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Bloomberg Law's On The Merits brings you the biggest legal stories of the week, coupled with smart interviews and analysis on a variety of legal topics. You’ll hear voices and perspectives f...
When it comes to winning the legal industry talent wars, the best defense is a good offense, according to K&L Gates' global managing partner...
For a long time, the top dozen or so law schools in US News & World Report's annual rankings stayed remarkably consistent, with Yale for exa...
Law firms bringing in outside investors is one of the hottest topics in the legal industry right now. John Quinn, founder and chairman of Qu...
The chair of law firm Polsinelli says he doesn't want his attorneys—and especially not his junior attorneys—to use AI legal tools grudgingly...
Outside investors circling law firms may help some shoulder the growing costs of artificial intelligence, according to Mayer Brown's Jon Van...
The Trump administration surprised everyone last week when it first dropped an appeal in its fight against four law firms and then, less tha...
Prominent lawyer and high-stakes poker player Tom Goldstein was convicted on some, but not all, of the 16 criminal charges against him when...
Large law firms are going all in on the nationwide data center build out—nevermind that lurking AI bubble. On today's episode of our podcast...
It's been over a year since Donald Trump returned to the White House and almost immediately made it a priority to end diversity, equity, and...
The future lawyers of America were taking the LSAT this weekend. But, by the time they get their JDs in a few years, law firms may have repl...
Legal giant Paul Weiss is getting a new chairman for the first time in nearly two decades, but this transition is definitely not happening i...
There was a time when elite Wall Street firms such as Cravath or Wachtell seemed to rise above the lateral tug-of-war among other firms. Tha...
Last year, the litigation finance industry was nearly taxed out of existence by a measure Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) tried to attach to a big...
The trial of Tom Goldstein, the elite Supreme Court advocate and co-founder of SCOTUSBlog who was charged with criminal tax evasion after ye...
Latham & Watkins beat out its rival Kirkland & Ellis in our annual League Tables ranking of M&A activity for 2025. And on this episode of ou...
There's never a good time for a law firm to see one of its most prominent partners leave and take several attorneys with him. But this is es...
It's not a very controversial statement to say that Donald Trump's attacks on law firms were the biggest Big Law story in 2025. But, accordi...
New York's oldest law firm answered the outstanding question surrounding its ability to remain independent with a resounding no when it anno...
It's become common now for firms to recruit elite law students even before the end of their first semester of their first year of law school...
Now is the time of year when many law firms pressure their attorneys to get their clients to pay bills before the end of the year. It's some...
OpenAI is a relatively new tech startup with the litigation demands of a massive Fortune 500 company. That means that Che Chang, its general...
It's been a difficult year for Brad Karp, chair of Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss. In January he suffered a heart attack and then, a few mo...
As Big Law looks for ways to scale up, McDermott Will & Schulte says it's looking at outside investment in the firm—a move that could set of...
The top lawyers at the largest publicly traded companies in America are being asked to wear many hats at once—and also getting paid handsome...
Most of the biggest law firms in the US have a two-tier partnership model, where some partners have equity in the firm while others don't. S...
On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, we take another look at the reasoning behind the deals law firms struck with the Trump admini...
Goodwin Procter made a splash this month when it announced it had raked in $2.7 billion in the 2025 fiscal year, a record for the firm and a...
Today's guest on our podcast, On The Merits, is a general counsel who is looking for more from the law firms trying to win his business. Spe...
President Donald Trump's attacks on law firms have hand their intended impact, even as courts shoot down executive orders against some as un...
You don't get to be the oldest law firm in New York without weathering some rough spots. But this may be one of the most difficult periods C...
Law firms "have gold sitting on their hard drives," according to Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro. Shapiro has enthusiastically embra...
On today's episode of On The Merits we hear from three lawyers working in the white hot world of data center projects. Mike Rechtin and Just...
The number of law students who graduated in the class of 2024 spiked compared to previous years. That worries Nikia Gray, the head of the Na...
It's still not clear what, if any, fallout the law firms that struck pro bono deals with President Donald Trump earlier this year will face....
Delaware recently changed its corporate laws to make them more favorable to companies being sued by their shareholders and the mega-firm Wac...
A memo from law firm King & Spalding to its associates saying they need to log 2,400 "productive hours" a year surprised some in the legal w...
Like most schools worried about academic integrity, the University of Chicago Law School used to discourage its first-year students from usi...
The Big Four accounting firm KPMG has taken advantage of relaxed rules in Arizona to start a law firm there, but the company has broader amb...
The largest law firms in the country are fiercely competitive, so it's notable when nearly 40 of them agree to sign on to a legal brief. Tha...
Benjamin Klubes is a Big Law expat who just founded his own litigation-focused boutique firm—and he's not alone. Other former partners at la...
If it wasn't already clear, it is now: well-capitalized investors want a piece of the US legal industry. The latest example of this trend ca...
The allure of making partner doesn't hold the same appeal that it used to for many Big Law associates. Some of them are swallowing a pay cut...
The law firm Norton Rose Fullbright thought it was taking a great leap forward when it brought on two partners and acquired the legal tech s...
A wave of associate lawyers resigned in protest from their Big Law jobs earlier this year after their firms struck controversial pro bono de...
Fenwick & West's decision to seek equity in one of its tech startup clients is now, with the benefit of hindsight, looking like a stroke of...
Susman Godfrey has shown it's willing to take on high-risk, high-reward lawsuits with unconventional fee structures. Its leaders say this ri...
Neal Katyal and Gurbir Grewal, lawyers who command well over $2,000 an hour for their services, are slashing their rates to defend two New J...
Junior lawyers can climb the ranks faster than ever before, according to DLA Piper leader Frank Ryan, but they also should think about check...
Former Davis Polk associate Ryan Powers started writing op-eds for local newspapers earlier this year criticizing the Trump administration's...
Herbert Washer pushed Wall Street's Cahill Gordon & Reindel to expand its business after taking the helm, but he doesn't see the century-old...