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Sullivan & Cromwell Joins the AI Hall of Shame — and the Irony Is Exquisite

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John Bowie, LawFuel Publisher There is a Hall of Shame forming in American courtrooms, a growing roll-call of prestigious law firms undone by chatbots who display Trumpian confidence and a loose relationship with reality. For three years, the admission criteria have been simple: file a brief citing cases that never existed, apologise to a federal […]

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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader Partners Approve Biggest Law Firm Merger Ever — Big Law’s Latest Power Play for Scale in a Shrinking World

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Partners at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and Hogan Lovells have just delivered the final, resounding “yes” on what the industry is already calling the largest law firm merger in history. The votes closed this month, clearing the runway for the combined firm — Hogan Lovells Cadwalader — to open its doors on July 1 with a projected $3.6 billion in annual revenue and roughly 3,100 lawyers spread across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

It’s the kind of deal that makes managing partners lose sleep and rainmakers salivate. Cadwalader, Wall Street’s oldest firm, brings its legendary finance, structured products, and capital markets firepower.

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Latham & Watkins 2025 Financial Performance Shows Record Global Revenue of $8.3 Billion and London Milestone

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Latham & Watkins LLP (Latham) has reported record financial results for fiscal year 2025 (ended 31 December 2025), with global gross revenue reaching $8.3 billion, representing an 18.6% increase from approximately $7 billion in 2024. Profit per equity partner (PEP) rose 21.3% to approximately $8.7 million.

The standout achievement is the firm’s London office, which crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold for the first time (up from approximately $850 million in 2024, equating to growth of more than 17%)

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Australian Billionaire’s Law Firm Takes Meta’s Section 230 Shield to the Mat Over Deepfake Scam Ads

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Australian mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has poured more than $60 million, – and counting – of his own money into a high-octane federal lawsuit in California’s Northern District Court, accusing Meta of actively enabling and profiting from more than 230,000 deepfake scam ads that stole his likeness to fleece thousands of victims, many of them elderly Australians.

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Sports Law Explodes As Elite Deal-Makers Command $10M+ in Poaching Frenzy

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If you’re a sports lawyer with a strong book of business, or an ambitious associate eyeing the biggest payday of your career with BigLaw firms currently writing checks most lawyers only dream about.

Elite transactional rainmakers who live and breathe NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA and private-equity sports deals are now routinely commanding $8 million to $12 million-plus in annual compensation, with the very top names clearing eight-figure packages in the fiercest poaching war the practice has ever seen.

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Against the Tide – Perkins Coie returns to Mainland China

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While nearly 20 US law firms have closed one or more offices in mainland China since 2024, Perkins Coie is making a notable counter-move. The firm itself closed its Shanghai office in early 2024 becoming part of the exodus driven by economic uncertainty, US-China decoupling, and M&A activity at a twelve-year low. Now, barely a

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Macfarlanes Hits £3.1m PEP – Proof That Staying Small Can Beat The Magic Circle At Its Own Game

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he 150-year-old City firm just posted profitability numbers that will make some London big law partners wince, but the strategy is deceptively simple.

While the Magic Circle firms continue their global expansion arms race, adding offices in places most partners couldn’t find on a map, Macfarlanes has been quietly doing something almost heretical in modern BigLaw: staying focused, staying small, and getting spectacularly rich in the process.
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