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Top 25 Law firms based in Australia
This directory lists 3,843 law firms based in Australia, with 64,829 professional contacts and 35,086 email addresses. As of August 2026, Sydney is the single most-represented city among the companies listed.
Law firms are professional service organizations that provide legal advice, representation, and related services through licensed attorneys. This list covers companies that provide legal advice, legal representation, or related legal services through licensed attorneys. Ranked by team size, largest first. Data current as of August 29, 2026.
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 law firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,656 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ashurst has combined with Perkins Coie to form Ashurst Perkins Coie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,586 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A firm born in Asia, underpinned by world class capability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DWF is a leading global provider of integrated legal and business services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,933 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Allens is a leading international law firm with a long and proud heritage of shaping the future for our clients, our people and the communities in which we work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,805 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of Australia's oldest and largest law firms, with offices in six cities, nearly 200 partners, and a full range of legal services for large private sector and government…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,761 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HWLE is a full service commercial law firm providing expert legal services at competitive rates, focusing on client outcomes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,542 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gilbert + Tobin was founded on values of excellence, trust, respect, integrity and good corporate citizenship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creating value for clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,054 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mills Oakley is a full-service, national law firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 959 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve come a long way since our doors first opened in the Hunter in 1882.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 858 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gadens is a top 10 independent Australian law firm, known for providing outstanding client service, innovative solutions and value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 828 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Maddocks is Australia's law firm with offices in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 798 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Thomson Geer is a major Australian corporate law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 764 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lander & Rogers is a leading independent Australian law firm, comprising over 800 people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Moray & Agnew is a national law firm of over 110 Partners and over 800 people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 555 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Holding Redlich, great law is our starting point.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 487 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Johnson Winter Slattery (JWS) is a leading Australian law firm known for advising corporates and funds on their most complex transactions, disputes and regulatory matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A legal practice with a rich history, founded in 1900, Colin Biggers & Paisley is an Australian based legal practice with offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, advising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 485 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Piper Alderman is a leading commercial law firm with offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 453 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 60 years, Barry Nilsson has been shaping a better legal experience, putting our clients first - where they belong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “McCullough Robertson is a leading independent Australian law firm with more than 450 employees located across our Brisbane, Sydney, and Canberra offices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Offering quality advice to protect clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arnold Bloch Leibler is a premium Australian commercial law firm renowned for advising clients on their most important transactions and disputes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a corporate and commercial law firm, based in Australia and New Zealand, Hamilton Locke transforms the traditional approach to corporate legal services, removing bureaucracy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 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: 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 law firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of law firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Law firms based in Australia 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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 law firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 35,086 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 on August 29, 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.
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Frequently asked
How many law firms are listed based in Australia?
The directory includes 3,843 law firms based in Australia as of August 2026.
Where are most of the listed law firms located?
Sydney is the single most-represented city among the law firms on the list.
How many contacts and email addresses are available for these law firms?
The list includes 64,829 professional contacts and 35,086 email addresses for the listed law firms.
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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.