Largest Law Firms in Singapore, Ranked by Reported Court Cases (2026)
Based on 25 entries from 2,012 reported Singapore court judgments
As of , 2,012 reported Singapore court judgments — reflects the most recent reported judgment in the dataset and is recomputed live.
Which are the largest law firms in Singapore by reported court cases?
As of 2 July 2026, the law firms appearing in the most reported Singapore court judgments are Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP (182 cases), Drew & Napier LLC (171) and WongPartnership LLP (160), measured across 2,012 reported judgments from 2023 to 2026. This counts appearances in reported decisions, not firm size or outcomes.
Full Rankings
Top Firm by Practice Area
Year-on-year movement
Reported-case appearances by year for the 5 most active law firms, from 2023 to 2026. The corpus of reported judgments grows as new decisions are published, so year totals reflect coverage as well as activity.
| Firm | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP | 55 | 64 | 43 | 20 | 182 |
| Drew & Napier LLC | 55 | 50 | 35 | 31 | 171 |
| WongPartnership LLP | 50 | 55 | 40 | 15 | 160 |
| Allen & Gledhill LLP | 49 | 45 | 41 | 20 | 155 |
| Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP | 33 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 74 |
Most active firm by court
The law firm appearing in the most reported judgments within each Singapore court that has at least 50 reported cases.
Who are the "Big Four" law firms in Singapore?
Allen & Gledhill, Rajah & Tann, WongPartnership and Drew & Napier are the four large full-service firms commonly described as Singapore's "Big Four". That label reflects overall scale and practice breadth — a market descriptor, not a figure from the court record. In this dataset they also hold the leading private-firm positions by reported-case appearances:
How large is Singapore's legal profession?
This ranking covers the firms and counsel that appear in reported judgments — a slice of the wider profession. For scale, published figures put the whole Singapore profession at roughly 6,512 practising lawyers across over 1,000 law practices, with about 100 practitioners appointed Senior Counsel since the scheme began in 1997.
Total practising lawyers holding a current practising certificate (2023), attributed to the Law Society of Singapore.
Source: Law Society of Singapore · as of 2023
Number of law practices operating in Singapore (2024); about 80% are small firms of one to five lawyers, roughly 174 are mid-sized and 23 large.
Source: Asian Legal Business · as of 2024
Practitioners appointed Senior Counsel since the scheme began in 1997; a small number are appointed each year. Senior Counsel is a rank of professional distinction, not a firm ranking.
Source: Singapore Academy of Law · as of 2026
These headline counts, each with its source and the year it describes — plus the reported-judgment totals by year and by court — are set out in full on Singapore's legal profession, in numbers, which frames this ranking against the size of the whole market.
Methodology
Rankings are based on 2,012 reported Supreme Court judgments published on eLitigation. Counts reflect appearances in reported decisions only — unreported matters, settlements, and advisory work are not included. The Attorney-General's Chambers is excluded because it appears as the public prosecutor, not as a private firm a litigant could engage. This is a descriptive count of activity by reported case volume, not an assessment of quality or standing.