In its first full year after a major merger, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr posted increases in both revenue per lawyer (RPL) and profits per equity partner (PEP), beating firm leadership’s expectations.

The firm saw gross revenue increase by 3.6 percent, to $227.3 million. But RPL climbed by 6.5 percent to $623,000, recovering from a dip in 2017, when head count grew by nearly 50 percent.