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Table 2.III

 
 

Top 25 Law Firms
(ranked by number of area lawyers)
New York City 2006

 
    Company Name Number of NY Area Lawyers Total Number of Employees in NY area Nationwide Average Salary  
  1 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 737 1,886 $140,000  
  2 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 634 1,390 $125,000  
  3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 634 1,333 $125,000  
  4 Weil Gotshal & Manges 604 1,374 $125,000  
  5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 537 1,325 $125,000  
  6 Debevoise and Plimpton 503 1,182 $125,000  
  7 Proskauer Rose 484 1,056 $125,000  
  8 Cravath Swaine and Moore 476 1,456 $125,000  
  9 Sidley Austin Brown and Wood 459 832 N/A  
  10 Sullivan and Cromwell 458 1,351 $125,000  
  11 Schulte Roth and Zabel 440 859 $125,000  
  12 Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton 435 1,135 $125,000  
  13 White and Case 434 1,017 $125,000  
  14 Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft 415 924 $125,000  
  15 Willkie Farr and Gallagher 398 929 $125,000  
16 Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman and Dicker 395 902 N/A  
17 Fried Frank Harris Sriver and Jacobson 381 965 $125,000  
18 Kaye Scholer 374 834 $125,000  
19 Shearman & Sterling 371 632 $125,000  
20 Latham and Watkins 365 670 $125,000  
21 Milbank Tweed Hadley and McCloy 329 678 $125,000  
22 Greenberg Traurig 328 660 N/A  
23 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 317 719 N/A  
24 Jones Day 308 616 N/A  
25 Clifford Chance U.S. 303 646 N/A  
Source:
1. Crain's New York Business: Book of Lists 2007
2. Internet Legal Research Group: America's Largest 250 Law Firms ( for salaries )

 

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