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Top 25 Law firms based in Melbourne, Australia

Name: Law firms based in Melbourne, Australia
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Aug 31, 2026 438 companies tracked

This directory lists 438 law firms based in Melbourne, Australia, with 16,686 professional contacts and 8,074 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 31, 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.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Aug 31, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

438Companies

16,686Contacts tracked

8,074Verified emails

857Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest law firms based in Melbourne, Australia

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 438 law firms based in Melbourne, Australia, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Aug 31, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to law firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Ashurst	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	1,001-5,000	4,656 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Ashurst has combined with Perkins Coie to form Ashurst Perkins Coie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
2	King & Wood Mallesons	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	1,001-5,000	3,586 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A firm born in Asia, underpinned by world class capability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
3	Allens	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	1,001-5,000	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 31, 2026
4	Mills Oakley	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	1,001-5,000	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 31, 2026
5	Johnson Winter Slattery	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	201-500	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 31, 2026
6	Macpherson Kelley	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	201-500	279 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Macpherson Kelley is a Commercial law firm that thinks differently - our lawyers possess a rare combination of commercial acumen, legal ingenuity, and human insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
7	Cornwalls	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	178 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, Cornwalls is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected independent law firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
8	Carter Newell	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	175 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Carter Newell, we are an authentic, inclusive, and sustainable firm that develops people with specialist legal and industry expertise who in turn help clients make informed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
9	Blake Dawson	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	1,001-5,000	159 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Blake Dawson is now Ashurst.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
10	Gordon Legal	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	154 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Gordon Legal is a full-service law firm that puts people first and business second.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
11	Wisewould Mahony	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	127 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Wisewould Mahony has been around since 1853 because we’re different.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
12	KHQ Lawyers	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	118 contacts →
	Strong evidence “KHQ Lawyers was founded in March 2006 by two lawyers from top-tier and in-house backgrounds who had a vision for a new type of law firm – ‘boutique top-tier’, a firm with top-tier…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
13	SLF Lawyers	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	103 contacts →
	Strong evidence “SLF Lawyers are Commercial Law specialists with offices located in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
14	Aitken Partners	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	92 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Aitken Partners is a rare thing: a law firm with heart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
15	Harwood Andrews	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	91 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Harwood Andrews Strategic Thinking Every Detail Better Results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
16	Chambers Russell Lawyers	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	80 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Chambers Russell Lawyers is a commercial law firm practicing across construction and building defects, strata and community title, property and commercial, commercial litigation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
17	Madgwicks Lawyers	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	77 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “For more than 50 years, Madgwicks has been part of Melbourne's business landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
18	KCL LAW	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	75 contacts →
	Strong evidence “KCL Law is a medium size, Melbourne law firm led by a diverse and progressive group of expert lawyers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
19	Sladen Legal	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	75 contacts →
	Strong evidence “A refreshingly different kind of law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
20	Farrar Gesini Dunn	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	72 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We specialise in family and estates law, business advisory, accounting, and conveyancing law with offices in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Coffs Harbour.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
21	Rigby Cooke Lawyers	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	71 contacts →
	Strong evidence “OUR PEOPLE: YOUR SUCCESS Rigby Cooke Lawyers is a full-service, commercial law firm providing expertise and industry knowledge to private and public sector clients across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
22	PHI Finney Mcdonald	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	63 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Phi Finney McDonald is a law firm with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
23	Gair Legal	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	61 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Gair Legal is a progressive and highly specialised insurance litigation law firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
24	Best Hooper Lawyers	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	11-50	51 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Best Hooper’s areas of expertise encompass planning and local government law, commercial and corporations law, dispute resolution and the legal aspects of property development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026
25	Tisher Liner FC LAW	Strong evidence	Melbourne, Australia	51-200	50 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Tisher Liner FC Law are recognised industry leaders specialists delivering specialist expertise across business, property, litigation, family law, employment law, and estate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 31, 2026

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 Melbourne, Australia at a glance

As of Aug 31, 2026

48.4%Verified-email coverage

5.1%Mobile-number coverage

38.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

151.6%Largest-city concentration · Sydney

Aug 31, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

281

11-50

115

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

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 Melbourne, 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 Melbourne 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, 8,074 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 31, 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.

Law firms by metro in Australia

Frequently asked

How many law firms are listed based in Melbourne, Australia?

The directory includes 438 law firms based in Melbourne, 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 16,686 professional contacts and 8,074 email addresses for the listed law firms.

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About this data

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.