DLA Piper’s US arm has reported a 12% increase in partner profits for 2010, alongside a 1% rise in revenues, reports The Am Law Daily.

Top-line earnings rose to $1.03bn (£641m), while profitability increased to record levels, with US profits per equity partner (PEP) up by more than 12% to $1.38m (£858,000) – the highest figure since the three-way merger between UK firm DLA, Chicago’s Piper Rudnick and San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in 2005.