The firm's gross revenue increased 0.6 percent to $ 1.06 billion last year, while
revenue per lawyer grew about 0.7 percent to nearly $ 603,000.
Even the firm's
revenue per lawyer grew 7 percent last year, to $ 1.07 million, topping even the roughly $ 1.05 million figure collected during the halcyon days of 2007.
Not exact matches
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.
The dip in
revenue per lawyer was a product of the associate ranks
growing by more than 6 percent, as the firm welcomed back deferred associates from the summer class of 2009, and built a team of some 18
lawyers around two Hong Kong law partners who moved over from O'Melveny in 2010.
Total
lawyer head count
grew by almost 400
lawyers to 3,745, meaning that DLA's
revenue per lawyer rose by a more modest 2.6 percent to $ 600,000.
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).
Goodwin Procter saw its gross
revenues grow 2.5 percent to $ 695.5 million and its
revenue per lawyer rise just over 1 percent to $ 925,000 last year, according to The American
Lawyer's reporting.
Because the firm's head count
grew more rapidly than its
revenue did in 2011, Curtis saw a decline in
revenue per lawyer of nearly 8 percent to $ 530,000.