Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing writer Morgan & Morgan is the law firm that is widely seen as the largest personal injury law firm in the United States. The firm has over 1,000 attorneys according to its own data and 30‑plus billion dollars in verdicts and settlements for more than 700,000 clients nationwide. For more information […]
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New Zealand’s legal profession is still growing, still skewing young and female, and still overwhelmingly European in makeup, according to the New Zealand Law Society’s 2025 Snapshot of the Profession. As at 30 June 2025, there were 17,504 lawyers holding a current practising certificate. That is a 2.9 percent increase on the previous year, continuing
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Brooklyn Beckham has reportedly escalated what was once whisper-quiet family tension into a full-blown legal standoff with parents David and Victoria Beckham by serving a formal legal notice demanding all communication go through lawyers and forbidding them from tagging or contacting him directly on social media. This isn’t legal theatre for giggles. Issuing a written
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LONDON (January 20, 2026)—Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced today that Christopher McLaughlin and Alastair McVeigh will join the firm as partners in its London office. Mr. McLaughlin will lead S&C’s private equity sponsor and borrower acquisition, and leveraged finance practices in London. Mr. McVeigh will lead S&C’s European private credit offering, including direct and specialty
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High Court Upholds Disbarment of Jo Sidhu KC, Signalling Cultural Shift at the Bar Sonia Hickey The High Court’s refusal this week to overturn the disbarment of prominent criminal silk Jo Sidhu KC has sent a blunt message through the profession: the era of indulgence for “power imbalance” misconduct is over. In a judgment delivered
FTI’s Ex-Star Economist, Goldman and the Talent War That Became a Lawsuit FTI Consulting just reminded everyone that professional services isn’t so much a marketplace as an all-out battlefield where poaching a rainmaker morphs into a fiduciary duel. The firm’s blockbuster lawsuit against its departed top economist isn’t just paperwork, but a declaration that talent
ORLANDO, Fla. – GrayRobinson is pleased to announce Julie Posteraro has joined the firm as a shareholder in its Litigation Section. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney for more than a decade in the Middle District of Florida, Posteraro is also known for representing major corporate clients in complex, high-stakes civil litigation arising from large-scale disasters and catastrophic events. Based in
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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
