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.

Name	Partners	Associates	Associates to every partner
Goulston & Storrs	113	8	0.1
Cozen O'Connor	403	147	0.4
Jackson Walker LLP	243	99	0.4
McDermott Will & Emery LLP	474	220	0.5
Gibbons P.C.	140	65	0.5
Fox Rothschild LLP	470	224	0.5
Dykema Gossett PLLC	276	141	0.5
Thompson & Knight LLP	152	81	0.5
Holland & Knight LLP	621	338	0.5
Wiley Rein LLP	113	62	0.5
Pillsbury	344	199	0.6
Schiff Hardin LLP	147	87	0.6
Brownstein Hyatt	131	79	0.6
Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP	32	20	0.6
Nixon Peabody LLP	325	224	0.7
Snell & Wilmer LLP	210	147	0.7
Vedder Price	158	111	0.7
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP	75	53	0.7
Mintz Levin	255	190	0.7
K&L Gates	629	489	0.8
Perkins Coie LLP	519	411	0.8
Duane Morris LLP	397	324	0.8
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP	309	256	0.8
Crowell & Moring LLP	167	141	0.8
DLA Piper LLP (US)	616	522	0.8
Venable LLP	295	250	0.8
Sheppard, Mullin	336	287	0.9
Brown Rudnick LLP	85	74	0.9
Reed Smith LLP	514	449	0.9
Fish & Richardson PC	181	165	0.9
Waller	116	107	0.9
Kilpatrick Townsend	251	233	0.9
Epstein Becker & Green PC	127	118	0.9
King & Spalding LLP	326	311	1.0
Baker McKenzie	344	342	1.0
Squire Patton Boggs	250	257	1.0
Jenner & Block LLP	213	221	1.0
Mayer Brown LLP	401	417	1.0
Greenberg Traurig, PA	968	1017	1.1
Alston & Bird LLP	345	366	1.1
Foley & Lardner LLP	411	457	1.1
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP	85	96	1.1
Vinson & Elkins LLP	279	316	1.1
Hunton & Williams LLP	264	303	1.1
Kirkland & Ellis LLP	744	860	1.2
Bracewell LLP	169	197	1.2
Finnegan	120	144	1.2
Irell & Manella LLP	45	55	1.2
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost	58	71	1.2
Hogan Lovells	397	489	1.2
Fitzpatrick, Cella	47	58	1.2
Winston & Strawn LLP	356	447	1.3
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP	644	847	1.3
Orrick	287	379	1.3
Akin Gump	268	356	1.3
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP	24	33	1.4
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP	64	88	1.4
Haynes and Boone, LLP	225	311	1.4
Kasowitz	90	125	1.4
Goodwin	311	435	1.4
Norton Rose Fulbright	296	419	1.4
Sedgwick LLP	110	158	1.4
Jones Day	954	1381	1.4
Baker Botts LLP	238	345	1.4
Morrison & Foerster LLP	247	360	1.5
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP	319	479	1.5
Sidley Austin LLP	586	988	1.7
Proskauer Rose LLP	217	384	1.8
Sterne, Kessler	49	87	1.8
Seward & Kissel LLP	57	104	1.8
Dechert LLP	216	400	1.9
Paul Hastings LLP	246	461	1.9
Cooley LLP	300	600	2.0
O'Melveny & Myers LLP	200	402	2.0
Kramer Levin	98	205	2.1
White & Case LLP	203	450	2.2
WilmerHale	255	568	2.2
Latham & Watkins LLP	468	1062	2.3
Wilson Sonsini	203	464	2.3
Patterson Belknap	51	117	2.3
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP	88	204	2.3
Allen & Overy LLP	48	115	2.4
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP	140	338	2.4
Cadwalader	71	172	2.4
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP	318	786	2.5
Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C.	7	18	2.6
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP	198	517	2.6
Clifford Chance US LLP	74	200	2.7
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP	66	187	2.8
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP	89	253	2.8
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	106	319	3.0
Skadden	297	896	3.0
Milbank	112	338	3.0
Ropes & Gray LLP	253	779	3.1
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	137	454	3.3
Freshfields	36	120	3.3
Linklaters	43	163	3.8
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett	152	605	4.0
Cleary Gottlieb	106	442	4.2
Paul, Weiss	129	550	4.3
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP	78	386	4.9