The US’s top law firms have outperformed their key UK rivals, despite a year of robust growth from the UK’s leading practices.

Legal Week’s top 50 shows that UK firms achieved average revenue growth of 12.5% during 2007-08. This compares with an increase of revenue in 13.6% at the 100 largest law firms in the US in 2007, according to The American Lawyer, Legal Week‘s US sister title.