2020 Colorado 200

The 2020 Colorado 200 survey, like most other annual check-ins, is a study of the coronavirus as much as it is a study of the legal market. Each year, Law Week Colorado’s reporting team conducts a survey of the 200 largest private practice law firms in Colorado.

We contacted the firms and solicited information via a survey, which was advertised in Law Week Colorado and on LawWeekColorado.com through October and November — confined to those two months to give us a snapshot of a moment in time.


The survey asks for the number of total attorneys at a firm, the number of Colorado attorneys and some other demographic and contact information. The list below only reflects headcount. Overall attorney numbers at law firms declined over the past year. For the past several years, we’ve seen the total number of attorneys counted on the list slowly tick up. This year’s list saw a decline of 55 attorneys. The whole number reduction isn’t too eyebrow-raising on its own, but when considering the average office has just 23 attorneys, the reduction represents two law firms worth of lawyers. Without many larger firms disappearing from the list, which would shift the representation of even smaller firms, we interpret this as an overall shrinking at law firms. Not indicated on this list is how many staff positions have been cut over the past year.

Also of note this year: We saw few acquisitions or mergers, as expected. According to Altman Weil’s MergerLine, law firm mergers hit a 10-year low as of Q2 2020, and of the 57 mergers announced to date, just 13 were between firms with more than 10 attorneys each. No significant mergers involved Colorado law firms.

This year’s list is a clearer, yet reinforced, snapshot at diversity at the partner ranks. We received information from more law firms this year regarding diversity among partnership, yet the numbers match our previous information —33% of partners are women and 8% are attorneys of color. Colorado beats the national average for women in partner positions but lags behind in minority representation.

