{"id":136095,"date":"2025-10-30T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/30\/kirklands-litigation-business-is-white-hot\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:21:00","slug":"kirklands-litigation-business-is-white-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/30\/kirklands-litigation-business-is-white-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland\u2019s Litigation Business Is White Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to reporting by Roy Strom, after hiring almost 300 litigators since the beginning of last year, Kirkland &amp; Ellis is set to rake in how much money for their litigation business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: \u201c[Litigation] was always a good business, but it historically had been lower margin than our transactional business,\u201d Jon Ballis, the firm\u2019s chairman, said. \u201cNow we\u2019re seeing the same margins as on the transactional side and it\u2019s become a great business.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/kirklands-litigation-business-is-white-hot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirkland\u2019s Litigation Business Is White Hot<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to reporting by Roy Strom, after hiring almost 300 litigators since the beginning of last year, Kirkland &amp; Ellis is set to rake in how much money for their litigation business?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: \u201c[Litigation] was always a good business, but it historically had been lower margin than our transactional business,\u201d Jon Ballis, the firm\u2019s chairman, said. \u201cNow we\u2019re seeing the same margins as on the transactional side and it\u2019s become a great business.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/kirklands-litigation-business-is-white-hot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirkland\u2019s Litigation Business Is White Hot<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to reporting by Roy Strom, after hiring almost 300 litigators since the beginning of last year, Kirkland &amp; Ellis is set to rake in how much money for their litigation business? Hint: \u201c[Litigation] was always a good business, but it historically had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}