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Weil Partners Are ‘Frantically Sending Résumés’ As Leadership Weighs Its Options
Weil, Gotshal & Manges partners are actively exploring external opportunities as firm leadership deliberates strategic direction following internal tu…
Looks Like Weil’s Succession Plan Has One More Vacancy — See Also
# Weil Gotshal's Leadership Transition Falters As Incoming Chair Eyes Exit Weil Gotshal & Manges faces another leadership crisis. The firm's designat…
This 250-Lawyer Firm Had Exactly One Partner… And He Was Running A $700 Million Fraud
# Sole Partner's $700 Million Fraud Collapses 250-Lawyer Firm A law firm with 250 attorneys operated under a structural arrangement that allowed a si…
Do It With Us, Not To Us
# Technology Procurement and Implementation: Collaboration as Legal Risk Management The relationship between vendors and clients after contract execu…
Fortune 500 Healthcare Company Asks For AI To Negotiate Contracts With No Human Lawyers
A Fortune 500 healthcare company has deployed artificial intelligence to negotiate contracts without human lawyer involvement, a decision that exposes…
This Biglaw Firm’s New Year’s Resolution? Pay Associates On The $235K Salary Scale
A major BigLaw firm announced it will raise associate salaries to the $235,000 scale beginning in 2027, marking the latest escalation in the competiti…
Weil’s Incoming Leader Won’t Take The Job, And Might Take One At Simpson Thacher Instead
# Weil's Incoming Leader Withdraws from Role; Simpson Thacher in Play Weil, Gotshal & Manges faces a leadership vacuum after its designated successor…
Law Firm Leaks — See Generally
# Law Firm Internal Breaches Expose Confidentiality Risks Across Major Global Practices Recent operational failures at two major international law fi…
Lawyers Should Always Expect Something For Professional Courtesies
# Professional Courtesies in Legal Practice Carry Hidden Reciprocal Expectations Legal professionals operate within an intricate web of professional …
The Cheese Stands Alone… And By Cheese, We Mean Weil — See Also
# Weil's Merger with Willkie Collapses as Major Law Firm Faces Partner Departures The proposed merger between Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Willkie Corp…
Private Equity Can’t Own Tennessee Law Firms, But It Can Still Get A Piece Of The Business
Tennessee's Supreme Court has upheld the state's longstanding prohibition on private equity ownership of law firms while simultaneously declining to r…
Who Will Control The AI Relationship: In-House Or Outside Counsel?
# Who Will Control AI Legal Strategy: Inside and Outside Counsel Face a Power Struggle Law departments and outside firms are competing for control ov…
Elite Trial Firm Raises The Stakes With Clerkship Bonuses Starting At $150K
Robins Kaplan has escalated the competition for judicial clerks by introducing signing bonuses reaching $175,000 for former law clerks who join the Mi…
We’ll Get You And Merge With You: Weil Gotshal Is Shopping For A Merger Partner — See Also
Weil Gotshal & Manges, one of the nation's largest law firms, is actively pursuing a merger partner after publicly denying such efforts roughly one mo…
Will Your Firm Show You The Money This Bonus Season?
# Legal Sector Bonus Predictions Dominate Year-End Conversation as Law Firms Navigate Economic Uncertainty Law firms across the country are entering …
Accounting Firms Are Learning The Legal Business. Lawyers Need To Learn The Accounting.
The legal profession faces mounting pressure as accounting firms expand aggressively into legal services, forcing law firms to adopt business practice…
Federal Clerks Can Now Get A $205K Bonus At This Prestigious Law Firm
Hueston Hennigan, a Los Angeles-based litigation boutique, has escalated the competition for federal law clerk talent by offering a $205,000 signing b…
Weil Gotshal Is Reportedly Negotiating A Merger, About A Month After Saying It Wasn’t In Merger Talks
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is in active merger negotiations roughly one month after the firm publicly denied such talks were underway. The New York-ba…
Ex-Citizens employees blame bank for lackluster retirement returns
# Ex-Citizens Employees Sue Bank Over Retirement Plan Management Failures Former employees of Citizens Bank have filed a class action lawsuit allegin…
Agentic Commerce Is About To Become A Contracting Problem
# Agentic Commerce Is About To Become A Contracting Problem Autonomous AI agents conducting commercial transactions will force a fundamental reckonin…
The Defense Bar In The Age Of AI: Running A Red Queen’s Race?
