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2 weeks agoTop Biglaw Firm Goes On Lateral Shopping Spree For Splashy Boston Launch - Above the Law
Reed Smith opens a Boston office by recruiting laterals from seven Am Law 50 firms across finance, transactional, and regulatory practices to establish immediate market presence.
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1 week agoMorgan Lewis Picks Its Next Leader As Jami McKeon Closes Out A Historic Run - Above the Law
When she took over in 2014 as the firm's first female chair, it wasn't just a milestone for Morgan Lewis, it was a signal to the rest of Biglaw that the 'boys club' at the top wasn't inevitable.
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4 weeks agoYou've Had Enough. Now What? How To Make A Law Firm Move Actually Work - Above the Law
Lawyers dissatisfied with firm culture and compensation should strategically evaluate lateral moves based on portable book size, recruiter engagement, and network relationships to avoid repeating the same problems elsewhere.
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3 weeks agoTop Biglaw Firm Debuts Nonequity Partnership Tier, Moving Goalposts Just A Bit Further - Above the Law
Major Biglaw firms are increasingly adopting nonequity partnership tiers, fundamentally redefining traditional partnership structures and compensation models across the industry.
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3 weeks agoGlobal Biglaw Shakeup: Top Firm Eyes Unified Profit Pool - Above the Law
DLA Piper is abandoning its Swiss verein structure to adopt a single global profit pool, unifying U.S. and non-U.S. partnerships financially for the first time and signaling potential industry-wide structural changes.
Online marketing
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1 month agoScaling Your Legal Practice: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Business Development | Fingerlakes1.com
Law firms must combine digital presence, content marketing, and thought leadership strategies to attract clients while maintaining service quality in competitive markets.
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3 weeks agoNavigating Law Firm Mergers: Communication, Culture, And The Marketer's Influence - Above the Law
Law firm mergers succeed through effective communication, strong leadership, and organizational willingness to embrace change, with outcomes varying significantly based on whether a firm is the larger or smaller partner.
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4 weeks agoCorporate Legal Departments Are Done Subsidizing Biglaw's Business Model - Above the Law
In-house legal departments are strategically using AI investments to reduce reliance on outside counsel, maintaining higher workloads while constraining internal spending and headcount growth.
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1 month ago'We Have Zero Interest In Practicing U.S. Law': Top UK Firm Opens Office In New York Anyway - Above the Law
The firm's incoming senior partner, Damien Crossley, emphasised that the new office is not intended as a step towards competing with its relationship firms, such as Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, or any other firm in its "good friends" network. Crossley believes the launch will "help our European clients navigate the U.S.", adding that the office is not intended as a referral office, but rather will serve firm-originated clients.
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1 month agoDOJ Drops Defense Of Biglaw Executive Orders, Leaving Capitulating Firms Holding $940 Million Bag - Above the Law
The Trump administration is dropping appeals of executive orders against major law firms after courts repeatedly ruled them unconstitutional and retaliatory, while firms that capitulated paid $940 million in pro bono commitments.
New York City
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2 months agoHe Left Paul, Weiss On Principle. Now He's In Charge Of New York City's Legal Future. - Above the Law
Steven Banks will become New York City Corporation Counsel and lead a 200‑lawyer expansion to restore aggressive, immigrant-focused, civil-rights legal advocacy.
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2 months agoMeta Appoints Legal Expert with Ties to Trump to Key Role
Meta is seemingly still working to better align with the Trump Administration, and the expectations of the Trump White House around content and governance. Which, given Meta's ongoing battles with EU regulators, makes sense, as Meta continues to seek U.S. government support in pushing back against the billions in fines being regularly handed down to it by the EU Commission, as well as other regional penalties.
US politics
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2 months agoLegal Market Is Doing Great, Which Is How You Know You're All About To Get Laid Off - Above the Law
The Thomson Reuters Institute and Georgetown Law's Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession released their annual State of the U.S. Legal Market report today, and the good news is that law firms are absolutely crushing it. Profits are up. Rates are up. Demand surged in 2025 at levels the industry hasn't seen in more than a decade. The Am Law 100 is printing money, midsize firms are having a moment, and everyone is congratulating themselves for their "resilience."
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2 months agoEconomic Resilience For Law Firms Starts With How You Operate Day To Day - Above the Law
Economic resilience for law firms requires operational control—stable payment collection, expense management, visibility, and proactive systems to preserve cash flow and enable confident decision-making.
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2 months agoCravath Is No Longer Immune To Partner Poaching - Above the Law
"The lateral partner market has gotten more and more active, and we always felt it was a matter of time before it reached the very elite tier of firms. The gloves are off and virtually no one is untouchable anymore. People should get used to seeing that at firms that historically lost very few partners."
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2 months agoA GC's Guide To The Modern Merger: Mastering Complex Transactions In Uncertain Times - Above the Law
Law departments must prepare for perpetual uncertainty in M&A by implementing due diligence, integration, entity management, compliance mitigation, and technology strategies.
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