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BigLaw firms in Atlanta, GA

Every firm in our directory with an office in Atlanta, GA, best-known first, with first-year pay and where it comes from.

Firms
40
Offices
40
Median first-year base
$225,000
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40 firms in Atlanta, GA

  1. Vault #14Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #20

    $235,000+

    Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)

  2. Vault #21Paul Hastings LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #22

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  3. Vault #26Jones Day

    Office here · AmLaw #15

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  4. Vault #36King & Spalding LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #23

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  5. Vault #42DLA Piper LLP (US)

    Office here · AmLaw #3

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  6. Vault #46McDermott Will & Schulte LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #16

    $255,000+

  7. Vault #48Holland & Knight LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #26

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  8. Vault #55Greenberg Traurig, LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #17

    Varies by office

  9. Vault #58Alston & Bird LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #44

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  10. Vault #62Dentons US LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #18

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  11. Vault #63Baker & Hostetler LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #59

    $215,000

  12. Vault #68McGuireWoods LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #54

    $215,000

  13. Vault #72Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #33

    $235,000+

    Announced by the firm (Sep 2026)

  14. Vault #76Fox Rothschild LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #71

    $205,000

    Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)

  15. Vault #82Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #45

    $200,000

  16. Vault #83Gunderson Dettmer LLP

    Office here

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  17. Vault #84Fish & Richardson P.C.

    Office here

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  18. Vault #87Polsinelli PC

    Office here · AmLaw #55

    $225,000

    Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)

  19. Vault #88Cozen O'Connor P.C.

    Office here · AmLaw #80

    $180,000 - $215,000

    Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)

  20. Vault #89Seyfarth Shaw LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #63

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  21. Vault #92Ballard Spahr LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #89

    $210,000

  22. Vault #93Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #64

    $225,000+

    Market base, no firm announcement (as of Sep 2026)

  23. Vault #94Duane Morris LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #84

    $215,000

    Reported to Chambers Associate (Sep 2026)

  24. Vault #95Akerman LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #96

    $215,000

  25. Vault #97Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #95

    $215,000

  26. Vault #98Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

    Founded here · Office here

    $225,000

  27. Vault #99Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #67

    $200,000

  28. Vault #100Littler Mendelson P.C.

    Office here · AmLaw #62

    $225,000

  29. Barnes & Thornburg LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #78

    Pay not published
  30. Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #100

    Pay not published
  31. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #74

    Up to $166,000

  32. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #70

    Pay not published
  33. Jackson Lewis P.C.

    Office here · AmLaw #79

    Pay not published
  34. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #72

    Pay not published
  35. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #60

    Pay not published
  36. Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

    Office here · AmLaw #77

    Pay not published
  37. Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

    Office here · AmLaw #93

    Pay not published
  38. Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #61

    Up to $215,000

  39. Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #94

    Pay not published
  40. Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

    Office here · AmLaw #76

    Pay not published
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Pay and cost of living in Atlanta, GA

First-year base

$225,000

Median across the firms here

Estimated take-home

$153,831

After federal, state and local income tax, single filer

Same lifestyle in New York

$389,583

What you’d need there; cost-of-living index here is 108 (US average 100)

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