In an effort to take advantage of the benefits of scale in providing client service, Pennsylvania-based law firms opened several new locations across the nation in 2025.

After more than 20 years at Williams & Connolly LLP, a trial lawyer has joined Sidley Austin LLP to assist in leading the firm’s product liability and mass torts practice.

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Monday that it has welcomed a former corporate attorney with Kirkland & Ellis LLP as its ninth lateral partner for the year.

For many Boston lawyers, the end of the year signaled the start of new chapters: Nixon Peabody strengthened its cybersecurity practice, Morgan Lewis acquired an intellectual property partner, and Cooley added over thirty experts to its bio sciences team.

According to a firm spokeswoman on Monday, Haynes Boone is giving its employees year-end and special bonuses that are comparable to those provided by a sizable section of BigLaw this year, mostly following a bonus system first proposed by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November.

Bonuses, Biglaw’s equivalent of a golden ticket, were just distributed by Alston & Bird! The firm has been profitable; according to the American Lawyer, it made $1,331,414,000 in revenue last year.

New York-based investment fund litigation firm Rolnick Kramer Sadighi is the most recent boutique to distribute riches to associates. In a LinkedIn post released earlier this week, the fledgling firms celebrated its fifth anniversary and declared that “its associate and counsel bonuses yet again exceeded the Cravath/Milbank year-end and special bonus scale.”

Leading asset manager Eurazeo and its portfolio firm, Mapal Group, received advice from Gibson Dunn regarding the purchase of Inpulse, an AI-powered platform for procurement and inventory management utilized by the hotel sector.

Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A., a renowned automobile design and engineering company that has influenced the history of the industry, has agreed to sell its majority to UST, a multinational technology transformation corporation with its headquarters located in California.

Erika Barbara has returned to Jackson Lewis P.C. as a principal in its Sacramento office, the firm is happy to announce.