Law firms in California have promoted the second most lawyers to partner from Jan. 1, 2017, through the beginning of this year, according to data collected by ALM Intelligence.
The Golden State trails only New York when it comes to the volume of new partner promotions by firms listed in The American Lawyer’s Am Law 200 and The National Law Journal’s NLJ 500 rankings. ALM Intelligence found that California-based firms promoted 480 lawyers to partner in 2017, while New York had 530 new partners during that same period.
