List of US law firms by profits per partner
This is a list of American law firms by profits per partner (PPP) in 2018.[1]
| Rank by PPP | FIRM | 2018 PPP | Equity partners | Profit margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | $5,700,000 | 81 | 61% |
| 2 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | $4,735,000 | 170 | 65% |
| 3 | Kirkland & Ellis | $4,701,000 | 388 | 58% |
| 4 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | $4,653,000 | 144 | 50% |
| 5 | Sullivan & Cromwell | $4,271,000 | 164 | 50% |
| 6 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore | $4,002,000 | 83 | 47% |
| 7 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | $3,700,000 | 158 | 47% |
| 8 | Cahill Gordon & Reindel | $3,693,000 | 62 | 59% |
| 9 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | $3,683,000 | 187 | 50% |
| 10 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges | $3,639,000 | 166 | 43% |
| 11 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | $3,471,000 | 361 | 49% |
| 12 | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy | $3,460,000 | 145 | 55% |
| 13 | Boies, Schiller & Flexner | $3,273,000 | 55 | 44% |
| 14 | Latham & Watkins | $3,246,000 | 477 | 51% |
| 15 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | $3,240,000 | 313 | 62% |
| 16 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | $3,007,000 | 188 | 48% |
| 17 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | $2,969,000 | 145 | 56% |
| 18 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | $2,942,000 | 109 | 50% |
| 19 | Paul Hastings | $2,905,000 | 190 | 49% |
| 20 | Debevoise & Plimpton | $2,827,000 | 138 | 47% |
| 21 | Dechert | $2,683,000 | 161 | 44% |
| 22 | King & Spalding | $2,605,000 | 194 | 44% |
| 23 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | $2,559,000 | 82 | 49% |
| 24 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | $2,510,000 | 40 | 25% |
| 25 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | $2,386,000 | 195 | 45% |
| 26 | Proskauer Rose | $2,366,000 | 173 | 46% |
| 27 | Vinson & Elkins | $2,361,000 | 139 | 45% |
| 28 | Shearman & Sterling | $2,316,000 | 142 | 36% |
| 29 | Ropes & Gray | $2,315,000 | 259 | 38% |
| 30 | Sidley Austin | $2,260,000 | 343 | 38% |
| 30 | White & Case | $2,260,000 | 319 | 40% |
| 32 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | $2,211,000 | 127 | 35% |
| 33 | Winston & Strawn | $2,158,000 | 140 | 31% |
| 34 | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel | $2,152,000 | 71 | 39% |
| 35 | Goodwin Procter | $2,151,000 | 212 | 44% |
| 36 | WilmerHale | $2,116,000 | 257 | 48% |
| 37 | Cooley | $2,084,000 | 208 | 40% |
| 38 | O'Melveny & Myers | $2,008,000 | 167 | 45% |
| 39 | Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy | $1,977,000 | 63 | 22% |
| 40 | Alston & Bird | $1,926,000 | 153 | 38% |
| 41 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | $1,863,000 | 118 | 23% |
| 42 | Baker Botts | $1,838,000 | 179 | 45% |
| 43 | DLA Piper (verein) | $1,757,000 | 404 | 27% |
| 44 | Morrison & Foerster | $1,736,000 | 224 | 37% |
| 45 | McDermott Will & Emery | $1,713,000 | 173 | 32% |
| 46 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton | $1,710,000 | 130 | 33% |
| 47 | Greenberg Traurig | $1,634,000 | 298 | 33% |
| 48 | Fish & Richardson | $1,630,000 | 101 | 40% |
| 49 | Williams & Connolly | $1,629,000 | 113 | 43% |
| 50 | Mayer Brown | $1,575,000 | 292 | 35% |
| 51 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | $1,570,000 | 142 | 39% |
| 52 | Covington & Burling | $1,543,000 | 272 | 44% |
| 53 | Fenwick & West | $1,513,000 | 84 | 34% |
| 54 | Jenner & Block | $1,417,000 | 111 | 35% |
| 55 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | $1,368,000 | 717 | 49% |
| 56 | Holland & Knight | $1,360,000 | 179 | 29% |
| 57 | Baker & McKenzie (verein) | $1,300,000 | 701 | 34% |
| 58 | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo | $1,294,000 | 69 | 22% |
| 59 | Hogan Lovells (verein) | $1,283,000 | 556 | 35% |
| 60 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | $1,275,000 | 132 | 29% |
| 61 | Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer | $1,191,000 | 322 | 40% |
| 62 | Reed Smith | $1,178,000 | 298 | 31% |
| 63 | Perkins Coie | $1,173,000 | 178 | 21% |
| 64 | Foley & Lardner | $1,167,000 | 145 | 25% |
| 65 | Venable | $1,134,000 | 162 | 34% |
| 66 | Crowell & Moring | $1,117,000 | 97 | 26% |
| 67 | Nixon Peabody | $1,111,000 | 133 | 31% |
| 68 | Hunton Andrews Kurth | $1,095,000 | 154 | 30% |
| 69 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | $1,094,000 | 145 | 39% |
| 70 | Troutman Sanders | $1,058,000 | 179 | 37% |
| 71 | McGuireWoods | $1,002,000 | 184 | 26% |
| 72 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | $1,011,000 | 110 | 26% |
| 73 | Jones Day | $1,009,000 | 947 | 49% |
| 74 | Baker & Hostetler | $1,000,000 | 136 | 21% |
| 75 | Seyfarth Shaw | $991,000 | 203 | 32% |
| 76 | Squire Sanders (verein) | $987,000 | 169 | 17% |
| 77 | Steptoe & Johnson | $976,000 | 117 | 31% |
| 78 | Duane Morris | $964,000 | 122 | 25% |
| 79 | Haynes and Boone | $957,000 | 133 | 32% |
| 80 | Locke Lord | $936,000 | 175 | 33% |
| 81 | K&L Gates | $932,000 | 178 | 17% |
| 82 | Shook, Hardy & Bacon | $931,000 | 127 | 34% |
| 83 | Drinker Biddle & Reath | $926,000 | 195 | 39% |
| 84 | Blank Rome | $916,000 | 145 | 31% |
| 85 | Barnes & Thornburg | $905,000 | 233 | 53% |
| 86 | Faegre Baker Daniels | $880,000 | 227 | 41% |
| 87 | Norton Rose Fulbright | $860,000 | 714 | 31% |
| 88 | Cozen O’Connor | $807,000 | 178 | 35% |
| 89 | Bryan Cave | $804,000 | 204 | 28% |
| 90 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith | $800,000 | 114 | 19% |
| 91 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart | $723,000 | 181 | 28% |
| 92 | Davis Wright Tremaine | $716,000 | 170 | 34% |
| 93 | Polsinelli | $701,000 | 128 | 19% |
| 94 | Fox Rothschild | $675,000 | 191 | 28% |
| 95 | Akerman | $672,000 | 210 | 37% |
| 96 | Ballard Spahr | $638,000 | 219 | 40% |
| 97 | Husch Blackwell | $574,000 | 169 | 28% |
| 98 | Jackson Lewis | $573,000 | 244 | 33% |
| 99 | Baker Donelson | $524,000 | 231 | 31% |
| 100 | Littler Mendelson | $461,000 | 386 | 33% |
See also
List of largest law firms by revenue (2015)- List of largest United States-based law firms
List of largest Chinese law firms (2015)
List of largest Japanese law firms (2013)
List of largest UK law firms (2015)
References
^ American Lawyer Magazine, AmLaw 100 2018 https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2018/04/24/the-2018-am-law-100-ranked-by-profits-per-equity-partner
