According to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 specialty ranking for law schools with the highest number of Big Law graduates, Miami Law came in at number 33. According to a prior Major, Lindsey & Africa analysis, South Florida placements have increased by 59% during 2018. A survey claims that, together with Harvard, Miami Law…

Due to increased employment mobility, increased responsibilities for leaders, and increased pressure on firms to pay their employees, Am Law 200 law firms have hired C-suite executives at a quick pace this year, particularly this summer.

More than $140 billion in deal work was disclosed this past week, including a $85 billion agreement between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, which was mediated by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Sidley Austin, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Covington & Burling.

David Perechocky, a real estate M&A partner at Kirkland & Ellis, joined Gibson Dunn on Monday. The action takes place at a time when REIT M&A demand is increasing. Since 2017, Perechocky had been employed at Kirkland.

Next week, at the International Legal Tech Association Conference, Truth System will make its debut with an AI agent named Charter. The purpose of Charter is to enforce internal AI policies of legal firms in real time. According to the co-founder of Truth Systems, the company wants to increase the confidence of lawyers in generative…

A German court has sided against the WilmerHale-backed appeal and ruled that the state owes nothing for the project’s soaring costs, rebuffing Deutsche Bahn’s €7 billion claim over the Stuttgart 21 train project.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has added a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner in London to broaden its litigation practice.

Last Thursday, Milbank revealed special summer bonuses for special counsel and associates. The bonus plan is the same as what Milbank released in the summer of last year.

Although it was anticipated that generative AI will affect the need for talent in the legal sector, the majority of midsize firms have not yet noticed this effect. While one firm leader said that his firm had reduced the number of staff members and summer associates it hired, the majority of firm leaders stated that…

According to a member of the firm’s management committee, Goldberg Segalla has been growing the number of attorneys in practice groups in 2025 and anticipates surpassing 500 attorneys by the first week of October.