The jury remains out on how the Washington, D.C., legal market fared in 2018 with some analyses expecting the nation’s capital to lag behind other regions nationwide.

A Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group flash survey of the third quarter sounded the alarm that D.C. showed the lowest level of revenue growth among all of the 11 U.S. regions the survey covered. Citi’s survey did not include national and global firms that participate in D.C. but are based elsewhere, and it excludes some other new entrants. But there is reason to think Citi’s  findings may equally apply to those firms.