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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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Record £534m PE Cash Floods UK Law Firms With AI As the Rocket Fuel

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If you’re a lawyer watching your firm’s P&L or thinking about the next tech upgrade, here’s the headline you can’t ignore: private equity poured a record £534 million into UK law firms in 2024, which is a chunky 42% jump from £377m the year before. Over the past five years that’s more than £1.2 billion of fresh capital heading into the sector.

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BigLaw’s $50K Public Interest Stipend War: What It Really Means for Law Students

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At least fifteen Am Law 100 firms are dangling sums of up to $50,000 at first-year law students who haven’t yet sat their first exams. The stated purpose is public service. The real purpose is something else entirely. LawFuel Staff· – March 30, 2026 · Law Firm Recruiting There’s a talent war going on in

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Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI Again — What Florida Law Really Means for Him Now, and the Elite Lawyers Who Fight These Cases

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Three days after he stepped back onto a competitive golf course for the first time in nearly two years, Tiger Woods was in handcuffs. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m., the most recognisable golfer on the planet climbed out of the passenger window of his overturned Range Rover on South Beach Road in Jupiter

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