# Defense Firms Face Widening Resource Gap as AI Transforms Legal Practice Defense firms operate at a structural disadvantage in the artificial intel…
People’s Parity Project Is Joining The Roosevelt Institute To Build A Progressive Legal Pipeline
The People's Parity Project, an advocacy organization that successfully pressured major law firms to abandon forced arbitration policies in employment…
Bonus Season Is Nearly Here: Time To Find Out What Your Firm Thinks You’re Worth
# Bonus Season Survey Invites Associates to Predict Firm Compensation Trends Above the Law has launched its annual bonus season survey, asking associ…
Mastering Local Citations For Law Firm SEO Success
# Mastering Local Citations For Law Firm SEO Success Law firms competing for clients in their markets face a fundamental digital challenge: how to ap…
Exciting Salary News For Biglaw Associates — See Also
Cooley LLP raised associate salaries to match Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's compensation structure, marking a rare move in the Am Law 200 where sala…
Stat(s) Of The Week: Stress Takes A Toll
# Lawyer Stress Crisis Deepens: New Research Shows Workplace Takes Heavy Health Toll A new study reveals that a substantial portion of lawyers attrib…
Small Time Entries Can Add Up To Substantial Revenues For Law Firms
# Small Time Entries Can Add Up To Substantial Revenues For Law Firms Law firms routinely overlook a straightforward path to revenue growth: discipli…
Katie Zacharia’s Credential Controversy Now Has Trump Telling Her To ‘Reconsider’ Her Role
Katie Zacharia faces mounting pressure from President Trump to reconsider her role following a expanding credential controversy that extends beyond an…
Show Them The Money: Top Biglaw Firm Raises Salaries For Associates
# Top BigLaw Firm Raises Associate Salaries in Continuing Market Shift A major BigLaw firm has announced a salary increase for its associates, markin…
The Firm That Decided The Whole World Was Its Market
# The Firm That Decided The Whole World Was Its Market A pioneering law firm fundamentally reshaped the legal services industry by rejecting the paro…
Partners Want AI To Help Them Find New Business, But Most Are Running It On Data They Can’t Use, Introhive Survey Finds
# Law Firm Partners Deploy AI on Unusable Data, Creating Business Development Risk Law firm partners want artificial intelligence to identify new cli…
Finally, A Way To Measure AI ROI: Be Careful What You Ask For
# Finally, A Way To Measure AI ROI: Be Careful What You Ask For Organizations racing to deploy artificial intelligence face a deceptively simple ques…
AI Use In Law Firms: There’s Reality. And There’s What Management Wants It To Be.
# AI Adoption in Law Firms Lags Far Behind Leadership Claims Law firm management routinely overstates the depth and scope of artificial intelligence …
Iron Curtain Descends On Biglaw Financials
# Iron Curtain Descends on Biglaw Financials Large law firms are locking down financial information with unprecedented opacity, creating a widening g…
Calling All Associates: Will Your Firm Deliver Or Disappoint On Salaries This Bonus Season?
# Law Firm Bonus Season Draws Scrutiny as Associates Weigh Compensation Expectations Law firm associates face another bonus season with uncertainty a…
This Biglaw Co-Founder’s Side Project Was Engineering A Revolution
# Biglaw Co-Founder's Role in Panama's Separation From Colombia Raises Ethics Questions A prominent BigLaw co-founder engineered the territorial divi…
A Biglaw Firm With A Heart: This New Parental Leave Policy Deserves Applause
Lowenstein Sandler, a major law firm with offices across the United States, has implemented a parental leave policy that extends paid time off for att…
What Axiom’s Budget Study Reveals About The Next Generation Of In-House Legal
# Axiom's Budget Study Maps In-House Legal Transformation for 2027 and Beyond Axiom, the legal services and talent platform, has released findings fr…
LVMH And Kering Refresh Their Model Protection Guidelines
# LVMH and Kering Strengthen Model Protection Standards Through Updated Joint Charter Luxury fashion giants LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Keri…
Investors hit real estate company Millrose with fraud class action over undisclosed leases
# Investors Sue Millrose Over Undisclosed Lease Arrangements with Parent Company Lennar Two stockholders filed a class action lawsuit against Millros…
Contracts Are Becoming Infrastructure For AI Agents
# Contracts Are Becoming Infrastructure for AI Agents In-house legal teams face a fundamental shift in how contracts function within organizations. C…
L’Oréal Hires Biglaw Restructuring Advisers Over Talc-Related Claims
L'Oréal, the French cosmetics giant and subsidiary of luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, has retained major law firms to explore…
Your Law School’s AI Training Could Make Or Break Your Biglaw Prospects
