“Extraordinary.” That’s how BuckleySandler chairman Andrew Sandler describes 2014, a year when the 142-lawyer firm saw profits per partner soar 65 percent to $2.8 million and revenue increase nearly 60 percent to $155 million.

The key—the firm represented the Navajo Nation on a modified contingency basis in a $554 million settlement against the U.S. government for mismanaging tribal trust funds.