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

Orrick Snatches Cadwalader’s Eight-Partner Finance Team

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Orrick has staged a raid worthy of Wall Street, swiping an eight-partner finance team from Cadwalader—four in London, four in the US—just as CLOs and private credit are reshaping global markets, Global Legal Post reports.The London Line-UpLeading the London contingent is David Quirolo, (pictured) flanked by Claire Puddicombe, Daniel Tobias and Alexander Collins. These aren’t

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The Best John Grisham Screen Adaptations: A Top-10 Countdown (with the New Rainmaker TV Series)

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The Top 10 John Grisham Screen AdaptationsTom Borman, Lawfuel contributing editorThe 90s films still set the bar, but USA Network’s new Rainmaker series shows there’s life in Grisham’s case files yet. That doesn’t surprise me with Grisham’s trademark tight plotting and David vs. Goliath themes that deal with major issues from environmental scandal to corporate

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Google’s $425 Million Trial Loss And Cooley’s Surprise Starring Role

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The Lawyers Who Took Google’s Billing BonanzaTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorGoogle has been whacked with a $425 million jury verdict in a class-action privacy trial in a case that centres on the company’s habit of harvesting user data even after people switched off supposedly protective settings. It’s the corporate version of saying “don’t worry, you’re

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Who Is Abbe Lowell – The Tough Washington Litigator Handling Trump Targets?

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The Abbe Lowell EffectTom Borman, LawFuel contributing writerAbbe Lowell has always thrived on crisis. A Columbia Law grad and former DOJ lawyer, he was the Democrats’ legal field marshal during the Clinton impeachment. Since then, he’s defended a rogue’s gallery of Washington names: Senator Bob Menendez (twice), John Edwards, Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden. Described

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Lawyers Built This AI to Read Judges’ Minds — And BigLaw Is Already Hooked

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And Now Legal AI That Sees Into the Judge’s Mind . . AlmostTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorEvery litigator wants the edge. Some want it ethical. Others want it engineered and now a trio of brains — one BigLaw, two tech — have raised $5.3 million to deliver a crystal ball for courtrooms. It’s called Bench

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A&O Shearman’s First Results: Big, Loud, and Not Quite Magic Circle Royalty

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A&O Shearman has unveiled its first set of financials since creating the world’s largest Anglo-American law firm — and for a stitched-together giant still working out how to share the same stationery, the numbers are healthy and partner pay too.

Revenue hit £2.9 billion (US$3.7 billion) with pretax profit of £1.1 billion (US$1.4 billion). Average profit per equity partner landed at £2 million (US$2.6 million)

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BigLaw Pay Race 2025: How High Big Law Pay Rates Go Before They Crack?

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If you thought the Great Legal Pay Spike was last year, think again. At present Duane Morris is under fire in a partner-pay class-action suit, amid allegations of misclassifying non-equity partners to dodge taxes and benefits—even as women and minority partners allegedly earned less. That in itself sent ripples through partner compensation practices nationwide.

But perhaps more gripping: the Financial Times reports top corporate partners billing over $2,500/hour and annual earnings soaring above $25 million.

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Latest BigLaw Merger To Hit The Law Market on 1 August

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Here Comes McDermott Will & SchulteTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorIn a deal that underscores Big Law’s relentless consolidation, McDermott Will & Emery (approximately 1,400 lawyers, ~$2.2 b 2024 revenue) and Schulte Roth & Zabel (~350 lawyers, ~$618 m) voted last month to merge effective August 1, 2025, creating a combined firm of around 1,750 attorneys and global reach across

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From Courtrooms to Code: How Sarah Johansson Is Leading the AI Revolution in Legal Decision-Making

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The Legal AI Lawyer Re-Shaping The Way Lawyers ActTom Borman, LawFuel contributing editorBefore Sarah Johansson helped build one of the legal industry’s most promising AI products, she was deep in the trenches of litigation: reading thousands of case documents, drafting letters, researching precedents, and wondering why so many parts of the legal process weren’t taking

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