With 19 New Jersey-based firms among those listed in this year’s NLJ 500, attorney population change firm to firm was very much a mixed bag, but more firms climbed than slid—even though more firms shrank than grew.

Total attorney population among all 500 firms (using full-time equivalents) increased by about 1 percent in 2017, which was a slower growth rate than that of 2016 (2 percent), the National Law Journal reported.