“Extraordinary.” That’s how BuckleySandler chairman Andrew Sandler describes 2014, a year when the firm saw profits per partner soar 65 percent, to $2.8 million, and revenue per lawyer top $1 million, a 55 percent increase.
The key: The firm represented the Navajo Nation on a modified contingency basis in a $554 million settlement against the U.S. government for mismanaging tribal trust funds. But even without the Navajo settlement, the financial services specialty firm would still have seen significant growth, Sandler says, with “normal” revenue (excluding the Navajo work) up 25 percent and profits up 35 percent. In particular, Sandler says, business in the firm’s white-collar and government enforcement practice “exploded” in 2014.
