Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath	Minneapolis	1093	392	552
32	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	New York City	1051	654	165	$1,214
33	Davis Polk & Wardwell	New York City	1025	735	161	$1,240
34	Foley & Lardner	Milwaukee	1021	434	468
35	Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison	New York City	1008	686	168	$1,301
36	Morrison & Foerster	San Francisco	996	550	298
37	Littler Mendelson	Miami	986	360	472	$538

See also

• List of largest law firms by revenue
• List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner
• List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue
• List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue
• List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue
• List of largest Japan-based law firms by head count
• List of largest China-based law firms by revenue

Notes and References

1. Web site: Zaretsky . Staci . 2022-06-21 . Dueling Rankings Of The Biggest Biglaw Firms In The Country (2022) - Above the LawAbove the Law . 2023-01-16 . en-US.
2. https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/06/21/the-nlj-500-ranked-by-head-count/
3. Web site: The Global 200, Ranked by Revenue. 30 August 2020.