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According to the Diversity Scorecard 2009 published by the American Lawyer, here are the largest law firms in the country, listed by state, and the number of Asian-American attorneys they employ.  

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Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Holland & Knight

National

1145

6/25

2.71

Seyfarth Shaw 

National

749

8/24

4.27

Boies, Schiller

National

238

2/9

4.62

Nixon Peabody   

National

712

6/27

4.63

Greenberg Traurig

National

1734

21/63

4.84

Littler Mendelson

National

741

6/30

4.86

Jackson Lewis

National

507

7/19

5.13

Wilson Elser  

National

776

4/37

5.28

Squire, Sanders

National

619

8/25

5.33

Epstein Becker

National

372

3/17

5.38

Hogan & Hartson

National

934

8/44

5.57

DLA Piper

National

1478

19/77

6.50

Mayer, Brown

National

1110

8/65

6.58

McKenna Long   

National

429

6/25

7.23

Wilmer Cutler

National

1083

11/73

7.76

Akin Gump

National

888

11/59

7.88

Dewey & LeBoeuf

National

973

7/77

8.63

McDermott Will & Emery

National

1028

31/58

8.66

Morgan, Lewis   

Natonal

1355

15/109

9.15

Baker & McKenzie

National

706

15/50

9.21

Bingham McCutchen

National

923

16/71

9.43

Sidley Austin   

National 

1555

28/129 

10.10

White & Case

National

850

11/76

10.24

Orrick

National

836

18/104

14.59

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Bradley Arant

Birmingham, AL

380
(in 2010)

No info

 

Balch & Bingham

Birmingham, AL

245

0/0

0

Burr & Forman

Birmingham, AL

202

1/0

0.50

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Fennemore Craig

Phoenix, AZ

197

1/4

2.54

Snell & Wilmer   

Phoenix, AZ

438

2/12

3.20

Lewis and Roca

Phoenix, AZ

201

1/7

3.98

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Quinn Emanuel

Los Angeles, CA

432
(in 2010)

No info

 

Sheppard, Mullin  

Los Angeles, CA

524

4/20

4.58

Gordon & Rees

Los Angeles, CA

388

6/14

5.15

Best Best & Krieger

Riverside, CA

194

4/7

5.67

Loeb & Loeb

Los Angeles, CA

315

3/17

6.35

Gibson Dunn

Los Angeles, CA

830

7/47

6.51

Sedgwick

San Francisco, CA

375

3/23

6.93

Luce, Forward  

San Diego, CA

197

3/14

8.63

Pillsbury Winthrop

San Francisco, CA

747

18/47

8.70

Allen Matkins

Los Angeles, CA

244

6/16

9.02

Irell & Manella

Los Angeles, CA

238

6/16

9.24

Cooley Godward

Palo Alto, CA

723

8/63

9.820

Manatt   

Los Angeles, CA

386

11/28

10.10

Paul Hastings

Los Angeles, CA

868

10/78

10.14

O’Melveny & Myers

Los Angeles, CA

900

12/90

11.33

Latham & Watkins

Los Angeles, CA

1647

10/180

11.54

Munger, Tolles   

Los Angeles, CA

186

9/14

12.37

Lewis Brisbois

Los Angeles, CA

658

14/75

13.53

Morrison & Foerster

San Francisco, CA

945

22/120

15.03

Townsend and Townsend

San Francisco, CA

234

14/27

17.52

Wilson Sonsini

Palo Alto, CA

632

17/94

17.56

Knobbe Martens

Irvine, CA

241

14/30

18.26

Fenwick & West

Palo Alto, CA

272

8/44

19.12

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Brownstein Hyatt

Denver, CO

235

1/4

2.13

Holland & Hart

Denver, CO

439

1/11

2.73

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Day Pitney

Hartford, CT

375

3/12

4.00

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Wiley Rein

Washington, D.C.

278

2/7

3.24

Williams & Connolly   

Washington, D.C.

234

1/7

3.42

Venable   

Washington, D.C.

607

2/21

3.79

Arent Fox

Washington, DC

335

2/12

4.18

Dickstein Shapiro

Washington, D.C.

423

2/20

5.20

Dow Lohnes

Washington, DC

153

1/7

5.23

Steptoe & Johnson

Washington,.DC

424

4/19

5.42

Covington & Burling

Washington, DC

630

0/36

5.71

Arnold & Porter

Washington, DC

644

8/42

7.76

Crowell & Moring

Washington, DC

412

6/26

7.77

Howrey

Washington, DC

597

13/47

10.05

Finnegan Henderson

Washington, DC

374

6/50

14.97

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Carlton Fields

Tampa, FL

275

0/1

0.36

Shutts & Bowen

Miami, FL

202

1/0

0.50

Shumaker Loop

Tampa, FL

180

0/2

1.11

Ruden McClosky  
(filed bankruptcy)

Fort Lauderdale, FL

164

1/2

1.83

Fowler White

Tampa, FL

128

0/3

2.34

Akerman Senterfitt

Miami, FL

493

1/12

2.64

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Ford & Harrison

Atlanta, GA

192
(in 2010)

