For more than 30 years, this newspaper has surveyed Washington-area law firms about their lawyer head count. In the 2009 Legal Times 150 survey, firms were asked to provide data for each office in the Washington metropolitan area—including the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland, and Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church in Virginia.
The head count numbers are as of April 1, 2009. They do not include contract attorneys, patent agents or summer associates. And the firms were asked to tally full-time equivalents.
Mari Mullane, a former Legal Times staffer, helped collect the numbers. National Law Journal reporters also contacted firms to obtain and verify the data.
Battered but not beaten
Big D.C. law offices report stagnant head count growth.
