Texas firms beat industry averages for growth in revenue and billing rates during the first half of 2019, but productivity declined by a greater margin than the market, Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group reported this week.

Revenue improved by 4.6% at the 11 Texas firms that provided data to the Law Firm Group for its first-half 2019 survey, compared with a more modest average growth of 4.1% for the 191 firms surveyed industrywide.