By any measure, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison had a good year in 2011. A record-setting year, in fact.

Thanks to a continuing crush of litigation involving key clients in the financial services industry and a record year for the firm’s transactional practice, the firm’s gross revenue rose 3.9 percent to $780 million last year. Despite the addition of five new partners, profits per equity partner rose as well, albeit a modest 1.5 percent, to roughly $3.1 million. Revenue per lawyer remained flat at $1.06 million even though the firm added 28 lawyers to bring its total attorney head count of 737.

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