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Partner Andrew Ehrlich, who co-chairs the firm's securities litigation and enforcement group, says he has no immediate plans.

Roberto Gonzalez, who previously co-chaired Paul Weiss' economic sanctions and anti-money laundering practice, will chair Paul Hastings' sanctions and anti-money laundering team, the firm said Thursday.

Former deputy associate attorney general Abhishek Kambli, who most recently served as lead counsel for the Trump administration in the Big Law executive order legal battle, has joined Holtzman Vogel as a partner.

In 2025, the total number of attorneys at NLJ 500 firms rose 2.5% in 2025, compared with 5.5% in 2024.

While its new home at 600 Fifth Street has a smaller footprint, firm leaders noted the office has a more efficient floor plan, including single-size attorney offices and upgraded technology.

As part of the dissolution, Diversity Lab will shut down all its systems, including eliminating or destroying any client data it had stored on the hundreds of law firms and legal departments that it worked with.

“The lower mid-market [deals] is arguably coming back even more quickly than the mid-market and the upper mid-market,” said Saul Ewing partner Tal Unrad

It will be up to law firm leaders “whether they continue to advance equal opportunity or whether they backtrack," noted David Glasgow, executive director of the NYU School of Law's Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Latham & Watkins announced Wednesday that it has hired Cate Behles as counsel in its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) & U.S. national security practice. Behles most recently served as senior counsel and CFIUS co-lead counsel at the Treasury Department.

More than half a dozen boutique and midsize law firms have chosen to match or exceed Milbank's 2026 associate salary raises.