{"id":149042,"date":"2026-04-17T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:20:55","slug":"ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/17\/ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking The Wealth Of Biglaw\u2019s Best: Is Your Law Firm \u2018Super Rich\u2019? (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2025 \u2014 a year where large law firms really had the\u00a0urge to merge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0nonequity partnership ranks<\/a>\u00a0continued to expand\u00a0\u2014 your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially\u2026 but is it among the Am Law 100\u2019s Super Rich?<\/p>\n

What qualifies a firm to be designated as among the Super Rich? As it turns out, Biglaw did so incredibly well in 2025 that the American Lawyer<\/a> had to adjust the parameters needed to be included on this exclusive list. These are the Biglaw firms that had at least $1.45 million in revenue per lawyer (RPL) (up from $1.1 million in 2024) and $625,000 in profits per lawyer (PPL) (up from $550,000 in 2024). The Biglaw firms on this list are rolling around in cash, and they\u2019re not afraid to flaunt it after coming through ahead of peer firms last year. Per Am Law, the Super Rich list is now down to 37 firms, compared to 41 last year. <\/p>\n

Before we get to the members of the 2026 Super Rich list, we\u2019ll let you know the four firms that dropped off, and only one was due to a merger. Those firms are Schulte Roth & Zabel (the firm merged with McDermott Will & Emery, and the combined firm, McDermott Will & Schulte, is a Super Rich firm); Fish & Richardson (didn\u2019t make the Am Law 100); Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (didn\u2019t make the new financial cut for the Super Rich); and Jones Day (didn\u2019t make the new financial cut for the Super Rich). <\/p>\n

Now, without further ado, here are the top 10 firms on the\u00a0Super Rich list:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wachtell<\/li>\n
  2. Susman Godfrey<\/li>\n
  3. Davis Polk <\/li>\n
  4. Kirkland & Ellis<\/li>\n
  5. Ropes & Gray<\/li>\n
  6. Sullivan & Cromwell<\/li>\n
  7. Quinn Emanuel<\/li>\n
  8. Skadden<\/li>\n
  9. Paul, Weiss<\/li>\n
  10. Cravath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to see the complete list of 37 firms.<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to all of the Biglaw firms that made it into the Super Rich club in 2025! If your firm performs well enough, 2026 could be your year to shine \u2014 after all, almost half of the Am Law 100 is already here!<\/p>\n

    The Super Rich Keep Cranking It Up\u2014So We Did, Too<\/a> [American Lawyer]<\/p>\n

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    Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    The post Ranking The Wealth Of Biglaw\u2019s Best: Is Your Law Firm \u2018Super Rich\u2019? (2026)<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2025 \u2014 a year where large law firms really had the\u00a0urge to merge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0nonequity partnership ranks<\/a>\u00a0continued to expand\u00a0\u2014 your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially\u2026 but is it among the Am Law 100\u2019s Super Rich?<\/p>\n

    What qualifies a firm to be designated as among the Super Rich? As it turns out, Biglaw did so incredibly well in 2025 that the American Lawyer<\/a> had to adjust the parameters needed to be included on this exclusive list. These are the Biglaw firms that had at least $1.45 million in revenue per lawyer (RPL) (up from $1.1 million in 2024) and $625,000 in profits per lawyer (PPL) (up from $550,000 in 2024). The Biglaw firms on this list are rolling around in cash, and they\u2019re not afraid to flaunt it after coming through ahead of peer firms last year. Per Am Law, the Super Rich list is now down to 37 firms, compared to 41 last year. <\/p>\n

    Before we get to the members of the 2026 Super Rich list, we\u2019ll let you know the four firms that dropped off, and only one was due to a merger. Those firms are Schulte Roth & Zabel (the firm merged with McDermott Will & Emery, and the combined firm, McDermott Will & Schulte, is a Super Rich firm); Fish & Richardson (didn\u2019t make the Am Law 100); Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (didn\u2019t make the new financial cut for the Super Rich); and Jones Day (didn\u2019t make the new financial cut for the Super Rich). <\/p>\n

    Now, without further ado, here are the top 10 firms on the\u00a0Super Rich list:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Wachtell<\/li>\n
    2. Susman Godfrey<\/li>\n
    3. Davis Polk <\/li>\n
    4. Kirkland & Ellis<\/li>\n
    5. Ropes & Gray<\/li>\n
    6. Sullivan & Cromwell<\/li>\n
    7. Quinn Emanuel<\/li>\n
    8. Skadden<\/li>\n
    9. Paul, Weiss<\/li>\n
    10. Cravath<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to see the complete list of 37 firms.<\/p>\n

      Congratulations to all of the Biglaw firms that made it into the Super Rich club in 2025! If your firm performs well enough, 2026 could be your year to shine \u2014 after all, almost half of the Am Law 100 is already here!<\/p>\n

      The Super Rich Keep Cranking It Up\u2014So We Did, Too<\/a> [American Lawyer]<\/p>\n

      \n
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      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2025 \u2014 a year where large law firms really had the\u00a0urge to merge\u00a0and\u00a0nonequity partnership ranks\u00a0continued to expand\u00a0\u2014 your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially\u2026 but is it among the Am Law 100\u2019s Super Rich? What qualifies a firm to be designated as among the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-9wJg1n.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}