The pandemic took a toll on the legal industry last year, and it's evident in the annual data we see coming out. More than a decade of growth for the nation's largest law firms came to an end, but some firms fared better than others. This year's NLJ 500 report dives into how firms managed through the pandemic, and it has some surprising results. Bigger firms tended to do better than their peers who were further down in the rankings, and many firms reported that the year ended better than expected.