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Macfarlanes Hits £3.1m PEP – Proof That Staying Small Can Beat The Magic Circle At Its Own Game

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he 150-year-old City firm just posted profitability numbers that will make some London big law partners wince, but the strategy is deceptively simple.

While the Magic Circle firms continue their global expansion arms race, adding offices in places most partners couldn’t find on a map, Macfarlanes has been quietly doing something almost heretical in modern BigLaw: staying focused, staying small, and getting spectacularly rich in the process.
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Record £534m PE Cash Floods UK Law Firms With AI As the Rocket Fuel

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If you’re a lawyer watching your firm’s P&L or thinking about the next tech upgrade, here’s the headline you can’t ignore: private equity poured a record £534 million into UK law firms in 2024, which is a chunky 42% jump from £377m the year before. Over the past five years that’s more than £1.2 billion of fresh capital heading into the sector.

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The New Chapter for Mallesons And Why the Australian Firm Chose Independence After 14 Years with KWM

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Today, 31 March 2026, marks the official launch of Mallesons as a fully independent, top-tier Australian law firm operating in Australia and Singapore, effectively unwinding the 14-year Swiss verein partnership with China’s King & Wood that created King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in March 2012. The split was first announced on 9 December 2025 (KWM

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No Timesheets, Pure Trial Focus – How This Litigation Boutique Rewrote the BigLaw Rulebook in Just 10 Years

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What happens when elite trial lawyers walk away from BigLaw’s billable-hour machine and build a firm laser-focused on taking cases all the way to verdict?

You get Wilkinson Stekloff—a lean, highly effective trial boutique that has quietly become one of the most respected names in high-stakes litigation, without ever sending a single traditional timesheet to a client.
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Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI Again — What Florida Law Really Means for Him Now, and the Elite Lawyers Who Fight These Cases

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Three days after he stepped back onto a competitive golf course for the first time in nearly two years, Tiger Woods was in handcuffs. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m., the most recognisable golfer on the planet climbed out of the passenger window of his overturned Range Rover on South Beach Road in Jupiter

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RollOnFriday Drops the 2026 Career Development Rankings – Where UK Lawyers Actually Get Ahead

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If you’re a lawyer who’s ever stared at the partnership ladder and wondered whether it’s actually bolted to the wall or just an optical illusion designed to keep you billing, RollOnFriday has done you a quiet favour.

Its latest Best Law Firms to Work At 2026 survey – drawing on thousands of anonymous responses from lawyers and support staff across the UK market – zeroes in on career development satisfaction.

This is the category that cuts through the glossy recruitment brochures and “we invest in our people” slogans, revealing who actually delivers clear progression routes, meaningful mentoring, early client exposure and merit-based advancement rather than vague promises and political games.
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NZ Legal Market 2026: Five Findings Law Firms Can’t Ignore

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The Thomson Reuters 2026 State of the New Zealand Legal Market report delivers the best financial news the sector has had in years. But the most important material isn’t always in the headline figures. Read between the lines and five standout findings emerge — each one with real consequences for how NZ law firms compete,

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NZ Law Firms’ Best Year Since Before COVID — And The Five Threats That Could End It

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For New Zealand law firms, the past four years have been a masterclass in resilience — navigating a pandemic-cratered market, a brutal war for talent, expense blowouts, and an economy that spent much of 2023 and 2024 in recession, all while clients demanded more and paid less willingly. That grinding period of strategic discipline has

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Why Baker McKenzie’s Major Job Cuts Send Shivvers Down Lawyers’ Spines

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The job cuts that sent 700 Baker McKenzie employees home in February has sent major ripples around law firms everywhere.

The cuts, affecting less than 10% of Baker McKenzie’s total support workforce, touched nearly every non-lawyer function across every office. This is the kind of story that makes managing partners and chief operating officers sit up straight, because it’s not about associate headcount or NQ retention. It’s about the infrastructure that keeps a modern firm running.
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The Law Firm’s Red Faces Over Pink Ice-Cream Maker Women’s Day Outrage

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Every law firm wants to mark International Women’s Day thoughtfully — but sometimes the gesture lands like a lead balloon. Offshore powerhouse Harneys made headlines of all the wrong kind when managing partner Ian Mann announced on LinkedIn that the firm had shipped pastel-pink Toffy ice-cream makers branded with the Harneys logo and the cheeky

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