“Embrace the litigators in your lives” may sound like a Valentine’s Day lawyer meme, but it was Joe Patrice’s takeaway from the Q4 2023 Thomson Reuters Law Firm Financial Index. Journalists’ and bloggers’ coverage of the report, released last week, emphasized how law firms’ profits rebounded in 2023, driven by rate growth and stronger demand …
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Firms Reconsider How Technology Shapes Productivity as Law Firm Market Returns to Profitability
Law firms showed resilience in 2023, taking advantage of shifts in market demand and aggressively raising rates while exercising restraint in costs, particularly talent costs for associates. This balanced approach of managing for both topline growth and cost controls paid dividends for firms; if they continue to successfully execute on those strategies, the market is …
Record Growth in Attorney Rates in 2023: More of the Same in 2024?
Just in time for fourth quarter – when many law firms are exploring rate setting with clients for the coming year – is a new Thomson Reuters report, Law firm rates in 2023: What’s working, what isn’t, and how to move forward in 2024. It examines the current and historical performance of law firm rates …
