The Law Firm’s Red Faces Over Pink Ice-Cream Maker Women’s Day Outrage

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Every law firm wants to mark International Women’s Day thoughtfully — but sometimes the gesture lands like a lead balloon. Offshore powerhouse Harneys made headlines of all the wrong kind when managing partner Ian Mann announced on LinkedIn that the firm had shipped pastel-pink Toffy ice-cream makers branded with the Harneys logo and the cheeky […]

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What to Do After an Accident: A Practical Legal Roadmap

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Article source: Law Firm of Chaile Allen, TX Every 13 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a personal injury—that’s nearly 7,000 people per day according to the National Safety Council’s 2024 injury statistics. Yet most people have no idea what steps to take when they become one of these statistics. The moments immediately following

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Kirkland & Ellis

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There is Kirkland & Ellis, and then there is everyone else. The Chicago-founded firm — established in 1909 and for decades a respected but unremarkable mid-tier player — has executed one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of the legal profession, becoming by considerable distance the highest-grossing and most profitable law firm on

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$11 Million a Partner -The Big Law Pay Story That Makes Every Other Firm’s Numbers Look Modest

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Kirkland & Ellis just changed the frame for the entire industry

If you write about lawyers for long enough, you make a quiet peace with the gap between your pay packet and theirs. This week, however, Kirkland & Ellis has made that gap feel almost cosmic.

Equity partners at the world’s highest-grossing law firm averaged $11.1 million each for 2025 – a 20% increase on 2024. The major money figure places Kirkland’s partners in the earnings bracket of a top Premier League footballer, at roughly £22,500 a day.

The firm simultaneously became the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, posting $10.56 billion for the year.

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Aussie Legal Tech Tool Raises $7m to Beat ‘Fact Chaos’

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Every litigator has lived it, the nightmare of “fact chaos” when discovery dumps, endless transcripts, buried emails, clinical records, and reports scattered everywhere become a spreadsheet grind. Hours (or days) wasted hunting timelines, cross-checking details, and praying you haven’t missed the one fact that swings the case. Australian legal tech startup Mary Technology just raised

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What Personal Injury Lawyers Are Really Watching With the Hands-Free Driving Laws

Article source: Jeffcoat Injury and Car Accident Lawyers Image generated by Gemini In South Carolina, distracted driving is not a minor issue; it’s a documented crisis, contributing to over 20,000 traffic collisions annually. According to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, this equates to roughly two crashes every hour involving a distracted driver. In

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NZ Liquidations Hit 15-Year High as IRD Crackdown Triggers Insolvency Boom for Law Firms

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The numbers don’t lie — and right now they’re lighting up the insolvency and restructuring sector like a Christmas tree.

New data confirms 2,867 companies entered liquidation in 2025 — the highest annual total since 2010 and the fourth-highest in 25 years.

Centrix puts the figure at 2,934, while broader formal appointments (liquidations + receiverships + voluntary administrations) reached 3,080–3,132 — up 11–12% on 2024 and the highest level since the Global Financial Crisis.

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Judges vs Parliament – The Stealth Revolution No New Zealand Lawyers Dare Name

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Former Bell Gully Chair Roger Partridge has come out swinging again over the ‘stealth’ activities of the Supreme Court as they steal law-making power in a ‘coup’ that has lawyers either ignorant of what is occurring, or deciding that silence is the best option. Writing in his Substack column Partridge, (pictured) who a former litigator

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The Private Equity Lawyer Who Will Run Weil Gotshal

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When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced last week that Ramona Y. Nee will succeed Barry Wolf as Executive Partner from January 2027, the news landed with the quiet inevitability of a deal that everyone saw coming.

Wolf, who has steered the firm for 16 years, called her “uniquely suited.” He was not exaggerating. For nearly a quarter-century Nee has been the quiet engine of Weil’s U.S. private equity practice and the beating heart of its Boston office. Now the firm is handing her the keys.

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Weil Gotshal Names Ramona Y. Nee Executive Partner, Succeeding Barry M. Wolf

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced its leadership succession plan, continuing a strategic transition as Executive Partner Barry M. Wolf prepares to retire as partner at the end of 2027, after having led the Firm for the past 16 years.  Succeeding Barry as Executive Partner will be Ramona Y. Nee, who currently serves as

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