# Law Schools Face Pressure to Integrate AI Training as BigLaw Hiring Standards Shift Major law firms now evaluate law school curricula for artificia…
Biglaw Firm Will Pay Associates To Be Bad At AI For A While (100 Hours, To Be Precise)
A major law firm has launched a structured program allocating 100 billable hours for associates to experiment with artificial intelligence tools, ackn…
The World’s Richest Law Firm Has Decided Money Isn’t Everything — See Also
# Kirkland & Ellis Stops Publishing Revenue Figures; BigLaw Confronts AI Skills Gap Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, has ceas…
What ‘The Walking Dead’ Taught Me About Business Development
# What 'The Walking Dead' Taught Me About Business Development A lawyer writing for Above the Law has drawn unexpected parallels between survival str…
Start With The Retirement Party
# Start With The Retirement Party: A Legal Career in Reverse Above the Law published a reflective piece examining a legal career told in reverse chro…
After Topping $10 Billion, Kirkland Decides Revenue Rankings Are Gauche
Kirkland & Ellis, the Chicago-based global law firm that recently surpassed $10 billion in annual revenue, announced it will no longer participate in …
Cyber Insurance Is Not A Cybersecurity Strategy
# Cyber Insurance Cannot Replace Core Cybersecurity Controls for Law Firms Cyber insurance has grown into a booming industry as firms rush to protect…
Biglaw Created A Recruiting Problem, And Law Students Get To Suffer For It
# Biglaw's Compressed Recruiting Timeline Leaves First-Year Law Students Scrambling Large law firms have created an unsustainable recruiting crunch t…
Job Of The Month: Senior Corporate And ECVC Counsel / Partner
# Senior Corporate And ECVC Counsel Role Highlights Strategic Legal Work In Private Capital Markets Above the Law has featured a senior corporate and…
Who Owns The Rules For An AI Agent?
# Who Owns the Rules for an AI Agent? Governance Questions Reshape Corporate Accountability The emergence of autonomous AI agents in commercial trans…
AI, And Experts, And Hallucinations, Oh My!
# AI, And Experts, And Hallucinations, Oh My! Lawyers face mounting liability exposure when deploying artificial intelligence tools without understan…
How 500+ In-House Leaders Will Build And Defend Their Budgets
# In-House Legal Leaders Face Mounting Pressure to Justify Department Spending A new dataset examining budgeting practices across 500+ in-house legal…
The Problem With Treating Every Personal Injury Case Like A ‘Settlement Case’
Personal injury attorneys face a structural problem that undermines case quality and client outcomes. The legal market treats settlement as the defaul…
A Biglaw Firm’s Precursor To A Milbank Match? — See Also
# BigLaw Compensation Escalation: Firms Signal New Pay Competition Through Clerkship Bonuses and Strategic Hiring Major law firms are engaging in agg…
How To Create Evergreen Resource Libraries That Dominate Search
# Law Firm Resource Libraries Boost Search Performance and Client Trust Law firms looking to strengthen their online presence should invest in buildi…
Is This A Low-Key Biglaw Match Of The Milbank Compensation Scale?
# BigLaw Firm Quietly Adopts Milbank-Style Compensation Structure An unnamed BigLaw firm has posted a mid-level associate position with a salary rang…
Litigation Powerhouse Rolls Out The $180K Bonus Welcome Mat For Former Clerks
A major litigation firm has launched an aggressive recruitment drive targeting former federal law clerks, offering signing bonuses of $180,000 to lure…
Biglaw Firm Goes From Calling Trump ‘Unfit’ To Turning Him Into A Client — See Also
# Major Law Firm Reverses Trump Stance, Now Represents Former President A prominent BigLaw firm has moved from publicly denouncing Donald Trump as un…
The Most Feared Trial Lawyer In America Who Owned Two Pro Sports Teams
# The Most Feared Trial Lawyer in America Who Owned Two Pro Sports Teams A singular figure dominated American litigation and sports ownership for dec…
5 Legal Business Development Clichés That Are Only Half True
# 5 Legal Business Development Clichés That Are Only Half True Law firms and solo practitioners operate under a persistent set of business developmen…
Finding Your Place In The Practice Of Law
# Finding Your Place In The Practice Of Law Lawyers entering the profession or mid-career professionals contemplating a move face a complex calculus …
Biglaw Firm’s Insurance Partners Decide They Don’t Need The Biglaw Firm
A prominent insurance practice group within a major law firm has elected to depart and operate independently, marking a substantial structural realign…
Hawaii high court lets lawyers keep $222M from Maui fire settlement
Hawaii's Supreme Court upheld attorney fees totaling $222 million in the $4 billion settlement reached by Maui fire victims, rejecting arguments that …
Calling All Associates: Will Your Firm Show You The Money This Bonus Season?
