Our hope is that you can clearly see those efforts again bore fruit in this latest edition, which has tracked a legal community in recovery. As we have focused our efforts in the last year on collecting data about private law firms, public corporations and public interest firms, to name a few things, the legal profession has been focused on how to emerge from a recession that has drastically altered some ways of doing business while allowing other old habits to creep back to the fore.
Layoffs and hiring reductions continue to recede while rate and salary increases are on the rise. Firms continue to function with fewer attorneys – in Pennsylvania, at least. Reed Smith again topped the 100 Largest Law Firms in Pennsylvania list with 311 full-time attorneys in the state, compared to the 323 lawyers that garnered the firm the top spot in 2010.
