Each firm’s diversity score was calculated by adding its percentage of minority U.S. lawyers to its percentage of minority U.S. partners. For an explanation of our methodology, a list of nonresponding firms, and additional information on responding firms (including their number of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and multiracial or other minority attorneys), go to americanlawyer.com/diversity.
2011 Diversity Rank | Firm | Location | Diversity Score | Minority %–all U.S. Attorneys | Minority %–all U.S. Partners | Total U.S. Attorneys |
1 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Palo Alto | 43.9 | 25.4% | 18.5% | 586 |
2 | White & Case | International | 40.9 | 24.5% | 16.4% | 771 |
3 | Munger, Tolles & Olson | Los Angeles | 39.5 | 23.4% | 16.1% | 188 |
4 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | International | 37.8 | 26.1% | 11.7% | 629 |
5 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith | Los Angeles | 36.6 | 23.0% | 13.6% | 765 |
6 | Hughes Hubbard & Reed | New York | 36.4 | 25.4% | 11.0% | 307 |
7 | Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear | Irvine, California | 35.6 | 20.7% | 14.9% | 266 |
8 | Fenwick & West | Mountain View, California | 34.7 | 25.2% | 9.5% | 270 |
8 | Morrison & Foerster | San Francisco | 34.7 | 23.7% | 11.0% | 876 |
10 | Townsend and Townsend and Crew1 | San Francisco | 33.6 | 19.3% | 14.3% | 171 |
11 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | New York | 33.5 | 23.1% | 10.4% | 667 |
12 | Kenyon & Kenyon | New York | 33.4 | 21.1% | 12.3% | 166 |
13 | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy | New York | 32.6 | 23.0% | 9.6% | 444 |
14 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | New York | 32.0 | 23.9% | 8.1% | 677 |
15 | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner | Washington, D.C. | 31.7 | 21.1% | 10.6% | 380 |
16 | Epstein Becker & Green | National | 31.4 | 17.2% | 14.2% | 303 |
17 | O’Melveny & Myers | Los Angeles | 31.3 | 21.8% | 9.5% | 760 |
18 | Weil, Gotshal & Manges | New York | 30.8 | 22.7% | 8.1% | 865 |
19 | Best Best & Krieger | Riverside, California | 30.7 | 18.5% | 12.2% | 195 |
20 | Carlton Fields | Tampa | 30.4 | 17.7% | 12.7% | 300 |
21 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | New York | 29.1 | 23.9% | 5.2% | 758 |
22 | Arnold & Porter | Washington, D.C. | 29.0 | 19.4% | 9.6% | 654 |
23 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | National | 28.8 | 19.3% | 9.5% | 741 |
24 | Baker & McKenzie | Verein | 27.7 | 16.4% | 11.3% | 651 |
24 | Boies, Schiller & Flexner | National | 27.7 | 14.2% | 13.5% | 254 |
26 | Debevoise & Plimpton | New York | 27.6 | 20.4% | 7.2% | 555 |
26 | Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker | National | 27.6 | 18.3% | 9.3% | 800 |
28 | Chadbourne & Parke | New York | 27.1 | 17.7% | 9.4% | 283 |
29 | Shearman & Sterling | International | 27.0 | 21.2% | 5.8% | 425 |
30 | Irell & Manella | Los Angeles | 26.9 | 13.5% | 13.4% | 200 |
