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 |