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New Partners at the 25 Largest Firms in New York

New
New Partners New Partners Women
Lawyers in Total 2012 (firmwide / 20132 Partners (firmwide / 2013 k
Firm1
New York Office(s)
Firm Size
NY only)
NY only) (firmwide)
Practice Group Breakdown
an
R
1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, 1,735
11/8
8/3 3
Litigation (2), Corporate (1), Corporate Finance (1), Financial Institutions (1), Litigation & 675
Meagher & Flom
International Arbitration (1), M&A (1), Tax (1)

2 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, 803
3/3
5/4 2
Corporate (2), Litigation (2), Tax (1)
674
Wharton & Garrison
3 Davis Polk & Wardwell
787
2/2
3/3 0
Litigation (2), Credit (1)
560

3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
837
4/1
10/6 2
Corporate (5), Litigation (3), Real Estate (1), Tax (1)
560

5 Weil, Gotshal & Manges
1,201
12/3
9/4 4
Corporate (3), Litigation (2), Antitrust and Competition (1), Business Financing and 543
Restructuring (1), Securities Litigation (1), Tax, Benefits and Executive Compensation (1)

6 Sullivan & Cromwell
776
4/3
9/7 1
Litigation (6), General Practice (3)
529
Cleary Gottlieb
7 1,169
8/3
6/2 0
Antitrust and Competition (2), Corporate Transactions (2), Bankruptcy and Restructuring 498
Steen & Hamilton
(1), White-Collar Defense, Securities Enforcement and Internal Investigations (1)
8 Debevoise & Plimpton
615
3/3
3/3 1
Corporate Department and Financial Institutions Group (2), Litigation (1)
440

9 Cravath, Swaine & Moore
453
5/5
6/6 1
Corporate (2), Litigation (2), Tax (1), Trusts & Estates (1)
429

10 Proskauer Rose
746
4/1
6/2 1
Corporate (4), Labor & Employment (1), Tax (1)
381

11 White & Case
1,900
28/3
18/1 6
Banking (5), Capital Markets (4), Commercial Litigation (3), Project Finance (2), Antitrust 375
(1), Financial Restructuring and Insolvency (1), M&A (1), White Collar (1)
12 Wilson Elser Moskowitz 775
9/3
6/2 4
General Liability (4), ERISA (1), Complex Business and Commercial Litigation (1)
340
Edelman & Dicker

13 Sidley Austin
1,636
26/3
24/5 6
Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy (3), Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives 338
(3), Appellate (2), International Trade (2), Accountants/Professional Service Firms Liability
(1), Antitrust/Competition (1), Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation (1),
Food, Drug and Medicine Device Regulatory (1), Health Care (1), International Arbitration
(Commercial and Treaty) (1), Intellectual Property Litigation (1), M&A (1), Private Equity (1),
Products Liability (1), Securities (1), Securities & Derivative Enforcement and Regulatory
(1), Securities Litigation (1), Tax (1)

13 Willkie Farr & Gallagher
540
3/3
8/6 1
Corporate and Financial Services (4), Asset Management (2), Antitrust and Competition 338
(1), Communications, Media & Privacy (1)

15 Latham & Watkins3
2,033
22/4
27/4 8
Litigation (11), Corporate (8), Finance (7), Tax (1)
333

16 Shearman & Sterling
842
5/1
7/1 2
Capital Markets (2), Antitrust (1), Finance (1), International Arbitration (1), M&A (1), Project 332
Development and Finance (1)

17 Kirkland & Ellis
1,517
84/19
80 / 18 23
Corporate (29), Litigation (17), Intellectual Property (15), Restructuring (6), Tax (4), Debt 331
Finance (2), Real Estate (2), Energy (1), Environmental Litigation (1), Government Contracts
(1), Government & Internal Investigations (1), Private Funds (1)
18 Fried, Frank, Harris, 476
3/2
TBA TBA
TBA
329
Shriver & Jacobson4

19 Schulte Roth & Zabel
351
1/1
1/1 0
Finance (1)
325

20 Milbank, Tweed, 571
3/2
6/4 1
Financial Restructuring (1), Global Securities (1), Project Finance (1), Tax (1), Transportation 310
Hadley & McCloy
and Space (1), Trusts & Estates (1)
21 Kasowitz, Benson, 365
4/2
7/6 3
Commercial Litigation (4), Antitrust (1), Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy (1), Matrimonial 296
Torres & Friedman
and Family Law (1)

22 Cahill Gordon & Reindel
303
1/1
4/3 2
Corporate (2), Capital Markets (1), Securities Litigation & White Collar (1)
295

23 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
1,086
11/4
7/0 0
Antitrust (1), Corporate (1), Information Technology & Date Privacy (1), Intellectual Prop- 287
erty (1), Litigation (1), Real Estate (1), White Collar (1)

23 Jones Day
2,363
45/2
34/2 14
Labor & Employment (5), Global Disputes (4), M&A (4), Banking & Finance (3), Business 287
Torts (3), Energy (3), Business Restructuring & Reorganization (2), Real Estate (2), Antitrust
(1), Capital Markets (1), Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (1), Health Care &
Life Sciences (1), Intellectual Property (1), Issues & Appeals (1), Securities Litigation & SEC
Enforcement (1), Tax (1)
25 Quinn Emanuel 697
10/4
13/7 3
Complex Disputes (6), Intellectual Property (4), Arbitration (2), White-Collar (1)
281

Urquhart & Sullivan

1. Number of New York attorneys and total firm size as published in the NYLJ 100 special report of the New York Law Journal, June 17, 2013, where firms were ranked by number of lawyers in their New York office(s). Firms that tied
were ranked equally and listed alphabetically.
2. Due to firms announcing promotions at different
times of the year, the figures listed include new partners effective in 2013 and/or as of Jan. 1, 2014.
3. Firm's new partner number is the sum of a March and November 2013 round of promotions.
4. New partners not announced as of the date of publication.