K&L Gates LLP has been honored in the 2026 edition of the Best Law Firms® positioning the firm among the nation’s top 10 law firms for most overall tier 1 rankings, a distinction the firm has held since the survey’s inception.

This year, K&L Gates received more than 200 first-tier practice rankings and 316 rankings overall, including nearly 35 national first-tier rankings and more than 170 first-tier honors across 22 state and metropolitan regions. The firm’s achievements span 70 different practice areas, highlighting its wide-ranging capabilities and commitment to excellence.

The practices in which K&L Gates has been recognized with national first-tier rankings in the 2026 edition are:

• Admiralty and Maritime Law
• Banking and Finance Law
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Copyright Law
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Employment Law – Management
• Energy Law
• Environmental Law
• Financial Services Regulation Law
• Health Care Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Land Use & Zoning Law
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Litigation – Patent
• Litigation – Securities
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Oil & Gas Law
• Patent Law
• Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities Regulation
• Securitization and Structured Finance Law
• Tax Law
• Technology Law
• Trademark Law
• Trust and Estates Law
• Venture Capital Law

The Best Law Firms publication, now in its 16th year, evaluates top-performing firms across 127 practice areas and 188 jurisdictions nationwide. Rankings are determined through client feedback, peer reviews, leader interviews, and analysis of firm data. This year’s survey incorporated over 26 million evaluations of more than 129,000 individual lawyers from more than 24,000 firms. A complete list of K&L Gates’ 2026 rankings can be found here.