Every January, family lawyers dust off the same press release: Divorce Day is coming. Phones will ring. Marriages will collapse. The nation will wake up and file. It rarely happens. The data doesn’t support it. Courts aren’t flooded. Clerks aren’t barricading doors. But the myth survives because it’s useful. It turns personal misery into a […]
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Since I wrote about Britain’s highest-paid barristers a year ago, the select group of the UK’s top barristers continues to expand, with fees commanded that rival top CEOs.
What we didn’t report on was the sort of money received by the elite UK barristers, apart from quoting the Legal Futures report from 2018 that 125 UK barristers earned over £1million all those years ago.
The UK’s highest-paid barristers are more than just courtroom stars. They are strategic advisors, thought leaders, and, increasingly, agents of change in a rapidly evolving legal market.
However there is little publicly available information aout barrister earnings.
With top hourly billing rates hitting £5000 an hour or more, a barrister billing 1500 hours a year (perfectly common for a top law partner) brings home £7.5m.
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Global law firm Freshfields is pleased to announce that Molly Lewis and Cat Greenwood-Smith have been appointed as the incoming Executive Co-Chairs of PRIME, the legal sector’s leading alliance focused on improving access to, and socio-economic diversity within, the profession. Molly and Cat will succeed Elizabeth Roberts, who is stepping down after three years of outstanding service as
How a Tennis Career Prepared Jade Hopper for Law Jade Hopper was once headed for the kind of sporting life most lawyers would only see in an ad campaign: junior Australian Open battles, a Commonwealth Youth Games gold medal, and rising up the tennis ranks with all the discipline that implies. She spent her teenage
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NZ Law’s Power Lawyer List 2025 By John Bowie, LawFuel Publisher | The 2025 LawFuel Power List delivers its usual cocktail of institutional heavyweights, courtroom titans, regulatory shock troops, and a few strategists whose influence is quiet but devastatingly real. It’s opinionated, occasionally provocative, and guaranteed to irritate at least some of the people who
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LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 20 Reed continues tackling high-profile cases at the intersection of criminal and civil law. Her October 2024 Whakaari Management High Court appeal challenging the company’s conviction over the 2019 volcanic eruption killing 22 people argued the ruling had “concerning implications” for landlords permitting adventure activities. This year she excoriated the
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 40 A recent profile win in the te Pati Maori internicine war where he achieve dht etemporary reappointment of excommunicated TPM MP Mariameno Kapa Kingi saw Mike Colson KC in the news for a rather more public dispute than many he handles. Appointed KC in 2021 after 16 years as
LawFuel Power List 2025 No. 32 Flanagan is NZ’s premier plaintiff-side commercial litigator, like Fionnghuala Cuncannon and yet another Meredith Connell alumni, likely having argued more leading Fair Trading Act and Financial Markets Conduct Act cases than any other lawyer. Most recently he acted for the Ministry of Education in successful claims against James Hardie and
Cuncannon launched her eponymous plaintiff litigation firm in 2024 after a decade as Meredith Connell partner, betting New Zealand was ready for American-style class action specialists. The move shows the evolution of the plaintiff bar, litigation funding and class actions as a growth market. The firm establishment gamble paid off with Chambers ranking her in
In 2025, high-profile trials, political firestorms, and blockbuster corporate battles didn’t just dominate courtrooms—they dominated Google, TikTok, and every search engine in between. From Alec Baldwin’s dismissed manslaughter case to Elon Musk’s regulatory battles, people weren’t just looking for “a lawyer near me.”
After analyzing search volume data, media mentions, social engagement, and legal industry reports from BTI Consulting, Legal Brand Marketing, and The Lawyers Global, we’ve assembled the definitive ranking of 2025’s most-searched legal talent.
The ranking blends raw search metrics (e.g., Google Trends spikes) with viral moments on platforms like X, Reddit, and Instagram. The common thread for the list being that scandal sells along with wins for controversial clients – including the all-time heavyweight on both counts: President Donald Trump.
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