Atlanta’s homegrown Am Law 100 and 200 firms prospered in 2017, posting strong revenue and profit growth in what was the best year overall since the 2008 recession for the 200 highest-grossing U.S. firms tracked by The American Lawyer.

More than half of the nine Atlanta-based firms met or outpaced the Am Law 100′s revenue growth, even though that group posted a record average revenue increase of 5.5 percent, up from 4.3 percent in 2016 and the highest jump since the recession.