A BigLaw defamation fight has turned into a full-blown courtroom food fight. An ex-associate at Baker McKenzie has fired back with her own lawsuit after the firm sued her for defamation, escalating what is now a rare and highly public public dispute inside elite legal ranks. The firm’s original claim alleges the former associate made […]
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher is now at the centre of a $735 million fraud suit that doubles as a warning shot for Big Law about conflicts, gatekeeper liability and deal‑side risk management. The firm has already been stung by a major talent walkout last year over its deal with the Trump administration. BRC Group Holdings
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Gibson Dunn is planting its flag in Spain, and it’s doing it the only way Big Law knows how – by hiring the country’s most decorated dealmaker and building an office around him.
The firm has confirmed that Armando Albarrán, widely regarded as Spain’s premier private equity and M&A lawyer, is joining as a partner, triggering the launch of Gibson Dunn’s Madrid office. It is not a symbolic outpost. This is a full-blooded expansion of the Gibson Dunn’s European transactional machine.
Albarrán arrives with a reputation that does the heavy lifting. He is Band 1 across the board at Chambers for Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A and Private Equity, and has advised on many of Spain’s most consequential domestic and cross-border transactions. Log in to read the story . . .
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The UK legal market just keeps getting bigger and richer as deals and US law firms make a major impact on big UK law firms. In 2025, collective revenues for UK law firms sailed past £52 billion, with the big firms at the top hoovering up an ever-larger slice of the pie.
The UK law firm earnings show massive increases for some firms and equally large take-home pay, as we recently reported.
Whether you’re a graduate eyeing that training contract or a GC shopping for counsel, LawFuel’s UK law firm survey looks at who’s who in British Big Law right now.
The Complete UK Law Firm Revenue League 2026 . .
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A&O Shearman has lost three London finance partners to Latham & Watkins — real estate finance heads, a structured finance lead and all the market cachet that comes with them. That’s not “normal churn.” That’s a headline in a City still digesting the Allen & Overy–Shearman merger fallout. Real estate finance partners David Oppenheimer, (pictured)
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M&A Market Soars to Record $4.6 Trillion Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor BigLaw firms continue to sit at the top table when it comes to mega deals with the market showing 2025 deals valued at $4.6 trillion in global transaction value – a 49 percent surge over 2024 figures, according to the London Stock Exchange
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Latham & Watkins isn’t just hiring; it’s buying headlines in the sports law arms race. On January 6, the New York office pulled off a pair of marquee additions by luring partners Matthew Eisler and Russell Hedman from Hogan Lovells to supercharge its Entertainment, Sports & Media, and M&A & Private Equity practices. These aren’t
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Big Law’s Seven-Million Pound Question: Who’s Really Winning? A senior partner at a global law firm took home just over seven million pounds last year, according to newly disclosed figures. That is not a LawFuel typo, a bonus anomaly, or a rogue spreadsheet error. It is the modern upper limit of elite legal pay, written
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The legal profession has always had a peculiar relationship with money. Partners, after all, are supposed to be owners of their firms, yet increasingly, they’re being asked to prove their commitment with their wallets.
Welcome to the world of capital contributions, where making equity partner isn’t just about your billable hours anymore. It’s about how much cash you can pony up to join the club.
Here’s the thing about Big Law’s approach to partner capital: there isn’t one.
Survey data from about 80 Am Law 200 firms reveals a system that’s, to put it charitably, all over the shop.
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US law firms have turned London into their most important international bridgehead, increasing their lawyer ranks in the City by nearly 60 percent over the past decade and reshaping the U.K. legal market in the process.
The number of lawyers working in London offices of U.S.-headquartered firms rose from 4,889 in 2015 to 7,710 by the end of 2024, a 58 percent increase over ten years.
In total, 84 U.S. firms now have a London presence, underlining the City’s role as the key European hub for U.S. practices.
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