An enormous contingency fee, along with merger integration, made 2012 a major comeback year for Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. Gross revenue shot up $44.5 million, a 12.3 percent increase. The top-line growth boosted revenue per lawyer to $735,000, a 16.7 percent rise that is The Am Law 100′s largest, while profits per equity partner rose to $860,000, a 36.5 percent jump that is The Am Law 100′s second-largest.
Those results followed a lackluster 2011, when gross revenue and profits per partner both sagged in the wake of the January 2011 merger of Atlanta’s Kilpatrick Stockton and San Francisco’s Townsend and Townsend and Crew. The combined firm’s gross revenue dropped almost 7 percent that year, and its PPP fell 12.5 percent.
