In 2025, Mid-Law firms were under increasing pressure to grow, with mergers typically being the most attractive option, leading to several high-profile mergers of midsize, midmarket and regional firms being acquired and numerous Mid-Law firms themselves absorbing smaller firms amid ongoing industry consolidation.
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2025 Marked Another Big Year For Mid-Law Mergers

By Emma Cueto

In 2025, Mid-Law firms were under increasing pressure to grow, with mergers typically being the most attractive option, leading to several high-profile mergers of midsize, midmarket and regional firms being acquired and numerous Mid-Law firms themselves absorbing smaller firms amid ongoing industry consolidation.

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Barley Snyder Atty Returns To Construction Group Leadership

By Andrea Keckley

Barley Snyder announced last week that it has tapped a real estate partner to lead its construction group.

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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work

By Emma Cueto

Foley Hoag's handling of a suit challenging the proposed White House ballroom and Vedder Price's work on a $2 billion transaction with Goldman Sachs lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Dec. 4 to 19.

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Keesal Young Drops Part Of Stradley Ronon Poaching Suit

By Madison Arnold

Keesal Young & Logan wants to drop part of its California state court lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP unlawfully recruited 10 of its attorneys.

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Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader's Divergent Paths Led To Deal

By Aebra Coe

The blockbuster combination between Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced this past week involves two law firms that have charted very different paths in recent years. Here, a look at what events led up to the firms joining together at the deal table.

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Hogan Lovells Seeks Repeat Merger Success With Cadwalader

By Marialuisa Taddia

The chief executive tapped to lead what will be known as Hogan Lovells Cadwalader said Friday that the deal that will create the world's fifth‑largest law firm by revenue is set to succeed, promising to repeat the success of the merger that originally founded Hogan Lovells.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Five firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the D.C. Circuit reinstated an order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants for climate change projects.

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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Aebra Coe

The legal industry had another action-packed week with a mega law firm merger announcement and eye-popping year-end bonuses at a handful of elite boutiques. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Archer & Greiner

Atkinson Andelson

Baker Botts

Barley Snyder

Beasley Allen

Berger Montague

Boies Schiller

Bricker Graydon

Cadwalader Wickersham

DLA Piper

David Boies

Davis Polk

Farrar & Ball

Fennemore

Finnegan

Foley Hoag

Frost Brown

Gibbons PC

Golenbock Eiseman

Hodel Wilks

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Jenner & Block

Kaster & Lynch

Kaster Lynch

Keesal Young

Keller Postman

Korein Tillery

Martin LLP

McDermott Will & Schulte

Orrick Herrington

Pillsbury Winthrop

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Robinson Calcagnie

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Spencer Fane

Stevens & Lee

Stradley Ronon

Stroock & Stroock

Taft Stettinius

Vedder Price

Venable LLP

Winston & Strawn

Zimmer Citron

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Baretz & Brunelle LLC

Dell Technologies Inc.

Google LLC

Johnson & Johnson

Michelin Group

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

Wells Fargo & Co.

Zeughauser Group LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

European Union

National Capital Planning Commission

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency