Partner-associate leverage

The Responsibility Factor, AKA the partner-associate ratio

The levels of responsibility associates enjoy (or don't) is not easily summarized in a figure; each firm has its own style of work with its own unique responsibilities. This basic ratio showing how much partner exposure each associate gets favors the firms outside Manhattan, but let's remember that the adrenaline-fuelled New York market offers associates no end of high-stakes work. So this table gives a basic idea of how a firm staffs its teams, but for a more nuanced perspective, the Inside View merits a read. It also helps you appreciate the likelihood of making partner.

Firm	Partners	Associates	Leverage
Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP	37	13	2.8
Cozen O'Connor	444	169	2.6
Jackson Walker LLP	243	99	2.5
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller	32	14	2.3
Greenberg Glusker	63	29	2.2
Fox Rothschild LLP	497	241	2.1
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP	79	39	2.0
Wiley Rein LLP	113	57	2.0
Dykema Gossett PLLC	276	141	2.0
McDermott Will & Emery LLP	472	245	1.9
Thompson & Knight LLP	148	79	1.9
Goulston & Storrs	121	70	1.7
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP	362	235	1.5
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP	393	263	1.5
Snell & Wilmer LLP	202	153	1.3
Waller	133	104	1.3
Holland & Knight LLP	628	493	1.3
Vedder Price	160	126	1.3
Jenner & Block LLP	227	179	1.3
Crowell & Moring LLP	188	149	1.3
K&L Gates	591	474	1.2
Duane Morris LLP	397	324	1.2
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP	297	245	1.2
Foley & Lardner LLP	482	402	1.2
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP	324	281	1.2
Reed Smith LLP	448	395	1.1
Brown Rudnick LLP	85	75	1.1
DLA Piper LLP (US)	612	543	1.1
Venable LLP	306	272	1.1
Fish & Richardson PC	182	162	1.1
Troutman Sanders LLP	295	267	1.1
Mintz Levin	239	219	1.1
Squire Patton Boggs	262	244	1.1
King & Spalding LLP	338	317	1.1
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP	387	372	1.0
Perkins Coie LLP	513	497	1.0
Epstein Becker & Green PC	132	128	1.0
Mayer Brown LLP	401	417	1.0
Irell & Manella LLP	46	48	1.0
Norton Rose Fulbright	309	325	1.0
Greenberg Traurig, PA	992	1,051	0.9
Alston & Bird LLP	345	366	0.9
Winston & Strawn LLP	398	428	0.9
Finnegan	121	134	0.9
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto	49	55	0.9
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.	54	63	0.9
Kirkland & Ellis LLP	838	1,000	0.8
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP	633	762	0.8
Bracewell LLP	158	196	0.8
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	84	106	0.8
Jones Day	656	843	0.8
Hogan Lovells	400	525	0.8
Haynes and Boone, LLP	230	311	0.7
Goodwin	318	444	0.7
Baker Botts LLP	243	340	0.7
Sidley Austin LLP	577	808	0.7
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost	52	74	0.7
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	267	386	0.7
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP	63	97	0.6
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP	299	467	0.6
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP	25	40	0.6
Proskauer Rose LLP	235	386	0.6
Vinson & Elkins LLP	201	340	0.6
Morrison & Foerster LLP	237	404	0.6
Seward & Kissel LLP	53	92	0.6
Dechert LLP	209	371	0.6
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP	299	541	0.6
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP	90	176	0.5
Cooley LLP	300	600	0.5
Paul Hastings LLP	232	469	0.5
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP	82	167	0.5
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP	50	105	0.5
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.	8	17	0.5
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati	204	438	0.5
WilmerHale	249	538	0.5
Latham & Watkins LLP	502	1,087	0.5
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP	98	217	0.5
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP	77	172	0.4
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP	75	172	0.4
O'Melveny & Myers LLP	186	438	0.4
Fried, Frank	122	298	0.4
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	317	800	0.4
White & Case LLP	186	477	0.4
Clifford Chance US LLP	72	201	0.4
Allen & Overy LLP	45	128	0.4
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP	167	476	0.4
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP	86	250	0.3
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	181	538	0.3
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP	66	201	0.3
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	134	417	0.3
Skadden	289	900	0.3
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP	114	356	0.3
Linklaters	43	147	0.3
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	137	476	0.3
Ropes & Gray LLP	235	879	0.3
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP	41	157	0.3
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	155	602	0.3
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	108	481	0.2
Paul, Weiss	132	612	0.2
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	75	358	0.2
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP	132	688	0.2