William J. Curtis is a new partner in the Environmental & Energy Law practice groups at Spencer Fane LLP’s St. Louis office.

Law firms have maintained a “strong momentum” and “robust” profitability across all tiers through three quarters of 2025.

Eversheds Sutherland; Jones Day; Paul Hastings; Cooley; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson; and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher have worked on deals valued at more than $9 billion during the government shutdown.

For its regulatory, medical, and life sciences practices, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld engaged a seasoned U.S. DOJ attorney. Sara McLean has extensive expertise pursuing cases under the False Claims Act in a variety of businesses.

You should reconsider if you believed that the office versus remote argument was over. According to industry insiders, more firm leaders in large and midsize legal firms are thinking about enforcing stricter attendance policies and requiring four days of work per week, similar to what 25% of Am legal 50 companies currently do.

Jon Oram had worked for Proskauer for his whole legal career. He will oversee Davis Polk’s sports practice and serve as a partner in the company’s M&A division.

Perkins Coie’s turbulent past several years, which included support staff reductions, corporate associate start date deferrals, and a legal battle with the Trump administration, may come to an end with a proposed merger with Ashurst.

In search of another London partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has once again looked to Kirkland & Ellis, this time enlisting one of the company’s emerging corporate stars.

K&L Gates LLP helped Pine Services Group, the enterprise resource planning vertical of Evergreen, a family of managed IT services and software partners, acquire Acumen Information Systems, LLC, a Sage Diamond Partner with headquarters in Clermont, Florida.

Lee Holmes has been appointed Managing Shareholder in the Washington, D.C. office of Maynard Nexsen, a full-service law company with 31 offices around the country.