Power Points: The rainmakers went to Cravath, Paul Weiss and Skadden. Now three AI-native firms want the brand, the precedents and whichever lawyers are still looking for a desk. Weil, Gotshal & Manges has not finished dying, but the estate sale has already drawn a new breed of competitor showing interest in the firm’s ‘catalog’.
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George Town, Grand Cayman – November 3, 2026 – Dentons, the world’s largest global law firm, is pleased to announce that it is expanding its presence in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region with the addition of the legal practice of HSM Chambers. HSM Chambers’ lawyers and legal support professionals will join Dentons in
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The largest crypto theft on record took about 20 minutes. Binance says it will cover every loss. The lawyers are less sure that promise is worth the paper it is not written on. LawFuel |John Bowie The crypto hackers may have stolen $6.3 billion in minutes, but the legal action could take years as the
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The proposed move of Weil’s London private funds team to Gibson Dunn marks another major development in the break-up of one of Big Law’s most prominent firms and shows how fast legal teams can move between firms. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is preparing to recruit almost 40 lawyers from Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London private
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The future belongs to lawyers who embrace technology, work smarter, and never forget that relationships drive business. Steve Fretzin*. Steve Fretzin is an internationally recognized legal business development coach and author There was a time when farmers relied on horses to plow their fields. Writers used pens before typewriters, and typewriters before computers. Every advancement changed how people worked, and those who embraced the improvements generally became more productive than those
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Bracewell LLP announced today that Jason Richman has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its government enforcement and investigations practice group. Richman comes to Bracewell after over a decade at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where he most recently served as Co-Chief of the National Security and
Two respected UK practices, including one involved in Prince Harry’s recent failed legal action, have hit the wall within days of each other, providing a warning about what happens when one case, or one rainmaker, carries the whole firm. A glittering client list looks great on a website. As two UK firms have just discovered,
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Kelli Hall The statistics say law graduates have rarely had it better. The graduates say otherwise. Both are right, and the gap between them is where careers are now won and lost. Spend ten minutes on r/LawSchool and you will meet the same character in a dozen costumes, speaking of six figures of debt, a
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The question as to how much a top lawyer should charge for an hourly fee is a time-honored one that no amount of argument can settle easily – but a Californian judge has done so in a case involving a major settlement with Google. US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of
While the plaintiffs’ bar lines up for private equity money, two former high-volume lawyers have built a firm on the opposite idea: take fewer cases and make insurers believe you’ll go to trial. Personal injury law has become private equity’s favourite new asset class, and the money is arriving quickly. Rafi Law Group, the Phoenix
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