2006 Am Law 100 Firms Feel Growing Pains

The American Lawyer's newest Am Law 100 findings highlight this provocative fact: At the United States' top-grossing firms, additional lawyers are slowing the rate of revenue growth. Law firms are managing to improve profitability by cutting costs, boosting efficiency and making equity partnership more exclusive -- but revenue per lawyer isn't keeping pace with head count increases. Growing, it turns out, is easy. Growing profitably is what's hard.

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