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Why Trump’s Attack on Elite Firms Is Particularly Savage for Paul Weiss

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The Paul Weiss ‘Inflection Point’ Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributor Vivia Chen’s latest column at her blog ‘The Ex-Careerist’ on substack delivers a sharp critique of Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on major law firms, with Paul Weiss being his third target. This pattern of retaliation has reached what Chen calls “an inflection point,” as Trump’s executive […]

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A&O Shearman’s Message to Associates: Show Up or Kiss Your Bonus Goodbye

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The Big Law Message to Associates In what’s becoming a familiar tune across BigLaw, A&O Shearman is now wielding the bonus stick to ensure their office chairs don’t remain empty. The recently merged firm has reminded its London associates that failing to meet the firm’s 60% in-office requirement could leave their wallets lighter come bonus

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Kirkland & Ellis Crushes It Again, Hitting Mind-Blowing $8.8B Revenue

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Kirkland & Ellis PEP Approaches $10m Mark Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer If you’re keeping score at home (and who isn’t in this profession?), Kirkland & Ellis just dropped some financial numbers that would make even the most jaded BigLaw partner spit out their single malt. The Chicago-based legal juggernaut posted a staggering $8.8 billion

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Trump’s Law Firm Vendetta Sees Another Big Law Firm Targeted

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Paul Weiss Gets the Presidential Cold Shoulder President Trump has signed an executive order targeting Paul Weiss suspending security clearances and restricting government access for its lawyers and employees, in the same manner as his well-publicized moves against Perkins Coie. The move marks Trump’s third swipe at a law firm since returning to office. The

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Latham & Watkins Soars Past $7 Billion in Revenue and a New Era of Growth

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The Two BigLaw $7 Billion Club Members Latham & Watkins is having a moment. The firm reported a whopping $7 billion in gross revenue for 2024, marking a 23 percent increase from the previous year and entering the $7 billion club with Kirkland & Ellis entering that magic rhealm in 2023 (coming in at $7.21

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Ropes & Gray Opens Paris Office, Expanding European Practice with Arrival of Three New Partners

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Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced the opening of an office in Paris, France, and together with the firm’s London office, forms a European hub for Ropes & Gray. Fabrice Cohen, Thierry Arachtingi, and Emmanuel Mimin join Ropes & Gray France AARPI as partners, with Fabrice Cohen serving as office managing partner. They are joined by a large group of counsel and

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The Latest (almost) $3 Billion Law Firm

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Let’s cut through the corporate jargon: Hogan Lovells isn’t just “growing” – it’s latest results show the firm is scaling with surgical precision having just posted a $2.965B revenue haul for 2024, a near 9 percent jump that brings it within spitting distance of the elusive $3B mark.

The news was dropped by the firm in their March 6 release that we have here.

For context, that’s up 23 percent from 2023’s $2.7B. More telling? PEP hit $3.07M (up 12 percent while RPL nudged to $1.097M.

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Former Associate Counsel to President Trump Joins Steptoe

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 Kevin Garvey is a former senior official in the first Trump administration where he was Associate Counsel to the President in the White House Counsel’s Office and then Deputy Chief and later Chief of Staff to the US Trade Representative, Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer. At the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), Kevin was

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