30 | Kirkland & Ellis | National | 26.9 | 17.2% | 9.7% | 1,317 |
32 | Dewey & LeBoeuf | New York | 26.6 | 19.9% | 6.7% | 735 |
32 | Latham & Watkins | National | 26.6 | 18.7% | 7.9% | 1,485 |
34 | Jackson Lewis | National | 26.5 | 15.6% | 10.9% | 646 |
34 | Littler Mendelson | National | 26.5 | 16.6% | 9.9% | 814 |
36 | Fish & Richardson | National | 26.2 | 16.0% | 10.2% | 350 |
36 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | Los Angeles | 26.2 | 19.7% | 6.5% | 513 |
38 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | New York | 25.8 | 16.7% | 9.1% | 401 |
39 | Sedgwick | Los Angeles | 25.5 | 15.1% | 10.4% | 350 |
40 | Kelley Drye & Warren | New York | 25.3 | 17.7% | 7.6% | 299 |
40 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | National | 25.3 | 15.5% | 9.8% | 658 |
42 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Los Angeles | 25.2 | 17.8% | 7.4% | 338 |
43 | Broad and Cassel | Orlando | 25.1 | 17.5% | 7.6% | 160 |
43 | Crowell & Moring | Washington, D.C. | 25.1 | 16.4% | 8.7% | 440 |
45 | Shutts & Bowen | Miami | 24.9 | 13.9% | 11.0% | 209 |
46 | Ropes & Gray | Boston | 24.8 | 15.1% | 9.7% | 961 |
47 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | National | 24.6 | 17.7% | 6.9% | 1,585 |
48 | Jenner & Block | Chicago | 24.5 | 17.0% | 7.5% | 452 |
49 | Holland & Knight | National | 24.0 | 13.8% | 10.2% | 972 |
50 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore | New York | 23.9 | 20.1% | 3.8% | 493 |
50 | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr | National | 23.9 | 16.2% | 7.7% | 933 |
52 | Greenberg Traurig | National | 23.6 | 13.9% | 9.7% | 1,657 |
53 | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | National | 23.5 | 14.7% | 8.8% | 797 |
53 | Cooley | Palo Alto | 23.5 | 16.0% | 7.5% | 618 |
53 | DLA Piper | Verein | 23.5 | 15.2% | 8.3% | 1,301 |
56 | Haynes and Boone | Dallas | 23.4 | 13.1% | 10.3% | 518 |
56 | Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi | Minneapolis | 23.4 | 17.2% | 6.2% | 262 |
56 | Sullivan & Cromwell | New York | 23.4 | 17.4% | 6.0% | 679 |
59 | Perkins Coie | Seattle | 23.3 | 15.6% | 7.7% | 745 |
60 | Baker Botts | Houston | 23.2 | 14.9% | 8.3% | 638 |
60 | Gordon & Rees | San Francisco | 23.2 | 12.2% | 11.0% | 411 |
62 | Reed Smith | National | 23.1 | 14.6% | 8.5% | 1,071 |
63 | Squire, Sanders & Dempsey | National | 23.0 | 12.2% | 10.8% | 547 |
64 | McDermott Will & Emery | National | 22.9 | 13.6% | 9.3% | 912 |
64 | Williams & Connolly | Washington, D.C. | 22.9 | 12.6% | 10.3% | 254 |
66 | Alston & Bird | Atlanta | 22.7 | 15.2% | 7.5% | 808 |
67 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | National | 22.6 | 16.2% | 6.4% | 992 |
68 | Covington & Burling | Washington, D.C. | 22.3 | 16.5% | 5.8% | 656 |
68 | Hinshaw & Culbertson | Chicago | 22.3 | 13.9% | 8.4% | 498 |
70 | Akerman Senterfitt | Miami | 22.0 | 13.1% | 8.9% | 450 |
70 | Andrews Kurth | Houston | 22.0 | 13.4% | 8.6% | 388 |
70 | McKenna Long & Aldridge | National | 22.0 | 15.2% | 6.8% | 414 |
