{"id":161640,"date":"2026-08-27T04:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/simpson-and-milbanks-chicago-entrance-part-of-a-larger-pattern-in-big-law\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:34:29","slug":"simpson-and-milbanks-chicago-entrance-part-of-a-larger-pattern-in-big-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/27\/simpson-and-milbanks-chicago-entrance-part-of-a-larger-pattern-in-big-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpson and Milbank’s Chicago Entrance ‘Part of a Larger Pattern’ in Big Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Especially with the latest entry of New York firms, Chicago may be \u201ctoo big to not pay attention to, some legal industry observers say. Others say the moves are “part of a larger pattern” of growth across Big Law.<\/p>\n

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Especially with the latest entry of New York firms, Chicago may be \u201ctoo big to not pay attention to, some legal industry observers say. Others say the moves are “part of a larger pattern” of growth across Big Law.<\/p>\n

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Especially with the latest entry of New York firms, Chicago may be \u201ctoo big to not pay attention to, some legal industry observers say. Others say the moves are “part of a larger pattern” of growth across Big Law. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Especially with the latest entry of New York firms, Chicago may be \u201ctoo big to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161641,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/legal-news-YGg0PP.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161640","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=161640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}