Pirical Data Insights

Yesterday, the news broke that Alston & Bird and Cadwalader were in merger talks. The combination would create a law firm of around 1,400 attorneys and $2 billion of revenue. If it goes ahead, the merger would primarily bolster Alston & Bird's New York presence and Banking & Finance practices. This latest merger story, follows a wave of recent Big Law combinations like McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel , Herbert Smith Freehills & Kramer Levin and Troutman Pepper & Locke Lord . Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) , we've taken a look at which locations & practices would grow under the merger, and how many Partners can be expected to leave throughout the talks.

Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical, here are the biggest Big Law team hires of 2025 so far.

Despite Kirkland & Ellis making the decision not to publicly announce its newly promoted Partners, we can reveal the details of the 2025 promotion class.

We recently did some analysis for the NALP Bulletin+ magazine, looking at how practice demand has been shifting across the AM Law 200.

Explore how the McDermott and Schulte merger will create a top 20 AM Law 100 firm, expanding presence in NYC and London and transforming the legal market.

Which US states and cities have the highest number of attorneys, which practice areas are the most prominent and which firms are leading the market with the highest Partner headcount

Using publicly-available data from Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP), we've taken a look at the lateral Partner hires and headcount growth from 2024 to see which law firms and practices had the most interesting growth stories of the year.

As we near the end of the year, there have been a flurry of Partner promotion announcements from the top AM Law firms. Overall, the promotion class sizes have decreased for the second year in a row.