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Top 25 Criminal defense law firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 9,166 criminal defense law firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 51,535 professional contacts across them, including 16,409 with verified work emails and 16,327 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers criminal defense law firms worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 1, 2026. Country and city lists for criminal defense law firms follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest criminal defense law firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 732 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The single overriding objective for the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender is to provide zealous and effective representation for indigent individuals who are charged…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 619 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advocacia is a law practice company based out of Av Rio Branco, 441, Florianopolis, Sc, Brazil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 569 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a national law firm defending corporations, non-profits, associations and their officers & directors in every manner of litigation, O'Hagan Meyer provides individualized…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) provides and promotes quality legal representation to indigent adults and children facing a loss of liberty in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 511 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The United Firm | La Liga Defensora, A.P.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 496 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brooklyn Defender Services is a public defense office whose mission is to provide outstanding representation and advocacy free of cost to people facing loss of freedom, family…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD) is the country's premiere statewide legal services organization, providing criminal defense and other services to indigent…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hawkins Parnell & Young is a national defense litigation firm that has represented many of the largest and most well-known companies in high-risk litigation and business disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Turner Freeman Lawyers we have been providing care, support and outstanding results to our clients for over 65 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neighborhood Defender Service (NDS) is known nationally and internationally for its innovative, community-based, holistic public defense practice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 216 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The leading criminal and penal law firm in the Outaouais” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McGivney Kluger Clark & Intoccia is one of the nation’s premier defense firms representing a diverse range of clients, from large corporations and insurance companies to small…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zuckerman Spaeder LLP is consistently recognized as a leading national litigation boutique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2001, Alex Hanna and his Team of Attorneys have handled thousands of different types of cases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The New Hampshire Public Defender was established in 1972 as a pilot project of New Hampshire Legal Assistance, and has existed as a stand-alone institution since 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Successful Trial Lawyers, Skillful Motion Practice, Sophisticated Advice” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New York County Defender Services first opened our doors in 1997.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates, established in 2006, handles several areas of law, including intellectual property (primarily copyright) criminal defense, business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Law Office of the Public Defender protects the constitutional rights of the indigent and marginalized accused of violating the law or facing involuntary civil commitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Texas in 1994 by attorneys with a passion for trying cases, Hartline Barger is known nationwide for its litigation prowess in high-profile cases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Experienced, dedicated, and thoughtful legal counsel for over four decades has made us one of the largest law firms in the state of Oklahoma.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “X-Copper has over 20 years of experience helping more than clients reduce the impact of traffic tickets, impaired driving charges, and criminal offences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt LLP was founded in 1994 by litigators driven by a shared vision: To create a new firm rooted in the principles of tenacity, collegiality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its inception in 1954, McNamara, Ambacher, Wheeler, Hirsig & Gray LLP has become one of the most respected defense litigation practices in Northern California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 90 years, ANSELL GRIMM & AARON, PC has been dedicated to providing excellent legal representation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: criminal defense law firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names criminal defense law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of criminal defense law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name criminal defense law firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Criminal defense law firms worldwide at a glance
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How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among criminal defense law firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 17 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and 7 more. Country and city lists for criminal defense law firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “criminal defense law firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names criminal defense law firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among criminal defense law firms, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,409 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Criminal defense law firms by location
67 lists · largest firstEvery Criminal defense law firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Criminal defense law firms based in the United States6,173
- Criminal defense law firms based in Brazil722
- Criminal defense law firms based in Canada300
- Criminal defense law firms based in the United Kingdom279
- Criminal defense law firms based in Spain230
- Criminal defense law firms based in Australia225
- Criminal defense law firms based in France215
- Criminal defense law firms based in Italy205
- Criminal defense law firms based in Germany203
- Criminal defense law firms based in the Netherlands144
- Criminal defense law firms based in India113
- Criminal defense law firms based in Mexico98
- Criminal defense law firms based in Chile75
- Criminal defense law firms based in Sweden64
- Criminal defense law firms based in Colombia47
- Criminal defense law firms based in Belgium41
- Criminal defense law firms based in Switzerland32
Cities
- Criminal defense law firms based in Sao Paulo, Brazil212
- Criminal defense law firms based in New York, United States168
- Criminal defense law firms based in Houston, United States127
- Criminal defense law firms based in Paris, France126
- Criminal defense law firms based in Atlanta, United States106
- Criminal defense law firms based in Chicago, United States95
- Criminal defense law firms based in Dallas, United States95
- Criminal defense law firms based in Los Angeles, United States93
- Criminal defense law firms based in Denver, United States89
- Criminal defense law firms based in Phoenix, United States80
- Criminal defense law firms based in London, United Kingdom79
- Criminal defense law firms based in Miami, United States77
- Criminal defense law firms based in San Diego, United States77
- Criminal defense law firms based in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil71
- Criminal defense law firms based in Toronto, Canada66
- Criminal defense law firms based in Philadelphia, United States59
- Criminal defense law firms based in Orlando, United States58
- Criminal defense law firms based in San Antonio, United States56
- Criminal defense law firms based in Tampa, United States56
- Criminal defense law firms based in Minneapolis, United States55
- Criminal defense law firms based in Sydney, Australia55
- Criminal defense law firms based in Austin, United States53
- Criminal defense law firms based in Boston, United States49
- Criminal defense law firms based in Las Vegas, United States49
- Criminal defense law firms based in Seattle, United States47
- Criminal defense law firms based in Barcelona, Spain46
- Criminal defense law firms based in Fort Lauderdale, United States46
- Criminal defense law firms based in Charlotte, United States38
- Criminal defense law firms based in Columbus, United States38
- Criminal defense law firms based in Portland, United States37
- Criminal defense law firms based in Washington, United States37
- Criminal defense law firms based in Raleigh, United States36
- Criminal defense law firms based in Curitiba, Brazil35
- Criminal defense law firms based in Indianapolis, United States34
- Criminal defense law firms based in Melbourne, Australia34
- Criminal defense law firms based in Oklahoma City, United States34
- Criminal defense law firms based in Colorado Springs, United States32
- Criminal defense law firms based in Columbia, United States31
- Criminal defense law firms based in Fort Worth, United States31
- Criminal defense law firms based in Jacksonville, United States31
- Criminal defense law firms based in Sacramento, United States30
- Criminal defense law firms based in Stockholm, Sweden30
- Criminal defense law firms based in Charleston, United States29
- Criminal defense law firms based in San Francisco, United States29
- Criminal defense law firms based in Greenville, United States27
- Criminal defense law firms based in Birmingham, United States25
- Criminal defense law firms based in Madison, United States25
- Criminal defense law firms based in Milwaukee, United States25
- Criminal defense law firms based in Pittsburgh, United States25
- Criminal defense law firms based in Springfield, United States25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names criminal defense law firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many criminal defense law firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 9,166 criminal defense law firms worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Colorado State Public Defender, headquartered in Denver, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most criminal defense law firms?
The United States leads with 6,173 companies, followed by Brazil (722) and Canada (300). Every criminal defense law firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most criminal defense law firms?
Sao Paulo leads with 214 headquartered companies, followed by New York (171) and Houston (131).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,409 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 9,166 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 1, 2026 and September 14, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.