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A&O Shearman’s First Results: Big, Loud, and Not Quite Magic Circle Royalty

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A&O Shearman has unveiled its first set of financials since creating the world’s largest Anglo-American law firm — and for a stitched-together giant still working out how to share the same stationery, the numbers are healthy and partner pay too.

Revenue hit £2.9 billion (US$3.7 billion) with pretax profit of £1.1 billion (US$1.4 billion). Average profit per equity partner landed at £2 million (US$2.6 million)

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Addleshaw Goddard Maintains Strong Growth Streak with Double-Digit Revenue Jump

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Addleshaw Profit Figures Continue Strong Run For UK Law Firm Revenues UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard just wrapped up its eighth consecutive year of growth, posting impressive 11% revenue growth to £550.9 million for the financial year ending April 30. While that’s solid performance, it’s worth noting the growth pace has cooled slightly from previous

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FieldFisher Achieve A small Profit Gain with PEP At £1million

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Fieldfisher has achieved a small, three percent profit gain with its profits per equity partner (PEP) at £1million as firm-wide revenue, including that of its verein structure, grew by a very modest one percent to £385m. The Fieldfisher results cover the 12 months to 31 March 2025, when the integrated Fieldfisher firm delivered revenue of

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The Hidden Gold Rush: The Top 5 Most Underrated but Highly Profitable Legal Niches for 2025

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LawFuel Power Brief: Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP Image credits: AI-generated by Gemini The legal profession’s highest aspirations have long been narrowly defined by the gleaming towers of BigLaw, where a partner track in M&A or private equity is seen as the ultimate goal. The traditional path has been clear for ambitious law students and junior

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Jeanine Pirro’s Wild Legal Ride – From Prosecutor to Primetime to the DC Bench

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Jeanine Pirro Moves From Fox Firebrand to the DC District Bench Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor There are career arcs, and then there’s Jeanine Pirro’s: a former assistant DA turned DA turned judge turned cable news flamethrower—and now DC District Court Judge. But beneath the peroxide headlines and Fox News rants lies a formidable legal

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Australian Government Legal Panel Shake-Up Doubles Law Firm Billings | Clayton Utz Leads the Pack

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Canberra’s Law Firm Contracts Go Boom A dramatic reset of the Australian Government’s legal services panel has sparked a contract bonanza for select law firms, with some firms more than doubling their federal billings. Top-tier firm Clayton Utz walked away with the lion’s share, locking in a massive $71 million in government contracts, more than

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Major Law Firm Marketer Acquired By Large Marketer

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Personal Injury Law Firm Marketing Specialist Sells The competitive and specialized law marketing industry has seen one of the major plays, LA-based Hennessey Digital, sold to Seattle-based marketing firm Herringbone Digital, a major marketed backed by Dallas-based Trinity Hunt Partners. Hennessey Digital, a digital marketing firm in the San Fernando Valley focused on a law

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Latest BigLaw Merger To Hit The Law Market on 1 August

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Here Comes McDermott Will & Schulte Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor In a deal that underscores Big Law’s relentless consolidation, McDermott Will & Emery (approximately 1,400 lawyers, ~$2.2 b 2024 revenue) and Schulte Roth & Zabel (~350 lawyers, ~$618 m) voted last month to merge effective August 1, 2025, creating a combined firm of around 1,750 attorneys and global

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Beyond the Claims Conveyor – How The Winn Group Model and Its Lessons for Modern Law Firms

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The Millionaire Former ‘Ambulance Chaser’ Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Lawyer Jeff Winn is a business success story who is now one of northern England’s richest men – with a tale about building a law firm that carries some key lessons for others. There persists a certain myth that Winn Group is little more than

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Clifford Chance Partner Compensation Hits £2.11 million As Firm Revenue Grows to £2.4 billion

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The latest law firm to record its financial performance is Clifford Chance who have a significant lift in US revenues and overall revenue growth of 9 percent to Clifford Chance Partner Compensation Hits £2.11 million As Firm Revenue Grows to £2.4 billion. The media statement is below – Clifford Chance reports record financial performance 23

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