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From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> 
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Subject: 2019 Year In Review: The Legal Industry 
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:33:27 +0000 
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Year In Review 
Thursday, December 26, 2019 
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5 Trends That Rocked The Legal Industry In 2019 
From some law firms' hard-knuckle responses to discrimination lawsuits filed 
against them to the Big Four's ongoing creep into the legal sector, these were 
some of the moments and trends that shook the industry in 2019. 
Looking Back: Law360's 2019 Legal Lions And Lambs 
It was a big year for explosive news in the legal industry. Here, Law360 
rounds up the noteworthy legal industry peaks and valleys with one final legal 
lions and lambs list. 
All Talk, Little Action: BigLaw Mergers Were Scarce In 2019 
In a record-breaking year for total U.S. law firm combinations, blockbuster 
merger announcements were few and far between. But experts say a slew of 
LAW FIRMS 
Allen & Overy 
Austin LLP 
Berry Appleman 
Briggs & Morgan 
Cohen & Grigsby 
Davis Polk 
Dentons 
Drinker Biddle 
Epstein Becker Green 
Faegre Baker 
Fisher Phillips 
Gray Plant Mooty 
Greenberg Traurig 
Hughes Hubbard 
Jones Day 
Kirkland & Ellis 
Latham & Watkins 
Lathrop Gage 
LeClairRyan 
Mayer Brown 
McDermott Will 
Milbank LLP 
Morgan Lewis 
O'Melveny & Myers 
Ogletree Deakins 
Outten & Golden 
Pepper Hamilton 
Sidley Austin 
Skadden 
Taft Stettinius 
Troutman Sanders 
Ulmer & Beme 
Wiggin and Dana 
Williams & Connolly 
Willkie Farr 
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firms expressed interest and began feeling out a tie-up this past year, which 
could mean merger madness at the top end of the market in 2020. 
WilmerHale 
Zuckerman Spaeder 
Poetic Justice: How Judges Got Creative In 2019 
Amid headline-grabbing decisions and groundbreaking precedent out of 
federal courts in 2019, judges also injected bits of levity and creativity in their 
otherwise serious work, quipping about that last "Game of Thrones" season or …
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