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.