{"id":148965,"date":"2026-04-16T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/16\/kirklands-money-machine-has-biglaw-scrambling-to-keep-up\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:58:09","slug":"kirklands-money-machine-has-biglaw-scrambling-to-keep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/16\/kirklands-money-machine-has-biglaw-scrambling-to-keep-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland\u2019s Money Machine Has Biglaw Scrambling To Keep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is some very strategic and intentional thinking that has been part of a much more serious growth effort at some firms. They are recognizing that their relative size and profitability compared to rivals is important.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Kent Zimmermann, a partner at the law firm consultancy Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning some of the changes that Kirkland\u2019s competitors have made in order to keep up with the biggest of the Biglaw Joneses. \u201cIt\u2019s no time to take the foot off the gas,\u201d Zimmermann said.<\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Kirkland\u2019s Money Machine Has Biglaw Scrambling To Keep Up<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is some very strategic and intentional thinking that has been part of a much more serious growth effort at some firms. They are recognizing that their relative size and profitability compared to rivals is important.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Kent Zimmermann, a partner at the law firm consultancy Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, concerning some of the changes that Kirkland\u2019s competitors have made in order to keep up with the biggest of the Biglaw Joneses. \u201cIt\u2019s no time to take the foot off the gas,\u201d Zimmermann said.<\/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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Kirkland\u2019s Money Machine Has Biglaw Scrambling To Keep Up<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. There is some very strategic and intentional thinking that has been part of a much more serious growth effort at some firms. They are recognizing that their relative size and profitability compared to rivals is important. \u2014\u00a0 Kent Zimmermann, a partner at the law firm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148966,"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-148965","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\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-YIZkGU.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148965","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=148965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}