About 10 years ago, Willkie Farr & Gallagher was smaller than the average Am Law 100 law firm, with the New York firm generating $640 million in revenue, with about 550 lawyers. Last year, Willkie earned about $1.5 billion in revenue — about 134% more than in 2014 — with about 1,120…

Withers has added a new partner to its Hong Kong outfit. Laurence Ho is a returnee, having left the private client-focused firm in 2017 for U.K. firm Stephenson Harwood. He brings along a team of three lawyers from Loeb & Loeb, one of whom is a special counsel and the…

A midyear analysis of judicial appointments and contested election outcomes in 2024 conducted by the Daily Report has revealed that minorities with their sights on becoming judges continue to be less likely than white counterparts to rise to the bench in Georgia. 1. Compared with white counterparts, minority candidates have been seven…

K&L Gates’ Singapore office, K&L Gates Straits Law, has hired two corporate partners from DLA Piper to boost its corporate practice as the country increasingly becomes an Asian hub for large corporations. The duo is David Kuo, a U.S.-qualified lawyer admitted in California and a foreign-registered lawyer in Singapore, and…

The legal industry is fixated on numbers—law firm revenue, profits per equity partner, revenue per lawyer, associate pay, rankings, and more. But numbers by themselves have little meaning. There’s a story behind them. And it may not be what you think. M&A league tables, for example, purport to show winners…

A Connecticut federal court Judge upheld the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare drug negotiation process, knocking down claims of constitutional violations. Other jurisdictions, such as New Jersey and Delaware, have struck down similar arguments brought by big pharmaceutical companies.