The 2014 Am Law 200: Survival Of The Fittest

We’ll provide a chart for the the top 10 firms in the Second Hundred gross revenue rankings, and the top five firms for the RPL and PPP rankings. Some things to note before you take a look: Robins Kaplan had the largest gain in gross revenue, with a healthy 69.7 percent increase, but Dickstein Shapiro (home of the layoffs) had the largest decline, posting a 19.7 decrease year-over-year. Ouch, that’s got to sting a bit.

Gross Revenue

The top 10 firms by gross revenue appear below. You can see the full list here.

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Revenue Per Lawyer

As for RPL, which provides a relatively accurate picture of a firm’s overall financial well-being, we’ve got five big name players strutting their stuff. The integrated Am Law 200 revenue per lawyer chart can be found here.

1. Irell
2. Munger Tolles
3. Robins Kaplan (a whopping 79.9 percent increase over 2012’s numbers)
4. Choate Hall
5. Patterson Belknap

Profits Per Partner

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This is where all of the magic happens. We can see that Irell continues to dominate, despite its overall rank of #126 on the Am Law 200. The integrated Am Law 200 profits per partner chart can be found here.