Law firms based in California delivered the strongest revenue growth in 2018, with Southern California firms specifically showing the greatest top-line increases among all U.S. regions, a recent report from Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group showed.

Southern California-based firms saw revenue growth accelerate to 8.8 percent, the highest rate of all 11 geographic regions analyzed, said John Wilmouth, a senior client adviser in Citi’s law firm group. And Northern California firms were close behind, showing revenue growth of 8.4 percent, the second highest rate among regions surveyed.