{"id":141848,"date":"2026-01-14T17:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/bigger-is-better-in-biglaw\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:06:24","slug":"bigger-is-better-in-biglaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/14\/bigger-is-better-in-biglaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Is Better In Biglaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader describe their upcoming merger as <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/cadwalader-to-merge-with-hogan-lovells-creating-historic-law-firm-powerhouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the largest law firm merger in history<\/a>, creating a firm of approximately 3,100 lawyers globally and over $3.6 billion in annual revenue. What 2015 law firm tie-up \u2014 since abandoned \u2014 was arguably a bigger law firm merger?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Unlike Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, the firms in question didn\u2019t technically \u201cmerge,\u201d owing to its unique legal structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/bigger-is-better-in-biglaw\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bigger Is Better In Biglaw<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/iStock_000021911184_Large-300x293.jpg?resize=300%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader describe their upcoming merger as <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/12\/cadwalader-to-merge-with-hogan-lovells-creating-historic-law-firm-powerhouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the largest law firm merger in history<\/a>, creating a firm of approximately 3,100 lawyers globally and over $3.6 billion in annual revenue. What 2015 law firm tie-up \u2014 since abandoned \u2014 was arguably a bigger law firm merger?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Unlike Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, the firms in question didn\u2019t technically \u201cmerge,\u201d owing to its unique legal structure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See\u00a0the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/bigger-is-better-in-biglaw\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/bigger-is-better-in-biglaw\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader describe their upcoming merger as the largest law firm merger in history, creating a firm of approximately 3,100 lawyers globally and over $3.6 billion in annual revenue. What 2015 law firm tie-up \u2014 since abandoned \u2014 was arguably a bigger law firm merger? Hint: Unlike Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, the firms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141849,"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-141848","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\/2026\/01\/iStock_000021911184_Large-620x605-oqCNeS.jpg?fit=620%2C605&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141848","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=141848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}