Editor’s Note: The full data set from the 2023 Am Law 200 can be found in Law.com Compass. All of the charts and analysis of the data can be found here.

It’s not a competition. Except it is. That is what rankings are. And for most of recent history, the game has been tilted toward the higher-ranked Big Law firms, those with more scale, scope and resources. But not last year.

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