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No Timesheets, Pure Trial Focus – How This Litigation Boutique Rewrote the BigLaw Rulebook in Just 10 Years

Best Firms, Featured, Law Firms, LawPreneur / March 30, 2026

What happens when elite trial lawyers walk away from BigLaw’s billable-hour machine and build a firm laser-focused on taking cases all the way to verdict?

You get Wilkinson Stekloff—a lean, highly effective trial boutique that has quietly become one of the most respected names in high-stakes litigation, without ever sending a single traditional timesheet to a client.
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American Lawyer Names Skadden Dealmakers of the Year

Briefings, Featured, LawStars, Press Releases / March 27, 2026

The American Lawyer named Paul Schnell, Brandon Van Dyke and Dohyun Kim among its Dealmakers of the Year for their representation of Union Pacific Corporation in its pending combination with Norfolk Southern Corporation. In a profile, The American Lawyer called the transaction the largest railroad merger in U.S. history, noting that it required “navigating uncertainties that stemmed from the first-ever attempt to complete

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Knights Confirms Talks to Acquire Law Firm in Move That Could Forge £200m UK National Firm

Featured, LawPreneur, Lawyers, UK Law / March 27, 2026

In the latest sign of relentless consolidation among UK regional law firms, AIM-listed Knights Group Holdings PLC has confirmed it is in advanced discussions to acquire South East heavyweight Moore Barlow LLP — a deal that, if completed, would create one of the largest independent national platforms outside the City with combined revenues approaching £200m.
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Clifford Chance is flexing its New York muscle

Big Law, Featured, US Law / March 26, 2026

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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NZ Law Firms’ Best Year Since Before COVID — And The Five Threats That Could End It

Featured, Law Firms, New Zealand Law News / March 25, 2026

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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Why Baker McKenzie’s Major Job Cuts Send Shivvers Down Lawyers’ Spines

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms, US Law / March 24, 2026

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 up straight, because it’s not about associate headcount or NQ retention. It’s about the infrastructure that keeps a modern firm running.
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Legal AI Is The Profitability Divide Australian Firms Can No Longer Ignore

Australia Law News, Featured, Press Releases / March 24, 2026

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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Aussie Legal Tech Tool Raises $7m to Beat ‘Fact Chaos’

Australia Law News, Featured, Law Firm Technology, Legal AI / March 20, 2026

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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Federal Employment Litigation Explodes to 7-Year High as Disability Claims Surge 42%

Briefings, Featured, Law Firms, US Law / March 17, 2026

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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Big Law, Featured, UK Law / March 14, 2026

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,