Minorities at Washington firms

Washington-area law offices of 75 lawyers or more ranked by the percentage of minority attorneys
Minority Percentage of Minority Percentage of 2010 Minority 2010 Minority
Rank
rank Firm Name All Lawyers All Partners
Lawyers Minority Lawyers Partners Minority Partners Associates Other Lawyers
1 Morrison & Foerster 85 28 22 25.78% 4 14% 14 4
2 Fulbright & Jaworski 85 29 20 23.61% 2 7% 15 3
3 Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox 89 30 20 22.77% 8 27% 12 0
4 Goodwin Procter 99 39 22 22.25% 1 3% 21 0
5 Arnold & Porter 454 133 92 20.28% 12 9% 76 4
6 White & Case 144 32 29 20.20% 3 9% 22 4
7 Jenner & Block 81 37 16 19.85% 3 8% 13 0
8 O’Melveny & Myers 157 38 31 19.80% 3 8% 17 11
9 Howrey 242 109 47 19.47% 14 13% 32 1
10 Sughrue Mion 84 42 16 19.25% 7 17% 9 0
10 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 397 102 75 18.91% 7 7% 54 14
11 Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt 103 45 19 18.53% 4 9% 15 0
12 Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner 249 93 45 18.10% 6 6% 38 1
12 Covington & Burling 468 133 83 17.75% 7 5% 50 26
14 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 274 101 48 17.54% 5 5% 42 1
14 Drinker Biddle & Reath 99 47 17 17.28% 5 11% 9 3
15 Foley & Lardner 111 61 19 17.19% 5 8% 14 0
16 Kirkland & Ellis 208 84 35 16.87% 7 8% 27 1
17 Reed Smith 79 35 13 16.56% 3 8% 10 0
18 Jones Day 219 93 36 16.48% 8 9% 27 1
19 Alston & Bird 88 36 14 15.91% 1 3% 9 4
20 Baker & McKenzie 108 44 17 15.87% 6 14% 8 3
21 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 95 31 15 15.86% 2 6% 12 1
22 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 95 18 15 15.79% 0 0% 14 1
23 Dow Lohnes 108 58 17 15.76% 1 2% 10 6
24 Winston & Strawn 119 54 18 15.14% 1 2% 16 1
25 McKenna Long & Aldridge 122 59 18 14.84% 6 10% 11 1
26 Holland & Knight 156 94 23 14.82% 11 12% 10 2
27 Dickstein Shapiro 227 102 33 14.57% 8 8% 22 3
28 Crowell & Moring 294 127 43 14.55% 12 9% 23 8
29 DLA Piper 139 83 20 14.21% 8 9% 9 3
30 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman 162 78 23 14.18% 6 8% 15 2
31 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 252 96 35 13.92% 8 8% 20 7
32 Troutman Sanders 95 43 13 13.73% 2 5% 11 0
33 Venable 217 117 30 13.63% 11 10% 17 1
34 Nixon Peabody 96 51 13 13.60% 3 6% 9 1
35 Kelley Drye & Warren 97 43 13 13.43% 1 2% 12 0
36 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 285 72 38 13.33% 6 8% 28 4
37 McDermott Will & Emery 206 118 27 13.09% 9 7% 18 1
38 Williams & Connolly 251 108 32 12.79% 11 10% 20 1
39 Patton Boggs 259 139 33 12.77% 12 9% 18 3
40 BuckleySandler 81 16 10 12.42% 1 6% 9 0
41 Greenberg Traurig 98 52 12 12.30% 3 6% 5 4
42 Steptoe & Johnson LLP 294 105 36 12.26% 6 6% 21 9
43 Bingham McCutchen 190 89 23 12.16% 9 10% 14 0
44 Weil, Gotshal & Manges 75 30 9 12.09% 2 7% 7 0
45 Arent Fox 228 116 27 11.86% 5 4% 21 1
46 K&L Gates 205 108 24 11.73% 5 5% 18 1
47 Baker Botts 114 46 13 11.48% 4 9% 8 1
48 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker 115 31 13 11.39% 3 10% 8 2
49 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 172 55 19 11.08% 3 5% 15 1
50 Miller & Chevalier 94 51 10 10.70% 3 6% 4 3
51 Hunton & Williams 160 66 17 10.65% 3 5% 13 1
52 Hogan & Hartson 481 231 50 10.40% 4 2% 44 2
53 Latham & Watkins 264 93 27 10.24% 3 3% 22 2
54 Wiley Rein 263 122 26 9.92% 10 8% 12 4
55 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 149 66 14 9.42% 2 3% 9 3
56 Mayer Brown 161 68 15 9.34% 3 4% 10 2
57 Sidley Austin 248 107 22 8.87% 1 1% 20 1
58 Cooley Godward Kronish 76 26 6 7.89% 0 0% 5 1
59 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 78 19 6 7.69% 0 0% 5 1
60 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 93 19 7 7.58% 1 5% 6 0
61 King & Spalding 151 60 11 7.31% 2 3% 8 1
62 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe 88 36 5 5.78% 3 8% 2 0
63 Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker 92 56 5 5.51% 4 7% 1 0
64 Ropes & Gray 88 23 3 3.46% 1 4% 2 0
65 Dewey & LeBoeuf* 113 41 0 0.00% 0 0% 0 0

* Dewey & LeBoeuf was asked to provide numbers, but did not respond to repeated requests for information. As a result, the firm’s Washington office has been ranked last.