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Weightmans


Turnover£31.7m
Profit per equity partner£211,000
Equity spread£103,000-£275,000
Net profit£4.6m
Profit margin15 per cent
Revenue per lawyer£159,000
Revenue per partner£417,000
Revenue per equity partner£1,441,000
Total no of fee-earners313
Total no of assistants124
No of partners76
No of equity partners22
Total no of female partners20
Total no of female equity partners2
Total no of staff625
Leverage ratio (equity partners/fee-earners)5.6
Representative clientsNHS Litigation Authority
Zurich
CIS
Axa

Weightmans continues to have one of the lower profit margins in the top 100 at around 15 per cent. That is significantly better than last year, however, and with average PEP at £211,000 things are beginning to look a little healthier for this insurance litigation-rooted practice.

Weightmans has a tightly-held equity, with just 22 of its 76 partners part of the lockstep. The overwhelming majority of the firm's fee-earners are litigators, contributing 94 per cent of turnover through work for clients such as Zurich.

During the past year Weightmans hived off its Manchester commercial practice, refocusing it on Liverpool. The key for the current year is to ensure that there is no reverse into the more troubled times of the past few years.

 
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