Where are America’s biggest firms putting their resources? This special report on regional data collected from our NLJ 250 survey of America’s largest law firms attempts to answer that question. Every office at every NLJ 250 firm is reflected here, nearly 3,000 in all.
U.S. firms saw marginal growth in headcount in the 2012 survey, reporting an overall headcount of more than 126,000 attorneys, up 1.7 percent. The growth wasn’t universal, however. Headcount declined slightly in major U.S. markets like New York and Washington. But those drops were offset by increases internationally, including in London, which added 469 lawyers thanks in large part to the SNR Denton merger and in China, where big U.S. firms added 200 lawyers. (The NLJ 250 now reports about 2,250 lawyers in China.)
