{"id":138788,"date":"2025-12-11T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/11\/law-firm-merger-mania-likely-to-continue-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:56:09","slug":"law-firm-merger-mania-likely-to-continue-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/11\/law-firm-merger-mania-likely-to-continue-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Merger Mania Likely To Continue In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re operating in a modest demand growth environment overall\u2014meanwhile, the cost of running these very sophisticated businesses is increasing\u2014we will see continued consolidation occurring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re in an industry that grows demand on average less than 1% from one year to the next, the way to outperform your peers is to buy that growth [through mergers or lateral hiring]. The way to outperform your peers is to take market share from others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Gretta Rusanow, managing director and head of advisory services at Citi\u2019s Law Firm Group, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the likelihood that law firm mergers will continue apace in 2026 after a year of consequential combinations in 2025.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Law Firm Merger Mania Likely To Continue In 2026<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re operating in a modest demand growth environment overall\u2014meanwhile, the cost of running these very sophisticated businesses is increasing\u2014we will see continued consolidation occurring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re in an industry that grows demand on average less than 1% from one year to the next, the way to outperform your peers is to buy that growth [through mergers or lateral hiring]. The way to outperform your peers is to take market share from others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Gretta Rusanow, managing director and head of advisory services at Citi\u2019s Law Firm Group, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning the likelihood that law firm mergers will continue apace in 2026 after a year of consequential combinations in 2025.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. When you\u2019re operating in a modest demand growth environment overall\u2014meanwhile, the cost of running these very sophisticated businesses is increasing\u2014we will see continued consolidation occurring. When you\u2019re in an industry that grows demand on average less than 1% from one year to the next, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138789,"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-138788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Staci-Zaretsky-MpL9FD.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138788","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=138788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}