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Fenwick & West To Match $235K Salary Scale For Associates
Fenwick & West LLP is reportedly the latest firm that will raise associate pay in the new year.
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Cleary Adds PE Veteran From Simpson Thacher In NY
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Tuesday that a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney has joined the firm as a partner in its Americas mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions groups.
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McDermott Taps 36 Partners In Sharp Drop From 2025
McDermott Will & Schulte has promoted 36 lawyers to the role of partner, approximately half the 74 it announced in 2025, as the firm looks to grow its numbers in New York and strengthen its private capital business.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Public AI Disclosures Raise Stakes For AI Agent Oversight
Two recent reports shift the legal posture of every organization deploying artificial intelligence agents because they establish the foreseeability, for negligence liability purposes, of an AI agent becoming weaponized for data exfiltration, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.
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How Firms Can Win Market For Unified Legal Client Services
Firms willing to develop a new operating model, where AI-powered legal tech is paired with deep industry expertise and a different incentive structure, can win over companies looking to consolidate their legal needs with a single provider, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
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7 AI Training Tips For Law Firm Summer Associate Programs
Law firms trying to weave artificial intelligence into summer associate programs should build a program that isn't really about AI but teaches students how to think about using AI, with the goal of building judgment, understanding implications and leveling up in a way that's repeatable, says Zeynep Ersin at Seyfarth.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Don't Obstruct Knowledge
Lawyers and firms should treat knowledge transfer as a business development function, using the sharing of context and institutional know-how to preserve continuity through change, strengthen relationships and create long-term competitive advantage, says Mark Wraight at Stinson.
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How Private Equity Priorities Will Test The Law Firm Model
The biggest question about private equity moving into the legal sector is no longer whether it can financially succeed, but how law firms can contend with the unavoidable economic, institutional and ethical tensions introduced by external ownership without compromising their core professional commitments, say Kirsten Vasquez and Allison Rosner at Major Lindsey.
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AI-Powered Search Demands New Legal Marketing Playbook
As potential clients use artificial intelligence tools instead of search engines when looking for counsel, it is a democratizing moment for specialized midsize firms and a compression threat for generalist big-firm brand positioning, says Ronn Torossian at 5WPR.
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What Law Firm MSOs Can Learn From Accounting Co. Model
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Private equity capital has been flowing into accounting firms for years, with investors developing creative structures to work within that field's specific ownership restrictions, and the framework developed by these transactions offers valuable insights for law firms looking for outside investment, says Russell Shapiro at Levenfeld Pearlstein.
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Legal Tech Talks: StrongSuit CEO On The AI Gold Rush
Justin McCallon, CEO of StrongSuit, discusses how the potential for automation and insight generation with artificial intelligence is massive, but that in legal work, especially litigation, the margin for error is essentially zero.
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How Leaders Can Foster Professional Growth With Feedback
When law firm leaders provide work product feedback by identifying errors instead of offering guiding input, they miss a key opportunity to treat feedback as a professional development and leadership tool, but several practices can help bridge the gap between intent and impact, says Janet Jackson at Well-Law.
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Why Marketing Teams Are Vital For Law Firm AI Storytelling
Many law firms are using generic decks for multiple client presentations to articulate their artificial intelligence strategy, but in order to differentiate themselves, it's important to bring marketing teams into the fold to identify what's actually distinctive about how a firm uses AI, says Eric Greenberg at Cox Media.
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Legal Marketing Conference Highlights Pivotal Time For Firms
The Legal Marketing Association's recent annual conference underscored how advances in artificial intelligence and shifting client expectations are causing law firms to evolve into more structured, data-driven businesses that place greater emphasis on strategy, implementation and measurable results, say Maria Aronson and Gina Rubel at Furia Rubel.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Build Relationship Habits
Meaningful relationships are foundational to business development, and they can be deliberately fostered through a set of habits for authentically, intentionally and consistently connecting with clients and colleagues — starting with people you already know and like, says Matthew Moran at V&E.
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Legal Leaders Are Asking The Wrong Questions About AI
Artificial intelligence is already woven into everyday work for attorneys, so beyond questioning whether AI was used and approving such tools, legal leaders need to create a shared foundation for what good AI use looks like on their team, says Alex Denniston at Factor.