For partners at Palo Alto’s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, it turns out last year was a far better year than many had believed.

The firm’s 121 partners shared profits of $101 million from $296 million in revenue, bagging for each of them $838,400 in profits per partner. That’s a 38 percent increase in revenue over 1998 and a 35 percent increase in profits per partner.