The past year saw a continued resurgence in new partners at New Jersey firms, which, if not quite as robust as the year before, still held its own as an indicator that the firms are sanguine about expansion.

The books were opened for 127 lawyers, whose biographies are presented in this, our 14th annual New Partners Yearbook. The group is 15 percent smaller than last year’s 150, but still well above the nadir of 2010, when new partnerships dropped to 106 in the wake of a national recession.