The American Bar Association approved several key policy resolutions during the first day of its annual meeting, including a measure urging law schools and firms to examine the impact of increasingly early Big Law recruiting on students' education and career development.

New data from Firm Prospects reveals that nearly 12% of the Big Law class of 2024 has already left their first firm within their first two years of practice, underscoring rising early-career associate mobility.

A new wave of AI-native law firms are reshaping the legal industry by attracting Big Law talent with AI-first workflows, alternative pricing models, and greater flexibility.

The University of Chicago Law School is introducing a new AI policy that bans laptops, tablets, and phones in all first-year required courses to encourage deeper learning and critical thinking through distraction-free, device-free classrooms.

The legal industry added 5,100 jobs in June, the largest monthly increase in more than two years, bringing total legal employment to 1.24 million, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association is expanding its support for LGBTQ+ law students and early-career attorneys in response to increasing legal and political challenges facing the community.

Law firms are increasingly turning to innovation and strategic expansion to compete in the rapidly evolving funds market.

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, lawyers and law firm partners from around the world are weighing in on their tournament predictions, with Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina, and England emerging as the most frequently mentioned contenders.

Billables AI, a San Francisco-based legal tech startup founded in 2023, raised a $10 million Series-A round led by Avenue Growth Partners to expand its AI-powered timekeeping software for midsized law firms.

Kirkland & Ellis is investing $500 million into building its own in-house AI platform designed to help attorneys tap into the firm’s collective knowledge and workflows.

Law firms are increasingly adopting confidential “black-box” compensation systems as competition for top legal talent intensifies and firms seek greater flexibility in rewarding performance.

New survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work Law Firm Group show that U.S. law firms had a strong start to 2026 despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, rising energy prices, and tariff concerns.

Four decades after founding Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles, founding partner John B. Quinn is stepping down as executive chairman effective immediately.

BigLaw firms kicked off 2026 with a strong first quarter, as revenue climbed 13.1% year-over-year, driven largely by rising billing rates alongside stronger-than-expected demand and a rebound in lawyer productivity.

Seyfarth Shaw is nearing $1 billion in annual revenue after growing 6.3%, with leadership emphasizing long-term strategy over milestone figures.

U.S.-founded law firms are seeing sustained and often double-digit revenue growth in London, highlighting the city’s strategic importance as a global legal hub.

Amid rising energy prices and global uncertainty, Big Law firms are preparing for potential economic slowdown by leaning on a familiar strategy: pivoting toward countercyclical practices like litigation and bankruptcy, reallocating talent, and focusing business development on more stable sectors.

Lateral hiring in the legal industry surged in 2025, rising nearly 9% year-over-year to over 28,000 hires, matching post-pandemic highs, while law firm mergers also jumped 25% to a record 59 deals.

Lateral moves, Delaware legal market growth, and law firm expansion take center stage as Lowenstein Sandler enters Wilmington with a strategic bankruptcy push led by Christopher Ward. With firms targeting Delaware’s key bankruptcy court, the industry is seeing increased partner hiring, restructuring growth, and competitive expansion across major markets—highlighting how firms are positioning for long-term success.

Big Law firms saw strong growth in 2025 not just from rising demand, but increasingly from alternative and contingency fee arrangements, where firms “bet on themselves” and share in successful outcomes.