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According to the Spring 2002 Minority Law Journal (published by the American Lawyer), the NLJ 250 (The National Law Journal's ranking of the 250 largest law firms), and the 2001-2002 National Directory of Legal Employers, here are the 20 law firms with the highest percentage of Asian-Americans:  

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Pennie & Edmonds

New York, NY

179

18.4

Davis Polk

New York, NY

619

16.6

Wilson Sonsini

Palo Alto, CA

710

15.9

Fish & Neave

New York, NY

187

15.0

Morrison & Foerster

San Francisco, CA

942

14.8

Milbank Tweed

New York, NY

487

12.9

Crosby Heafey

Oakland, CA

258

12.4

McCutchen Doyle

San Francisco, CA

340

12.35

Fenwick & West

Palo Alto, CA

249

12.0

Pillsbury Winthrop

San Francisco, CA

873

11.5

Gray Cary

Palo Alto, CA

482

10.8

Sullivan & Cromwell

New York, NY

666

10.4

OMelveny & Myers

Los Angeles, CA

722

10.25

Cooley Godward

Palo Alto, CA

655

10.23

Orrick Herrington

San Francisco, CA

599

10.18

Cravath Swaine

New York, NY

426

10.09

Preston Gates

Seattle, WA

375

9.9

Brobeck Phleger

San Francisco, CA

876

9.7

Cleary Gottlieb

New York, NY

695

9.6

Heller Ehrman

San Francisco, CA

607

9.4

According to the same sources, here are the largest law firms in the country with the fewest Asian-American attorneys, i.e. Asian-Americans comprise fewer than 3.5% of their attorneys. On average, 6.9% of the associates and 1.3% of the partners at the 250 largest law firms were Asian-American.

Declined to provide information.

Law firm

Headquarters

Adams & Reese

New Orleans, LA

Dickstein Shapiro

Washington, DC

Edwards & Angell

Providence, RI

Kutak Rock

Omaha, NE

Lord Bissell

Chicago, IL

McKenna & Cuneo

Washington, DC

Mendes & Mount

New York, NY

Milberg Weiss

New York, NY

Miles & Stockbridge

Baltimore, MD

Ruden McClosky

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Sedgwick Detert

San Francisco, CA

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Holland & Knight

Tampa, FL

1329

2.56

Akin Gump

Dallas and DC

1023

3.32

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Mayer Brown

Chicago, IL

927

3.13

Piper Marbury

Washington, DC

816

2.70

Greenberg Traurig

Miami, FL

812

1.97

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Vinson & Elkins

Houston, TX

792

1.52

Fulbright & Jaworski

Houston, TX

734

2.86

Hunton & Williams

Richmond, VA

729

2.46

Dechert

Philadelphia, PA

724

3.04

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

King & Spalding

Atlanta, GA

697

2.01

Reed Smith

Pittsburgh, PA

696

2.73

Baker & Botts

Houston, TX

648

2.47

Bryan Cave

St. Louis, MO

647

2.78

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Alston & Bird

Atlanta, GA

599

1.84

McGuire Woods

Richmond, VA

584

1.99

Nixon Hargrave

Rochester, NY

579

1.90

Shook Hardy

Kansas City, MO

568

0.88

Kilpatrick Stockton

Atlanta, GA

520

2.50

Baker & Hostetler

Cleveland, OH

507

3.16

Mintz Levin

Boston, MA

506

2.17

Troutman Sanders

Atlanta, GA

506

1.58

Seyfarth Shaw

Chicago, IL

501

2.00

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Shaw Pittman

Washington, D.C.

484

2.89

Duane Morris

Philadelphia, PA

469

2.99

Covington & Burling

Washington, DC

466

1.50

Quarles & Brady

Milwaukee, WI

447

2.24

Womble Carlyle

Winston-Salem, NC

446

1.35

Pepper Hamilton

Philadelphia, PA

440

2.05

Cozen OConnor

Philadelphia, PA

433

2.08

Venable

Baltimore, MD

427

2.81

Blank Rome

Philadelphia, PA

412

0.49

Faegre & Benson

Minneapolis, MN

409

2.93

Drinker Biddle

Philadelphia, PA

405

2.22

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Jenner & Block

Chicago, IL

394

2.54

Ballard Spahr

Philadelphia, PA

390

1.03

Frost Brown

Cincinnati, OH

381

0.79

Bracewell & Patterson

Houston, TX

377

1.59

Locke Liddell

Dallas, Houston, TX

376

2.92

Thompson Hine

Cleveland, OH

373

1.07

Patton Boggs

Washington, DC

372

0.81

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Chicago, IL

371

0

Andrews & Kurth

Houston, TX

357

1.96

Schnader Harrison

Philadelphia, PA

356

2.25

Vorys Sater

Columbus, OH

354

0.85

Littler Mendelson

San Francisco, CA

348

2.30

Altheimer & Gray

Chicago, IL

347

2.02

Barnes & Thornburg

Indianapolis, IN

347

0.87

Buchanan Ingersoll

Pittsburgh, PA

345

2.03

Stoel Rives

Portland, OR

345

1.45

Sutherland Asbill

Atlanta, GA

341

1.17

Michael Best

Milwaukee, WI

339

0.89

Snell & Wilmer

Phoenix, AZ

329

0.91

Jackson Lewis

New York, NY

327

1.83

Epstein Becker

New York, NY

326

3.1

Arter & Hadden

Cleveland, OH

325

2.77

Thompson & Knight

Dallas, TX

324

2.47

Winstead Secrest

Dallas, TX

323

0.93

Blackwell Sanders

Kansas City, MO

321

1.25

Steptoe & Johnson

Washington, D.C.