No info

 

Powell Goldstein
(merged with Bryan Cave)

Atlanta, GA

202

0/3

1.49

Fisher & Phillips

Atlanta, GA

225

2/2

1.78

Kilpatrick Stockton

Atlanta, GA

460

6/7

2.83

Ogletree Deakins

Atlanta, GA

436

3/12

3.44

Troutman Sanders

Atlanta, GA

648

5/19 

3.70

Sutherland Asbill 

Atlanta, GA

430

1/15

3.72

Morris, Manning 

Atlanta, GA

166

3/4

4.22

King & Spalding

Atlanta, GA

820

4/33

4.51

Alston & Bird

Atlanta, GA

935

8/41

5.24

Smith Gambrell

Atlanta, GA

185

1/9

5.41

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Neal Gerber

Chicago, IL

202

1/6

3.47

Vedder Price

Chicago, IL

266

2/9

4.14

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Chicago, IL

471

7/14

4.46

Wildman, Harrold

Chicago, IL

188

1/8

4.79

Schiff Hardin

Chicago, IL

395

4/16

5.06

Jenner & Block

Chicago, IL

491

3/22

5.09

Sonnenschein

Chicago, IL

676

12/26

5.62

Chapman and Cutler

Chicago, IL

225

2/11

5.78

Katten Muchin

Chicago, IL

651

9/31

6.14

Winston & Strawn    

Chicago, IL

889

11/51

6.97

Kirkland & Ellis

Chicago, IL

1385

30/99

9.31

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Ice Miller

Indianapolis, IN

262

0/3

1.15

Baker & Daniels

Indianapolis, IN

334

3/4

2.10

Barnes & Thornburg

Indianapolis, IN

446

2/11

2.91

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Wyatt Tarrant

Louisville, KY

208

0/1

0.48

Stites & Harbison

Louisville, KY

248

0/3

1.21

   

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Phelps Dunbar

New Orleans, LA

258

0/0

0

Jones Walker

New Orleans, LA

260

0/1

0.38

Adams and Reese

New Orleans, LA

248

1/3

1.61

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Miles & Stockbridge

Baltimore, MD

222

2/4

2.70

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Mintz, Levin 

Boston, MA

476

4/10

2.94

Brown Rudnick

Boston, MA

192

0/6

3.13

Edwards & Angell

Boston, MA

507

2/15

3.35

Choate Hall

Boston, MA

193

1/8

4.66

Goulston & Storrs

Boston, MA

192

0/10

5.21

Goodwin Procter

Boston, MA

829

6/55

7.36

Foley Hoag

Boston, MA

250

1/19

8.00

Ropes & Gray   

Boston, MA

1019

14/106

11.78

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Dickinson Wright

Detroit, MI

231

3/1

1.73

Honigman Miller

Detroit, MI

235

2/3

2.13

Miller Canfield

Detroit, MI

340

1/7

2.35

Warner Norcross

Grand Rapids, MI

195

0/5

2.56

Butzel Long

Detroit, MI

234

1/6

2.99

Dykema Gossett

Detroit, MI

378

3/14

4.50

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Fredrikson & Byron

Minneapolis, MN

236

4/1

2.12

Briggs and Morgan

Minneapolis, MN

178

1/3

2.25

Faegre & Benson

Minneapolis, MN

498

2/16

3.61

Dorsey & Whitney

Minneapolis, MN

609

10/25

5.75

Robins, Kaplan       

Minneapolis, MN

266

2/16

6.77

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Thompson Coburn

St. Louis, MO

354

0/0

0

Shook, Hardy

Kansas City, MO

510

3/7

1.96

Husch Blackwell

Kansas City, MO

649

2/11

2.00

Polsinelli Shughart

Kansas City, MO

306

1/6

2.29

Stinson Morrison

Kansas City, MO

347

1/7

2.31

Bryan Cave

St. Louis, MO

859

4/30

3.96

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Kutak Rock

Omaha, NE

412

2/4

1.46

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Archer & Greiner

Haddonfield, NJ

171
(in 2010)

No info

 

Lowenstein Sandler   

Roseland, NJ

276

0/8

2.90

McCarter & English

Newark, NJ

398

1/12

3.27

Gibbons

Newark, NJ

230

3/11

6.09

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Harris Beach

Rochester, NY

179

0/2

1.12

Phillips Lytle

Buffalo, NY

179

0/3

1.68

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

New York, NY

153

0/5

3.27

Herrick Feinstein

New York, NY

181

1/5

3.31

Chadbourne Park

New York, NY

302

3/13

5.30

Proskauer Rose

New York, NY

743

1/40

5.52

Cahill Gordon

New York, NY

286

1/15

5.59

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan   

New York, NY

359

1/20

5.85

Kramer Levin

New York, NY

352

3/18

5.97

Wachtell     

New York, NY

228

1/13 

6.14

Patterson Belknap

New York, NY

178

0/12

6.74

Kaye Scholer

New York, NY

488

4/31

7.17

Willkie Farr   

New York, NY

557

4/37

7.36

Kelley Drye

New York, NY

340

3/23

7.65

McKee Nelson

New York, NY

196

1/14

7.65

Cadwalader

New York, NY

542

5/38

7.93

Fried Frank

New York, NY

537

1/43

8.19

Hughes Hubbard

New York, NY

323

2/25

8.36

Cleary Gottlieb

New York, NY

566

2/47

8.66

Shearman & Sterling

New York, NY

487

6/38

9.03

Skadden Arps

New York, NY

1782

9/159

9.43

Cravath

New York, NY

522

1/49

9.58

Debevoise & Plimpton

New York, NY

570

3/53

9.824

 

