Profits per lawyer is an alternate way of looking at firm profitability, and is intended to reduce the influence of factors such as leverage. A firm’s PPL is its net income divided by its lawyer count. Wachtell topped the list with a PPL of $1,897,000. Figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000. For more on how we calculate these figures, see our methodology.
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