The list you’d build yourself, if you had a spare month and 198 browser tabs.
Search 73,000+ associates at 198 of the biggest U.S. firms by office, practice, class year and bar, and add 69,000+ partners and 23,000+ counsel with one switch each. Pull a shortlist with work emails and direct lines in five clicks. Every week you also see who left. Each one is a seat nobody has posted yet.
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Tell me if this sounds about right.
A partner at a client firm calls on a Tuesday. They want a 4th-year M&A associate in New York, from a top-20 firm, already admitted in New York. They’d love a few names by Friday.
So you start where everyone starts. You open the firm websites one at a time. Cravath lists its associates but gives them no bio pages. Davis Polk, Milbank and White & Case don’t publish graduation years, so you guess at seniority from old deal announcements. Paul, Weiss prints a graduation year on about one bio in a hundred.
Then you try LinkedIn. Half the profiles haven’t been touched since law school. One says she’s at Skadden. She left in June.
By Thursday night you have 31 names in a spreadsheet and you trust maybe 20 of them. Somewhere across town another recruiter is working the same order, and they started Monday.
The problem isn’t effort. The information lives on 198 different websites in 198 different formats, and it changes every week without telling anyone.
So we fixed that part.
We read all 198 firm websites so you can search them like one.
73,000+ associates. 198 firms. One search box.
Every name, office, practice, class year and bar admission comes straight from the firm’s own website. We check every firm again every week, so the list is current when you pick up the phone.
Firms all describe their people differently. We clean that up for you. Palo Alto, San Francisco and “Silicon Valley” all count as the Bay Area. 7,787 practice-group names become 26 practice areas you’d actually search for. When a firm leaves out class years, we fill them in from public state bar records and mark the ones we filled.
It works on your laptop and your phone. Every filter answers instantly.
What’s in it.
Paste the job order. Get the list.
Copy the description straight out of the client’s email and paste it in. LateralScout reads it the way you would. It picks out the office, the practice, the class-year range and the must-haves.
It also notices who’s hiring and leaves that firm’s own associates out of the results. You can’t pitch Kirkland its own people, so you shouldn’t have to scroll past them.
Words like “preferred” and “a plus” become nice-to-haves that sort the list instead of shrinking it. Clerkships, T14, a specific bar and languages all work. Everything it understood shows up as a chip, and you can remove any chip you disagree with.
We found the class years the firms left out.
Seniority is half of every job order, and plenty of firms simply don’t print it. So we went to public attorney-registration records in New York, California and Illinois and matched them back to the associates. That filled in class years for 7,005 U.S. associates who had none.
We tested the method on associates whose firms do publish a graduation year. In New York, bar admission came one year after graduation for 84% of them, so that’s the rule we use. Every year that came from bar records is marked that way, so you know which ones to double-check on a call.
And when we don’t know, we say so. Filter for 4th-years and you’ll see a line telling you how many other matches have no year on file, with one tap to include them. You never lose half of Davis Polk without knowing it.
| Firm | Firm prints a year | With a class year now |
|---|---|---|
| Paul, Weiss | 0% | 52% |
| Davis Polk | 0% | 77% |
| Cooley | 0% | 53% |
| Lewis Brisbois | 0% | 44% |
| Mayer Brown | 1% | 59% |
| McDermott Will & Schulte | 1% | 64% |
| White & Case | 0% | 46% |
A departure is a job opening nobody has posted yet.
Every week, we tell you whose bio came down.
We compare each firm’s associate list to the week before. When a bio comes down, you see it. When the same person shows up at another firm, you see both ends of the move.
Each move links to the evidence, so you can check it in seconds before you call anyone.
Here’s the play. The firm now has a seat to fill and hasn’t posted it. The associates who worked next to the one who left are covering those deals. They’re busier than they were last month, which makes this a good month to call them. We mark that team “in flux” for eight weeks, right on their cards.
Know a firm’s bench before you call it.
Open any firm and you get its U.S. associates laid out by practice and seniority. Every number is a link, so one tap shows you the actual people in that cell.
When a group has plenty of juniors and not many mid-levels, we put a small dot on it. That gap is often where a firm needs laterals before anyone has written a job description.
It works the other way too. If you’re pitching a candidate, you can see in ten seconds which firms have a crowded class above them and which don’t.
| Practice | 1st–2nd | 3rd–5th | 6th–8th | 9th+ | Year n/a |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litigation | 67 | 67 | 31 | 25 | 1 |
| M&A | 28 | 50 | 14 | 2 | 10 |
| Finance / Banking | 22 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 4 |
| Corporate (general) | 19 | 25 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| Tax | 18 | 28 | 7 | 7 | – |
| Antitrust | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Star three people, export a spreadsheet, send it before lunch.
Star anyone from any screen and a tray slides up at the bottom. One more tap exports a CSV with each person’s firm, office, practice, class year and where it came from, school, bars, work email and direct line, the firm bio and LinkedIn.
