{"id":141853,"date":"2026-01-15T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/where-merger-mania-leaves-the-independent-elitesmdashand-what-their-leaders-say\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:26:27","slug":"where-merger-mania-leaves-the-independent-elitesmdashand-what-their-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/15\/where-merger-mania-leaves-the-independent-elitesmdashand-what-their-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Merger Mania Leaves The Independent Elites—And What Their Leaders Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaders at Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and other firms discuss the surge in Big Law mergers, and what the consolidation trend means for their sleek businesses.<\/p>\n

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Leaders at Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and other firms discuss the surge in Big Law mergers, and what the consolidation trend means for their sleek businesses.<\/p>\n

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Leaders at Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and other firms discuss the surge in Big Law mergers, and what the consolidation trend means for their sleek businesses. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leaders at Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and other firms discuss the surge in Big Law mergers, and what the consolidation trend means for their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141853","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=141853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}