While nearly 20 US law firms have closed one or more offices in mainland China since 2024, Perkins Coie is making a notable counter-move. The firm itself closed its Shanghai office in early 2024 becoming part of the exodus driven by economic uncertainty, US-China decoupling, and M&A activity at a twelve-year low. Now, barely a […]
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Clyde & Co has done what only the well-resourced and audacious tend to do in Southeast Asia, it’s scooped up a three-partner team and fifteen lawyers and staff from DLA Piper to boost its Bangkok presence. The firm called it “one of the most significant team hires” in Thailand’s legal market in recent years. Translation:
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The boss of one of the London’s elite insurance law firms has taken the extraordinary step of personally overseeing misconduct complaints after rising allegations of bullying and sexual harassment among senior partners, shining a fresh, unflattering light on law firms’ ongoing struggle to clean up their cultures.
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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,
