Strasburger & Price‘s net income in 2017 increased 9 percent compared with 2016, but the firm’s gross revenue for the year rose only slightly.

Revenue for the Dallas-based firm, which is engaged in merger discussions with the Detroit firm Clark Hill, was $93,756,000 in 2017, up a mere  0.1 percent when compared with $93,700,000 in 2016. But net income grew significantly, to $29,487,000, compared with $27,060,000 the prior year.