In May, DLA Piper became the world's largest firm by
attorney head count after completing a merger with former Down Under alliance partner DLA Phillips Fox, and British firm Holman Fenwick Willan opened a third Australian office in Perth.
(Sonnenschein ranked seventy - fourth in gross revenue and ninety - third in
attorney head count in the latest version of The American Lawyer's Global 100.)
It also lost 21 lawyers, or 4.7 percent of its overall
attorney head count.
As for other key financial metrics, the firm's overall
attorney head count decreased by 1.8 percent, or five lawyers, its revenue per lawyer jumped 5.8 percent to $ 640,000, and its profits per partner rose 3.8 percent to $ 680,000.
What is surprising is that the firm is getting bigger, with
its attorney head count growing an eye - catching 27 percent to 310 lawyers in 2011.
The tie - up also made DLA the world's largest firm by
attorney head count.
Not exact matches
Skelos, who has maintained his innocence, appeared to slightly shake his
head as Pitman read the six -
count complaint against him and his son, Adam, which was unveiled by U.S.
Attorney Preet Bharara on Monday morning.
Christopher McPartland, the chief of investigations and
head of the government - corruption bureau of the Suffolk County District
Attorney's Office on Long Island, also was charged in the four -
count indictment that includes conspiracy to tamper with witnesses and obstruct an official proceeding.
The result is that we can now measure firm gender diversity based on
attorneys actually staffed on cases, i.e., those that most substantively participate in litigation, not just by firm
head -
count.
Tickets to the Erasing Family event at $ 25 sold through an ipad at the Childress Institute for Child Development vendors table at the AFCC convention, and provided as complimentary to the Board of Directors of the APA and to congressional staffers, will encourage the greatest level of participation from family law
attorneys, child custody evaluators, and court - involved therapists (the nominal cost encourages commitment to attend and provides us with a
head count for the event).