With revenue growth near 12 percent and
profits per partner growth of close to 14 percent last year, Latham & Watkins blew past its previous high - water mark for revenue, and roughly matched its prerecession record for profitability, according to reporting by The American Lawyer.
Not exact matches
Travers Smith has reported revenue
growth of 13 % and an increase in
profit per equity
partner (PEP) of 8 % for the year ended 30 June 2016.
But because of
growth in head count and a drop in demand, particularly in the corporate and finance sectors,
profits per partner (PPP) fell by 4.3 percent, to an average of $ 1.26 million, and revenue
per lawyer (RPL) dropped 1.2 percent, to $ 818,000.
I've seen the profession swing from the giddy, extravagant days of $ 1,000 / hour billing rates and $ 2 million
profits per partner to its current morass of massive layoffs, pathetic efforts to stem the breach in the dike by cutting back on luxury toilet paper purchases and ABA bar dues and the
growth of offshoring legal contract work to India.
DWF has broken through the # 200m barrier with revenue
growth of 7.6 % against a 9.8 % drop in
profit per equity
partner (PEP).
Allen & Overy (A&O) has eclipsed its peers with double - digit
growth in both revenue and
profit per equity
partner (PEP) that outstrips its closest rivals by some distance.
Braithwaite has overseen a solid period of
growth during his ten - year tenure as managing
partner with the firm recording a 14 % rise in average
profits per equity
partner last year to hit # 366,000, with the firm's fee income standing at # 56m.
When The American Lawyer released its Am Law 100 report last week, many noticed a correlation between increased PPP (
profits per partner) on the one hand and the decline in the number of equity
partners and
growth in the category of non-equity
partners on the other.
Allen & Overy (A&O) has posted double - digit
growth across all key metrics after a standout year in which revenue and
profit per equity
partner (PEP) rose to record levels.
Weil Gotshal & Manges enjoyed a record year in 2017, with revenue reaching new heights,
profits per equity
partner (PEP) seeing double - digit
growth and London turnover surging by 33 %.
Braithwaite has overseen a solid period of
growth during his tenure as managing
partner with the firm recording a 14 % rise in average
profits per equity
partner last year to hit # 366,000, with the firm's fee income standing at # 56m.
Maclays also demonstrated further
growth in its 2006 - 07 results with average
profits per equity
partner breaking the # 300k barrier, rising by 15 % from # 275,000 last year to # 315,000 this year, while Brodies announced a turnover rise of 43 % to # 30m and gross
profits up 33 % to # 11.6 m.
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
The firm reported steady
growth across the board, with gross revenue increasing almost 10 percent and
profits per partner rising 7.2 percent, according to reporting by The American Lawyer.
But because net income grew — and because all the head count
growth came in the associate ranks —
profits per partner continued to rise.
Though it posted new records in net income, revenue
per lawyer, and
profits per partner, Bingham McCutchen saw its 15 - year topline
growth streak end in 2011 as gross revenue fell 0.5 percent to $ 868.5 million, according to reporting by The American Lawyer.
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.
Now, with clients increasingly demanding higher - value performance and
partners equally demanding
profit -
per -
partner growth, training and mentoring have largely become optional extras.
Now, with clients increasingly demanding of higher - value performance and
partners equally demanding of
profit -
per -
partner growth, mentoring and training has become largely an optional extra.
It's been a good year for Allen & Overy, with the firm topping the magic circle financial results
growth league to boost
profit per equity
partner (PEP) by a whopping 26 % to # 1.51 million while lifting revenue by 16 % to # 1.52 billion.