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District Attorney Offices NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL SPECIAL REPORT MONDAY, JULY 13, 2020 NYLJ 100 Firms Ranked By Number Of Lawyers One login. Access to all your legal news. Your legal news coverage is now available all in one place. You can customize your news to follow the clients, competitors and cases that matter to you. Plus, you can enjoy on-the-go reading with the Law.com app and receive daily headlines to your inbox. Law.com brings you award-winning coverage from journalists steeped in both the practice and business of law. Get Started Now Visit at.law.com/LawNews Law.com NYLJ 100 Big Firm Offices in New York Ballooned Before 2020 Cost-Cutting Started By Christine Simmons Page 4 The Charts Index of Firms ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Rankings at a Glance ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 NYLJ 100: The Largest Firms by Number of Lawyers in New York State ��������������������������������������������������������8 Attorney Concentration by County �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Attorney General and Corporation Counsel ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 U�S� Attorney Offices �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 District Attorney Offices �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������17 EDITOR’S NOTE e present this year’s edition of listing attorney head counts for each of ratio of attorneys to general population the NYLJ 100, our annual report New York’s 62 district attorney offices, the for each county in New York. W ranking firms’ average number attorney general’s office, the New York City Production of the entire NYLJ 100 issue of full-time equivalent attorneys in New Law Department, and the state’s four U.S. requires a large amount of numbers, data York state for the period of Jan. 1 to Dec. attorney offices. All numbers are as of Dec. reporting and checking, data entry and 31, 2019. For firms with multiple locations 31, 2019 unless otherwise noted. proofreading. Special thanks this year go in the state, we combine the offices’ indi- Using data obtained from the Office of to Christine Simmons for her thorough Angela Turturro, Sections Editor vidual head counts to arrive at one total, Court Administration and the U.S. Census analysis of the charts and to Rafal Pytel, Rafał Pytel, Design statewide number of attorneys. Bureau, we also include a chart of attorney designer for the Law Journal. This special report also contains charts concentration by county, illustrated via a —Angela Turturro, Sections Editor © 2020 ALM MEDIA PROPERTIES, LLC. THE NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL ® IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF ALM MEDIA PROPERTIES, LLC. COVER: RAFAŁ PYTEL, SHUTTERSTOCK 4 | MONDAY, JULY 13, 2020 | NYLJ 100 NYLJ | NYLJ.COM 100 Big Firm Offices in New York Ballooned Before 2020 Cost-Cutting Started BY CHRISTINE SIMMONS efore the coronavirus pandemic triggered high unem- said, adding the firm anticipates about a 10% decline in Cella, Harper & Scinto. ployment, many law firms were rapidly increasing demand in the second quarter, in line with some legal Even with almost no change in the number of New York Btheir New York ranks, adding legions of lawyers industry surveys. attorneys, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison remains in the state. Looking forward, Holland & Knight expects to have flat No. 1 in the NYLJ 100, with 832 attorneys in the state. This year’s New York Law Journal 100 captures a great head count in 2020. While hiring has slowed, the firm is Kirkland & Ellis continues to climb the chart. The firm, expansion in big firm offices, right before scores of firms still making strategic hires, the firm’s leaders say. with scores of lawyers dedicated to private equity, restruc- took austerity measures. The 2019 expansion likely reflects Akerman’s chairman and CEO, Scott Meyers, said the turing and litigation, is now ranked No. 4 with 646 lawyers the highly prosperous years enjoyed by the legal industry firm’s “proactive decision” to make cost control measures in the state—a 77% growth in New York attorney head leading up to the coronavirus crisis. The growth may also “was in no way related to our growth strategy in New York, count in five years. help explain why some firms could not afford to delay which continues to be a thriving and successful office.” Looking at the legal industry as a whole in 2019, total cutting pay or laying off employees at the start of the He said the firm has had “deliberate” growth by “strategi- lawyer head count was up 1.9%, marking one of the high- 2020 recession. cally recruiting exceptional lawyers who bring the right est growth spurts since the last recession, said Gretta The NYLJ 100 tallied the average number of full-time chemistry and client experience to the firm.” Rusanow, head of advisory services within Citi Private equivalent lawyers at law firms across the state and ranked For its part, Dentons said its growth last year and its Bank’s Law Firm Group. Leverage rose 2.5% last year, the firms on their New York presence. 