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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For New Zealand law firms, the past four years have been a masterclass in resilience — navigating a pandemic-cratered market, a brutal war for talent, expense blowouts, and an economy that spent much of 2023 and 2024 in recession, all while clients demanded more and paid less willingly. That grinding period of strategic discipline has
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The job cuts that sent 700 Baker McKenzie employees home in February has sent major ripples around law firms everywhere. The cuts, affecting less than 10% of Baker McKenzie’s total support workforce, touched nearly every non-lawyer function across every office. This is the kind of story that makes managing partners and chief operating officers sit
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New global research from LEAP Legal Software’s Profitability in Law: Global Report 2026—surveying 700 legal professionals across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, the US, and Canada—lays it bare: 92% of Australian firms believe there’s strong potential to lift profitability. The catch? That upside is now tightly linked to how fast and how effectively firms
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Every litigator has lived it, the nightmare of “fact chaos” when discovery dumps, endless transcripts, buried emails, clinical records, and reports scattered everywhere become a spreadsheet grind. Hours (or days) wasted hunting timelines, cross-checking details, and praying you haven’t missed the one fact that swings the case. Australian legal tech startup Mary Technology just raised
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The dockets don’t lie and right now they’re screaming “opportunity” at every employment practice in America, according to a recent report. According to Lex Machina’s just-dropped 2026 Employment Litigation Report, plaintiffs slammed federal courts with 26,635 employment lawsuits in 2025, which is the highest volume since 2018 and a crisp 10% jump from 2024. The
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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,
LawFuel Staff Big Law partners and in-house counsel, take note: the rules governing attorney discipline are shifting fast under the current administration, prompting some intense online reaction. In a move that’s sparking fierce debate across social media channels, the Trump Justice Department has floated a new regulation that would let the Attorney General step in
Wotton Kearney has made a major move to extend its health law and insurance law expertise with the recruitment of experienced health law partner and her team of six who have moved from Makinson D’Apice to Wotton Kearney. The firm’s media statement about the news is below – Wotton Kearney has strengthened its national health practice with
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Tom Borman, lawFuel Contributing Editor Taylor Rose has become the first UK law firm to push its consultant platform through the 1,000‑lawyer ceiling, underlining just how fast the fee‑share model is eating into the traditional partnership franchise. The national firm, part of the AIIC Group, now sits on more than 1,000 consultant solicitors across its
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