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Pay Up, Hours Down For BigLaw Partners
Average partner compensation rose 10% from 2023 to 2025, reaching a new high of just over $1.5 million, while at the same time average billable hours fell about 4%, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series
The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.
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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations
The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.
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Ex-SDNY National Security Co-Chief Joins Bracewell
Bracewell LLP announced Monday that a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York who supervised and tried landmark cases involving terrorist attacks around the world has joined its government enforcement and investigations practice group.
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Latham Adds California Privacy Agency's Enforcement Chief
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the head of enforcement for California's Privacy Protection Agency, who previously steered numerous high-profile enforcement actions related to state consumer privacy laws, to bolster its privacy and cyber practice.
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Milbank Hires Ex-SDNY Securities Task Force Leader
The former co-chief of the Securities and Commodities Task Force at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has joined Milbank LLP as a partner to continue his litigation practice, the firm announced Monday.
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Winston Taylor Adds Baker McKenzie M&A Pro In Dallas
Winston Taylor announced Monday that it has strengthened its global mergers and acquisitions and private equity offerings with a partner in Dallas who came aboard after nearly two decades with Baker McKenzie.
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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says
The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.
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Cleary Promotes 31 Attorneys To Partner, Counsel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced on Monday the promotion of 31 attorneys, including 15 partners and 16 counsel, one shy of the record it reached last year.
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Sterlington Nabs 9-Member Patent Team From Holland & Hart
Sterlington PLLC has hired a nine-member patent team led by two former Holland & Hart LLP partners, the firm announced Monday.
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Ropes & Gray Taps Record 26 Partners, With Boston Leading
Ropes & Gray LLP on Monday named 26 lawyers who are joining its partnership, the largest partner promotion round in its history, with its office in Boston accounting for half the class.
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Kirkland's Financial Silence Tests BigLaw Transparency
After the world's richest law firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, announced plans earlier this month to break the current BigLaw norm of reporting its annual financial results to the media, other law firm leaders are likely examining the potential benefits -- and drawbacks-- of an industry with reduced financial transparency.
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Clyde & Co. Bolsters Global Aviation Team With 2 Partners
Clyde & Co. LLP has hired a former airline CEO with more than 30 years of senior legal, financial, commercial, operational and aviation safety experience, who will work with the firm across several offices in San Francisco, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
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Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil
Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.
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Weil Merger Talks With Willkie End, Another Partner To Leave
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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New Civil Defense Group Prez On Attys Paying It Forward
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP partner Jill Cranston Rice was elevated Friday as the new president of DRI, a voluntary bar association for civil defense and in-house counsel. She said lawyers have a responsibility to what she called an "apprenticeship profession."
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers PA and DiCello Levitt lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico federal judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the lies that the social media giant offered the public regarding its data privacy practices.
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Buchalter Taps Greenberg Traurig Atty As Private Funds Chair
Buchalter PC has continued its recent growth in the Lone Star State with the addition of a Greenberg Traurig LLP attorney who will serve as the leader of its private funds practice.
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Goodwin Launches AI Governance Program
Goodwin Procter LLP announced on Thursday the launch of Goodwin AI Governance, a program that supports organizations working to remain in compliance while adopting artificial intelligence.
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Trump Adviser Ducking Service In Exec Orders Suit, ABA Says
Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn has evaded service of subpoenas, so the American Bar Association should be allowed to pursue alternative means of serving him in its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate BigLaw firms, the organization is telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge.
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Crowell & Moring Hires 10-Year DOJ Healthcare Litigator
Crowell & Moring LLP has hired a U.S. Department of Justice litigator who has spent the past decade as a senior trial lawyer in the Civil Division's commercial litigation branch, the firm recently announced.
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London's Rainmaker Wars Make Partnerships More Fragile
U.S. law firms' race to dominate London's lucrative private capital market is making some partnerships more fragile, as Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has seen with increasingly mobile rainmakers across the city commanding huge pay packages and controlling client relationships worth tens of millions of dollars, recruiters and consultants say.