The list of Colorado’s largest law firms is below, ranked according to the number of local attorneys. Did we miss
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2020 Rank Firm Total Lawyers Colorado Lawyers Change in Rank Change in CO Attorneys
1 Holland & Hart 451 223 0 1
2 Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck 258 149 2 10
3 Sherman & Howard 179 148 -1 -7
4 Davis Graham & Stubbs 137 137 -1 -9
5 Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell 102 100 0 -5
6 Hall & Evans 106 92 1 -1
7 Hogan Lovells 2838 88 3 5
8 Polsinelli 859 86 -2 -12
8 Kutak Rock 549 86 0 -2
10 Faegre Drinker Biddle Reath 1218 80 1 3
11 Greenberg Traurig 2157 78 1 4
12 Moye White 69 69 2 8
13 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner 1466 68 -4 -18
14 Perkins Coie 1244 62 -1 -7
15 Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie 218 55 -1 -6
16 Messner Reeves 107 54 0 -2
17 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1451 50 0 1
18 Berg Hill Greenleaf + Ruscitti 47 47 8 6
18 Sheridan Ross 47 47 3 2
20 Spencer Fane 303 46 -2 -2
21 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith 1576 45 0 0
22 Franklin D. Azar & Associates 43 43 1 -1
22 Fox Rothschild 944 43 13 9
24 Fairfield and Woods 41 41 -1 -3
24 Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti 41 41 1 -1
26 Burg Simpson 71 40 -8 -8
26 Cooley 1161 40 3 1
26 Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani 1040 40 7 5
26 Robinson & Henry 40 40 18 10
30 Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe 39 39 -2 -1
30 Snell & Wilmer 450 39 -4 -2
32 Husch Blackwell 753 38 -12 -8
33 Ballard Spahr 630 37 -2 0
34 Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio 36 36 1 2
35 BakerHostetler 959 35 3 2
35 Caplan & Earnest 35 35 9 5
37 Dorsey & Whitney 550 33 -8 -6
37 Jones & Keller 33 33 3 1
39 Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher 32 32 -1 -1
39 Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley 40 32 3 1
41 Bartlit Beck 88 31 -8 -4
42 Hutchinson Black and Cook 30 30 7 3
42 Ritsema & Lyon 32 30 2 0
42 WilmerHale 890 30 11 5
45 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton 640 28 -10 -6
46 Armstrong Teasdale 290 27 9 3
46 Arnold & Porter 1101 27 7 2
46 Beatty & Wozniak 33 27 -6 -5
46 Burns Figa & Will 27 27 -4 -4
46 Riggs Abney Neal Turpen Orbison & Lewis 79 27 9 3
46 Senter Goldfarb & Rice 27 27 18 6
52 Ruegsegger Simons Smith & Stern 26 26 -1 0
52 Senn Visciano Canges 26 26 -21 -11
54 Bachus & Schanker 25 25 -5 -2
54 Littler 1568 25 10 4
54 Lyons Gaddis 25 25 1 1
54 The Sawaya Law Firm 25 25 7 2
54 White and Steele 25 25 -3 -1
59 Coan Payton & Payne 24 24 -4 0
59 Dentons 5256 24 -4 0
59 The Harris Law Firm 24 24 5 3
59 Hoskin Farina & Kampf 24 24 4 2
63 Fisher Phillips 481 23 13 5
63 KO Law Firm 23 23 6 3
65 Williams & Weese Pepple & Ferguson 20 20 -17 -8
66 Frascona Joiner Goodman & Greenstein 19 19 3 -1
66 Jackson Lewis 933 19 3 -1
66 Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell 36 19 3 -1
66 Montgomery Little & Soran 19 19 13 2
66 Squire Patton Boggs 1500 19 -11 -5
71 Dietze and Davis 18 18 -7 -3
71 Holland & Knight 1320 18 8 1
71 Ogborn Mihm 18 18 33 5
71 Ogletree Deakins 910 18 8 1
71 Pollart Miller 21 18 5 0
71 Stinson 443 18 -7 -3
71 White Bear Ankele Tanaka & Waldron 18 18 8 1
78 Dill Dill Carr Stonbraker & Hutchings 17 17 -2 -1
78 Fortis Law Partners 17 17 N/A N/A
78 Garfield & Hecht 17 17 -31 -12
78 Sparks Wilson Borges Brandt & Johnson 17 17 14 2
78 Wells Anderson & Race 17 17 14 2
83 Adsero IP 16 16 3 0
83 Allen & Vellone 16 16 -4 -1
83 Treece Alfrey Musat 16 16 -4 -1
83 Vicente Sederberg 39 16 -9 -3
83 Shapiro Bieging Barber Otteson 20 16 3 0
88 Balcomb & Green 15 15 12 1
88 Butler Snow 382 15 12 1
88 Campbell Killin Brittan & Ray 15 15 16 2
88 Ciancio Ciancio Brown 15 15 4 0
88 Divorce Matters 15 15 43 5
88 Dufford Waldeck Milburn & Krohn 15 15 -2 -1
88 Hall Estill 135 15 -2 -1
88 Haynes & Boone 575 15 12 1
