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While lateral recruitment slowed in 2023 due to a slowdown in demand for legal services, America’s largest law firms had no plans to slim down. The biggest of Biglaw firms are still employing thousands and thousands of attorneys — and they continue to grow in size, even during the recession that never was.
Which U.S. Biglaw firm is the biggest of them all? Law360 can help us answer that question. Today, the website released its master list of the top 400 U.S.-based law firms by headcount, revealing that Kirkland maintained its stranglehold on the No. 1 spot, with over 400 more domestic attorneys than the firm in second place on the ranking.
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Compared to last year’s ranking, the largest law firms in the U.S. grew by an average of 2.2%, with growth skewed toward the top 200 largest firms (up by 2.6%) over the next 200 largest firms (up by 1.4%).
Here’s a list of the Top 10 largest law firms in the country by headcount:
- Kirkland: 3,043 U.S. attorneys
- Latham: 2,614 U.S. attorneys
- Greenberg Traurig: 2,155 U.S. attorneys
- Holland & Knight: 2,035 U.S. attorneys
- Sidley: 1,798 U.S. attorneys
- DLA Piper: 1,696 U.S. attorneys
- Morgan Lewis: 1,688 U.S. attorneys
- Jones Day: 1,647 U.S. attorneys
- Gibson Dunn: 1,629 U.S. attorneys
- Goodwin: 1,598 U.S. attorneys
Click here to see the full list of the 400 largest law firms in the country.
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To the top 10, congratulations on keeping your Biglaw firms bigger than all the rest. For every other firm, keep growing and someday you’ll be a Biglaw behemoth too.
The Law360 400: Tracking The Largest US Law Firms [Law360]
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.