Managing partners are still in the merging mood.

Law firm mergers kept up their record pace in the third quarter of the year and are on track to eclipse a record set just two years ago, according to one report and a preliminary analysis of another.

A report Wednesday by legal search firm Fairfax Associates said there were 14 mergers in the third quarter for a total of 49 so far this year. That's five more than the total number that Fairfax Associates tracked through three quarters in 2016 and eight more than the 10-year average of 41 through the first nine months of the year.