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BigLaw Partner Pay Update: The Numbers Are... Something ElseWhile associates celebrate their £150k salaries, equity part...
24/07/2025

BigLaw Partner Pay Update: The Numbers Are... Something Else

While associates celebrate their £150k salaries, equity partners are having a slightly different experience:

Macfarlanes partners: £3.1m each (+8%)

Linklaters partners: £2.2m each (+15%)

Clifford Chance partners: £2.11m each

Magic Circle average: £2m+ per partner

Meanwhile, newly qualified associates earn roughly 5% of what an equity partner takes home.

The math is pretty simple: Follow the US money, charge obscene hourly rates, watch PEP figures soar.

US expansion strategies are clearly working—Linklaters saw 57% US profit growth while Clifford Chance hit 18% US revenue increases.

But sure, let's keep pretending those associate salary "wars" were about talent retention rather than PR theater. 🎭

What do you think—sustainable business model or wealth extraction machine with a legal services side hustle?

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The allegations around the Jevon McSkimming’s Police computer images raise troubling questions about transparency, publ...
21/07/2025

The allegations around the Jevon McSkimming’s Police computer images raise troubling questions about transparency, public interest, and how far legal powers will go to keep the public in the dark.

The kicker? The legal charge was led by Linda Clark — ex-RNZ political reporter, current TVNZ board member — now accusing the media of undermining justice.

What's happened here?

https://www.lawfuel.com/the-superinjunction-nobody-was-supposed-to-know-about/

LinkedIn Post: Marc Agnifilo's Strategic Masterclass in the Diddy Trial When the stakes are life in prison, strategy bec...
20/07/2025

LinkedIn Post: Marc Agnifilo's Strategic Masterclass in the Diddy Trial

When the stakes are life in prison, strategy becomes everything.

Marc Agnifilo pulled off one of the most brilliant defense strategies in recent legal history with the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial. Two key moves that every criminal defense attorney should study:

1. "Own the Bad, Fight the Core"

Instead of minimizing the domestic violence video, Agnifilo admitted it upfront in opening statements. "We have to 'own' that; we have to take all the dispute out of that," he told the jury. This wasn't surrender—it was chess. By removing the government's ability to use domestic violence as a stepping stone to prove s*x trafficking, he separated the admitted misconduct from the life sentence charges.

2. The "Personal Life, Not Criminal Enterprise" Defense

Agnifilo reframed the entire case: "This was all his personal life, and these were all his girlfriends." He argued prosecutors had "charged into his bedroom and into his private hotel rooms, uninvited" to construct a racketeering case from consensual adult relationships.

The Result? Acquittals on racketeering conspiracy and s*x trafficking—the charges that could have meant life in prison. Convictions only on lesser Mann Act violations.

As Combs put it: "We just won the championship, and they stole our trophy."

Key Takeaway: Sometimes the most counterintuitive strategy—admitting problematic facts to protect against worse charges—can be the difference between a life sentence and a manageable outcome.

Marc Agnifilo's 30+ years of experience and 200+ trials show in moments like these.

https://www.lawfuel.com/marc-agnifilo-the-law-star-behind-diddys-defense/



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The LegalTech Fund, lead by Zach Posner, has launched a bold new accelerator dubbed the “LegalTech Lab” with the focus o...
11/07/2025

The LegalTech Fund, lead by Zach Posner, has launched a bold new accelerator dubbed the “LegalTech Lab” with the focus of building Law Firm 2.0 – a generation of AI-first legal service providers tailored to modern demands.

https://www.lawfuel.com/legal-ai-produces-law-firm-2-0/

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