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- The Largest UK Law Firms 2026 – Who’s Banking What in Big Law
The UK legal market just keeps getting bigger and richer as deals and US law firms make a major impact on big UK law firms. In 2025, collective revenues for UK law firms sailed past £52 billion, with the big firms at the top hoovering up an ever-larger slice of the pie. The UK law firm earnings show massive increases for some firms and equally large take-home pay, as we recently reported. Whether you’re a graduate eyeing that training contract or a GC shopping for counsel, LawFuel’s UK law firm survey looks at who’s who in British Big Law right now. The Complete UK Law Firm Revenue League 2026 . . Log in to read the full report - Britain’s Top Barristers by Pay – The KCs Who Turn Courtroom Skill into Seven Figures
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. Log in to the the article . . . - BigLaw’s $4.6 Trillion Year Sees Kirkland & Top Firms Dominate
M&A Market Soars to Record $4.6 Trillion Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor BigLaw… Read more: BigLaw’s $4.6 Trillion Year Sees Kirkland & Top Firms Dominate - From Assange to Maduro – Law Star Barry Pollack’s Great Gamble in the Most Unlikely U.S. Trial
From WikiLeaks to Venezuela: Barry Pollack Takes on the Maduro Defense in a… Read more: From Assange to Maduro – Law Star Barry Pollack’s Great Gamble in the Most Unlikely U.S. Trial - One Partner, Seven Million Pounds: Inside Big Law’s New Pay Reality
Big Law’s Seven-Million Pound Question: Who’s Really Winning? A senior partner at a… Read more: One Partner, Seven Million Pounds: Inside Big Law’s New Pay Reality - Big Law’s Capital Squeeze Sees Partners Pay Up, Firms Power On
The legal profession has always had a peculiar relationship with money. Partners, after all, are supposed to be owners of their firms, yet increasingly, they’re being asked to prove their commitment with their wallets. Welcome to the world of capital contributions, where making equity partner isn’t just about your billable hours anymore. It’s about how much cash you can pony up to join the club. Here’s the thing about Big Law’s approach to partner capital: there isn’t one. Survey data from about 80 Am Law 200 firms reveals a system that’s, to put it charitably, all over the shop. Log in to read more . . . - US Law Firms Double Down on Super Size London Takeover
US law firms have turned London into their most important international bridgehead, increasing their lawyer ranks in the City by nearly 60 percent over the past decade and reshaping the U.K. legal market in the process. The number of lawyers working in London offices of U.S.-headquartered firms rose from 4,889 in 2015 to 7,710 by the end of 2024, a 58 percent increase over ten years. In total, 84 U.S. firms now have a London presence, underlining the City’s role as the key European hub for U.S. practices. Please log in to read more . . - What The New Cadwalader Hogan Lovells Legal Giant Means
And a Warning for Clients in BigLaw Megamergers Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing writer… Read more: What The New Cadwalader Hogan Lovells Legal Giant Means - Top European Firms Are Letting Gen AI Draft First – And Partners Aren’t Complaining
European law firms have finally found something that can draft faster than a sleep‑deprived mid‑level – and it doesn’t ask for a bonus or threaten to lateral. New research from The Global Legal Post and LexisNexis shows leading firms in Germany, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands quietly handing first‑draft duty to generative AI tools, especially for contracts and complex commercial documents. The focus is not sci‑fi robot lawyers, but something far more radical for BigLaw, making use of the knowledge the firm already has. By plugging Gen AI into internal precedents, know‑how banks and document automation systems, these firms are generating “house style” drafts that reflect prior deals, client preferences and jurisdiction‑specific quirks rather than yet another generic template no one quite trusts. Senior partners say the attraction is simple providing better quality at lower cost, delivered with guardrails around confidentiality and auditability that won’t make the GC’s risk committee choke either. Log in to read more . . . - 3,100 Lawyers, One Story Get Big, Get Niche, or Get Bought
Cadwalader’s planned merger with Hogan Lovells is less a love story and more a rescue mission with excellent branding, creating a 3,100‑lawyer, US$3.6 billion outfit that will instantly sit in the global top five by revenue. For Hogan Lovells, it is scale and New York depth; for Cadwalader, it is survival with dignity and a new logo. The combined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader will have about 3,100 lawyers and more than US$3.6 billion in annual revenue based on 2024 figures, making it the world’s fifth‑largest firm by revenue and one of the largest law firm mergers ever attempted. – Register to read more . . .
