As competition increases, law firms are trying to maintain and
grow profits per partner with smaller partnerships.
Not exact matches
Its gross revenue has
grown 57 percent since fiscal 2013, while its head count increased 28 percent and its
profits per partner rose 43 percent.
Gross revenues
grew less than 2 % to about $ 860m (# 610.7 m), while revenue
per lawyer stayed level at $ 1.03 m (# 731,000), and
profits per partner declined 3.7 % to $ 1.834 m (# 1.32 m).
The 2018 Am Law 100, which looks at numbers from 2017, reports that gross revenue
grew 5.5 percent on average, net income increased by 6.1 percent,
profit per equity
partner grew by 6.3 percent, revenue
per lawyer moved up 3.2 percent, and headcount rose 2.2 percent.
Profitability has also
grown by 2 %, according to the results of the 16 firms that have given
profit per equity
partner (PEP) figures.
Profits per equity
partner grow by 5.4 % as equity
partner numbers shrink by double digits
While revenue dipped, average
profit per equity
partner (PEP)
grew by 4 % during the same period, to # 683,000 from # 659,000.
Linklaters
grew its revenue to # 1.31 bn in the last financial year as
profit per equity
partner (PEP) rose to # 1.45 m.
According to a report by the Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, U.S. law firms saw revenue and
profits per equity
partner grow at staggering rates of 37.5 percent and 25.6 percent respectively.
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.
Overall
profits per partner were up by 3.1 % but the growth was not evenly distributed, with mid-sized firms actually experiencing a decline of 0.4 % reflecting
growing market segmentation
Profit per equity
partner (PEP) also increased by 8.5 % to $ 2.36 m (# 1.53 m), while revenue
per lawyer (RPL)
grew 8 % to $ 1.145 m (# 742,000).
Olswang and pre-merger Berrymans Lace Mawer have each
grown their revenues for 2013 - 14, with
profits per equity
partner (PEP) at the former expected to dip by nearly 4 %.
But because net income
grew — and because all the head count growth came in the associate ranks —
profits per partner continued to rise.
K&L Gates saw its gross revenue rise less than 1 percent and its
profits per partner fall 4.3 percent in 2011 amid what chairman Peter Kalis described as a year when expenses
grew at a faster rate than revenue, according to sibling publication The Legal Intelligencer.
Boston - based Goodwin Procter saw its gross revenues
grow 2.5 percent to $ 695.5 million last year, but a net loss of 13 equity
partners helped push
profits per partner up 3.4 percent to $ 1.5 million, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.
Regional
partners also enjoyed higher
profits — more than 70 % of those who
grew profit per equity
partner (PEP) reported an increase of more than 10 %, compared to less than 40 % of City firms.
As for Winston's overall finances, the firm's gross revenue
grew 5.2 percent to $ 754 million last year, while average
profits per equity
partner jumped 4 percent to $ 1.44 million.
The Results or Résumés paper draws upon two pieces of market data to demonstrate that a large proportion of large corporate law firms have to re-evaluate their business models: (1) stunning uniformity of associate entry level salaries amidst large,
growing disparities in
profits per partner; and (2) evidence that firms are becoming stratified by premium versus non-premium practice areas.