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According to the April 29, 1996 National Law Journal list of 250 largest firms,
here are the ten firms with the highest percentage of Asian-Americans:
| Law firm |
Headquarters |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Davis Polk & Wardwell |
New York, NY |
447 |
12.3% |
| Graham & James |
San Francisco, CA |
419 |
12.2% |
| McCutchen Doyle Brown |
San Francisco, CA |
239 |
10.5% |
| Pennie & Edmonds |
New York, NY |
170 |
9.4% |
| Coudert Brothers |
New York, NY |
316 |
9.2% |
| Brown & Wood |
New York, NY |
270 |
7.8% |
| Perkins Coie |
Seattle, WA |
325 |
7.7% |
| Davis Wright & Tremaine |
Seattle, WA |
254 |
7.5% |
| Wilson Sonsini Goodrich |
San Jose, CA |
307 |
7.2% |
| Lewis D'Amato Brisbois |
Los Angeles, CA |
176 |
6.8% |
According to the same source, here are the largest law firms in the country with the
fewest Asian-American attorneys, i.e. Asian-Americans comprise fewer than 1.35% of
their attorneys. On average, 2.7% of the attorneys at the 250 largest law firms were
Asian-American.
| Law firm |
Headquarters |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| McDermott Will & Emery |
Chicago, IL |
587 |
1.0% |
| Vinson & Elkins |
Houston, TX |
539 |
0.4% |
| Hunton & Williams |
Richmond, VA |
503 |
0.8% |
| Baker & Hostetler |
Cleveland, OH |
453 |
0.9% |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart |
Pittsburgh, PA |
409 |
0.7% |
| McGuire Woods Battle |
Richmond, VA |
392 |
0.8% |
| Jenner & Block |
Chicago, IL |
385 |
0.5% |
| Holland & Knight |
Florida |
369 |
0.0% |
| Reed Smith Shaw |
Pittsburgh, PA |
357 |
0.6% |
| Dechert Price |
Philadelphia, PA |
355 |
1.1% |
| Squire Sanders & Dempsey |
Ohio |
348 |
1.1% |
| Hinshaw & Culbertson |
Chicago, IL |
339 |
0.6% |
| Thompson Hine & Flory |
Cleveland, OH |
334 |
0.9% |
| Lord Bissell & Brook |
Chicago, IL |
309 |
0.3% |
| Alston & Bird |
Atlanta, GA |
308 |
0.0% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Shaw Pittman |
Washington, D.C. |
289 |
0.7% |
| Quarles & Brady |
Milwaukee, WI |
283 |
0.7% |
| Vorys Sater Seymour |
Columbus, OH |
282 |
0.0% |
| Pepper Hamilton |
Philadelphia, PA |
272 |
0.7% |
| Ballard Spahr Andrews |
Philadelphia, PA |
271 |
1.1% |
| Hale & Dorr |
Boston, MA |
269 |
0.4% |
| Venable Baetjer & Howard |
Baltimore, MD |
257 |
0.4% |
| Nixon Hargrave Devans |
Rochester, NY |
252 |
0.4% |
| Buchanan Ingersoll |
Pittsburgh, PA |
246 |
0.8% |
| Shook Hardy & Bacon |
Kansas City, MO |
245 |
0.0% |
| Steptoe & Johnson |
Washington, D.C. |
243 |
1.2% |
| Epstein Becker & Green |
New York, NY |
241 |
1.2% |
| Stoel Rives |
Portland, OR |
240 |
0.8% |
| Dickinson Wright Moon |
Detroit, MI |
239 |
0.8% |
| Gardere & Wynne |
Dallas, TX |
238 |
0.8% |
| Greenberg Traurig |
Miami, FL |
237 |
0.8% |
| Dykema Gossett |
Detroit, MI |
235 |
0.0% |
| Snell & Wilmer |
Phoenix, AZ |
235 |
1.3% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Duane Morris |
Philadelphia, PA |
231 |
0.0% |
| Miller Canfield Paddock |
Detroit, MI |
230 |
0.0% |
| Porter Wright Morris |
Columbus, OH |
226 |
0.4% |
| Day Berry & Howard |
Hartford, CT |
226 |
1.3% |
| Powell Goldstein Frazer |
Atlanta, GA |
224 |
1.3% |
| Cozen and O’Connor |
Philadelphia, PA |
223 |
0.4% |
| Jackson Lewis Schnitzler |
New York, NY |
223 |
1.3% |
| Blank Rome Comisky |
Philadelphia, PA |
222 |
0.9% |
| Eckert Seamans Cherin |
Pittsburgh, PA |
217 |
0.5% |
| Nelson Mullins |
Columbia, SC |
216 |
0.9% |
| Baker Donelson Bearman |
Memphis, TN |
215 |
0.0% |
| Wyatt Tarrant & Combs |
Louisville, KY |
214 |
0.5% |
| Kilpatrick & Cody |
