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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Why Russell McVeagh Partner Brian Clayton Ditched the Timesheet (Temporarily) and What It Did to His Lawyer Brain Most construction partners spend their careers praying the pipeline never dries up. Brian Clayton, on the other hand, actually walked away from it, swapping the office for a paddock, co-founded a fully integrated hops export business with
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Lathams Law Raid Latham & Watkins has raided Freshfields’ in Germany to secure four of Europe’s most pedigreed private equity partners – Markus Paul, (pictued) who has two decades’ of deal-making experience behind him, Wessel Heukamp, Verena Nosch and Carsten Haak. The raid comes from a firm already sitting atop Bloomberg’s global M&A rankings, now
The US Attorney Count Grow Norma Harris The United States now has more practising lawyers than at any point in history. According to the American Bar Association’s latest national survey, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers as of January 1, 2024. The head-count keeps rising. The profession keeps sprawling. And the competition keeps getting nastier. New
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Leading global law firm, Baker McKenzie, has hired Adele Harrison as a Partner in its Data & Cyber team in London. Adele is a qualified barrister and joins the Firm from Orrick, where she specialises in Data and Cyber law, with a focus on advocacy and investigations. She advises on a wide range of cybersecurity
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In a stinging rebuke to ethical back-room deals, an Australian Federal Court has found that Jason Karas, former partner at Lipman Karas (now LK Law), secretly brokered a deal to hand over the firm’s Hong Kong practice to London legal powerhouse Mishcon de Reya.
The court ruled that Karas negotiated the deal without informing his co-founder Skip Lipman or disclosing the extent of the transfer.
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LawFuel Premiers The Legal Stars Behind The Netflix Mega-Deal Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing writer Hollywood finally did what everyone feared it might do and handed the keys to the Warner Bros kingdom to the world’s rrichest and determined binge machine, Netflix in an $82.7 billion deal that has involved platoons of lawyers. The deal is
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Did Amal Clooney Really Work for the Muslim Brotherhood? A throwaway line on a US chat show has been doing the rounds online, repackaged into a far more dramatic claim: that Amal Clooney “worked for the Muslim Brotherhood.” The spark came from George Clooney’s interview with Drew Barrymore, where he joked that when he was
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