TVLine’s Russell Murray undertook a recent ranking of television’s 15 Smartest TV Lawyers that catalogues everything from seersucker suits to outright obstruction of justice. It’s a job that he best legal minds on screen rarely resemble the ones in your firm’s partnership directory. Hollywood’s definition of legal genius is markedly different from what you may
For one glorious Thursday, the UK Bar rankings read like client feedback instead of a Christmas card. Legalease blames an upload glitch. The Bar blames nobody in public and everybody on WhatsApp. Legal directories run on an arrangement a cartel would find a little embarrassing. Chambers and firms submit forests of self-praise, nominate referees chosen
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Cahill Gordon & Reindel has become the first firm to match Milbank’s 2026 special bonuses in full, ending a summer-long standoff. The real question is whether anyone else moves before Cravath does. Cahill Gordon & Reindel has told associates it will match the special bonuses Milbank announced on July 27, making it the first firm
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Neel Sachdev is the best-paid finance lawyer in London, the most-discussed lateral hire of the decade, and possibly the only Big Law partner who has consulted an astrologer before hiring associates. He’s also been continuing to attract a lot of publicity lately.
Most partners at elite law firms prefer to be invisible outside a small circle of clients and headhunters. Neel Sachdev has taken a different approach. The Paul Weiss London co-head is the subject of a new Financial Times profile, and it may be the most entertaining piece of legal journalism this year.
The FT’s legal correspondent, Suzi Ring, met the 51-year-old lawyer in Portugal, where he has invested in a luxury property development on the site of a former orange grove in the Algarve. He did not arrive quietly, but rather in a red open-top 1977 Mercedes 450 SL, wearing a matching outfit, sunglasses and his trademark beaded bracelets.
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Quinn Emanuel is rolling out the heavy artillery in the UK’s largest-ever group litigation. The litigation powerhouse has drafted Richard East, the founding and senior partner of its London office, into the sprawling £36 billion Mariana dam disaster case against mining giant BHP. The Mariana litigation has turned into one of the fiercest law-firm territory
KEY TAKEAWAY: While law firms spend heroic sums teaching partners to build a “personal brand”, Massachusetts defence lawyer Kevin Reddington has stumbled on a simpler formula. Be very good in court, be unmistakably yourself, and let TikTok do the rest. Kevin Reddington is not the obvious prototype for a legal influencer. He is 75. He
Power Points: Weil, Gotshal & Manges has spent three weeks losing partners and then on Friday it lost the one who mattered most. Michael Aiello, chairman of Weil’s 600-lawyer corporate department and the man colleagues routinely describe as the firm’s most powerful partner, has told Weil he is resigning. He is expected to surface at
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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
By Jason Tenenbaum, Attorney Every litigator has a file they would like to make disappear. New York lets a plaintiff do that, up to a point, through the voluntary discontinuance provisions of CPLR 3217. What the statute does not promise is that walking away costs nothing. A 2015 decision from the Appellate Term in a
What IS Happening in the London Legal Market? The Q3 2026 Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide is out, and the interesting story is not who is on top. Every quarter, a small data publisher in the UK causes a modest flurry of law firm marketing activity, and this week was no exception. Adviser Rankings Ltd has