73 | Winston & Strawn | National | 21.8 | 14.3% | 7.5% | 845 |
74 | Ford & Harrison | Atlanta | 21.6 | 14.2% | 7.4% | 176 |
75 | Shook, Hardy & Bacon | Kansas City, Missouri | 21.5 | 11.1% | 10.4% | 487 |
76 | Sidley Austin | National | 21.3 | 14.6% | 6.7% | 1,334 |
77 | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis | Los Angeles | 21.0 | 13.6% | 7.4% | 221 |
77 | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart | National | 21.0 | 13.8% | 7.2% | 523 |
79 | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton | Los Angeles | 20.9 | 14.0% | 6.9% | 528 |
80 | Fulbright & Jaworski | Houston | 20.8 | 13.9% | 6.9% | 763 |
80 | Quarles & Brady | Milwaukee | 20.8 | 12.2% | 8.6% | 427 |
80 | Winstead | Dallas | 20.8 | 12.2% | 8.6% | 263 |
83 | Dickstein Shapiro | Washington, D.C. | 20.7 | 12.8% | 7.9% | 368 |
83 | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | National | 20.7 | 14.1% | 6.6% | 1,204 |
83 | Thompson & Knight | Dallas | 20.7 | 12.5% | 8.2% | 280 |
86 | Steptoe & Johnson | Washington, D.C. | 20.6 | 12.3% | 8.3% | 422 |
87 | Kaye Scholer | New York | 20.5 | 14.3% | 6.2% | 434 |
87 | Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler | New York | 20.5 | 12.8% | 7.7% | 218 |
87 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | New York | 20.5 | 15.7% | 4.8% | 254 |
90 | Bingham McCutchen | National | 20.4 | 13.4% | 7.0% | 935 |
90 | Jackson Walker | Dallas | 20.4 | 12.9% | 7.5% | 341 |
92 | Davis Wright Tremaine | Seattle | 20.3 | 13.2% | 7.1% | 485 |
93 | Jones Day | National | 20.2 | 13.5% | 6.7% | 1,803 |
94 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | New York | 20.1 | 13.6% | 6.5% | 492 |
95 | Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck | Denver | 19.9 | 11.2% | 8.7% | 223 |
96 | Mayer Brown | International | 19.6 | 14.1% | 5.5% | 880 |
96 | Vinson & Elkins | Houston | 19.6 | 15.2% | 4.4% | 692 |
98 | Hunton & Williams | National | 19.4 | 12.4% | 7.0% | 780 |
98 | Stroock & Stroock & Lavan | New York | 19.4 | 14.8% | 4.6% | 298 |
100 | Fennemore Craig | Phoenix | 19.2 | 11.1% | 8.1% | 180 |
100 | Hogan Lovells | Verein | 19.2 | 13.0% | 6.2% | 908 |
100 | Proskauer Rose | New York | 19.2 | 14.1% | 5.1% | 617 |
103 | Foley & Lardner | Milwaukee | 18.8 | 11.9% | 6.9% | 910 |
104 | King & Spalding | National | 18.7 | 12.6% | 6.1% | 746 |
105 | Duane Morris | National | 18.5 | 10.8% | 7.7% | 692 |
106 | Cahill Gordon & Reindel | New York | 18.4 | 12.3% | 6.1% | 277 |
107 | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | New York | 18.2 | 14.0% | 4.2% | 413 |
107 | SNR Denton | Verein | 18.2 | 11.5% | 6.7% | 633 |
109 | K&L Gates | National | 18.1 | 11.2% | 6.9% | 1,505 |
110 | Foley Hoag | Boston | 18.0 | 14.8% | 3.2% | 210 |
110 | Goodwin Procter | Boston | 18.0 | 13.8% | 4.2% | 821 |
112 | Ballard Spahr | Philadelphia | 17.8 | 11.2% | 6.6% | 492 |
113 | Baker & Hostetler | National | 17.4 | 12.3% | 5.1% | 699 |
113 | Katten Muchin Rosenman | National | 17.4 | 12.3% | 5.1% | 594 |
