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Simpson Thacher Opens Chicago Office with Kirkland Private Equity Team

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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is launching a Chicago office by hiring five partners from Kirkland & Ellis: Ryan Harris (Managing Partner of the new office), Cole Parker, Kyle McHugh, Ryan Jackson, and Ziyad Ziyadzade. The group specializes in middle-market private equity and family office work, advising on M&A, leveraged buyouts, growth investments, restructurings, and […]

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BigLaw Spent a Fortune on AI. It Still Bills by the Hour

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Key Takeaway Law firms poured record money into AI through 2025, with technology spend up 9.7% and knowledge-management investment up 37.2% since 2021. New BARBRI research finds most firms rolled the tools out faster than they built any way to measure whether lawyers actually work differently. The question underneath: firms are deploying software that does

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Holland & Knight Defense Role Sees Firm Open Office in ‘Rocket City’ Alabama

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Holland & Knight announced on August 6, 2026, the opening of the Firm’s new office in Huntsville, Alabama, its 36th location worldwide. Intellectual Property attorney Ryan Letson will lead the Huntsville office as executive partner, and International Trade attorney Andrew Tuggle joins him as a founding member. Holland & Knight Chair and Chief Executive Officer

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Wachtell’s Waterloo And The Chaos Marty Lipton Spent 50 Years Preventing

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Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming

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Intellectual property emerges as Big Law’s newest consolidation catalyst

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The merger of US-based Winston & Strawn with Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business is set to test demand for intellectual property counsel capable of straddling the geographic divide. But unlike most transatlantic partnerships, IP was not just another practice area in need of integration — it was a “key driver” of the decision to join forces, two Winston

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Brown Rudnick’s 34‑Lawyer IP Raid Shows Big Law’s Lateral Arms Race Is Far From Over

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What Brown Rudnick’s Major Hire Signals For Big Law’s Lateral Wars Brown Rudnick has just fired another shot in Big Law’s lateral wars, landing the largest group hire in the firm’s history and using it to plant a fresh flag in Silicon Valley. The Boston‑headquartered firm has recruited a 34‑lawyer intellectual property litigation and patent

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K&L Gates Expands Global Intellectual Property Platform With Munich-Based Team

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Munich – Global law firm K&L Gates welcomes intellectual property partners Dr. Christian Wende (pictured) and Markus Eustermann and their team in Munich. The nine-person group, which will include patent attorneys, trainees, and specialists, joins K&L Gates from WENDE IP, a boutique German intellectual property law firm founded by Wende and Eustermann. Wende and Eustermann advise clients on a broad

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Lawyers Are Training AI to Do the Work They Used to Hate . . And It’s Working

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Legal AI companies are making a blunt pitch for law firm associates to escape the all-nighters, the non-billable document slog, and the mind-numbing reviews and to help build the technology that makes those tedious tasks disappear. Dozens are taking the offer, leaving Big Law for a hybrid role called “legal engineer”a description that is part

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Second Office Romance Report Deepens Wachtell’s Extraordinary Week

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And The Lawyer Who Stands To Lose Millions In The Transfer Deal The Central Park “canoodling couple” story we covered this week may have dominated social media, but the story surrounding Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz keeps growing. Fresh claims published by the New York Post allege that William “Bill” Savitt, the ‘law star’ trial

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Freshfields Strikes Again With Another Wall Street Rainmaker

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Freshfields has continued its seemingly relentless Wall Street recruitment drive, hiring leading M&A partner Keith Hallam in New York from White & Case. Hallam previously spent almost a decade at Cravath, where he built a reputation advising on some of the market’s biggest corporate transactions before joining White & Case in 2022. His arrival further

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