This year’s Am Law 100 results are fascinating for so many reasons, but what struck me the most was what we learned from looking back over the past decade.

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Nearly all the 100 largest law firms had a strong year in 2020, and they all outperformed the bleak picture initially envisioned at the start of the pandemic. But the firms that did the best, posting double-digit gains in revenue, were on that path well before 2020—no global health emergency was going to stop them.

The American Lawyer editor-in-chief Gina Passarella.