New Jersey’s homegrown firms largely fell short of average attorney population growth rates in 2016, with many seeing head counts recede, according to a recent survey of the largest U.S.-based firms.
Of the 12 New Jersey firms included in the survey, seven saw year-over-year attorney population decrease to some degree last year. All but two of those had growth rates lower than 2 percent. (Nationally, lawyer head counts grew slightly more than 2 percent, compared with last year’s overall growth of 0.6 percent.)
