Victoria Ostrander

April 25, 2024 | International Edition

Law.com International held its annual Middle East Legal Awards on April 25 in Dubai, where it recognized a host of law firms and partners for their outstanding work.

By Law.com International Staff

6 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

How we report law firm financials.

By ALM Staff

4 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Each year we dig through the numbers to compare the country's largest firms across more than a dozen financial metrics. Here we present some of the most important, interesting and surprising facts.

By ALM Staff

1 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Average Compensation–All Partners increased by 6.2% in 2023. Seventy-two firms posted increases, compared with 41 the previous year. Twenty firms posted double-digit gains, while five firms posted double-digit losses.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Profits per lawyer is an alternative way of looking at firm profitability, intended to reduce the influence of factors such as leverage. The average is about $518,000, and the list-topper is about $3.04 million.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

For the Am Law 100 as a whole, average PEP was up by 9.3% in 2023. Thirty-seven firms had growth rates of at least 10%, compared to 14 last year. Twenty firms had declines in 2023.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

For the Am Law 100 as a whole, average revenue per lawyer, the metric that we've long regarded as the most reliable measure of a firm's financial health, increased by 4.9%. In 2023, eighty-five firms posted a gain in RPL.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

April 16, 2024 | The American Lawyer

Fifty-four firms posted gross revenue of $1 billion or more in 2023, four more than in 2022. Ninety firms reported gains in gross revenue.

By ALM Staff

2 minute read

April 11, 2024 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's decision has broad potential implications for companies seeking to defeat certification of class claims based on violations of the federal securities laws.

By Susan E. Hurd

6 minute read

April 10, 2024 | National Law Journal

One of the most powerful tools on social media is the "block" feature. It allows a social media user to silence the haters and drown out the critics, while curating a more friendly social media feed. But after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Lindke v. Freed and O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, public officials across the country may have just lost their most powerful social media tool—and litigation is surely to follow.

By Jason Torchinsky and Oliver Roberts

5 minute read