306

3.27

Powell Goldstein

Atlanta, GA

304

3.29

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Thompson Coburn

St. Louis, MO

298

0.67

Gardere Wynne

Dallas, TX

291

1.37

Baker & Daniels

Indianapolis, IN

285

2.11

Schiff Hardin

Chicago, IL

281

0.71

Oppenheimer Wolff

Minneapolis, MN

276

3.26

Porter Wright

Columbus, OH

273

0.73

Marshall Dennehy

Philadelphia, PA

272

1.47

Miller Canfield

Detroit, MI

271

0.37

Nelson Mullins

Columbia, SC

270

0.74

Wolf Block

Philadelphia, PA

270

1.48

Jackson & Walker

Dallas, TX

265

1.13

Rosenman & Colin

New York, NY

264

2.27

Crowell & Moring

Washington, DC

260

3.08

McCarter & English

Newark, NJ

260

1.54

Holland & Hart

Denver, CO

256

1.17

Dykema Gossett

Detroit, MI

246

0.81

Honigman Miller

Detroit, MI

241

2.07

Strasburger & Price

Dallas, TX

238

1.26

Moore & Van Allen

Charlotte, NC

237

0.42

Dinsmore & Shohl

Cincinnati, OH

234

0.43

Day Berry

Hartford, CT

233

1.29

Baker Donelson

Memphis, TN

233

0

Saul Ewing

Philadelphia, PA

230

0.87

Wyatt Tarrant

Louisville, KY

229

0

Gardner Carton

Chicago, IL

226

1.77

Husch & Eppenberger

St. Louis, MO

225

0.44

Robins Kaplan

Minneapolis, MN

223

2.24

Fox Rothschild

Philadelphia, PA

220

0.91

Phelps Dunbar

New Orleans, LA

220

0.46

Armstrong Teasdale

St. Louis, MO

219

0.46

Wildman Harrold

Chicago, IL

217

1.84

Ice Miller

Indianapolis, IN

217

0.46

Harris Beach

Rochester, NY

212

1.42

Stites & Harbison

Louisville, KY

212

0.47

Palmer & Dodge

Boston, MA

209

3.35

Bell Boyd

Chicago, IL

206

1.46

White & Williams

Philadelphia, PA

206

0.97

Lathrop & Gage

Kansas City, MO

205

0.98

Smith Helms

Charlotte, NC

205

0.49

Vedder Price

Chicago, IL

204

2.94

Eckert Seamans

Pittsburgh, PA

201

0.50

 

Law firm

Headquarters

# attys

% Asian Am

Williams & Connolly

Washington, DC

199

0

Williams Mullen

Richmond, VA

198

1.52

Carlton Fields

Tampa, FL

197

1.02

Butzel Long

Detroit, MI

194

1.55

Jones Walker

New Orleans, LA

194

0

Cummings & Lockwood

Stamford, CT

193

1.55

Hodgson Russ

Buffalo, NY

193

2.07

Steel Hector

Miami, FL

191

2.09

Reinhart Boerner

Milwaukee, WI

191

1.57

Choate Hall

Boston, MA

190

2.63

Brown Rudnick

Boston, MA

187

1.07

Taft Stettinius

Cincinnati, OH

187

1.07

Calfee Halter

Cleveland, OH

186

1.08

Loeb & Loeb

Los Angeles, CA

185

3.24

Chapman & Cutler

Chicago, IL

183

2.73

Smith Gambrell

Atlanta, GA

182

3.30

Lewis Rice

St. Louis, MO

180

0

Phillips Lytle

Buffalo, NY

177

0.57

Robinson & Cole

Hartford, CT

177

1.13

Ross & Hardies

Chicago, IL

177

3.39

Warner Norcross

Grand Rapids, MI

174

0.57

Holme Roberts

Denver, CO

173

0.58

Gibbons, Del Deo

Newark, NJ

172

1.74

Greenabaum Doll

Louisville, KY

170

1.76

Montgomery McCracken

Philadelphia, PA

170

0.59

Godfrey & Kahn

Milwaukee, WI

169

1.78

Bradley Arant

Birmingham, AL

168

1.19

Kennedy Covington

Charlotte, NC

165

1.21

Hughes & Luce

Dallas, TX

165

1.82

Lane Powell

Seattle, WA

165

3.03

Long Aldridge

Atlanta, GA

164

1.22

Briggs & Morgan

Minneapolis, MN

163

3.07

Dow Lohnes

Washington, DC

163

1.84

Fredrikson & Byron

Minneapolis, MN

161

1.24

Leonard Street

Minneapolis, MN

161

1.24

Plunkett & Cooney

Detroit, MI

161

1.24

Ogletree Deakins

Greenville, SC

160

1.25

Riker Danzig

Morristown, NJ

158