Law firms built outside Washington continue to muscle into a business landscape once locked down by the old regulatory practices of the Capital City.
In The National Law Journal’s annual survey of head count at law firm offices throughout the District of Columbia and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs, the law firms that grew their metro presences fastest have their anchors in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Indigenous firms, including Covington & Burling and Hogan Lovells, the city’s two largest law offices, saw slimmer upticks in their attorney numbers.
