Overall lawyer head count for the Global Second Hundred firms was 56,175 in 2017. Thirty-three of the firms had 600 or more lawyers. Three of the firms had more than 700 lawyers.


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Fifty-two firms have the largest proportion of their lawyers in the United States, 13 have the largest proportion of their lawyers in the United Kingdom and 10 have most of their lawyers in China. The number of lawyers listed here is the average full-time-equivalent for the 2017 fiscal year. (For United Kingdom-based firms, the number of lawyers is the average full-time equivalent for the fiscal year ending April 30).