Cozen O’Connor saw a 1.3 percent decline in gross revenue in 2013 as its headcount dropped nearly 3 percent in a year that saw a number of attorneys leave the firm in places such as Chicago and Philadelphia.

But Cozen O’Connor CEO Michael Heller said that while the firm’s full-time equivalent headcount was down for the year, the total number of lawyers was actually flat at year’s end thanks to the firm’s hiring of nearly as many laterals as had left.