Sullivan & Cromwell   

New York, NY

582

1/59

10.31

Weil Gotshal

New York, NY

1051

6/111

11.13

Simpson Thacher

New York, NY

767

4/82

11.21

Milbank

New York, NY

537

4/59

11.73

Schulte Roth

New York, NY

465

4/52

12.04

Kenyon & Kenyon

New York, NY

176

4/19

13.07

Paul Weiss

New York, NY

695

6/85

13.09

Davis Polk

New York, NY

594

7/72

13.30

Fitzpatrick Cella

New York, NY

153

2/19

13.73

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Parker Poe

Charlotte, NC

215

0/0

0

Moore & Van Allen

Charlotte, NC

314

2/1

0.96

Womble Carlyle

Winston-Salem, NC

499

3/4

1.40

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Vorys Sater

Columbus, OH

350
(in 2010)

No info

 

Taft Stettinius

Cincinnati, OH

334
(in 2010)

No info

 

Roetzel & Andress

Akron, OH

231

0/0

0

Frost Brown

Cincinnati, OH

386

0/4

1.04

Dinsmore & Shohl

Cincinnati, OH

400

2/4

1.50

Porter Wright

Columbus, OH

251

0/4

1.59

Ulmer & Berne

Cleveland, OH

172

1/3

2.33

Thompson Hine

Cleveland, OH

419

1/11

2.86

Baker & Hostetler

Cleveland, OH

594

7/15 

3.70

Jones Day

Cleveland, OH

1827

15/90

5.75

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Stoel Rives

Portland, OR

364

0/4

1.10

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Cozen O’Connor

Philadelphia, PA

534
(in 2010)

No info

 

Wolf Block
(dissolved)

Philadelphia, PA

306

2/2

1.31

Marshall, Dennehey

Philadelphia, PA

405

2/5

1.73

Ballard Spahr

Philadelphia, PA

573

4/11

2.62

Pepper Hamilton

Philadelphia, PA

476

2/13

3.15

Blank Rome

Philadelphia, PA

525

2/17

3.62

Fox Rothschild

Philadelphia, PA

456

6/11

3.73

White and Williams   

Philadelphia, PA

231

1/8

3.90

Buchanan Ingersoll

Pittsburgh, PA

464

4/16

4.31

Drinker Biddle

Philadelphia, PA

687

0/31

4.51

Duane Morris

Philadelphia, PA

631

10/21

4.91

Dechert

Philadelphia, PA

856

3/57

7.01

Reed Smith   

Pittsburgh, PA

1101

24/66

8.17

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Nelson Mullins

Columbia, SC

401

3/4

1.75

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Bass Berry

Nashville, TN

204
(in 2010)

No info

 

Baker Donelson

Memphis, TN

562

0/4

0.71

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Vinson & Elkins

Houston, TX

654
(in 2010)

No info

 

Andrews & Kurth

Houston, TX

382
(in 2010)

No info

 

Strasburger & Price

Dallas, TX

184

2/1

1.63

Thompson & Knight

Dallas, TX

377

0/7

1.86

Bracewell & Giuliani

Houston, TX

446

1/8

2.02

Jackson Walker

Dallas, TX

339

3/4

2.06

Gardere Wynne

Dallas, TX

266

1/8

3.38

Baker Botts

Houston, TX

759

2/25

3.56

Fulbright & Jaworski

Houston, TX

900

6/29

3.89

Locke Lord

Dallas, TX

689

5/23

4.06

Winstead

Dallas, TX

289

4/8

4.15

Haynes and Boone

Dallas, TX

491

5/20

5.09

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Williams Mullen

Richmond, VA

325

3/2

1.54

Hunton & Williams

Richmond, VA

952

4/15

2.00

LeClairRyan

Richmond, VA

285

3/4

2.46

McGuire Woods

Richmond, VA

851

4/23

3.17

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

K&L Gates

Seattle, WA

1474

20/59

5.36

Davis Wright

Seattle, WA

466

9/21

6.44

Perkins Coie   

Seattle, WA

686

10/51

8.89

 

Law firm

Headquarters

Total U.S. attorneys

Asian Am partners/non-partners

% Asian Am

Michael Best    

Milwaukee, WI

230

1/3

1.74

Quarles & Brady   

Milwaukee, WI

450

2/12

3.11

Godfrey & Kahn

Milwaukee, WI

189

1/5

3.17

Foley & Lardner

Milwaukee, WI

1040

13/38

4.90