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AmLaw 100-Ranking: Neue Zahlen zum Rechtsmarkt in den USA

Die neue AmLaw 100-Tabelle ist online abrufbar (David Lat: "O happy day!"). Die Liste ist bereits als solche sehr interessant.

Ein wenig Statistik:

- Total revenues reached $64.5 billion, an increase of 13.6 percent.

- Two firms, Skadden Arps and Latham & Watkins, each hopped over the $2 billion barrier. It took Skadden 51 years to reach the $1 billion gross mark, and eight more to hit $2 billion.

- Nineteen firms had profits per partner of $2 million or more, four more than in 2006. Three of the 19 firms each decreased their equity partner ranks by 4 percent last year: Dechert Milbank, and Weil Gotshal. Once again, Wachtell Lipton led the pack, this time with a record-breaking PPP of $4.9 million.

- Head count grew by 6.8 percent to 77,816 lawyers. The fastest-growing category was nonequity partners, which now account for 35 percent of all partners. If these growth rates continue, the number of nonequity partners will exceed equity partners by 2015.

- The dominance of New York continues. The average RPL of New York firms was $1.1 million, while the average RPL for firms not born in New York was about $780,000, a difference of 41 percent. More dramatically, the average non-New York RPL is now about $15,000 behind where the average New York RPL stood in 2003.

[The American Lawyer]

Full post as published by jurabilis - German bLAWg from Berlin. on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).