{"id":167138,"date":"2026-11-10T23:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/10\/ken-crutchfield-is-biglaw-too-big-to-fail-are-other-firms-vulnerable-after-the-weil-wind-down\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T23:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:35:55","slug":"ken-crutchfield-is-biglaw-too-big-to-fail-are-other-firms-vulnerable-after-the-weil-wind-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/10\/ken-crutchfield-is-biglaw-too-big-to-fail-are-other-firms-vulnerable-after-the-weil-wind-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Crutchfield: Is BigLaw Too Big To Fail? Are Other Firms Vulnerable After the Weil Wind-Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ken-Crutchfield-Weil-Collapse-Featured-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Weil\u2019s demise happened quickly and is unfortunate. Since Bloomberg Law reported the news, many have covered the situation. David Lat also offered a detailed analysis. Symptoms and central causes As the dust settles, a couple of core issues appear to have thrown the firm off balance. Two partners, Barry Wolf, who planned to retire, and [\u2026]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Ken-Crutchfield-Weil-Collapse-Featured-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Weil\u2019s demise happened quickly and is unfortunate. Since Bloomberg Law reported the news, many have covered the situation. David Lat also offered a detailed analysis. Symptoms and central causes As the dust settles, a couple of core issues appear to have thrown the firm off balance. Two partners, Barry Wolf, who planned to retire, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weil\u2019s demise happened quickly and is unfortunate. Since Bloomberg Law reported the news, many have covered the situation. David Lat also offered a detailed analysis. Symptoms and central causes As the dust settles, a couple of core issues appear to have thrown the firm off balance. Two partners, Barry Wolf, who planned to retire, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawsite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167138","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=167138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}