Pirical Data Insights 2024

17 December 2024

As we near the end of a year full of major legal market stories, here’s a recap of the Pirical data insights you were most interested in 2024!

Merger stories 🤝🏢

This year saw the arrival of A&O Shearman and merger announcements from a host of major firms, including Troutman Pepper/Locke Lord and Herbert Smith Freehills/Kramer Levin.

AM Law trends 💼📈

2024 marked a year of major growth for many AM Law firms and we uncovered various trends around Partner retention, practice growth and Partner promotions.

Regional market insights 📊🗽

We looked at the data behind some interesting growth stories in New York City, Boston and the Bay Area.

Most read articles of 2024


1	AM Law 100 Partner retention
2	Shearman & Sterling's Partner exits
3	Troutman Pepper & Locke Lord merger
4	Practice growth in the AM Law 100
5	New York City legal market
6	Herbert Smith Freehills & Kramer Levin merger
7	Practice growth in the AM Law 101-200
8	Boston legal market
9	Bay Area legal Market
10	AM Law merger mania

Articles written using publicly-available data from Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP)

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