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The LB100: Profitability Revealed

The LB100: Profitability Revealed
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Legal Business
2 September 2016
Legal Business 100 2016Financial results 2016

In this table we blend together the three key profitability metrics, PEP, profit per lawyer and profit margin, to discover which of the top 100 firms are the most profitable. The firms have been ranked according to their aggregate score across all three measurements.

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