The Magic Circle giant Clifford Chance is expanding its physical footprint in the Big Apple to keep pace with a brisk 22% surge in lawyer head count over the past two years. The firm now boasts more than 300 lawyers in its New York office.
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In a bold lateral strike that underscores the fierce talent battle in Paris Big Law, Ropes & Gray has snapped up a high-powered eight-lawyer private equity and M&A group from rival Latham & Watkins.
The move, confirmed by multiple sources including The Lawyer andLaw.com International, brings three partners — Denis Criton, (pictured) Gaëtan Gianasso, and Michael Colle
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March 23, 2026: Following more than a decade of transformational leadership under Chair Jami McKeon, Morgan Lewis today announced that its partnership has unanimously elected David A. McManus as the next Chair of the firm for a five-year term starting on October 1, 2026. Mr. McManus will succeed Ms. McKeon, who has guided Morgan Lewis through a period
White & Case has delivered another record-breaking year, posting an 8.5% revenue increase for 2025 to reach $3.6 billion Legal Business — and signalling loudly that this is very much a firm still in growth mode. Profits per equity partner hit an all-time high of $4.41 million, a 10% jump that will keep the partnership
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Kirkland & Ellis just changed the frame for the entire industry
If you write about lawyers for long enough, you make a quiet peace with the gap between your pay packet and theirs. This week, however, Kirkland & Ellis has made that gap feel almost cosmic.
Equity partners at the world’s highest-grossing law firm averaged $11.1 million each for 2025 – a 20% increase on 2024. The major money figure places Kirkland’s partners in the earnings bracket of a top Premier League footballer, at roughly £22,500 a day.
The firm simultaneously became the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, posting $10.56 billion for the year.
When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced last week that Ramona Y. Nee will succeed Barry Wolf as Executive Partner from January 2027, the news landed with the quiet inevitability of a deal that everyone saw coming.
Wolf, who has steered the firm for 16 years, called her “uniquely suited.” He was not exaggerating. For nearly a quarter-century Nee has been the quiet engine of Weil’s U.S. private equity practice and the beating heart of its Boston office. Now the firm is handing her the keys.
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Willkie Pushes London NQ Salaries to £180,000 as BigLaw Pay War Escalates US law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has lifted the salaries of its newly qualified lawyers in London to a market-topping £180,000, placing it firmly among the highest-paying firms in the City. The increase represents a £10,000 rise, or just under six percent,
Updated 16 March with clarification on the DLAPiper profit pool arrangements following the restructuring. For years, the Swiss verein has been BigLaw’s favourite legal fiction as a neat way for sprawling global firms to present as “one firm” while keeping the money, liabilities and politics carefully ring‑fenced by region. Now DLA Piper, is preparing to
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It has been a year — twelve months of watching the most powerful law firms on the planet twist in the wind at the pleasure of a sitting president. And just when it looked like the drama had finally resolved itself, Washington reminded everyone that in this administration, nothing is ever quite over.
On Monday, the Trump administration quietly announced it was abandoning its executive orders against Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey — four firms that had the nerve, and the litigation chops, to fight back. All four had beaten the orders in the lower courts.
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A team of highly regarded business disputes lawyers in Australia — Matthew Critchley, Alicia Salvo, and Brendon Clarke — will join Jones Day as Partners in its Global Disputes Practice, based in the Firm’s Melbourne Office. Jones Day has been serving clients in Australia since 1998 with a growing team of more than 100 lawyers
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