DLA Piper: facts and figures - Chambers and Partners

DLA Piper: facts and figures
DLA Piper family tree
Note: for simplicity's sake, this table does not list all the many mergers that DLA Piper and its predecessors have gone though, just the ones that led to its initial creation
1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Alsop Stevens Bateson (Liverpool)
Wilkinson Kimbers (London)
Alsop Wilkinson Dibb Lupton Alsop DLA
(renamed)
Dibb Lupton (Leeds)
Dibb Lupton Broomhead
Broomhead & Neals (Sheffield)
Piper & Marbury (Baltimore, MD)
Piper Rudnick
DLA Piper
Rudnick & Wolfe (Chicago, IL)
Gray Cary Ames & Frye (San Diego, CA)
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich
Ware & Freidenrich (Palo Alto, CA)
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Retention
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
% kept on True Picture average for that year
Year
Trainees
kept on
Total
qualifying that
% kept on
True Picture
average for
Firm's performance
compared to the
calendar year
that year average
2011 69 77 89.61 80.54 9.07
2010 79 97 81.44 76.31 5.13
2009 54 86 62.79 74.10 -11.31
2008 64 77 83.12 82.08 1.04
2007 72 80 90.00 79.76 10.24
2006 52 72 72.22 79.90 -7.68
2005 62 78 79.49 81.15 -1.66
2004 60 71 84.51 79.52 4.99
2003 67 71 94.37 77.73 16.64
2002 53 59 89.83 79.35 10.48
2001 62 65 95.38

Salary
£70,000
£60,000
£50,000
£40,000
£30,000
£20,000
£10,000
£0
1998 99 2000 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
First year (London) Second year (London) NQ (London)
First year (Regions) Second year (Regions) NQ (Regions)
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