Milbank announced its new associate salary scale on Tuesday 2 June and today is Thursday 10 September. That is one hundred days, to the day, and the largest and most profitable law firms in the United States have still not said what they intend to pay their associates. This is not how the associate pay
McKool Smith has confirmed it will match the current Milbank associate salary scale, with the new pay rates taking effect on 1 January 2027. The Texas-based complex trial firm, known for competitive associate compensation which have reported previously, that has included Thanksgiving bonuses, strong year-end payouts, and market-matching raises, is lifting base salaries by $10,000
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Corporate counsel have named just 256 attorneys from 129 firms as the absolute best at client service in BTI Consulting Group’s 25th annual ranking. The list is purely organic, without submissions, self-nominations, or payments. That’s cool, right? Only clients identify individuals by name based on real-world performance. Who Are The Standout Lawyers? Eleven attorneys have
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Article source: Landver Law, CA A crash on Sunset Boulevard can wreck a life in seconds. Beverly Hills sees plenty of serious collisions, slip-and-falls, and workplace injuries every year, and picking the right attorney afterward isn’t some minor detail. It shapes medical bills, lost wages, how fast a case moves. Not every firm handles that
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Ashurst’s exit from Canberra has handed mid-tier rival Thomsons a major windfall, vaulting it into second place among firms advising the Commonwealth. In early 2025, Ashurst jettisoned roughly 60 staff and seven partners from its Canberra office and stepped back from the bulk of its Commonwealth government work, as a result of margin pressure and
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Shock exits at scandal-hit KPMG as top legal and people leaders step down ahead of key parliamentary grilling. KPMG’s general counsel Louise Capon and national managing partner of people and inclusion Dorothy Hisgrove are leaving the firm, just days before they are due to appear at a high-stakes parliamentary hearing into allegations of misconduct and
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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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