Results Are In: What’s The “Hottest” Law Firm Practice Area?

When Big Law Business launched last week, we opened a poll that asked readers what the “hottest,” most active practice area is.

Readers had five choices: mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, energy and infrastructure, white collar defense or commercial litigation. With 115 votes tallied, we decided to check the results.

Transactional activity has been rebounding, and that’s exactly what our poll showed: Mergers and acquisitions was the crowd favorite, carrying more than 32 percent of the tally, but intellectual property was close behind with more than 24 percent.

The numbers make some sense. Lex Machina reported in January that patent ...