A National Law Journal today published the 2012 NLJ 250, its annual list of the nation’s 250 largest law firms, reporting that headcount marginally increased last year among the top law firms in the U.S in the NLJ 250 collectively employed 126,293 lawyers in 2011, up 1.7 percent from 124,161 in 2010 for a still not reaching the all-time NLJ 250 high of 133,723 recorded in 2008 and the last year’s gains reversed the contraction of 2009-2010 in the nation’s largest law firms experienced a net reduction in employed lawyers for two consecutive years.
The spite of the overall increase in employment at NLJ 250 firms, only about half of those firms grew, with 118 firms adding headcount and 109 actually subtracting in the eight firms were flat and the remaining 15 were new to this year’s list of a after three years of flat to negative growth, 2011 was the year that the nation’s 250 largest law firms started getting bigger again, said David L. Brown, editor in chief of the national law journal to found that headcount growth last year was robust among firms focused on labor and the employment and on international work.
The spite of the overall increase in employment at NLJ 250 firms, only about half of those firms grew, with 118 firms adding headcount and 109 actually subtracting in the eight firms were flat and the remaining 15 were new to this year’s list of a after three years of flat to negative growth, 2011 was the year that the nation’s 250 largest law firms started getting bigger again, said David L. Brown, editor in chief of the national law journal to found that headcount growth last year was robust among firms focused on labor and the employment and on international work.
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