Among Washington’s largest law offices, more grew and fewer cut lawyers in 2012 than in the previous year, the annual Legal Times 150 survey shows. But that said, the retrenchment still continued.

Last year’s survey revealed a 3 percent decline in lawyers employed by the largest 150 firms in Washington. The downward trend started in 2009, when the overall head count in the survey dropped by 4.5 percent, the largest decline in a quarter-century.