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Goodwin Procter LLP has elected private equity partner Joshua Klatzkin as the firm's next managing partner to take over next year from Mark Bettencourt, who has held the role since 2019, the firm announced Monday.

Law firms are starting to make "opportunistic" hires of mergers and acquisitions lawyers as megadeals make a comeback. 

After a relatively quiet start to the year, U.S. law firms announced more combinations during the third quarter of 2025 than in any other third quarter going back five years, with the uptick driven largely by combinations between midsize and small firms.

After a relatively quiet start to the year, U.S. law firms announced more combinations during the third quarter of 2025 than in any other third quarter going back five years, with the uptick driven largely by combinations between midsize and small firms.

Internal podcasts, monthly town halls and piling on airline miles in the name of one-on-one meetings are just a few of the strategies that law firm leaders are employing to keep their ever-expanding network of people connected.

Kimberly Hamm, former general counsel to the speaker of the House, has joined Morrison Foerster LLP from Mayer Brown LLP as co-chair of the law firm's congressional investigations practice, the firm announced Wednesday.

Amid a push by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to crack down on fraud against U.S. investors by foreign companies, a focus on the "gatekeepers" of such fraud puts law firms at risk of being caught in the regulator's crosshairs.

The narrative in the legal sector has long been that the largest law firms are gobbling up more pieces of the pie, and smaller firms are falling behind. But digging into data shows that when it comes to hours billed, BigLaw isn't seeing outsize growth after all — its smaller peers are.

The impending departure of another prominent practice team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP is raising questions about the firm's outlook and the struggles of elite midsize law firms in New York.

Attorneys looking for firms committed to diversity, equity and inclusion are increasingly relying on informal channels to vet firms, including word-of-mouth, alumni networks, off-the-record conversations and social media, recruiters say.