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Top 25 Law firms based in the United Kingdom
This directory lists 5,017 law firms based in the United Kingdom, with 194,283 professional contacts and 101,813 email addresses. As of August 2026, London 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 the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 6,746 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 6,494 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Freshfields is a global firm with over 280 years’ experience of anticipating change, setting new standards and shaping the future of law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,289 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 2,200 lawyers and other professionals in 35 offices throughout the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,083 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Addleshaw Goddard (AG).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,968 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK’s largest full-service law firms, We believe everyone deserves clear legal guidance, strong advocacy, and genuine care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,860 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every day we make a difference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,834 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with offices across Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia Pacific.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,750 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On May 1, 2024, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling merged to become A&O Shearman.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,514 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “An international law firm that acts like your business partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,198 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has earned the loyalty of its many longstanding clients with deep and broad legal experience; a passion for understanding their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,955 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Slaughter and May is regarded as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,818 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re your business advisers as well as your lawyers, working in step with you to protect your interests today and progress your ambitions for tomorrow.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,590 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cravath has been known as one of the premier U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,499 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Weightmans is a Top 40 law firm, growing rapidly because of our focus on two key aspects of our business: our clients and our people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re Browne Jacobson.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,479 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a top-ranked Canadian business law firm, we advise clients on complex legal matters across borders and industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,449 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’re the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,424 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,371 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in London, Mishcon de Reya services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,351 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mills & Reeve, our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision – achieve more together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,246 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “An unpredictable world calls for a progressive-thinking law firm that’s aligned to your ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,211 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “RPC is a law firm invested in you, your ambitions and your commercial success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,149 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Taylor Rose is a top 60 independent law firm with 1,700 experts operating nationwide and is recommended by the Legal 500 UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trowers & Hamlins is well known for its eclectic mix of specialisations combining sector leadership in the UK and across the Middle East and Asia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,059 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm.” 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 the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Aug 29, 2026Companies by employee count
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 the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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, 101,813 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 the United Kingdom?
The directory includes 5,017 law firms based in the United Kingdom as of August 2026.
Where are most of the listed law firms located?
London 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 194,283 professional contacts and 101,813 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.