Top 100 Law Firms Worldwide

Top 100 Law Firms Worldwide Searching for your first job or for an internship requires plenty of research. There are lots of ways to distinguish law firms from each other, and each method needs a little analysis just like when considering law school rankings.

One way is to look at the top 100 law firms in the world ranked by their annual revenues. The top law firms in the world offer a wide variety of opportunities to new recruits, including specialised experience, an exciting career path, excellent remuneration packages and the prestige of working for a well-respected business.

Here we list the top 100 law firms according to revenue in recent figures*.

Ranking	Law Firm	Revenue	Location
1	Baker & McKenzie	$2,104.0m	US
2	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom	$2,100.0m	US
3	Clifford Chance	$1,874.5m	UK
4	Linklaters	$1,852.5m	UK
5	Latham & Watkins	$1,821.0m	US
6	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	$1,787.0m	UK
7	Allen & Overy	$1,644.5m	UK
8	Jones Day	$1,520.0m	US
9	Kirkland & Ellis	$1,428.0m	US
10	Sidley Austin	$1,357.0m	US
11	White & Case	$1,307.0m	US
12	Weil Gotshal	$1,233.0m	US
13	Greenberg Trauring	$1,173.0m	US
14	Mayer Brown	$1,118.0m	US
15	Morgan, Lewis & Bockius	$1,068.5m	US
16	K&L Gates	$1,034.5m	US
17	DLA Piper USA	$1,014.5m	US
18	Gibson Dunn	$995.0m	US
19	Sullivan & Cromwell	$995.0m	US
20	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	$965.0m	US
21	Reed Smith	$942.0m	US
22	WilmerHale	$941.0m	US
23	Dewey & LeBoeuf	$941.0m	US
24	DLA Piper International	$910.0m	UK
25	Paul Hastings	$889.0m	US
26	Morrison & Foerster	$884.0m	US
27	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	$870.5m	US
28	Hogan Lovells	$864.5m	US
29	Bingham McCutchen	$860.0m	US
30	Lovells	$849.0m	UK
31	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe	$847.5m	US
32	Davis Polk & Wardwell	$846.0m	US
33	McDermott Will & Emery	$829.0m	US
34	O’Melveny & Myers	$826.5m	US
35	Shearman & Sterling	$801.0m	US
36	Ropes & Gray	$789.5m	US
37	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld	$719.0m	US
38	Dechert	$713.0m	US
39	Winston & Strawn	$705.0m	US
40	Herbert Smith	$704.5m	UK
41	King & Spalding	$677.5m	US
42	Debevoise & Plimpton	$668.0m	US
43	Foley & Lardner	$667.0m	US
44	Paul Weiss	$665.5m	US
45	Goodwin Procter	$658.0m	US
46	Proskauer Rose	$643.0m	US
47	Fulbright & Jaworski	$642.5m	US
48	Slaughter & May	$628.5m	UK
49	Hunton & Williams	$615.0m	US
50	Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy	$601.5m	US
51	Wachtell	$585.0m	US
52	Covington & Burling	$583.0m	US
53	Baker Botts	$575.0m	US
54	Cravath, Swaine & Moore	$568.5m	US
55	Vinson & Elkins	$562.0m	US
56	Eversheds	$556.5m	UK
57	Bryan Cave HRO	$555.0m	US
58	Alston & Bird	**	US
59	Willkie Farr & Gallagher	$549.5m	US
60	Holland & Knight	$545.5m	US
61	Squire Sanders	$545.0m	US
62	Pilsbury Winthrop	$533.5m	US
63	Arnold & Porter	$524.0m	US
64	McGuireWoods	$509.0m	US
65	Cooley LLP	$507.0m	US
66	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	$501.0m	US
67	Norton Rose Fulbright	$481.0m	UK
68	Howrey	$480.0m	US
69	Sonneschein Nath & Rosemthal	$472.5m	US
70	Garrigues	$466.0m	Spain
71	Nixon Peabody	$465.0m	US
72	Ashurst LLP	$459.0m	UK
73	Cadwalader	$456.5m	US
74	Seyfarth Shaw	$453.5m	US
75	Perkins Coie	*	US
76	Kaye Scholer	$432.0m	US
77	Fried Frank	$424.5m	US
78	Katten Muchin	$420.5m	US
79	Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan	$419.0m	US
80	Fish & Richardson	$417.0m	US
81	Fidal	$411.0m	France
82	Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell	$399.0m	US
83	Minter Elison	$398.5m	Australia
84	McCarthy Tetrault	$397.0m	Canada
85	Schulte Roth	$397.0m	US
86	Loyens & Loeff	$396.0m	Netherlands
87	Mallesons Stephen Jaques	$392.0m	Australia
88	Simmons & Simmons	$391.5m	UK
89	Duane Morris	$387.5m	US
90	Allens	$380.8m	Australia
91	Freehills	$378.0m	Australia
92	Troutman Sanders	$376.5m	US
93	Drinker Biddle & Reath	$373.5m	US
94	Littler Mendelson	$370.5m	US
95	Jenner & Block	$367.5m	US
96	Sheppard Mullin	$361.0m	US
97	Clayton Utz	$351.0m	Australia
98	Venable	$349.5m	US
99	Finnegan Henderson	$349.0m	US
100	Dorsey & Whitney	$342.0m	US