List of largest United States–based law firms by profits per partner

This is a list of American law firms by profits per partner (PPP) in 2018.

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	$2,800,000	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)