# Law Firm Associates Brace for Uncertain Bonus Payouts as Economic Pressures Mount Law firm associates face another year of bonus uncertainty as fir…
The Billable Hour, Legal Tech, And The ‘AI Efficiency Trap’
# The Billable Hour Faces Pressure as AI Efficiency Creates a New Business Model Crisis The legal industry confronts a fundamental tension between te…
Every White-Shoe Firm Turned Him Down So He Built A Bigger One
# From Rejection to Empire: How One Jewish Lawyer Built a Powerhouse by Pursuing Work Establishment Firms Rejected Systemic exclusion from elite law …
6 Ways You Can Find Success In Private Practice
# How Solo and Small-Firm Lawyers Build Sustainable Practices Frank Ramos, a contributor to Above the Law, outlines six practical strategies for atto…
The Rise Of The Legal Engineer: The New Job 40 Years In The Making
# The Rise Of The Legal Engineer: A New Professional Role Reshapes Law Practice The legal profession faces a fundamental restructuring as artificial …
In A Marriage Of Two ALSPs, Repario Acquires UnitedLex To Strengthen Its AI Offerings
Repario has acquired UnitedLex, merging two alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) in a consolidation move aimed at building a scaled artificial …
AI Will Expose How Little Legal Judgment Companies Have Made Explicit
# AI Will Expose Gaps in Corporate Legal Decision-Making Frameworks Artificial intelligence deployment across legal departments reveals a structural …
This Former Federal Judge Went From Three Emails A Day To A Flooded Biglaw Inbox
# Former Federal Judge Confronts Stark Reality of Big Law Practice After Years on the Bench A retired federal judge recently transitioned back to pri…
Scary Law Firms In Time For Halloween — See Generally
BTI Consulting has released its annual ranking of law firms that opposing counsel fear most in litigation, naming Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, Ska…
Unions, Trump administration reach deal: No mass firings during government shutdowns
# Unions, Trump Administration Reach Deal on Government Shutdown Layoffs The Trump administration and multiple public sector unions have reached an a…
Clients Rarely Visit Their Lawyers’ Offices Anymore
# Clients Rarely Visit Their Lawyers' Offices Anymore The legal profession faces a fundamental shift in how lawyers and clients interact. In-person o…
Biglaw’s Latest AI Strategy: Teach Lawyers How To Be Human
# Biglaw's Latest AI Strategy: Teach Lawyers How To Be Human Large law firms are shifting their competitive positioning away from technical legal exp…
12-Hour Days Are Very Much The Biglaw Norm — See Also
# Big Law Associates Face Entrenched Culture of Grueling Work Hours Big Law firms maintain a deeply embedded expectation that junior associates work …
The Wait Is Over: Biglaw’s First Milbank Special Bonus Match Is Finally Here
Milbank LLP has announced its first special bonus match of the cycle, marking the opening volley in what industry observers expect to become a broader…
The Biglaw Firms Where Young Lawyers Basically Live At The Office
Big Law associates face relentless scheduling demands that transform offices into de facto residences, according to new data tracking work patterns at…
The Most Frightening Law Firms In America — See Also
# BigLaw Firms Face Mounting Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities as Social Engineering Attacks Escalate Major law firms across the country confront a dual …
Women Lawyers Are Exhausted, And Caregiving Is Part Of The Equation
# Women Lawyers Grapple With Exhaustion Driven By Dual Burdens Of Practice And Caregiving Female attorneys face mounting burnout tied directly to car…
How One Lawyer Built A 7-Figure Practice Without A ‘Networking’ Mindset
# How One Lawyer Built a 7-Figure Practice Without Traditional Networking A solo practitioner has demonstrated that building a lucrative legal practi…
What’s In Your Lane?
# Business Partner Model Reveals Structural Blind Spots in Law Firms The business partner model, long celebrated as a cornerstone of modern law firm …
US Chamber of Commerce sues Hawaii over law targeting Citizens United
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a federal lawsuit challenging Hawaii's landmark law that restricts corporate spending in elections, triggering a di…
Biglaw Firm Claims Employee Was ‘Deceived’ Into Sending Client Documents To Hacker
A major law firm confronts a data breach rooted in social engineering after an employee unwittingly transmitted client documents to a hacker posing as…
The Biglaw Firms That Strike Fear In The Hearts Of Opposing Counsel (2027)
# The Biglaw Firms That Strike Fear In The Hearts Of Opposing Counsel (2027) Several large law firms have built reputations as formidable opponents i…
Paul, Weiss Is The Latest Firm To Shop At Weil — See Also
# Paul, Weiss Recruits Six Partners From Weil, Continuing Major Talent Exodus Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison completed the recruitment of s…
Weil Get You And… Then Maybe You’ll Go To Cravath
# Weil Get You And... Then Maybe You'll Go To Cravath A comparison between legal recruiting practices at major law firms and the transfer portal dyna…
Weil’s Revolving Door Now Spins In Both Directions
# Paul, Weiss Recruits Weil's Private Equity Co-Head and Five Partners Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has executed a significant lateral hi…
Is Legal Business Development Really Just Dating For Professionals?
