Clients
Growing Faster
Eversheds
retains the first place in the first of our 'size' tables
this quarter, which shows solicitors ranked according
to the number of their listed clients, although its client
numbers have fallen slightly from 97 in August to 93.5
now. Ashurst Morris Crisp and Slaughter and May have changed
places and are now at number two and number three respectively,
again with slightly reduced numbers. There are only small
variations in the placings in the rest of this table.
Table number two deals with firms according to the profitability
of their clients. The first five places are unchanged
from August, with Linklaters in the number one position
still way ahead of its nearest rival, Slaughter and May.
The first ten places all have positive figures, ranging
from that of Linklaters with £10448.9m to Hammonds with
£324.8m.
There is a change at the head of our first 'growth' table,
which lists solicitors with the fastest growing clients.
DLA, third last time, is in first place now with 14.1%,
the same figure as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. They
are followed by Pinsents with 10%, up from fourth place
in August with 4.7%. Linklaters, with 5%, has slipped
from second place to fifth. The proportion of positive
figures remains much the same - eight out of twelve this
time, seven out of eleven last quarter.
Finally, the second of our growth tables is concerned
with the average increase in clients' earnings per share.
Gold and silver medallists have changed places, so that
DLA is now in the lead with 16.3% and Herbert Smith follows
with 12.0%. The first seven places all have positive figures,
ranging from that of DLA to Linklaters at number seven
with 0.9%. There have been few significant moves, apart
from another swap-over, this time between Ashurst Morris
Crisp and Eversheds who are now in eighth and eleventh
places respectively.
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