Big Four Legal Losses The Big Four service giants, EY PwC, Deloitte, and KPMG are facing an uncertain future so far as their planned moves into the legal services work is concerned. The Legal Services Act 2007 allowed the Big Four to enter the UK legal market more aggressively by obtaining Alternative Business Structure (ABS) […]
What Brad Karp Told Paul Weiss Staff Over The Trump Crisis On March 23, 2025, Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp sent a firm-wide email addressing the recent crisis triggered by a presidential executive order that threatened the firm’s existence. Legal blogger David Lat published the full memo in his Original Jurisdiction newsletter. In his message,
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We need to talk about what just happened at Paul Weiss. And no, this isn’t your typical Biglaw gossip about partner compensation or summer associate antics.
This is about nothing less than whether the legal profession still has the fortitude to stand up to power when it matters.
Spoiler alert: The early returns aren’t encouraging.
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Kirkland & Ellis PEP Approaches $10m Mark Tom Borman, LawFuel Contributing Writer If you’re keeping score at home (and who isn’t in this profession?), Kirkland & Ellis just dropped some financial numbers that would make even the most jaded BigLaw partner spit out their single malt. The Chicago-based legal juggernaut posted a staggering $8.8 billion
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‘Careless People’ – How a New Zealand Lawyer Exposed Facebook’s Darkest Secrets John Bowie, LawFuel publisher Kiwi lawyer Sarah Wynn-Williams is very much in the red chair at present – sitting in the hot seat with a book about the increasingly hot-button issues involving the new nerdyverse in which we now live seemingly run by
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Open Letter Demands Firms Stand Up Against Trump’s “Attack on Rule of Law” Associates at America’s big law firms are taking matters into their own hands. While their high-powered bosses remain conspicuously silent, these young legal eagles are circulating an anonymous open letter demanding that law firm leadership speak out against what they describe as
The Two BigLaw $7 Billion Club Members Latham & Watkins is having a moment. The firm reported a whopping $7 billion in gross revenue for 2024, marking a 23 percent increase from the previous year and entering the $7 billion club with Kirkland & Ellis entering that magic rhealm in 2023 (coming in at $7.21
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Trump’s Icy Law Firm Crackdown Ben Thomson, Lawfuel contributing editor Any law firm representing someone Donald Trump doesn’t like might cost your firm its government contracts in the US, after the administration launched a ferocious, two-pronged assault on major law firms through executive orders that should make every attorney pay attention – regardless of political
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Perkins Coie v. Trump Fight Tom Borman Reacting to the Trump administration executive order removing their security clearances, Perkins Coie has enlisted the help of Williams & Connolly to challenge the order. This strategic partnership demonstrates the seriousness with which Perkins Coie is approaching the case, as they seek to leverage Williams & Connolly’s expertise
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Trump Targets BigLaw Over DEI President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed squarely at the top 50 big law firms in the U.S., focusing on their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. The move was revealed in an executive order signed by Trump on 6 March and targeting Perkins Coie for its work
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