{"id":166768,"date":"2026-11-04T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/04\/weil-meet-again-dont-know-where-dont-know-when-but-probably-kirkland-in-a-month\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:50:42","slug":"weil-meet-again-dont-know-where-dont-know-when-but-probably-kirkland-in-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/04\/weil-meet-again-dont-know-where-dont-know-when-but-probably-kirkland-in-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Weil Meet Again. Don\u2019t Know Where, Don\u2019t Know When\u2026 But Probably Kirkland In A Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

We look back on the wild week that brought down a Biglaw behemoth. Weil Gotshal, a firm that rang up $2B in revenue last year against zero debt, is going out of business<\/a>. As the firm\u2019s lawyers frantically seek landing spots<\/a>, Weil reminds everyone that they need to keep billing<\/a> so the firm can afford the severance packages it needs to pay. Was that reminder gauche or a fair nod to professional obligations? We also discuss firms slowly<\/a> yet surely<\/a> matching the Milbank pay scale that\u2019s been in place for months now.<\/p>\n

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We look back on the wild week that brought down a Biglaw behemoth. Weil Gotshal, a firm that rang up $2B in revenue last year against zero debt, is going out of business<\/a>. As the firm\u2019s lawyers frantically seek landing spots<\/a>, Weil reminds everyone that they need to keep billing<\/a> so the firm can afford the severance packages it needs to pay. Was that reminder gauche or a fair nod to professional obligations? We also discuss firms slowly<\/a> yet surely<\/a> matching the Milbank pay scale that\u2019s been in place for months now.<\/p>\n

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We look back on the wild week that brought down a Biglaw behemoth. Weil Gotshal, a firm that rang up $2B in revenue last year against zero debt, is going out of business. As the firm\u2019s lawyers frantically seek landing spots, Weil reminds everyone that they need to keep billing so the firm can afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-166768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166768","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=166768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}