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The top 12 UK law firms on LinkedIn have the same number of LinkedIn followers as the next 188 firms combined. Take a bow: Clifford Chance DLA Piper Hogan Lovells Linklaters Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Herbert Smith Freehills Norton Rose Fulbright Clyde & Co Eversheds Sutherland Ashurst Pinsent Masons Bird & Bird In fact, the top two - Clifford Chance and DLA Piper - have 13.46% of all followers between them. 🤯 #Lawyers #LawFirms #LinkedIn #SocialMedia #SimonSays

Money & Prestige or Quality of Life? And, no, you can't have them both - at least according to the Vault 2025 law firm rankings. None of the firms in Vault's Top 10 Most Prestigious list made the Top 10 list for being a Best Place to Work firm. Here are the Top 10 Best Law Firms to Work For: 1. O’Melveny & Myers 2. Morgan Lewis & Bockius 3. Clifford Chance US 4. McDermott Will & Emery 5. Proskauer Rose 6. Fried Frank 7. Linklaters 8. Warner Norcross + Judd 9. BakerHostetler 10. Bracewell While these firms are no slouches when it comes to prestige and money, they don't crack the list of the Top 10 Most Prestigious Firms to Work For: 1. Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2. Wachtell Lipton 3. Skadden 4. Latham & Watkins 5. Sullivan & Cromwell 6. Kirkland & Ellis 7. Davis Polk 8. Paul, Weiss 9. Simpson Thacher 10. Gibson Dunn The first Top 10 Most Prestigious Firm to appear on the Best Places to Work list is Gibson Dunn, which is #10 on the Most Prestigious list and #16 on the Best Places to Work list. Gibson is followed by Latham (#4 prestige and #18 best places) and Simpson Thacher (#9 prestige and #30 best places). And the first Top 10 Best Places to Work Firm to appear on the Most Prestigious Firms list is O'Melveny & Myers, which is #1 on the Best Places to Work list and #25 on the Most Prestigious list. O'Melveny & Myers is followed by Proskauer (#5 best places and #30 prestige) and Morgan Lewis (#2 best places and #34 prestige). What drives you? Money & Prestige or Quality of Life? Whatever your answer, make sure the firm you join aligns with your needs and desires. 𝗕𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻ᵀᴹ ---------------------------------- For insights into the legal industry, Florida legal market, and mindset, click the 🔔 or follow me at Brian M. Moskowitz #BeUncommon #MementoMori #LegalRecruiter #FloridaLegalRecruiter

Cleary Gottlieb continues to receive exceptional rankings in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners Europe, earning 29 practice and 71 lawyer rankings, 21 of which were top-tier. Learn more: https://ow.ly/J29150QWZr1 #ChambersandPartners #ChambersEurope #legalrankings

What’s so significant about Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP adding a non-equity tier to its partnership? It became the latest of the Wall Street big beasts to do so, following law firms like Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, leaving just a handful of ‘all-equity’ partnerships in New York’s ‘white shoe’ elite. The trend reflects 2 key things about the top-end legal market: 1. as attention turns to revving up profitability, elite law firms are having to insulate their best revenue-generating equity partners in a fiercely competitive hiring market. So to keep profit distributions high, the equity tier is kept lean by a) de-equitising and/or b) adding a non-equity layer to the hierarchy 2. the non-equity (or salaried partner) tier is still popular; most juniors understand that gaining equity nowadays is rare—but this mechanism bestows a) the ‘partner’ title (even if they aren’t one in the truest sense of the word), b) a bit more cash and crucially c) some market recognition What do you make of this trend? Read Patrick Smith’s Cleary exclusive: https://lnkd.in/ekGKqJu4 #law #lawyers #corporatelaw #lawfirms #partnership

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Jackson Lewis Chief Technology Officer Clifford Forrester, MBA and Firm Chair Kevin Lauri were featured in Emily Sawicki of Law360’s article, which highlighted Clifford’s career experience within law firms, his attraction to Jackson Lewis and his goals for his new role within the firm. Read here: https://lnkd.in/dNiyjShx #EmploymentLaw #EmpLaw

If you want to be an elite global law firm you need a star-spangled US operation. You need ‘rainmakers’, ‘superstars’, high-profile individual partners. Here’s my latest take on why, and how all the recent developments in Big Law relate to each other. Featuring: Herbert Smith Freehills; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Kirkland & Ellis, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Paul Hastings, Linklaters, Freshfields, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Neel Sachdev, and more. (I promise it wasn’t a game to mention so many firms - but if it had been I would have won) Read it here: https://lnkd.in/edGDG-bA #LawFirms #Culture #Leadership

The Fall of Single-Tier Partnership: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Game-Changing Move Last month, Cleary Gottlieb abandoned its single-tier partnership, joining the two-tier majority in Big Law. This leaves barely a dozen single-tier firms in the AmLaw 200 - a stark transformation of our legal landscape. Michael Gerstenzang, Cleary's managing partner, calls it a response to "innovation and adaptation." When asked about offering $20 million for a lateral partner, Gerstenzang admitted they'd consider it "for the right candidate." As I've long pondered, "How could we see a 'two-tier' professional workforce as normal, not bizarre?" This shift fundamentally alters the partnership ethos and career trajectories in law. Key questions for our industry: 1. Is this about economics and talent retention only? 2. How will this reshape partner aspirations? 3. Are we creating a more dynamic or stratified profession? 4. What's next for Big Law's structure? Thoughts? How do you see this impacting our legal future? Read more: https://lnkd.in/emM7jwAQ #LegalIndustryTrends #BigLaw #FutureOfLaw

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