Global Industry Overview: Legal Services
The legal services industry includes offices of lawyers and other legal advisers and services.
Industry Snapshot
In the mid-years of the first decade of the 2000s, the legal services industry was growing. The top eight firms listed on American Lawyer's 2004 "Global 100" list had revenues of more than US$1 billion each in 2003. Four of these firms were based in the United Kingdom, with the other four based in the United States. The top 100 firms around the world had aggregate earnings of almost US$48.2 billion.
Consolidation has created larger, more competitive...