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Burnout Is Back: Why Record Pay Isn’t Stopping BigLaw’s Associate Retention Crisis in 2026

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BigLaw associates are earning more than ever yet they’re leaving faster than firms can replace them. Despite an 8.2% average compensation increase across U.S. law firms in 2025, associate attrition rates remain stubbornly high and, in some metrics, are climbing.

The human and financial toll is mounting, and the structural drivers in law firms go far deeper than salary. We took at look at some of the recent stats and surveys to identify whast is happening acccording to the people who should know these things.

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Australian Billionaire’s Law Firm Takes Meta’s Section 230 Shield to the Mat Over Deepfake Scam Ads

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Australian mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has poured more than $60 million, – and counting – of his own money into a high-octane federal lawsuit in California’s Northern District Court, accusing Meta of actively enabling and profiting from more than 230,000 deepfake scam ads that stole his likeness to fleece thousands of victims, many of them elderly Australians.

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Dechert Recruit Trio of Litigators From White & Case Washington DC Office

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Dechert Law have boosted their Washington DC practice with the addition of three former White & Case lawyers with significant litigation experience in everything from government contracts to sports law. The firm’s media statement making the announcement is below – Dechert LLP continues to build on the momentum of its expanding litigation practice with the

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Media commentary on impact of EU’s proposed steel measures on exporters to the EU from the UK

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Philippe Heeren, Brussels based regulatory partner at Reed Smith, said: “The EU is the UK’s most important steel export market. The shift from the current safeguard with 25% out-of-quota duty to a regime with roughly halved in-quota volumes and a 50% out-of-quota duty would therefore have an outsized impact on UK exporters compared to countries

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NZ Law – The Great Escape: Why NZ’s Regional Law Firms Can’t Hold Their Lawyers

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>> In-House Role – Top Role – Just Listed The numbers tell a brutal story. Only 7.2% of new practising certificates issued since July 2025 went to lawyers working in regional New Zealand NZ Herald, according to Law Society chief executive Katie Rusbatch. The rest? Auckland, Wellington, or increasingly, across the Tasman where salaries dwarf

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Ashley Chung Rejoins Winston & Strawn After Serving as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of Appealss Release

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Chicago – April 6, 2026 – Winston & Strawn LLP announced today the addition of Ashley Chung as a partner in the Chicago office. Ashley rejoins the firm’s Litigation Department as a member of its Appellate & Critical Motions practice after serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. As the former Deputy Chief of Appeals at the

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From Advocate to Inmate As Transgender Lawyer’s Rage After Violent Contempt Blowup

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Oklahoma transgender attorney Rob Hopkins has shuttered his law firm after a spectacular courtroom meltdown that ended with him dragged out in handcuffs for contempt. The drama detonated during an otherwise routine custody hearing in Pontotoc County last month. Hopkins, representing a client before District Judge Lori Jackson in Ada, kept interrupting until Jackson warned

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Bird & Bird Re-Elects CEO

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International law firm Bird & Bird today announces that its partnership has re-elected Christian Bartsch as CEO for a further four-year term. Christian has served as CEO since April 2022. Christian spearheaded the launch of the firm’s five-year strategy in May 2024, moving the whole firm forward through the delivery of key pillars shaped around

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Squire Patton Announce New European Managing Partner

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Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Andrew Wilkinson as the firm’s new European Managing Partner. He will succeed Jonathan Jones effective May 1, 2026. “Andrew is a respected leader whose deep understanding of our business and clients will be invaluable as we continue to strengthen our firm and provide expert, sure-footed guidance around the world,” said Chair

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Time Lord of the Outback: Sydney Solicitor Bills Council for 36-Hour Days in $10m Fee Fiasco

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We all get the same 24 hours in a day. Well, most of us do. One creative Sydney solicitor apparently operated on a different calendar. Keith Redenbach, principal of Redenbach Legal (pictured) and a veteran who once graced the corridors of Norton Rose Fulbright and Maddox, has been found by the NSW Supreme Court to

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