*Editor's note: This story was updated to include the correct year-over-year percentage change in profit per equity partner.

McCarter & English stayed "just as busy, pretty much across the board" during the pandemic, according to its managing partner and, as a result, posted its highest annual revenue total, $254.1 million, in fiscal 2020.

"I characterize it as spectacular," said managing partner Joseph Boccassini in a recent phone interview of the firm's 2020 financial performance. "A lot of people stepped to the forefront for us. It really enabled us to let our strength shine" and "showed us on the management side that being calm, not overreacting to any information that came out … served us very, very well."