According to the Spring 2004 Minority Law Journal (published by the American Lawyer) and the 2002-2003 National Directory of Legal Employers, here are the 20 law firms with the highest percentage of Asian-Americans:

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Wilson Sonsini	Palo Alto, CA	600	16.3
Knobbe Martens	Irvine, CA	162	16.0
Pennie & Edmonds	New York, NY	190	15.3
Morrison & Foerster	San Francisco, CA	927	13.6
Fitzpatrick, Cella	New York, NY	162	13.0
Fenwick & West	Palo Alto, CA	246	12.6
Fish & Neave	New York, NY	197	12.2
O’Melveny & Myers	Los Angeles, CA	974	11.3
Milbank Tweed	New York, NY	439	10.71
Heller Ehrman	San Francisco, CA	704	10.65
Cravath Swaine	New York, NY	456	10.3
Davis Polk	New York, NY	565	9.4
Cooley Godward	Palo Alto, CA	455	9.0
Pillsbury Winthrop	San Francisco, CA	691	8.7
Latham & Watkins	Los Angeles, CA	1279	8.29
Gray Cary	Palo Alto, CA	387	8.27
Allen Matkins Leck	Los Angeles, CA	159	8.18
Skadden Arps	New York, NY	1689	8.17
Cleary Gottlieb	New York, NY	643	7.9
Cahill Gordon	New York, NY	219	7.3

According to the Spring 2004 Minority Law Journal, and 2002-2003 National Directory of Legal Employers,  here are the largest law firms in the country with the fewest Asian-American attorneys, i.e. Asian-Americans comprise fewer than 2.35% of their attorneys. On average, 4.7% of the attorneys at the 250 largest law firms were Asian-American.

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Law firm	Headquarters
Clausen Miller	Chicago, IL
Coudert Brothers	New York, NY
Fowler White	Miami, FL
Milberg Weiss	New York, NY
Stinson Morrison Hecker	Kansas City, MO

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Holland & Knight	Washington, DC	1164	2.15

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Vinson & Elkins	Houston, TX	819	2.32
Hunton & Williams	Richmond, VA	778	2.19
King & Spalding	Atlanta, GA	764	1.70
McGuire Woods	Richmond, VA	649	1.08
Troutman Sanders	Atlanta, GA	525	1.33

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Ballard Spahr	Philadelphia, PA	464	1.72
Womble Carlyle	Winston-Salem, NC	459	1.52
Cozen O’Connor	Philadelphia, PA	458	0.22
Blank Rome	Philadelphia, PA	450	0.44
Drinker Biddle	Philadelphia, PA	449	2.00

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Pepper Hamilton	Philadelphia, PA	397	1.01
Patton Boggs	Washington, DC	389	2.06
Hinshaw & Culbertson	Chicago, IL	387	1.29
Barnes & Thornburg	Indianapolis, IN	373	0.80
Bracewell & Patterson	Houston, TX	372	2.15
Stoel Rives	Portland, OR	366	1.09
Thompson Hine	Cleveland, OH	364	2.20
Frost Brown	Louisville, KY	362	0.28
Thompson & Knight	Dallas, TX	350	2.00
Akerman Senterfitt	Miami, FL	347	0.29
Vorys Sater	Columbus, OH	344	0.87
Sutherland Asbill	Atlanta, GA	341	1.47
Baker Donelson	Memphis, TN	339	1.18
Michael Best	Milwaukee, WI	329	1.82
Marshall Dennehy	Philadelphia, PA	326	1.23
Nelson Mullins	Columbia, SC	318	0.94
Winstead Secrest	Dallas, TX	317	1.26
Husch & Eppenberger	St. Louis, MO	315	0.95
Schiff Hardin	Chicago, IL	309	1.62
Thompson Coburn	St. Louis, MO	302	0.33

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Miller Canfield	Detroit, MI	298	0.67
Porter Wright	Columbus, OH	296	0
Blackwell Sanders	Kansas City, MO	286	0.70
Holland & Hart	Denver, CO	285	0.70
Jackson & Walker	Dallas, TX	285	0.35
Gardere Wynne	Dallas, TX	283	1.06
Powell Goldstein	Atlanta, GA	282	1.77
Dykema Gossett	Detroit, MI	275	2.18
Dinsmore & Shohl	Cincinnati, OH	270	0.37
Wolf Block	Philadelphia, PA	261	1.15
Fox Rothschild	Philadelphia, PA	252	0.40
Williams Mullen	Richmond, VA	244	1.23
Phelps Dunbar	New Orleans, LA	239	0
Armstrong Teasdale	St. Louis, MO	237	1.27
Saul Ewing	Philadelphia, PA	232	2.16
Edwards & Angell	Boston, MA	232	0.43
Moore & Van Allen	Charlotte, NC	230	0.43
Lathrop & Gage	Kansas City, MO	229	0.44
Stites & Harbison	Louisville, KY	224	0.45
Eckert Seamans	Pittsburgh, PA	222	1.80
Carlton Fields	Tampa, FL	220	0.45
Jones Walker	New Orleans, LA	220	0
Ice Miller	Indianapolis, IN	216	0
Holme Roberts	Denver, CO	212	0.47
Butzel Long	Detroit, MI	206	0.97
Vedder Price	Chicago, IL	203	0.99
Strasburger & Price	Dallas, TX	200	0.50

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Harris Beach	Rochester, NY	196	1.02
Bradley Arant	Birmingham, AL	194	1.55
Honigman Miller	Detroit, MI	193	0.52
Brown Rudnick	Boston, MA	192	1.04
Reinhart Boerner	Milwaukee, WI	190	2.11
Taft Stettinius	Cincinnati, OH	188	1.60
Calfee Halter	Cleveland, OH	187	0.53
Wyatt Tarrant	Louisville, KY	183	0.55
Leonard Street	Minneapolis, MN	180	1.67
Cummings & Lockwood	Stamford, CT	180	1.11
Ogletree Deakins	Atlanta, GA	178	1.69
Fredrikson & Byron	Minneapolis, MN	177	1.69
Kutak Rock	Omaha, NE	174	1.15
Warner Norcross	Grand Rapids, MI	173	1.73
Greenebaum Doll	Louisville, KY	172	0.58
Godfrey & Kahn	Milwaukee, WI	172	1.74
Lewis Rice	St. Louis, MO	170	0
Choate Hall	Boston, MA	168	1.79
Kennedy Covington	Charlotte, NC	165	0.61
Plunkett & Cooney	Detroit, MI	163	0.61
Nutter McClellen	Boston, MA	162	1.85
Briggs & Morgan	Minneapolis, MN	162	1.23
Hughes & Luce	Dallas, TX	161	1.86
Montgomery McCracken	Philadelphia, PA	161	0.62
Stevens & Lee	Reading, PA	153	0
Phillips Lytle	Buffalo, NY	134	0.75
Steel Hector	Miami, FL	130	1.54

 

 

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