{"id":162953,"date":"2026-09-15T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/15\/the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:11:45","slug":"the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/15\/the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Law Firm In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cadwalader was the oldest American Biglaw firm before merging with Hogan Lovells, but its 1792 founding doesn\u2019t hold a candle to the oldest continuously operating law firm in the world. According to Guinness, what is the oldest firm around, founded in England in 1570?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: The firm was founded by a church curate who wrote wills and property bonds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Oldest Law Firm In The World<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/ornaw-book-3986102-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cadwalader was the oldest American Biglaw firm before merging with Hogan Lovells, but its 1792 founding doesn\u2019t hold a candle to the oldest continuously operating law firm in the world. According to Guinness, what is the oldest firm around, founded in England in 1570?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hint: The firm was founded by a church curate who wrote wills and property bonds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-oldest-law-firm-in-the-world\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadwalader was the oldest American Biglaw firm before merging with Hogan Lovells, but its 1792 founding doesn\u2019t hold a candle to the oldest continuously operating law firm in the world. According to Guinness, what is the oldest firm around, founded in England in 1570? Hint: The firm was founded by a church curate who wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162953","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=162953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}