Tom Borman

Tom Borman is a regular LawFuel contributor writing on the top law firms and best law firm lists in American law. He has written recently about law firm pay rates, major law firms like Kirkland & Ellis, law firm SEO and related legal matters. He can be contacted through news@lawfuel.com

Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer Arthur Aidala: The Mastermind Behind the Defense

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The Tabloid Villain’s Nice Guy LawyerTom Borman, LawFuel ‘Law Star’ writer and legal contributorRepresenting Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie producer who became the focus of the #Metoo movement’s most egregious observations about sexual harassment, may not be the most popular client for most lawyers but for Arthur Aidala his appellate win freeing Weinstein was undoubtedly

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Neel Sachdev: The Architect Behind Paul Weiss London’s Legal Renaissance

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Super Rainmaker Neel Sachdev’s Big Law EffectNeel Sachdev needs no introduction in these columns as the rainmaker whose big-money move from Kirkland & Ellis raised eyebrows to a level in the City where NASA needed to find them. It appears, he continues to make waves as Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison continues on the

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Law Star Easha Anand: The Legal Mind That’s Shaping Public Policy Debate

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The Easha Anand Supreme Court FileTom Borman, LawFuel ‘Law Star’ writer and legal contributorDescribed by leading legal commentator David Lat as a ‘Rising Star of the Supreme Court’, Easha Anand switched from a career as a potentially brilliant mathematician to journalism before switching to law – where she has become more than merely an emerging

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Forbes List of Top 10 SEO Services – But Do They Handle Law Firms?

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Forbes’ Top 10 SEO Services ListTom Borman, LawFuel’s law marketing and editorial contributorForbes are known for their lists so when Forbes Advisor listed the top search engine optimization (SEO) law firms in the United States, we checked the Forbes’ Top 10 SEO services list to see if the same SEO services also helped law firms.We

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This Billionaire Lawyer’s Winning Formula: Litigation, Leadership, and Legacy

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Death of an American Law StarTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorBillionaire lawyers are pretty thin on the ground but the death of lawyer Peter Angelos recently, at the age of 94, ended a life that represented extraordinary success as a lawyer, quite apart from the massive accumulation of wealth.Angelos made his name – and his money

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America’s Top 20 Lawyers – Who Makes The Top of Forbes Top Lawyers List?

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Forbes Top Lawyers in AmericaThe Forbes Top Lawyers in America lists their top 200, including some of the Law Stars that LawFuel has identified like Ben Crump and Alex Spiro (pictured).Forbes reference the $300 billion-plus size of the US legal market and their inaugural list looks at those who are the top of the game

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Kirkland & Ellis PEP Growth Creates $8 Million Dollar Men (and Women)

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No sooner have we written about the PEP earnings of big law firms when Kirkland & Ellis come out with a report (from Law.com) showing revenues growing to $7.21 billion and their profits per equity partner (PEP) rising to $7.96 million.Despite the high profile departure of law stars like London-based Neel Sachdev to Paul Weiss’s

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Hourly Rate Unveiled: Lawyers Pursue $6 Billion Legal Fee Tied to Musk’s Pay Package

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Record Legal Fee RequestTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorWe reported recently on a record-breaking ‘first’ billion dollar legal fee in the Elon Musk executive compensation case – but away under-estimated – with the fee looking at several billion more.The lawyers who successfully challenged Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package as excessive are now seeking a legal

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