Featured

Australia’s First $10 Million Law Partner? The Race Is On

Australia Law News, Big Law, Big Law Salary Scale, Briefings, Featured, Law Firm Management, Power Briefs /
Australia lawyer earnings

Australia is on the cusp of producing its first A$10 million‑a‑year law firm partner – and the smart money says that partner will sit at Corrs Chambers Westgarth or Gilbert + Tobin, according to a legal journalist who should know.

Veteran legal affairs journalist Michael Pelly made the claim in his Capital Brief’s Prima Facie newsletter, reporting that Australian legal partner earnings at the very top of the market have accelerated sharply since the pandemic, driven by fierce competition for rainmakers and a sustained boom in high‑value corporate work.
Log in to read . .

Australia’s First $10 Million Law Partner? The Race Is On Read More »

Marc Kasowitz’s Antisemitism Crusade Hits a Snag – His Own Clients Are Suing Him

Featured, Law Stars - LawFuel's Leading Lawyers Profiles, US Law /
Marckasowitz

Marc Kasowitz spent the two years since October 7 building a brand as the lawyer elite universities feared most, the man who’d drag Columbia, Harvard, Penn and NYU into court over a righteous claim over campus antisemitism and make them answer for it. He was also regarded as the ‘toughest of the tough” by Donald

Marc Kasowitz’s Antisemitism Crusade Hits a Snag – His Own Clients Are Suing Him Read More »

BigLaw’s $440,000 Problem -The AI Director Job Nobody Can Fill

Briefings, Featured, Law Firms, Legal AI /
AIlawyer

Key Takeaway: At least 16 major law firms, including Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn, and Pillsbury, are chasing more than 25 AI leadership hires, with pay running from $200,000 to $440,000. The problem is not the budget, but the fact that lawyers with real AI implementation experience barely exist yet. Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor

BigLaw’s $440,000 Problem -The AI Director Job Nobody Can Fill Read More »

Inside the $5.8 Million Clifford Chance Clawback And The Brutal New Reality of Big Law’s Lateral Wars

Featured, Law Firm Salary Scale, US Law /
Cliffordchance lawfuel

The glittering promises of the Big Law lateral market have hit a multi-million dollar roadblock with the Clifford Chance legal battle that pulls back the curtain on the closely guarded mechanics behind biglaw partnership agreements.

Clifford Chance, a lucrative biglaw firm providing rich partner rewards, is aggressively pursuing millions of dollars in compensation clawbacks from two of its former top US partners.

Just two months after stepping down, Clifford Chance’s former global managing partner, Charles Adams, delivered a financial bombshell via mail to Andrew Cone and Michael Sabin the former co-heads of the firm’s US-based funds and investment management practice.

The letters outlined a massive financial hit . . Log in to read more . .

Inside the $5.8 Million Clifford Chance Clawback And The Brutal New Reality of Big Law’s Lateral Wars Read More »

Kirkland Wins Again As BigLaw’s M&A Machine Has Its Best Six Months Since Records Began

Big Law, Featured, Press Releases, US Law /
Kirkland&ellis

Kirkland & Ellis leads the M&A rankings as the Chicago-founded firm advised on 350 deals worth close to $474.5 billion in the first half of 2026, being a comfortable 18% ahead of second-placed Skadden’s $402.8 billion across just 105 deals, according to LSEG data. All of which points once again to why Kirklands continue to reign supreme in partner remuneration.

Sullivan & Cromwell, which had briefly held the top spot in Q1, slipped to third with $395 billion. Wachtell Lipton rounded out the top four at $367.7 billion.
Log in to read . . .

Kirkland Wins Again As BigLaw’s M&A Machine Has Its Best Six Months Since Records Began Read More »

Macfarlanes Leapfrogs Transatlantic Rivals with Latest Salary Bump

Big Law Salary Scale, Featured, Power Briefs, UK Law /
London Law

NQ Salaries Hit £150k in Latest Pay War Salvo Norma Harris The London salary wars continue with Macfarlanes bumping its newly qualified (NQ) base pay from £140,000 to £150,000. Effective 1 July, the £10k increase officially aligns the firm with the UK Magic Circle’s current baseline, cementing its status among the top tier of native

Macfarlanes Leapfrogs Transatlantic Rivals with Latest Salary Bump Read More »

US Supreme Court FTC Ruling Raises Fresh Threat to EU–US Data Transfers

Briefings, Featured, Legal AI, Press Releases /
Ilya

The US Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Trump v. Slaughter has triggered renewed scrutiny of the legal foundations underpinning EU–US data transfers, with potential long-term consequences for law firms, multinational clients, and legal tech providers relying on cross-border data flows. At the centre of the issue is the status of the US Federal Trade Commission

US Supreme Court FTC Ruling Raises Fresh Threat to EU–US Data Transfers Read More »

Global M&A Poised for Major Resurgence With PE Dry Powder and AI Dominance Drive Market Optimism

Briefings, Featured, Press Releases /
Globaltrends

Despite ongoing headwinds, global dealmakers are gearing up for a massive rebound in transaction activity, according to Norton Rose’s latest Global M&A Trends report. According to the report, market sentiment has shifted dramatically upward, with over half of corporate and legal insiders forecasting a sharp uptick in deal volume. Driven by a mountain of private

Global M&A Poised for Major Resurgence With PE Dry Powder and AI Dominance Drive Market Optimism Read More »

Bar Prep Meets GenAI

Featured, Law schools, Legal AI /
Christianlang lega lawfuel

BARBRI Swallows Startup ‘Lega’ To Teach Lawyers How To Talk To Robots Sonia Hickey “AI fluency” is now part of joining the bar before lawyers are let loose on the billable hour. BARBRI. The bar prep behemoth that still haunts your stress dreams has just acquired Lega, a generative AI platform founded by legal tech

Bar Prep Meets GenAI Read More »

Scroll to Top