Small Firms Outpace Big Law in Relative Revenue, Salary Growth

Growth helps to define success in the legal industry. Growing financially, growing the talent base, and growing the office footprint. So what are firms doing to ensure that they continue to flourish? Data from Bloomberg Law’s Leading Law Firms survey offers some insights.

We asked law firms to submit data on a variety of metrics, including revenue and headcount, as well as ways they are growing—or not growing. Among the nearly 100 firms that submitted data, the larger firms, Holland & Knight, Paul Weiss, and Husch Blackwell took top scores in the growth category, which included questions about changes in ...