115 | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | New York | 17.3 | 12.9% | 4.4% | 434 |
115 | Snell & Wilmer | Phoenix | 17.3 | 10.5% | 6.8% | 410 |
117 | Kutak Rock | Omaha | 17.0 | 10.2% | 6.8% | 422 |
118 | Day Pitney | Hartford | 16.9 | 12.4% | 4.5% | 338 |
118 | Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge | Boston | 16.9 | 10.6% | 6.3% | 452 |
120 | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel | New York | 16.8 | 11.0% | 5.8% | 337 |
120 | Schiff Hardin | Chicago | 16.8 | 10.3% | 6.5% | 360 |
122 | Arent Fox | Washington, D.C. | 16.7 | 12.6% | 4.1% | 341 |
123 | Dow Lohnes | Washington, D.C. | 16.4 | 12.1% | 4.3% | 132 |
123 | Seyfarth Shaw | National | 16.4 | 11.6% | 4.8% | 773 |
125 | Wiley Rein | Washington, D.C. | 16.3 | 8.6% | 7.7% | 266 |
126 | Troutman Sanders | Atlanta | 16.1 | 10.6% | 5.5% | 623 |
126 | Venable | National | 16.1 | 10.2% | 5.9% | 527 |
128 | Dorsey & Whitney | Minneapolis | 16.0 | 7.9% | 8.1% | 517 |
128 | McGuireWoods | Richmond | 16.0 | 10.4% | 5.6% | 849 |
130 | Loeb & Loeb | New York | 15.9 | 10.8% | 5.1% | 306 |
131 | Bracewell & Giuliani | Houston | 15.8 | 10.3% | 5.5% | 445 |
131 | Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell | Dallas | 15.8 | 9.8% | 6.0% | 625 |
133 | Nixon Peabody | National | 15.7 | 10.9% | 4.8% | 615 |
134 | Gardere Wynne Sewell | Dallas | 15.6 | 11.2% | 4.4% | 249 |
134 | Phelps Dunbar | New Orleans | 15.6 | 8.1% | 7.5% | 272 |
136 | Bryan Cave | National | 15.4 | 10.4% | 5.0% | 853 |
136 | Chapman and Cutler | Chicago | 15.4 | 11.5% | 3.9% | 183 |
138 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker | National | 15.3 | 9.9% | 5.4% | 791 |
139 | Fox Rothschild | Philadelphia | 15.1 | 9.1% | 6.0% | 514 |
140 | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan | Atlanta | 14.8 | 10.0% | 4.8% | 419 |
141 | Fisher & Phillips | Atlanta | 14.5 | 8.7% | 5.8% | 252 |
141 | Gibbons | Newark | 14.5 | 10.8% | 3.7% | 223 |
143 | Holland & Hart | Denver | 14.4 | 9.4% | 5.0% | 416 |
143 | Lowenstein Sandler | Roseland, New Jersey | 14.4 | 9.5% | 4.9% | 253 |
143 | McCarter & English | Newark | 14.4 | 9.7% | 4.7% | 393 |
143 | Pepper Hamilton | Philadelphia | 14.4 | 8.7% | 5.7% | 461 |
147 | Kilpatrick Stockton2 | Atlanta | 14.3 | 9.4% | 4.9% | 413 |
148 | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo | Boston | 14.2 | 10.0% | 4.2% | 442 |
149 | Dickinson Wright | Detroit | 14.1 | 8.5% | 5.6% | 260 |
150 | Drinker Biddle & Reath | Philadelphia | 14.0 | 9.5% | 4.5% | 642 |
151 | Dykema Gossett | Detroit | 13.7 | 8.6% | 5.1% | 338 |
151 | Miles & Stockbridge | Baltimore | 13.7 | 8.9% | 4.8% | 224 |
153 | Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon | Chicago | 13.5 | 8.7% | 4.8% | 149 |
154 | Archer & Greiner | Haddonfield, New Jersey | 13.2 | 7.6% | 5.6% | 172 |
155 | Godfrey & Kahn | Milwaukee | 12.4 | 9.2% | 3.2% | 185 |
155 | Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps | San Diego | 12.4 | 10.1% | 2.3% | 148 |
155 | Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein | Charlotte | 12.4 | 9.0% | 3.4% | 210 |