Atlanta, GA |
213 |
0.9% |
| Bingham Dana & Gould |
Boston, MA |
204 |
0.5% |
| Mintz Levin Cohn |
Boston, MA |
202 |
0.5% |
| Kutak Rock |
Omaha, NE |
201 |
0.5% |
| Drinker Biddle & Reath |
Philadelphia, PA |
200 |
0.0% |
| Schnader Harrison |
Philadelphia, PA |
200 |
0.0% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Chapman & Cutler |
Chicago, IL |
199 |
1.0% |
| Locke Purnell Rain Harrell |
Dallas, TX |
199 |
1.0% |
| Ross & Hardies |
Chicago, IL |
198 |
1.0% |
| Marshall Dennehy Warner |
Philadelphia, PA |
198 |
0.5% |
| Morrison Mahoney & Miller |
Boston, MA |
197 |
0.0% |
| Phelps Dunbar |
New Orleans, LA |
193 |
0.5% |
| Strasburger & Price |
Dallas, TX |
192 |
0.5% |
| Thompson & Mitchell |
St. Louis, MO |
188 |
0.5% |
| Dinsmore & Shohl |
Cincinnati, OH |
185 |
1.1% |
| Bell Boyd & Lloyd |
Chicago, IL |
180 |
1.1% |
| Mendes & Mount |
New York, NY |
180 |
0.0% |
| Holme Roberts & Owen |
Denver, CO |
179 |
1.1% |
| Ice Miller Donaldo |
Indianapolis, IN |
179 |
0.6% |
| Miles & Stockbridge |
Baltimore, MD |
176 |
0.6% |
| Barnes & Thornburg |
Indianapolis, IN |
176 |
0.0% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Winstead Secrest & Minick |
Dallas, TX |
173 |
0.6% |
| Womble Carlyle |
Winston-Salem, NC |
171 |
0.6% |
| Wolf Block Schorr |
Philadelphia, PA |
170 |
1.2% |
| Blackwell Sanders |
Kansas City, MO |
170 |
0.0% |
| Rivkin Radler & Kremer |
Uniondale, NY |
169 |
0.6% |
| Jackson & Walker |
Dallas, TX |
169 |
0.0% |
| Manatt Phelps & Phillips |
Los Angeles, CA |
166 |
1.2% |
| Harris Beach & Wilcox |
Rochester, NY |
166 |
0.0% |
| Frost & Jacobs |
Cincinnati, OH |
166 |
0.6% |
| Hopkins & Sutter |
Chicago, IL |
165 |
1.2% |
| Palmer & Dodge |
Boston, MA |
165 |
0.6% |
| White & Williams |
Philadelphia, PA |
163 |
0.6% |
| Choate Hall & Stewart |
Boston, MA |
163 |
0.0% |
| Steel Hector & Davis |
Miami, FL |
158 |
1.3% |
| Liddell Sapp Livley Hill |
Houston, TX |
157 |
0.6% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Edwards & Angell |
Providence, RI |
156 |
1.3% |
| Pitney Hardin Kipp |
Morristown, NJ |
155 |
1.3% |
| Bond Schoeneck & King |
Syracuse, NY |
152 |
0.7% |
| Riker Danzig Scherer |
Morristown, NJ |
150 |
1.3% |
| Taft Stettinius & Hollister |
Cincinnati, OH |
150 |
1.3% |
| Jacoby & Myers |
New York, NY |
150 |
0.0% |
| Robinson & Cole |
Hartford, CT |
150 |
0.0% |
| Calfee Halter & Griswold |
Cleveland, OH |
148 |
0.7% |
| Montgomery McCracken |
Philadelphia, PA |
147 |
0.7% |
| Smith Helms Mulliss |
NC |
146 |
0.0% |
| McGlinchey Stafford Lang |
New Orleans, LA |
144 |
0.0% |
| Hodgson Russ Andrews |
Buffalo, NY |
142 |
0.0% |
| Jackson & Kelly |
Charleston, W.Va. |
140 |
0.0% |
| Butzel Long |
Detroit, MI |
139 |
0.7% |
| Ruden McClosky Smith |
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
138 |
0.0% |
| Law firm |
Location |
# attys |
% Asian Am |
| Benesch Friedlander |
Cleveland, OH |
136 |
0.0% |
| Clausen Miller |
Chicago, IL |
136 |
0.0% |
| Sills Cummis Zuckerman |
Newark, NJ |
135 |
0.7% |
| Adams and Reese |
New Orleans, LA |
134 |
0.7% |
| Lewis Rice & Fingersh |
St. Louis, MO |
134 |
0.0% |
| Post &Schell |
Philadelphia, PA |
133 |
0.0% |
| Warner Norcross & Judd |
Grand Rapids, MI |
133 |
0.0% |
| Lowenstein Sandler Kohl |
Roseland, NJ |
131 |
0.8% |
| Phillips Lytle Hitchcock |
Buffalo, NY |
130 |
0.0% |
| Briggs & Morgan |
Minneapolis, MN |
128 |
0.8% |
| Morrison & Hecker |
Kansas City, MO |
127 |
0.0% |
| Stites & Harbison |
Louisville, KY |
125 |
0.0% |
| Ober Kaler Grimes |
Baltimore, MD |
120 |
0.8% |
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