# Legal Business Development and Professional Relationship Building Law firms spend millions annually on business development initiatives that often …
No sanctions for Carvana in artificial stock inflation case
# Carvana Avoids Sanctions in Document Withholding Dispute, Faces Additional Depositions Carvana Company escapes financial sanctions in a litigation …
Biglaw Firm’s Cybersecurity Headache Just Got Even Worse
# Biglaw Firm Faces Escalating Legal Exposure Over Data Breach with Two Class Actions Now Pending A major law firm confronts mounting litigation afte…
Weil Seeks To Strengthen Its ‘Platform’ As Merger Rumors Swirl
# Weil Gotshal & Manges Moves to Strengthen Practice Platform Amid Partner Departures and Merger Speculation Weil Gotshal & Manges, one of the nation…
Lawyer Retention In Three Words: Automate The Crap
# Legal Sector Confronts Retention Crisis Through Workflow Automation Law firms face a talent exodus driven by burnout and administrative burden. The…
LVMH Signed An Agreement To Buy Hermès Heir’s Shares
LVMH's long-standing bid to acquire control of luxury goods rival Hermès has taken a dramatic turn with the disclosure of a 2002 agreement between the…
Biglaw Move That Everyone Seems Happy About — See Generally
# Biglaw Departure Shows Rare Consensus: When a Partner Leaving Benefits Everyone Weil, Gotshal & Manges lost rainmaker Michael Aiello in a high-prof…
One Plus One Equals More Than Two: Clio Lands McCormack To Join Arredondo In Judiciary Expansion
# Clio Appoints Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bridget McCormack to Expand Judiciary Relations Clio, the legal software and practice managemen…
Who Is Your Go-To Law Firm?
# In-House Counsel Survey Seeks Input on Top Legal Service Providers Above the Law has launched a survey targeting in-house counsel, requesting that …
AI Native Law Firms Aren’t Just For Biglaw Lawyers
The legal profession is witnessing a structural shift as artificial intelligence reshapes how law firms operate, compete, and deliver services to clie…
Biglaw ‘Lioness’ Admitted All Lawyers Are A-Holes, And Got A Job On The Spot
# Unconventional Interview Candor Lands Biglaw Position A lawyer's blunt assessment of her own profession during a job interview resulted in an immed…
How To Better Serve Your Firm And Partners As An Associate
# How To Better Serve Your Firm And Partners As An Associate Associates often miscalculate what partners value most. They chase visible metrics of su…
Weil Is Relieved To Lose Its Biggest Rainmaker. Cravath Is Thrilled To Get His ‘Values.’
A prominent rainmaker's departure from Weil Gotshal & Manges to join Cravath, Swaine & Moore reflects a widening philosophical divide among elite law …
DEI Efforts On The Non-Lawyer Side Of The Legal Industry
# Diversity Initiatives for Legal Support Staff Trail Behind Attorney Progress Law firms have made measurable strides in diversity, equity, and inclu…
Cravath’s Latest Hire Comes With A Les Moonves-Shaped Asterisk — See Also
Cravath, Swaine & Moore announced the hire of Mike Aiello, a prominent rainmaker from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, emphasizing in its press release that Ai…
UK, Irish leaders reaffirm N. Ireland deal as autonomy talk spikes
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris reaffirmed their commitment to the Belfast Agreement during a bilateral meeting, rejec…
Brett Kavanaugh Hanging Out In College Dorms Is Somehow *Not* A Joke — See Also
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh drew public criticism for spending time in college dormitories, a behavior that commentators flagged as inapprop…
Biglaw Firm Takes A Bite Out Of The Big Apple With Latest Merger
A major law firm has completed a merger that expands its New York presence and brings its total headcount to nearly 400 attorneys across 19 offices na…
'Definition of insanity': Trump's handpicked Kennedy Center board says the building will decompose unless they put president's name all over it
The Kennedy Center's board of trustees, assembled by President Donald Trump, faces an imminent financial crisis and proposes naming rights as the solu…
Lawyers Should Abandon Some Outdated Practices
The legal profession retains numerous antiquated practices that drain time and resources without delivering meaningful client value or advancing justi…