Welcome to the Law.com Pro Executive Briefing with Patrick Fuller and Gina Passarella. This week we begin a three-part examination of the full Am Law 200 data set, including a look at people, places and profits. In this first briefing, we explore how firms are staffing across lawyer and business ranks and introduce a new metric tracking staff to lawyer ratios at law firms. If you have topics or data you’d like to hear more about, let us know at [email protected] and [email protected].
How the Am Law 200 is Approaching Staffing
Growth and contraction are far from mutually exclusive, as is evident from the goings on at many Am Law 200 firms. Along with a perceived mandate to grow substantially, firms are also actively cutting lawyers and staff.