88 Lathrop GPM 351 15 -27 -8
88 Merchant & Gould 91 15 -19 -5
88 Nixon Shefrin Hensen Ogburn 15 15 -9 -2
88 Springer & Steinberg 15 15 -2 -1
100 Altitude Community Law 14 14 -8 -1
100 Childs McCune 14 14 4 1
100 Griffiths Law 14 14 -14 -2
100 Hoban Law Group 52 14 4 1
100 McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter 229 14 0 0
100 Montgomery Amatuzio Dusbabek Chase 14 14 4 1
100 Sweetbaum Sands Anderson 14 14 -26 -5
107 Collins Cockrel & Cole 13 13 6 1
107 Miller & Steiert 13 13 19 2
107 Taylor | Anderson 26 13 -15 -2
107 Woods Aitken 32 13 -3 0
111 Coombe Curry Rich Jarvis 12 12 2 0
111 Cordell & Cordell 12 -19 -3
111 Greenspoon Marder 208 12 2 0
111 Jackson Kelly 164 12 2 0
111 Karp Neu Hanlon 12 12 2 0
111 Keating Wagner Polidori Free 12 12 -7 -1
111 Lasater & Martin PC 14 12 N/A N/A
111 McGeady Becher 12 12 -7 -1
111 Morrison Foerster 997 12 20 2
111 Norton Rose Fulbright 3266 12 20 2
121 Cochran Freund & Young 11 11 5 0
121 Cozen O’Connor 807 11 -8 -1
121 Dworkin Chambers Williams York Benson & Evans 11 11 5 0
121 Gasper Law Group 11 11 -8 -1
121 Hernandez & Associates 11 11 -8 -1
121 Katz Look & Onorato 11 11 5 0
121 Markus Williams Young & Hunsicker 12 11 -8 -1
121 Murr Siler & Accomazo 13 11 24 2
121 Nathan Dumm & Mayer 11 11 10 1
121 Ridley McGreevy & Winocur 11 11 -8 -1
121 Wegener Scarborough & Lane 11 11 24 2
132 Anderson & Jahde 10 10 -1 0
132 Denver Trial Lawyers 10 10 -19 -2
132 Fischer Brown Bartlett and Gunn 10 10 -6 -1
132 Godfrey Johnson 11 10 -28 -3
132 Haddon Morgan and Foreman 10 10 -40 -5
132 Hamilton Faatz 10 10 13 1
132 Hamre Rodriguez Ostrander & Dingess 10 10 -1 0
132 The Hustead Law Firm 10 10 13 1
132 Killmer Lane & Newman 10 10 13 1
132 Metier Law Firm 10 10 -1 0
132 Otis & Bedingfield 10 10 -1 0
132 Richards Carrington 12 10 28 2
132 Vranesh and Raisch 10 10 13 1
145 Davis & Ceriani 9 9 -14 -1
145 Epstein Patierno 9 9 15 1
145 Gradisar Trechter Ripperger & Roth 9 9 -14 -1
145 Jachimiak Peterson 9 9 15 1
145 Jester Gibson & Moore 9 9 39 3
145 Levin Sitcoff 9 9 0 0
145 Martinez Law Group 9 9 46 4
145 Oates Knezevich Gardenswartz Kelly & Morrow 9 9 0 0
145 Packard and Dierking 9 9 0 0
145 Trout Raley Montaño & Freeman 9 9 0 0
145 Tucker Holmes 9 9 15 1
156 Baldwin Morgan & Rider 8 8 4 0
156 Glade Voogt Lord Smith 8 8 -25 -2
156 Hackstaff and Snow 8 8 4 0
156 Harris Karstaedt Jamison & Powers 8 8 4 0
156 Johnson & Repucci 8 8 4 0
156 Litvak Litvak Mehrtens and Carlton 8 8 -11 -1
156 McCollum Crowley Moschet Miller & Laak 26 8 4 0
156 Minor & Brown 8 8 -25 -2
156 Mulliken Weiner Berg & Jolivet 8 8 -11 -1
156 Poulson Odell & Peterson 8 8 -11 -1
156 Rathod Mohamedbhai 8 8 -25 -2
167 Alpern Myers Stuart 7 7 7 0
167 Bayer & Carey 7 7 7 0
167 Chayet & Danzo 7 7 7 0
167 EIP US 140 7 N/A N/A
167 Folkstead & Fazekas 7 7 17 1
167 Hatch Ray Olsen Sandberg 7 7 7 0
167 Kolko & Casey (formerly Kolko & Associates) 7 7 7 0
167 Lass Moses Ramp & Cooper 7 7 7 0
167 Lohf Shaiman Jacobs 7 7 -36 -3
167 Reilly Pozner 7 7 7 0
167 Shook Hardy & Bacon 499 7 -7 -1
167 Sparkman + Foote 7 7 24 2
167 Waas Campbell Rivera Johnson & Velasquez 7 7 17 1
180 Dinsmore & Shohl 650 6 -6 -1
180 Fowler Schimberg Flanagan McLetchie 6 6 -35 -3
180 Joseph Immigration Law Firm 6 6 -6 -1
180 McDermott Stuart & Ward 6 6 4 0
180 S&D Law 6 6 -20 -2
180 Vahrenwald McMahill Massey & Mitchell 6 6 -20 -2
180 Zupkus & Angell 6 6 11 1
187 The Bendinelli Law Firm 5 5 -27 -3
187 Broxterman Alicks McFarlane 5 5 4 0
187 Elkind Alterman & Harston 5 5 -3 -1
187 Evans Case 5 5 4 0
187 Graham Law (Formerly Black & Graham) 5 5 -3 -1
187 Hill & Robbins 5 5 4 0
187 Martin Conklin 5 5 4 0
187 McConnell Van Pelt 5 5 -42 -4
187 Range 5 5 4 0
187 Shoemaker Ghiselli + Schwartz 5 5 4 0
197 Strickler Biddison 4 4 -84 -8
197 Beck Payne Frank & Piper 4 4 -6 -1
197 Benson Kerrane Storz & Nelson 6 4 -13 -2
197 Levy Wheeler Waters 4 4 -6 -1

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