2020 “resiliency measures … are completely unrelated.” she said, suggesting associate ranks, in particular, are Overall, about 19 law firms on this list saw more than The firm said it undertook “proactive steps” to ensure the expanding. 10% growth in New York attorney head count in 2019—the firm’s success continues amid uncertain times. “Yet we The head count growth in 2019, Rusanow said, suggests highest seen in recent years and more than double the continue to grow through attracting and hiring top legal firms expanded based on the success of 2018. In that year, number for 2018. talent across the U.S., including in metro New York this the industry had its strongest net income and profits per The growth was seen up and down the NYLJ 100 rank- year,” the firm said. equity partner growth since 2007, Citi has reported. ings, including at some of the same firms experiencing pay cuts or layoffs in 2020. Declining Head Count Largest Government Offices For instance, two firms that laid off some staff this year, Goodwin Procter and McDermott Will & Emery, saw a Of course, firms that had a contraction in attorney ranks The New York City Law Department inched up by about 17.3% rise to 244 lawyers in New York and 10% rise to last year had also made expense cuts. For instance, Kelley 1% to 987 lawyers last year—extending its reign as the 142, respectively, in 2019. Drye & Warren, Baker & Hostetler and Barclay Damon— largest law office in the state, even above Paul Weiss. Meanwhile, Holland & Knight, Dentons, Orrick, Her- which all confirmed attorney pay cuts this year—reduced Similarly, the New York Attorney General’s Office grew rington & Sutcliffe and Akerman all saw New York office their New York office head counts last year by roughly by about 1% to 711 lawyers, which put it within the top head count grow more than 10% in 2019, before they insti- 5% each, according to ALM data. three law offices in the state by size. tuted pay cuts for attorneys and staff. Almost no firms in the NYLJ 100 saw head count reduc- Three of the four federal prosecutors’ offices in New In statements, almost all these firms said the growth tions of more than 10% in New York. One exception, Shear- York have also grown. The Southern District U.S. Attorney’s they experienced in 2019 had no bearing on more recent man & Sterling, disputed ALM’s data, noting the firm’s own Office expanded to 247 lawyers in June 2020, up 6% from cost-cutting moves, which they described as proactive full-time equivalent figures showed only a slight decrease 233 at the end of 2018. The Northern District, with 48 measures to preserve flexibility. (McDermott did not in 2019. lawyers, saw a net gain of five, while the Western District, respond to a request for comment.) Overall, the net gains in attorney head count across with 60 lawyers, gained an additional three. Meanwhile, At Holland & Knight, which saw some staff furloughs the NYLJ 100 more than made up for losses. The top 100 the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office has stayed flat at about and pay cuts this year, the firm’s New York office grew law firms employed about 23,690 lawyers in New York last 162 lawyers. 13% to 132 lawyers in 2019 after several partner hires, year, according to ALM’s data, an increase of about 3% Other prosecutors’ offices in New York City saw little many in corporate and transactional groups. from these firms’ 2018 head count figures. growth. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office shrank In a mid-June interview, managing partner Steven Son- Most of the firms with large New York gains were actu- by 2% last year to 614 prosecutors, and the Queens DA’s berg and operations and finance manager Douglas Wright ally headquartered outside the state. For instance, among office contracted 2.75% to 318. The Brooklyn DA’s office said the contributions of the people who arrived in 2019 the top 20 of the NYLJ 100—mostly a group of elite New inched up by three lawyers to 548, while the Staten Island are helping
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