Quinn Emanuel tops BTI’s most feared litigation list for the fifth straight year. The top sixteen firms haven’t budged. The only real movement is further down, where some “Awesome” firms are quietly being reclassified as merely “Intimidating.” A particular kind of silence falls over a general counsel’s office when the other side’s notice of appearance
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Neel Sachdev is the best-paid finance lawyer in London, the most-discussed lateral hire of the decade, and possibly the only Big Law partner who has consulted an astrologer before hiring associates. He’s also been continuing to attract a lot of publicity lately.
Most partners at elite law firms prefer to be invisible outside a small circle of clients and headhunters. Neel Sachdev has taken a different approach. The Paul Weiss London co-head is the subject of a new Financial Times profile, and it may be the most entertaining piece of legal journalism this year.
The FT’s legal correspondent, Suzi Ring, met the 51-year-old lawyer in Portugal, where he has invested in a luxury property development on the site of a former orange grove in the Algarve. He did not arrive quietly, but rather in a red open-top 1977 Mercedes 450 SL, wearing a matching outfit, sunglasses and his trademark beaded bracelets.
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Vinson & Elkins (V&E) has recruited two senior finance lawyers from Latham & Watkins in New York, providing a major boost to its finance law group. Loren Finegold has taken the role as V&E’s new structured finance leader after 25 years at Latham & Watkins, where he was global vice chair of the structured finance
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Weil says it is not in merger talks. Read the sentence again, slowly Bloomberg Law reported on Friday that Weil, Gotshal & Manges, battered by an exodus of senior talent, is weighing options for its future that include a possible combination with a rival. Firm leaders have reportedly grown more receptive to the idea, and
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15 September 2026 – Latest Update As of September 2026, first-year associates at market-rate US law firms earn a base salary of $235,000, rising to $455,000 by their eighth year. Add the standard market bonus and total compensation runs from roughly $261,000 to $595,000. The numbers come from the Milbank scale set in June 2026
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Key Facts Sullivan & Cromwell has once again struck at the heart of Weil Gotshal’s London leadership, securing top corporate heavyweights David Avery-Gee and Sarah Flaherty in another high-profile City raid. Avery-Gee, who co-managed Weil’s London hub and led its corporate and M&A bench, will step in as co-head of European M&A for S&C alongside
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The race to put law firm knowledge inside generative AI has just taken another significant step. Litera has plugged its Foundation firm-intelligence platform directly into ChatGPT Enterprise, allowing lawyers to interrogate their own firm’s experience, relationships and expertise using ordinary prompts rather than rummaging through databases like digital archaeologists. For eligible Foundation Cloud customers, that
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Hamed Meshki to Lead Private Equity Practice NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES Sullivan & Cromwell LLP today announced a major step forward in our global strategic plan to enhance and expand our U.S. and global private equity practice, with the appointment of four leading private equity M&A partners. Hamed Meshki, Luke Guerra, Guirgis Nasief and
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Article source: National Law Group When a funeral provider’s conduct comes into question, the practical problem arrives fast. Records disappear. Memories lose precision within days. A well-intended effort to document the incident, such as opening a sealed container or moving an identification tag to photograph it, can disrupt an official inquiry while weakening the record
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Article source: Miller Tourtlotte Law PLLC By LawFuel editors Montana closes workers’ compensation medical files on a fixed schedule, whether or not the injury still needs care. A second surgery may be necessary years after the five-year medical window closes. A flare-up does not check the calendar. But the same statute that closes the benefits
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