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| Firm name | Date founded | Total fee-earners | % change on previous year | Total partners | English qualified lawyers in office | Other qualified lawyers in office | Partner promotions in latest round | (as % of total London partners) | Change in London lawyer headcount 10-15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White & Case | 1971 | 420 | 19% | 89 | 314 | 106 | 8 | 9% | 26% |
| Dentons | 1788 | 366 | n/a | 121 | 340 | 26 | 1 | 1% | n/a |
| Baker & McKenzie | 1961 | 391 | -2% | 87 | 381 | 10 | 3 | 3% | 7% |
| Reed Smith | 2001 | 351 | -6% | 115 | 341 | 10 | 6 | 5% | 22% |
| King & Wood Mallesons | 1982 | 346 | n/a | 91 | 312 | 34 | 3 | 3% | n/a |
| Latham & Watkins | 1990 | 310 | 5% | 67 | 196 | 114 | 4 | 6% | 61% |
| Mayer Brown | 1974 | 253 | 1% | 87 | 239 | 14 | 2 | 2% | -17% |
| Jones Day | 1986 | 222 | 2% | 62 | 209 | 13 | 2 | 3% | 25% |
| Shearman & Sterling | 1972 | 192 | 16% | 42 | 120 | 72 | 5 | 12% | 76% |
| Kirkland & Ellis | 1994 | 174 | 17% | 62 | 143 | 31 | 8 | 13% | 96% |
| Squire Patton Boggs | 1991 | 166 | n/a | 61 | 157 | 9 | 7 | 11% | n/a |
| Weil, Gotshal & Manges | 1996 | 160 | 0% | 31 | 150 | 10 | 3 | 10% | 38% |
| Ropes & Gray | 2009 | 133 | 37% | 32 | 79 | 54 | 2 | 6% | n/a |
| K&L Gates | 2005 | 129 | 0% | 48 | 123 | 6 | 3 | 6% | 1% |
| Dechert | 1972 | 127 | -9% | 39 | 107 | 20 | 1 | 3% | 41% |
| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | 1988 | 125 | 0% | 27 | 102 | 23 | 1 | 4% | 5% |
| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 1971 | 117 | -3% | 23 | 96 | 21 | 0 | 0% | 26% |
| Debevoise & Plimpton | 1989 | 110 | 7% | 17 | 92 | 18 | 2 | 12% | 20% |
| Sidley Austin | 1974 | 108 | -6% | 35 | 99 | 9 | 1 | 3% | -3% |
| Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy | 1979 | 106 | 8% | 23 | 78 | 28 | 1 | 4% | 147% |
| Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 1978 | 106 | 14% | 19 | 67 | 39 | 3 | 16% | 152% |
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 1997 | 97 | 15% | 36 | 75 | 22 | 3 | 8% | 234% |
| Paul Hastings | 1997 | 91 | 42% | 27 | 73 | 18 | 1 | 4% | 102% |
| Covington & Burling | 1988 | 86 | -1% | 22 | 70 | 16 | 1 | 5% | 46% |
| Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | 1998 | 81 | 27% | 27 | 74 | 7 | 1 | 4% | 19% |
| Sullivan & Cromwell | 1972 | 77 | -1% | 21 | 38 | 39 | 0 | 0% | 8% |
| Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | 1972 | 76 | 9% | 7 | 21 | 55 | 0 | 0% | 58% |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 1979 | 69 | 30% | 22 | 56 | 13 | 0 | 0% | 50% |
| Cooley | 2015 | 66 | 20% | 24 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 0 | n/a |
| Morgan Lewis & Bockius | 1981 | 62 | -2% | 33 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 77% |
| Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | 1997 | 56 | 17% | 11 | 44 | 12 | 0 | 0% | 155% |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell | 1972 | 54 | 4% | 9 | 30 | 24 | 0 | 0% | 64% |
| King & Spalding | 2003 | 53 | 13% | 22 | 46 | 7 | 1 | 5% | 130% |
| Proskauer Rose | 2007 | 51 | 26% | 18 | 42 | 9 | 1 | 6% | n/a |
| Brown Rudnick | 1997 | 50 | -2% | 25 | 50 | 0 | 2 | 8% | 92% |
| Greenberg Traurig Maher | 2009 | 48 | 2% | 20 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 5% | 30% |
| Morrison & Foerster | 1980 | 46 | 2% | 14 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 7% | -13% |
| Arnold & Porter | 1997 | 44 | 5% | 16 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 24% |
| Vinson & Elkins | 1971 | 43 | 0% | 13 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 39% |
| Cravath, Swaine & Moore | 1985 | 43 | 13% | 5 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0% | 95% |
| Bryan Cave | 1982 | 42 | 11% | 16 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 0% | 31% |
| McDermott Will & Emery | 1998 | 41 | 0% | 20 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 0% | -27% |
| McGuire Woods | 2009 | 37 | -8% | 16 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 6% | -20% |
| Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | 1970 | 36 | 9% | 12 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 0% | -5% |
| Locke Lord | 2012 | 34 | 6% | 11 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 0% | n/a |
| Baker Botts | 1998 | 34 | 0% | 12 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0% | n/a |
| Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | 2008 | 32 | 7% | 14 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 7% | n/a |
| Gide Loyrette Nouel | 2003 | 32 | -16% | 8 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0% | -22% |
| Goodwin Procter | 2008 | 31 | n/a | 11 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 9% | n/a |
| O’Melveny & Myers | 1986 | 29 | 4% | 7 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0% | 16 |
