{"id":164960,"date":"2026-10-14T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/iron-curtain-descends-on-biglaw-financials\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:15:35","slug":"iron-curtain-descends-on-biglaw-financials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/iron-curtain-descends-on-biglaw-financials\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Curtain Descends On Biglaw Financials"},"content":{"rendered":"

That headline is a tad overdramatic, but Kirkland & Ellis did announce that it would no longer help journalists reporting on its financial strength<\/a>. For years, most law firms have volunteered key data about their businesses to reporters to facilitate the rankings. Does Kirkland\u2019s move signal a trend? Judge James Ho hijacked a judicial opinion to complain<\/a> that people accuse judges (read: him) of using his job as an auditioning platform for the Supreme Court. Then he immediately turned around to turn another judicial opinion into a rant about pronouns<\/a> to\u2026 audition for the Supreme Court. Finally, Ropes & Gray announced a new policy to allow attorneys time to experiment with AI<\/a>, and everyone should follow suit.<\/p>\n

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That headline is a tad overdramatic, but Kirkland & Ellis did announce that it would no longer help journalists reporting on its financial strength<\/a>. For years, most law firms have volunteered key data about their businesses to reporters to facilitate the rankings. Does Kirkland\u2019s move signal a trend? Judge James Ho hijacked a judicial opinion to complain<\/a> that people accuse judges (read: him) of using his job as an auditioning platform for the Supreme Court. Then he immediately turned around to turn another judicial opinion into a rant about pronouns<\/a> to\u2026 audition for the Supreme Court. Finally, Ropes & Gray announced a new policy to allow attorneys time to experiment with AI<\/a>, and everyone should follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That headline is a tad overdramatic, but Kirkland & Ellis did announce that it would no longer help journalists reporting on its financial strength. For years, most law firms have volunteered key data about their businesses to reporters to facilitate the rankings. Does Kirkland\u2019s move signal a trend? Judge James Ho hijacked a judicial opinion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164961,"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-164960","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\/164960","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=164960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}