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Law Practice

Jan. 13, 2022

Big law is back in the Goldilocks zone

If big law 2021 was, as many firms are reporting, a whopper of a year, 2022 looks to be even better.

Peter Zeughauser

Chair
Zeughauser Group, LLC

Zeughauser Group, LLC is a consultancy of trusted strategic advisors to the leadership of leading national and international law firms.

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If big law 2021 was, as many firms are reporting, a whopper of a year, 2022 looks to be even better.

In 2008, at the end of the 17-year golden era, pundits declared that clients had pressed a "reset" button. They'd had enough of the run-up in billing rates that had then crashed through the $1,000 ceiling and the sky-high Am Law 100 average profits per partner of $1.2 million, not to mention the coddled associates who were earning skyrocket...

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