Despite the kudzu-like proliferation of law firm ratings, job seekers continue to suffer from a woeful shortage of meaningful, truly informative guidance.
With the new Leopard Law Firm Index, presented by Leopard Solutions in partnership with Above the Law and Adam Smith, Esq., this changes.
Unlike other industry ratings reports that provide a once-a-year snapshot, the Leopard Index is continually updated with real-time information — a key differentiator in an era of rapid, systemic change.
The Leopard Index is also the only such industry report based on purely quantitative, “ungameable” datasets — selected for their correlation with an upward trajectory for a law firm. Most of this data is sourced from Leopard Solutions’ proprietary database, which is continuously updating research on more than 318,000 attorneys in over 4,000 law firms in the U.S. alone.
Each of the index’s metrics provides a measure of a firm’s vitality and resilience — datasets that go to the heart of a firm’s operational and financial hygiene. These include:
- average lawyer tenure at a firm
- internal firm satisfaction
- changes in revenue per lawyer over a five-year period
- relative success in lateral recruiting and retention
Additionally, our data is:
- corrected as appropriate for firm size
- not at risk of being compromised by cosmetic adjustments as firms self-report
- not based on our own secret guesstimates
These objective data points reveal meaningful, relevant distinctions among law firms. With the advent of the Leopard Law Firm Index, job seekers — from lateral partners to law students — are empowered with unprecedented insight into potential employers.
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