From a blank screen to a three-person shortlist in a file is five clicks. We counted.
Save a search and it keeps working for you. Next week it shows who’s new in it, who left, and who’s sitting on a team in flux.
█████████,Skadden,New York,M&A,2023,J.D. year on firm bio,…,New York,████@skadden.com,+1 212-███-████,…,…
███████,Davis Polk,New York,M&A,2023,Bar records,…,New York,████@davispolk.com,+1 212-███-████,…,…
███████████,Cleary,New York,M&A,2023,J.D. year on firm bio,…,New York,████@cgsh.com,+1 212-███-████,…,…
Seen enough to know whether you want it?
Request access →One placement is a lot of money. You know that better than we do.
Cravath’s published 2026 base for a 4th-year is $310,000. Say your fee is 25%.
× 25% fee
= $77,500 for one placement
Your fee is your business, and some firms now pay above that scale. The point is the size of the number. Now picture one placement you would have missed, or one you closed a week before someone else did. Hold that number up against the price once you see it.
Base salary from Cravath’s November 2025 memo as reported by the ABA Journal. The fee percentage is illustrative.
The 198 firms in it today.
Vault 50 firms by Vault rank, then the rest by Am Law rank. Counts are U.S. offices.
- 1Cravath379
- 2Wachtell Lipton164
- 3Skadden814
- 4Latham & Watkins1,533
- 5Sullivan & Cromwell467
- 6Kirkland & Ellis1,692
- 7Davis Polk648
- 8Gibson Dunn1,051
- 9Milbank402
- 10Simpson Thacher1,096
- 11Sidley Austin824
- 12Covington570
- 13Paul, Weiss738
- 14Quinn Emanuel498
- 15Weil473
- 16Cleary Gottlieb356
- 17Williams & Connolly207
- 18White & Case455
- 19Susman Godfrey67
- 20Ropes & Gray780
- 21Paul Hastings477
- 22Cooley621
- 23Debevoise528
- 24Ashurst Perkins Coie352
- 25WilmerHale372
- 26Jones Day823
- 27Morrison Foerster371
- 28O'Melveny231
- 29Munger Tolles110
- 30Hogan Lovells Cadwalader568
- 31Goodwin614
- 32Arnold & Porter414
- 33Proskauer Rose382
- 34Wilson Sonsini585
- 35Willkie693
- 36King & Spalding519
- 37Morgan Lewis753
- 38Akin268
- 39Winston Taylor388
- 40Orrick472
- 41Clifford Chance (US)216
- 42DLA Piper681
- 43Jenner & Block258
- 44Mayer Brown509
- 45Baker McKenzie224
- 46McDermott Will & Schulte470
- 47Fried Frank439
- 48Holland & Knight684
- 49K&L Gates310
- 50Freshfields (US)382
- AL17Greenberg Traurig769
- AL18Dentons379
- AL19Norton Rose Fulbright342
- AL33Troutman Pepper Locke672
- AL39Dechert388
- AL40Reed Smith354
- AL43Foley & Lardner413
- AL44Alston & Bird406
- AL45Squire Patton Boggs228
- AL47Sheppard Mullin480
- AL54McGuireWoods394
- AL55Polsinelli390
- AL56Faegre Drinker404
- AL58Vinson & Elkins348
- AL59BakerHostetler356
- AL60Nelson Mullins233
- AL61Taft Stettinius & Hollister386
- AL62Littler Mendelson368
- AL63Seyfarth Shaw282
- AL64Hunton Andrews Kurth226
- AL65Pillsbury Winthrop239
- AL66Katten192
- AL67Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner154
- AL68Venable244
- AL69Fenwick268
- AL70Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani629
- AL71Fox Rothschild261
- AL72Lewis Brisbois580
- AL73Blank Rome260
- AL74Fragomen341
- AL75Baker Botts231
- AL76Womble Bond Dickinson194
- AL77Ogletree Deakins327
- AL78Barnes & Thornburg292
- AL79Jackson Lewis533
- AL80Cozen O'Connor274
- AL82Husch Blackwell420
- AL83Mintz200
- AL84Duane Morris242
- AL85Haynes Boone255
- AL86Crowell & Moring163
- AL88Nixon Peabody198
- AL89Ballard Spahr256
- AL90Davis Wright Tremaine243
- AL91ArentFox Schiff189
- AL93Shook, Hardy & Bacon185
- AL94Wilson Elser606
- AL95Kilpatrick Townsend194
- AL96Akerman176
- AL98Steptoe159
- AL99Dorsey & Whitney204
- AL100Bradley Arant Boult Cummings285
- AL101Gunderson Dettmer216
- AL102Baker Donelson192
- AL103Fish & Richardson118
- AL104Lowenstein Sandler136
- AL105Jackson Walker162
- AL106Manatt93
- AL107Cahill Gordon149
- AL108Loeb & Loeb104
- AL109Snell & Wilmer203
- AL110Fisher Phillips336
- AL111Holland & Hart185
- AL112Dinsmore & Shohl288
- AL113Clark Hill148
- AL114Honigman101
- AL115Quarles & Brady147
- AL116Benesch225
- AL117Buchalter162
- AL118Spencer Fane207