155 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice | Winston-Salem | 12.4 | 6.9% | 5.5% | 480 |
159 | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz | Memphis | 12.2 | 7.6% | 4.6% | 577 |
159 | Strasburger & Price | Dallas | 12.2 | 7.5% | 4.7% | 174 |
161 | Vedder Price | Chicago | 12.0 | 6.7% | 5.3% | 253 |
162 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | Columbia, South Carolina | 11.7 | 7.4% | 4.3% | 418 |
163 | Blank Rome | Philadelphia | 11.6 | 7.6% | 4.0% | 472 |
163 | Dechert | National | 11.6 | 9.1% | 2.5% | 618 |
163 | Thompson Hine | Cleveland | 11.6 | 7.4% | 4.2% | 364 |
166 | Miller & Martin | Chattanooga, Tennessee | 11.5 | 8.4% | 3.1% | 191 |
167 | Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn | Detroit | 11.1 | 6.9% | 4.2% | 233 |
168 | Faegre & Benson | Minneapolis | 10.9 | 7.3% | 3.6% | 425 |
169 | McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter | Morristown, New Jersey | 10.7 | 7.9% | 2.8% | 279 |
170 | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick | Toledo | 10.6 | 6.3% | 4.3% | 206 |
170 | Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease | Columbus | 10.6 | 6.6% | 4.0% | 350 |
172 | White and Williams | Philadelphia | 10.5 | 8.3% | 2.2% | 230 |
173 | Barnes & Thornburg | Indianapolis | 10.3 | 6.3% | 4.0% | 510 |
174 | Baker & Daniels | Indianapolis | 10.1 | 5.9% | 4.2% | 321 |
175 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | Pittsburgh | 9.9 | 7.8% | 2.1% | 422 |
175 | Williams Mullen | Richmond | 9.9 | 6.8% | 3.1% | 281 |
177 | Goulston & Storrs | Boston | 9.8 | 7.7% | 2.1% | 182 |
177 | Ice Miller | Indianapolis | 9.8 | 7.3% | 2.5% | 232 |
179 | Harris Beach | Rochester | 9.7 | 7.1% | 2.6% | 196 |
180 | Burr & Forman | Birmingham | 9.6 | 5.9% | 3.7% | 236 |
181 | Fredrikson & Byron | Minneapolis | 9.5 | 5.2% | 4.3% | 230 |
182 | Adams and Reese | New Orleans | 9.2 | 5.6% | 3.6% | 270 |
182 | Bass, Berry & Sims | Nashville | 9.2 | 6.3% | 2.9% | 207 |
184 | Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale | St. Louis | 8.6 | 5.4% | 3.2% | 166 |
185 | Dinsmore & Shohl | Cincinnati | 8.5 | 4.7% | 3.8% | 443 |
186 | Polsinelli Shughart | Kansas City, Missouri | 8.2 | 5.4% | 2.8% | 521 |
187 | Thompson Coburn | St. Louis | 7.4 | 4.8% | 2.6% | 334 |
188 | Stinson Morrison Hecker | Kansas City, Missouri | 6.6 | 5.0% | 1.6% | 303 |
189 | Husch Blackwell | St. Louis | 6.4 | 4.2% | 2.2% | 591 |
189 | Warner Norcross & Judd | Grand Rapids | 6.4 | 4.5% | 1.9% | 220 |
191 | Leonard, Street and Deinard | Minneapolis | 6.3 | 3.8% | 2.5% | 185 |
192 | Ulmer & Berne | Cleveland | 6.0 | 3.9% | 2.1% | 179 |
193 | Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs | Louisville | 4.4 | 3.6% | 0.8% | 195 |
194 | Stites & Harbison | Louisville | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0.0% | 212 |
2 Merged with Townsend and Townsend and Crew in January 2011 to form Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton