According to the Summer 2005 Minority Law Journal (published by the American Lawyer) and the 2004-2005 National Directory of Legal Employers, here are the largest law firms with the highest percentage of Asian-Americans:

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Fenwick & West	Palo Alto, CA	259	17.8
Fish & Neave	New York, NY	161	17.4
Townsend and Townsend	San Francisco	160	16.3
Knobbe Martens	Irvine, CA	163	16.0
Wilson Sonsini	Palo Alto, CA	578	14.4
Morrison & Foerster	San Francisco, CA	904	14.3
Simpson Thacher	New York, NY	614	13.5
Shearman & Sterling	New York, NY	550	12.7
O’Melveny & Myers	Los Angeles, CA	948	12.2
*Fitzpatrick, Cella	New York, NY	163	11.7
Milbank Tweed	New York, NY	434	11.3
Paul Weiss	New York, NY	522	10.5
Irell & Manella	Los Angeles, CA	233	10.3
Quinn Emanuel	Los Angeles, CA	217	10.1
Howrey	Washington, DC	458	10.0
Bingham McCutchen	Boston, MA	865	9.9
Sedgwick Detert	San Francisco, CA	312	9.3
Lewis Brisbois	Los Angeles, CA	459	9.2
*Cravath Swaine	New York, NY	430	9.069
Heller Ehrman	San Francisco, CA	695	9.064
Dewey Ballantine	New York, NY	446	8.9
Pillsbury Winthrop	San Francisco, CA	647	8.8
Fish & Richardson	Boston, MA	323	8.669
Davis Polk	New York, NY	531	8.663
Davis Wright	Seattle, WA	381	8.661

*Plantation.  No Asian American partners.

According to the Summer 2005 Minority Law Journal (published by the American Lawyer) and the 2004-2005 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
Brown McCarroll	Austin, TX

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
King & Spalding	Atlanta, GA	786	2.29
Vinson & Elkins	Houston, TX	767	2.09
Hunton & Williams	Richmond, VA	753	2.26
McGuire Woods	Richmond, VA	677	1.18
Troutman Sanders	Atlanta, GA	501	1.80

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Cozen O’Connor	Philadelphia, PA	473	0.42
Womble Carlyle	Winston-Salem, NC	469	1.07
Blank Rome	Philadelphia, PA	459	1.09
Drinker Biddle	Philadelphia, PA	458	1.53
Ballard Spahr	Philadelphia, PA	435	1.84
Pepper Hamilton	Philadelphia, PA	427	1.64
Hinshaw & Culbertson	Chicago, IL	402	2.24
Akerman Senterfitt	Miami, FL	402	0.5

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Barnes & Thornburg	Indianapolis, IN	397	1.51
Baker Donelson	Memphis, TN	396	1.0
Vorys Sater	Columbus, OH	365	1.10
Frost Brown	Cincinnati, OH	360	0.28
Nelson Mullins	Columbia, SC	356	0.84
Bracewell & Patterson	Houston, TX	353	0.85
Stoel Rives	Portland, OR	352	0.85
Thompson Hine	Cleveland, OH	349	1.72
McCarter & English	Newark, NJ	348	2.30
Dykema Gossett	Detroit, MI	346	1.45
Marshall Dennehy	Philadelphia, PA	343	1.75
Buchanan Ingersoll	Pittsburgh, PA	342	2.05
Schiff Hardin	Chicago, IL	336	1.79
Stinson Morrison Hecker	Kansas City, MO	326	1.53
Thompson & Knight	Dallas, TX	326	1.23
Miller Canfield	Detroit, MI	325	1.54
Michael Best	Milwaukee, WI	322	0.93
Husch & Eppenberger	St. Louis, MO	319	0.63
Porter Wright	Columbus, OH	311	1.93
Winstead Secrest	Dallas, TX	311	0.96
Wolf Block	Philadelphia, PA	301	1.33

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Holland & Hart	Denver, CO	293	0.68
Baker & Daniels	Indianapolis, IN	291	2.06
Fox Rothschild	Philadelphia, PA	282	0.71
Thompson Coburn	St. Louis, MO	281	0.36
Blackwell Sanders	Kansas City, MO	279	0.72
Gardere Wynne	Dallas, TX	276	1.81
Lathrop & Gage	Kansas City, MO	275	0.73
Ogletree Deakins	Atlanta, GA	261	1.92
Eckert Seamans	Pittsburgh, PA	254	1.18
Adams and Reese	New Orleans, LA	252	0.4
Phelps Dunbar	New Orleans, LA	252	0
Edwards & Angell	Boston, MA	245	1.22
Williams Mullen	Richmond, VA	244	1.64
Dinsmore & Shohl	Cincinnati, OH	244	1.23
Armstrong Teasdale	St. Louis, MO	243	1.23
Day Berry	Hartford, CT	240	1.67
Stites & Harbison	Louisville, KY	240	0
Saul Ewing	Philadelphia, PA	237	1.69
Moore & Van Allen	Charlotte, NC	230	0.87
Ice Miller	Indianapolis, IN	228	0.44
Robinson & Cole	Hartford, CT	227	1.76
Balch & Bingham	Birmingham, AL	225	0
Carlton Fields	Tampa, FL	220	0.91
Vedder Price	Chicago, IL	215	1.86
Jones Walker	New Orleans, LA	213	0
Holme Roberts	Denver, CO	211	0.95
Bradley Arant	Birmingham, AL	207	1.45
Allen Matkins	Los Angeles, CA	204	1.96
Polsinelli Shalton	Kansas City, MO	204	0.5
Honigman Miller	Detroit, MI	201	0.5
Butzel Long	Detroit, MI	201	0.5
Dickinson Wright	Detroit	200	2.00

 

Law firm	Headquarters	# attys	% Asian Am
Calfee Halter	Cleveland, OH	198	1.01
Wyatt Tarrant	Louisville, KY	196	1.02
Strasburger & Price	Dallas, TX	196	0.51
Roetzel & Andress	Akron, OH	194	0
Miles & Stockbridge	Baltimore, MD	190	1.05
Taft Stettinius	Cincinnati, OH	189	1.59
Ruden McClosky	Fort Lauderdale, FL	189	1.06
Godfrey & Kahn	Milwaukee, WI	188	1.60
Fowler White	Tampa, FL	187	1.604
Brown Rudnick	Boston, MA	186	1.61
Harris Beach	Rochester, NY	186	0.54
Boies, Schiller & Flexner	Armonk, NY	185	1.62
Greenebaum Doll	Louisville, KY	182	1.10
Leonard Street	Minneapolis, MN	182	1.10
Goulston & Storrs	Boston, MA	179	1.12
Lewis and Roca	Phoenix, AZ	179	0
McGlinchey Stafford	New Orleans, LA	178	0.56
Lindquist & Vennum	Minneapolis, MN	177	2.26
Nexsen Pruet	Columbia, SC	176	0.57
Lewis Rice	St. Louis, MO	174	0.57
Shughart Thomson	Kansas City, MO	173	0.58
Burr & Forman	Birmingham, AL	171	0.58
Warner Norcross	Grand Rapids, MI	171	0
Stevens & Lee	Reading, PA	170	1.76
Gibbons, Del Deo	Newark, NJ	170	1.18
Bond Schoeneck	Syracuse, NY	169	1.78
Bass, Berry	Nashville, TN	168	0
Waller Lansden	Nashville, TN	168	0.60
Choate Hall	Boston, MA	167	1.20
Jackson Kelly	Charleston, WV	167	0.60
Miller Martin	Chattanooga, TN	167	0
GrayRobinson	Orlando, FL	165	1.21
Parker Poe	Charlotte, NC	163	1.23
Bullivant Houser	Portland, OR	162	1.85
Fisher & Phillips	Atlanta, GA	162	1.85
Nutter McClellan	Boston, MA	153	1.31
Briggs & Morgan	Minnesota, MN	151	1.32
Montgomery McCracken	Philadelphia, PA	143	2.10
Steel Hector	Miami, FL	142	1.41
Hughes & Luce	Dallas, TX	141	1.42
Kutak Rock	Omaha, NE	138	0
Kennedy Covington	Charlotte, NC	131	0.76
McKee Nelson	Washington, DC	115	0