Alex Ryan

Voice the view outside the Morrow Center, Monday, December 29, 2025. Photo by Tabius McCoy/The Atlanta Voice

“When books are banned, and stories are erased, especially Black and brown stories, we have to build safety within our community,” said Village Books owner Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon. Photo by Tabius McCoy/The Atlanta Voice

The world’s first $10bn law firm. The scale of Kirkland’s 2025 financial results defies easy comprehension, with the firm now generating more revenue than Linklaters, Freshfields and Clifford Chance combined.

A&O Shearman, Shoosmiths, Womble Bond Dickinson, and Freeths are among the contenders for Best Internal Support Network at the Legal 500 UK ESG Awards, which will be held later this month.

Sidley Austin’s high profile hires of Clifford Chance restructuring duo Philip Hertz and Melissa Coakley last month are the latest examples of the US firm’s efforts to build up in London.

‘The Dallas market has shifted a lot,’ says Krista Hanvey ( pictured ), co-chair of the employee benefits and executive compensation practice at Gibson Dunn, and co-partner in charge of the firm’s Dallas office. ‘There’s a lot of competition, as we’re all going after the same Fortune 500 clients headquartered here.’

Akin has hired three restructuring partners from Weil in London, including City restructuring co-head Neil Devaney.

Kirkland & Ellis is set to boost its London bench with the hire of Paul Weiss’ head of European M&A, Will Aitken-Davies.

Four US law firms targeted by the Trump administration are set to argue that the executive orders against them endanger the fundamental tenets of the adversarial justice system, as the firms’ fightback against US President Donald Trump continues.