{"id":115907,"date":"2025-04-21T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/21\/ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:03:17","slug":"ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/21\/ranking-the-wealth-of-biglaws-best-is-your-law-firm-super-rich-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking The Wealth Of Biglaw\u2019s Best: Is Your Law Firm \u2018Super Rich\u2019? (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2024 \u2014 a year where large law firms really had the urge to merge<\/a> and nonequity partnership ranks<\/a> continued to expand\u00a0\u2014 your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially\u2026 but is it among the Am Law 100\u2019s Super Rich?<\/p>\n

What qualifies a firm to be designated as among the Super Rich? These are the Biglaw firms that have at least $1.1 million in revenue per lawyer (RPL) and $550,000 in profits per lawyer (PPL). These Biglaw firms are rolling around in cash, and they\u2019re not afraid to flaunt it after coming through ahead of peer firms last year. According to the\u00a0American Lawyer<\/a>, in 2024, the Super Rich list is now the largest of the last decade, increasing by three to reach 41. Here are some additional details on why the once-exclusive Super Rich firms club keeps growing larger and larger:<\/p>\n

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Because larger law firms have an advantage in competing for talent, and given that recent financial performance has been very strong for many firms, it\u2019s not surprising that the Super Rich list keeps growing, and is approaching, at 41 firms, close to half of the entire Am Law 100, [Kent] Zimmermann[, a strategic adviser with Zeughauser Group,] said.<\/p>\n

The Super Rich firms, he added, are now striving to strike a more balanced portfolio when it comes to focus, given that some practice areas are cyclical, while others are counter-cyclical.<\/p>\n

While rate increases were likely a factor in growing the Super Rich list, demand was also up for many firms across many practice areas in 2024, so it was a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of accelerating performance industry-wide, Zimmermann said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Before we get to the members of the 2025 Super Rich list, we\u2019ll let you know that one firm is making a return this year \u2014 Dechert \u2014 while two firms \u2014 Cadwalader and Jenner & Block \u2014 are first timers on this year\u2019s list. Not one single firm dropped from the list this time around, but one very high-profile firm \u2014 Cravath \u2014 was elbowed out of the Top 5.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here are the top 10 firms on the\u00a0Super Rich list:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wachtell<\/li>\n
  2. Susman Godfrey<\/li>\n
  3. Sullivan & Cromwell<\/li>\n
  4. Ropes & Gray<\/li>\n
  5. Kirkland & Ellis<\/li>\n
  6. Cravath<\/li>\n
  7. Davis Polk<\/li>\n
  8. Paul Weiss<\/li>\n
  9. Skadden<\/li>\n
  10. Quinn Emanuel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to see the complete list of 41 firms.<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to all of the Biglaw firms that made it into the Super Rich club in 2024! If your firm performs well enough, 2025 could be your year to shine \u2014 after all, almost half of the Am Law 100 is already here!<\/p>\n

    Rich? These Law Firms Are Getting \u2018Super Rich\u2019<\/a> [American Lawyer]<\/p>\n

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    Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    The post Ranking The Wealth Of Biglaw\u2019s Best: Is Your Law Firm \u2018Super Rich\u2019? (2025)<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2024 \u2014 a year where large law firms really had the urge to merge<\/a> and nonequity partnership ranks<\/a> continued to expand\u00a0\u2014 your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially\u2026 but is it among the Am Law 100\u2019s Super Rich?<\/p>\n

    What qualifies a firm to be designated as among the Super Rich? These are the Biglaw firms that have at least $1.1 million in revenue per lawyer (RPL) and $550,000 in profits per lawyer (PPL). These Biglaw firms are rolling around in cash, and they\u2019re not afraid to flaunt it after coming through ahead of peer firms last year. According to the\u00a0American Lawyer<\/a>, in 2024, the Super Rich list is now the largest of the last decade, increasing by three to reach 41. Here are some additional details on why the once-exclusive Super Rich firms club keeps growing larger and larger:<\/p>\n

    \n
    \n

    Because larger law firms have an advantage in competing for talent, and given that recent financial performance has been very strong for many firms, it\u2019s not surprising that the Super Rich list keeps growing, and is approaching, at 41 firms, close to half of the entire Am Law 100, [Kent] Zimmermann[, a strategic adviser with Zeughauser Group,] said.<\/p>\n

    The Super Rich firms, he added, are now striving to strike a more balanced portfolio when it comes to focus, given that some practice areas are cyclical, while others are counter-cyclical.<\/p>\n

    While rate increases were likely a factor in growing the Super Rich list, demand was also up for many firms across many practice areas in 2024, so it was a \u201cperfect storm\u201d of accelerating performance industry-wide, Zimmermann said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Before we get to the members of the 2025 Super Rich list, we\u2019ll let you know that one firm is making a return this year \u2014 Dechert \u2014 while two firms \u2014 Cadwalader and Jenner & Block \u2014 are first timers on this year\u2019s list. Not one single firm dropped from the list this time around, but one very high-profile firm \u2014 Cravath \u2014 was elbowed out of the Top 5.<\/p>\n

    Without further ado, here are the top 10 firms on the\u00a0Super Rich list:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Wachtell<\/li>\n
    2. Susman Godfrey<\/li>\n
    3. Sullivan & Cromwell<\/li>\n
    4. Ropes & Gray<\/li>\n
    5. Kirkland & Ellis<\/li>\n
    6. Cravath<\/li>\n
    7. Davis Polk<\/li>\n
    8. Paul Weiss<\/li>\n
    9. Skadden<\/li>\n
    10. Quinn Emanuel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to see the complete list of 41 firms.<\/p>\n

      Congratulations to all of the Biglaw firms that made it into the Super Rich club in 2024! If your firm performs well enough, 2025 could be your year to shine \u2014 after all, almost half of the Am Law 100 is already here!<\/p>\n

      Rich? These Law Firms Are Getting \u2018Super Rich\u2019<\/a> [American Lawyer]<\/p>\n

      \n
      \"Staci
      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

      Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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