In 2025, the firm expanded its New York office by one and a half floors. The company anticipates revenue of $2.6 billion in 2025.

Big Law’s desire for mergers has never been higher as more law firms become multibillion-dollar businesses. Neil Barr, chair of Davis, Polk & Wardwell, thinks there is opportunity in that volatile climate.

Last week, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared that he appointed a lawyer from Smith, Gambrell & Russell to head a state agency. David Burge, a real estate lawyer, was appointed commissioner of the Georgia Department of Revenue by Kemp. After working at Smith, Gambrell & Russell for almost 30 years, Burge enters the public sector.

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.”