- AL119Frost Brown Todd Gibbons241
- AL120Maynard Nexsen179
- AL121Dickinson Wright107
- AL122Choate Hall & Stewart88
- AL123Vedder Price138
- AL124Chapman and Cutler85
- AL125Bracewell79
- AL126Vorys124
- AL127Finnegan138
- AL129Kutak Rock139
- AL130Stinson172
- AL131Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney141
- AL132McCarter & English126
- AL133Winstead121
- AL134Foley Hoag109
- AL135Moore & Van Allen131
- AL136Saul Ewing110
- AL137Thompson Hine143
- AL138Cole, Scott & Kissane307
- AL139Stoel Rives141
- AL140Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck99
- AL141Brown Rudnick80
- AL142Thompson Coburn145
- AL143Marshall Dennehey177
- AL144Ice Miller128
- AL145Fredrikson & Byron126
- AL146Kelley Drye & Warren120
- AL147Burr & Forman109
- AL148Allen Matkins108
- AL149Epstein Becker Green96
- AL150Hinshaw & Culbertson191
- AL151Dykema78
- AL152Knobbe Martens67
- AL153Boies Schiller Flexner107
- AL154Lathrop GPM78
- AL155Carlton Fields113
- AL157Phelps Dunbar148
- AL158Patterson Belknap71
- AL159Hughes Hubbard & Reed42
- AL160Wiley Rein55
- AL161Day Pitney84
- AL162Goulston & Storrs62
- AL163Michael Best & Friedrich104
- AL164Smith, Gambrell & Russell68
- AL166Cole Schotz71
- AL167Goldberg Segalla172
- AL168Kasowitz47
- AL169Pryor Cashman84
- AL170Shutts & Bowen83
- AL171Fennemore78
- AL172Freeman Mathis & Gary281
- AL173Stradley Ronon75
- AL174Williams Mullen97
- AL175Robinson+Cole96
- AL176Shumaker Loop & Kendrick73
- AL177Adams and Reese86
- AL178Seward & Kissel81
- AL179Greenspoon Marder31
- AL180Offit Kurman59
- AL181Armstrong Teasdale72
- AL182Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo119
- AL183GrayRobinson56
- AL184Arnall Golden Gregory58
- AL185Hodgson Russ77
- AL187Stevens & Lee41
- AL188Bond, Schoeneck & King81
- AL189Hanson Bridgett99
- AL190Cox, Castle & Nicholson32
- AL191Robins Kaplan50
- AL192Porter Wright48
- AL193Eckert Seamans81
- AL194Tucker Ellis59
- AL195Sullivan & Worcester54
- AL196Herrick Feinstein36
- AL197UB Greensfelder58
- AL198Rutan & Tucker51
- AL199Procopio47
- AL200Hinckley Allen44
Objections.
Overruled“Firm websites are free. Why would I pay for this?”+
They are free. So is reading 198 of them every Monday and keeping a spreadsheet of what changed since last week. If you’d rather do that, you should. Most recruiters would rather spend that morning on the phone placing someone.
Overruled“I already pay for LinkedIn Recruiter.”+
Keep it. LinkedIn is where you reach people. This is where you work out who to reach, using what the firm itself says about them, and who just moved. Every card links to LinkedIn, straight to the profile whenever the firm’s own bio links to it.
Overruled“I’ll still have to dig for contact details.”+
You won’t. When the firm prints a work email and a direct line on the bio, they’re on the card, one tap away. That’s 88% of U.S. associates for email and 83% for phone. Nothing is guessed, and switchboard numbers are left out.
Overruled“Data like this is always stale.”+
Usually, yes. That’s the reason this exists. Every firm is re-checked weekly.
Overruled“I won’t use another tool at my desk.”+
Then don’t use it at your desk. It works on your phone, with a bottom tab bar and a full-screen filter sheet, so you can pull a list between calls.
“Who are you people?”+
Fair question. We’re Lookzy. We write a newsletter at readlookzy.com for BigLaw associates and in-house lawyers, which means we already spend our days on these firms’ websites. LateralScout is what came out of keeping track.
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Thanks for reading this far. That’s a lot of scrolling for a database, and I appreciate it.
If you place BigLaw associates, I think this will save you most of a day on every new search. Send me a note and I’ll get you set up.
P.S. Not sure yet? Email me the hardest seat you’re working right now. Give me the firm, office, practice, class years and anything that’s a must. I’ll reply with how many associates match and which firms they’re at. No strings.