DLA Piper has grown its profits per equity partner by almost 20 percent n the last financial year, the firm has said in a media release. The firm announced its 2025 global financial results, delivering USD4.6 billion in revenue (up 8.4% year-over-year) and profit per equity partner of USD4.14 million (up 19.6%). DLA Piper voted […]
When Donald Trump turned Washington into a rolling policy experiment, most law firms braced for chaos, but a handful quietly built something else: – a brand new profit engine. Lobbying and government‑relations work, once treated as a sideline for politically connected partners, has become one of Big Law’s fastest‑growing business and a new career path for lawyers from DC to Westminster
The Trump‑Era Shock
For decades, lobbying has sat on the fringes of large law firms and what they traditionally do. There were always a few partners with good contacts, intermittent mandates, and work that was important but they were rarely central to the firm’s story and what the firm really ‘did’.
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Vault’s 2026-2027 rankings reveal O’Melveny still leads on satisfaction by a hair, Morgan Lewis took the overall crown, and Ropes & Gray jumped 36 spots.
Vault just dropped its 2026-2027 Best Law Firms to Work For rankings, and for anyone watching BigLaw’s talent map, the satisfaction data is the most useful slice on the platter. It tells you, in cold associate-survey numbers, where lawyers are actually happy versus merely well-paid — and right now those two things are diverging at the top end of the market in interesting ways.
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Law firms have finally learned to ignore the spammy emails promising “1st page of Google in 7 days.” But many still sign long-term SEO contracts that quietly lock up their website, erode their brand, and flood their intake teams with the wrong work.
The problem isn’t that firms are unsophisticated. It’s that the real risks in legal SEO tend to be buried in contracts, reporting structures, and “proprietary” pitches that sound impressive — until you try to leave.
A bad SEO partner doesn’t just waste budget. They can damage your domain and local reputation, breach advertising and ethics rules, flood intake with low-value noise, and leave you rebuilding from scratch when you try to switch providers. The danger lies not in the obvious cowboys, but in the subtler red flags — the lines in a pitch that sound efficient or clever but should make you pause.
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A recent article on AI legal tools provides a reality check for law firms that still treat artificial intelligence as either futuristic nonsense or something the IT team is “looking into.” The message in the article in Software Advice by content analyst Marcela Gava (pictured) is blunt: AI is already embedded in mainstream legal software,
6 Personal Injury Law Firm Leaders Norma Harris, LawFuel contributing writer America’s fastest‑growing personal injury firms are no longer just winning cases, they’re scaling like growth companies, blending national marketing, AI‑driven operations, and Inc. 5000‑level revenue trajectories in what remains a relatively slow‑growth legal sector. Personal injury remains a solid but unspectacular growth segment, with
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Power Briefing Source: kampf schiavone & associates, Attorneys The legal landscape of California is often viewed through the lens of Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the Inland Empire, encompassing the bustling counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, has its own class of legal titans. This guide delves into the powerhouse firms serving this rapidly
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Takeaways from Forbes’ 2025 Top Lawyers List Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor Forbes’ 2025 edition of America’s Top Lawyers came out last week and once again showed the changing nature of law in the US. The List, which premiered last year you may recall, focuses on “private practice attorneys” who have distinguished themselves through trial
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Vault Boutique Law Firm Rankings Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Forget the old rulebook — leaving Biglaw no longer means leaving big money behind as Vault’s Top 150 small firm list shows. There was a time when jumping from a megafirm to a smaller outfit meant kissing goodbye to a chunk of your paycheck. Maybe
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How Private Equity is Letting Smaller Firms Leave BigLaw Behind” While the UK’s top 50 law firms have been billing their way to respectable growth, their PE-backed cousins are sprinting ahead like they’ve discovered legal practice’s secret turbo button. New research from Hazlewoods reveals that private equity-powered firms have doubled the growth rate of their
