Lawyer numbers rise at US top 350

Mergers with foreign law firms have pushed up the total numbers of working in the top 350 US firms by nearly four per cent, according to the the NLJ 350 survey report for 2013.

10 June 2014

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Stripping out the effect of the international mergers shows that domestic growth pushes up the lawyer count by just 0.8 per cent over the same period. The National Law Journal survey shows the effect of cross border combinations such as Norton Rose Fulbright and Dentons. Baker & McKenzie comes top of the ranking (4,087 lawyers), followed by DLA Piper (3,962) and Norton Rose Fulbright (3,537). Source: Global NewsWire