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Gibson Dunn Storms Spain With Star Dealmaker Armando Albarrán to Lead Madrid Launch

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Gibson Dunn is planting its flag in Spain, and it’s doing it the only way Big Law knows how – by hiring the country’s most decorated dealmaker and building an office around him.

The firm has confirmed that Armando Albarrán, widely regarded as Spain’s premier private equity and M&A lawyer, is joining as a partner, triggering the launch of Gibson Dunn’s Madrid office. It is not a symbolic outpost. This is a full-blooded expansion of the Gibson Dunn’s European transactional machine.

Albarrán arrives with a reputation that does the heavy lifting. He is Band 1 across the board at Chambers for Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A and Private Equity, and has advised on many of Spain’s most consequential domestic and cross-border transactions. Log in to read the story . . .

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Inside AlphaLit – The Legal Tech AI Startup Rewiring Legal Intake and Access to Justice

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AlphaLit’s seed round is more than another legal tech funding story, but is a shot across the bow of the traditional plaintiffs’ bar and a live case study in how voice AI and claims scoring could rewire the economics of “small” litigation.​

For most plaintiffs’ firms, high-volume, lower-dollar matters remain structurally unattractive.

Intake on smaller civil claims is labour-intensive, non-billable, and often delegated to over-stretched staff, which makes it hard to justify the time spent on leads that rarely convert into seven-figure wins.​
AlphaLit points to a brutal funnel – roughly 64 percent of calls from potential plaintiffs never get a substantive response, leaving an estimated 55 million meritorious civil claims unfiled each year, particularly in working-class communities.

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How to Harness The Power of the ALM Law Portal

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evolved Law.com from a news site into a unified, mobile‑first legal intelligence portal that connects breaking news, analytics and workflow tools across six core content pillars: Business of Law, Practice of Law, Corporate Legal, Legal Technology, U.S. News and World News.

Behind the front end sits ALM’s wider legal media network (including leading U.S. and global titles) and data products, giving lawyers access to a single environment where media, data and marketing inventory intersect.​

At a practical level, Law.com now acts as the entry point to ALM’s broader stack: Law.com Compass (firm and market analytics), Law.com Radar (real‑time case and deal tracking) and client‑facing interfaces like Lawyerpages, the AI‑powered consumer directory.

For law firms, that makes Law.com less a “website to read” and more an infrastructure decision about where you get your data, where you advertise, and where prospective clients and GCs discover your lawyers. And it can be an extremely effective law marketing tool.​

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How BigLaw Salary Wars And AI Are Upending The Legal World

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How BigLaw and AI Is Changing the Law Business Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor In December 2025, Cravath once again kicked off a new salary scale for associates, pushing first-year salaries to $225,000, with eighth-years pulling $430,000+. Not to be outdone, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins matched within days. And more pay deals occurred,

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Pallas Partners Blows Up Cravath-Scale Bonuses in 2025 Bonus Wars

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Pallas Partners Outpaced Biglaw Bonus Scales Norma Harris Pallas Partners, the transatlantic litigation boutique headed by power lawyer Natasha Harrison, that’s been quietly building a reputation with elite hires on both sides of the Atlantic has just dropped a compensation grenade into Big Law’s year-end bonus melee. The firm’s associates and counsel will receive total

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America’s Lawyer Numbers Grow – Crowded, Ageing and About to Get Weirder

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The US Attorney Count Grow Norma Harris The United States now has more practising lawyers than at any point in history. According to the American Bar Association’s latest national survey, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers as of January 1, 2024. The head-count keeps rising. The profession keeps sprawling. And the competition keeps getting nastier. New

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Saunas, Salons and 2,000 Hours – Inside Big Law’s ‘Wellness’ Arms Race

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Law firms aren’t just trying to out‑pay each other anymore – they’re now in an amenities arms race, turning offices into luxury wellness bunkers so lawyers can bill 80 hours a week and still get their steps in, their hair done and their chakras aligned.

The money is still obscene, but the new game is: who can make the golden handcuffs feel most like a spa bracelet.

Newly qualified lawyers in London are now pulling up to around £180,000 in their mid‑20s, with top partners into the multi‑million‑dollar level, but the issue for law firms once everyone is paying nose-bleed money is to be the differentiator. Log in to read more . . .

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What Reddit BigLaw Readers Are Really Worried About

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The r/biglaw trends worrying lawyers Norma Harris Law firms love glossy annual reports full of “strategic realignments,” “market headwinds,” and whatever other euphemism the managing partner’s ghost-writer cooked up. Reddit’s legal communities, by contrast, tell you what’s actually happening and we wanted to know. r/biglaw, r/LawSchool, and the lawyer-adjacent subs have become a running diagnostic

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