As one of the fastest growing areas and increasingly lucrative areas of legal practice, it explains why some of the world's most profitable firms — Kirkland and Ellis (
annual profits per partner $ 4.1 m), Quinn Emanuel ($ 5m), and Slaughter and May ($ 3.6 m)-- are now taking a slice of the available pie.
Not exact matches
Dentons» decision to cease publication of its
annual profits per equity
partner (PEP) has its backers within the legal profession: according to a survey of
partners, just under half think financial transparency is «irrelevant» to anyone outside the firm itself.
An
annual institution, the report analyzes the 2012 financial year and ranks United States - based law firms by overall revenue, number of attorneys,
profits per partner, and various other measures.
In simplified fashion, let's say our hypothetical law firm has $ 100 million in
annual revenues ($ 8.33 million
per month); an operating margin — or
profit — of 36 percent of
annual revenues, which are distributed at 55 percent of forecast to
partners each month, plus a year - end distribution; no debt other than its revolving credit line; and $ 5 million in monthly operating expenses.
Average
profits per equity
partner at Maclays now stands at # 315,000 - a 15 % increase on the # 275,000 recorded last year, when the firm released its full
annual results for the first time.
1 / Dentons opted not to provide its
profit -
per - equity
partner figures to American Law in 2014 when the magazine was compiling its
annual rankings
While the top - tier firms prospered, the
annual American Lawyer list found that three - quarters of the 100 firms expanded at a slower growth rate, with average
profit per partner inching up just 0.2 percent, to $ 1.47 million.
Small law firms saw
profits per equity
partner fall 24 % as the recession hit, according to the Law Society Law Management Section's
annual profitability survey.