Venable ranked #71 on the National Law Journal's NLJ 500 annual survey of the nation's largest law firms based on total number of attorneys. The list was published by the National Law Journal on June 26, 2017. For the NLJ 500 survey, attorney totals were based on the average number of full-time attorneys for the period between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016. A firm must have more attorneys based in the United States than in any other single country to be included on the list.