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DLA Piper Makes A Big Bet By Ditching the Verein for a New Global Structure

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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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Big Law’s Trump Reprieve Lasts Less Than 24 Hours — The U-Turn That Changed Everything

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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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Australia Law News – Jones Day Expands Melbourne Office

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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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Hogan Lovells Cracks US$3.3 Billion As Regulated‑Market Play Pays Off

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Hogan Lovells has pushed through the US$3.2 billion barrier with double‑digit growth, fatter partner profits and a clear bet on regulated markets, tech and AI – sending a pointed message to rivals still blaming “market conditions” for flat numbers. Key takeaways for lawyers Why the numbers really moved People, laterals and the “next gen” story

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Big Law’s Hiring Boom – Am Law 200 Firms Snapped Up 20% More Lateral Partners in 2025

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The lateral partner market didn’t just heat up in 2025 but it ran hot. New data from Law.com Compass shows that Am Law 200 firms hired 4,152 lateral partners in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, up from 3,473 the prior year.

That’s a nearly 20% jump — a sharp contrast to the modest 3.7% increase recorded the year before in the lateral hiring report.

The numbers tell a story of a legal industry that has found its footing again, and firms that are spending aggressively to prove it.

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Fried Frank Hire PE & M&A Experts in London and New York From Kirkland

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Fried Frank have recruited two leading lawyers who will work on boosting the firm’s work in M&A and private equity. Rhett McPhie is from Kirkland & Ellis and one, Morgan Pusey, (pictured) is from Morgan Lewis. The firm’s media announcement is below – Fried Frank announced today that Rhett McPhie and Nathan R. Pusey have

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Proskauer Revenue Surges by 14%, While PEP Crosses $5M, Amid Growth in Funds, M&A and Finance

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From The American Lawyer on February 23, 2026 Proskauer Rose saw another double-digit year in revenue and profit growth. The firm’s revenue grew by 13.8% to $1.58 billion in 2025, while average profits per partner, amid a slight decline in equity partners, crossed the $5 million mark by jumping 12.6%. Even as Proskauer’s headcount was up 7.5%

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Norton Rose Partners Just Pocketed a 27% Payday – Blame the US (and a Bit of AI Magic)

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While the rest of Big Law was still muttering about market uncertainty, Norton Rose Fulbright quietly had one of those years that makes equity partners smile into their morning flat white.

The firm racked up more than US$2.8 billion in global gross revenue for 2025 – a tidy 16% jump. But the real headline? Profits per equity partner shot up 27% to nearly US$2.1 million. You read that right. Nearly $2.1 million. Per partner. Per year.

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Linklaters Continues US Expansion With New Office

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Linklaters continues its aggressive U.S. expansion, highlighted by the recent February 2026 lease of an additional 48,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York, following a 6,500 square foot addition in October 2025, pushing total NY space beyond 150,000 square feet at approximately $100 per square foot. This move, driven by

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