Our Law.com Compass data specialists have taken another deep dive into law firms’ financial ups and downs, staffing and expansion trends as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives, resulting in our annual NLJ 500 report.

As most law firms have been trying to reassess post-COVID return-to-office policies, head counts grew moderately in 2022 across the U.S. Average head count growth across the NLJ 500 was 3.9% last year compared to only a 1.8% increase in 2021.