TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 9, 2022

New data from Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, a legal analytics company, shows that big billing rate increases last year often coincided with population gains, and ELM found “especially” high average billing rate increases in the following seven cities: Greenville, South Carolina (18%), Fresno, California (15%), Oklahoma City (13%), Seattle and Nashville (11% each), Phoenix (10%) and Miami (9%). Andrew Maloney writes in Law.com that population gains tied with billing rate increases indicate these cities could be among the next wave of markets for a Big Law boom.