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Latham Elects 36 Associates To Partnership With NY Out Front
Latham & Watkins LLP has elected 36 associates to its partnership in its second round of promotions in 2026, with its New York office gaining the biggest share — just under a third of those who leveled up.
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Ogletree Hires Fisher Phillips Counsel In San Francisco
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC has hired a Fisher Phillips of counsel in San Francisco who will represent clients in privacy, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence matters.
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Holland & Knight Legal Profession Head On MSO Dealmaking
Holland & Knight LLP partner Trisha Rich is at the forefront of the firm's work in a fast-growing corner of the legal industry, advising law firms setting up management services organizations, or MSOs, as well as the investors looking to buy into them.
Expert Analysis
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The GC's 1st 90 Days: How To Build Trust With The CEO
During the early days in the general counsel role, establishing a CEO relationship that holds under pressure is dependent on earning access, communicating in business terms and advising candidly — all before a crisis arises, says Chaka Patterson, former general counsel at Adtalem Global Education.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Harness Client Trust
Clients stay with counsel not simply because their lawyers follow the rules, but because they feel safe, respected and heard, making trust essential to business development, especially in high-stakes matters where reputational risk runs high, says Derrelle Janey at Olshan Frome.
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Legal Tech Talks: Summize GC On Operating Strategically
Lexi Lutz, general counsel of Summize, discusses how legal tech can make lawyers more proactive and less tied up in repetitive process work, so that they can spend more time acting as real business partners.
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How Associates Can Use AI To Gain A Biz Development Edge
Junior lawyers can harness artificial intelligence to identify where they are gaining traction with clients and build a data-driven business development foundation long before conversations about partnership track begin, says Tigist Kassahun at Vinson & Elkins.
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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets
Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.
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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda
Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests
To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Making Legal Cents: Create Marketing Clients Find Useful
The law firm marketing efforts with the best return on investment are things that actively provide value to potential clients: practical business guidance, uncluttered proposals that anticipate their questions and opportunities to participate in curated industry conversations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.
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Law Firm Leaders Should Adopt Founding Fathers' Bold Ideas
To ensure continued success, law firm leaders helming their firms through the legal industry revolution should take inspiration from the Founding Fathers' bold decisions, such as James Madison's abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and George Washington's trust in junior officers', says Samuel Pond at Pond Lehocky.
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The AI Ownership Question Firms Can't Afford To Skip
The artificial intelligence conversation among law firm leaders has advanced from adoption to governance and business impact, but it hasn’t resolved who maintains ownership and operational responsibility, which should be determined by the range of functions that AI touches, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Practice AuthenticityAttorneys who demonstrate who they truly are and what they stand for by sharing the human impact of their results, earning the media's trust by providing accessible analysis, and providing hands-on aid to their communities can build stronger reputations than any advertising budget can buy, says Ray DeLorenzi at RebuttalPR.
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Legal AI Adoption Tips And Takeaways From Dot-Com Bubble
Legal artificial intelligence is on a similar trajectory as the internet in the dot-com era, where several internet companies failed after the initial market frenzy, but even if AI company valuations take a hit and the industry goes through a major reordering, legal leaders should note that the technology itself remains genuinely transformational for the delivery of legal services, says Gabriel Buigas at Integreon.
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Opinion
Keeping PE Out Of Law Is Job For Courts, Not Capitols
Efforts by lawmakers in California, Colorado and Illinois seeking to bar private equity firms, hedge funds and other nonattorney investors from owning or financing law firms risk intruding on authority that state constitutions and the inherent powers doctrine have traditionally assigned to the judiciary, says attorney Felix Shipkevich.
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Legal Tech Talks: WordSmith AI's CEO On Shifting Mindsets
Ross McNairn, founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, discusses how the lawyers who treat legal work like an engineering problem and can deploy legal intelligence at scale will define the next decade.
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Avoiding The Changing Pitfalls Of Firm Website Redesigns
BigLaw firms about to tackle a website redesign need to understand the fundamental changes to costs, timelines, vendors and technology since their last big update so their leadership teams can steer resource management decisions away from costly potential mistakes, says Stephan Roussan at Vertical Minds.