Bryan Cave Chairman Don Lents says that expanded work and higher attorney headcount led to to a revenue increase at his firm. An early look shows some wildly diverse — but mostly positive — 2012 financial results for some members of the MOney 20, Missouri’s highest-grossing corporate law firms.

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Ten of this year’s new partners are practicing in the labor and employment fields, the most-represented area outside business and litigation. But the promotions are all over the map, with some in places like product liability, immigration and even sports injury.

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The percentage of female new partners at the state’s largest law firms grew again. At 37 percent, though, it still lags behind the number of women coming into the profession — nearly half of law school graduates.

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Many new partners at law firms in Missouri have at least this much in common: A degree from one of the state’s four law schools.

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Thirteen firms on Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s MOney 20 rankings were operating with fewer attorneys in 2010. But less can mean more. Law firm leaders say the changes last year resulted in more productive offices.

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A look at each law firm in the MOney 20.

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All year we reported on the hiring freezes, the pay cuts and the layoffs at Missouri law firms. So, you'd expect our fifth annual Missouri Lawyers Weekly MOney 20 financial review of Missouri law firms to chronicle 2009 as the year of recession and retrenchment, of turmoil and tightened belts, of Sturm und Drang.

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No. 1: Bryan Cave Revenue: $502.5 million Revenue per lawyer: $583,400 Revenue per lawyer and profits per partner sink. Bryan Cave cuts costs but doesn’t avoid layoffs of 58 attorneys and 76 staff members in February 2009, a month after ...

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Find out who's up and who's down in our roundup of legal money matters. Head to our MOney 20 page for all the articles, data and charts featured in this year's issue. Also available for the first time ever is the MOney 20 financial data as an Excel spreadsheet. Now you can sort and dissect the information any way you'd like. Click here to order the spreadsheet. You can also buy extra copies of the MOney 20 print edition by clicking here.

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It was a Thursday afternoon in October when Jerry Carmody noticed the quiet. The Carmody MacDonald partner wondered why he didn’t hear the ringing of phones and the buzz of conversations with clients in the firm’s Clayton offices. Then Carmody ...

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Few Missouri firms were spared the wrath of the faltering economy in 2008, a year when many of the largest firms cut attorneys and staff and shuttered unneeded offices. Twelve of the Big 50 law firms, which are ranked by ...

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