Sentence examples for per lawyer from inspiring English sources

His firm occupies about 800 square feet per lawyer at its primary office in Philadelphia.

Ask anyone from Dewey & Leboeuf, a firm that ranked 38th in the AmLaw 100 in 2011 in profits per lawyer.

The average number of pro bono hours per lawyer at these firms dropped 8 percent, according to the journal.

The average pro bono work per lawyer was 80 hours last year, up from about 60 in 2000 and 40 in 1999.

After Dewey partners provided Bloomberg News with profit numbers that differed sharply from what the firm had reported to American Lawyer, AmLaw restated Dewey's 2010 and 2011 results, which dropped Dewey's revenue per lawyer in 2011 to $750,000 from $900,000 and lowered the firm's rank based on revenue to 28th from 22nd in 2010.

In their new spaces, law firms are paying to build offices with smaller allocations of total square footage per lawyer, typically 700 square feet instead of the 900 square feet or more typical of offices built a decade or so ago.

As real estate lawyers and managing agents hastened to point out, a portion of these updates have already been written into agreements that have over the years been customized on a per-building (or per-lawyer) basis.

Unlike the other numbers, profit-per-lawyer gives a sense of how widely the fee-earning burden is shared, how commoditisable the work is and, as a loose guide, how healthy the overall business is.

Unfortunately profit-per-lawyer figures aren't easy to find, with the only comprehensive list I know of available in the subscription magazine Legal Business, whose website is behind a rather expensive paywall.

Last year profit-per-lawyer stood at £296,000 at Slaughter & May and £85,000 at DLA Piper, leaving no doubt as to which is the higher-end outfit despite its smaller size.

A useful metric for students to consult when considering which firm to apply to is profit-per-lawyer, rather than the more frequently referred to, and widely available, revenue and profit-per-equity partner figures which actually tell you very little information about a firm's junior members.