London dominates much of the UK's legal landscape but other legal hubs play a significant role and some are even growing at a faster rate. We've taken a closer look at the current distribution of the UK's top lawyers, which markets have been growing the fastest, and how large a presence US firms now have in the UK. Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) , here's a snapshot of the UK legal market in 2025.

Last week, Pirical celebrated a decade of innovation at our biggest Pirical Pioneers event to date! We brought together a fantastic crowd of Recruitment, Strategy, HR & DEI leaders for some insightful panel discussions and previews of our latest tools & new features.

Yesterday, McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel announced their plans to merge. The combination would create a law firm of around 1,600 attorneys and $2.8 billion of revenue. The merged firm would rank in the top 20 of the AM Law 100. If approved, the merger would unite McDermott's broad expertise in healthcare, dispute resolution, and corporate law with Schulte's deep focus on hedge funds, private capital, and financial regulation. This latest announcement follows in the footsteps of other recent combinations like Herbert Smith Freehills & Kramer Levin and Troutman Pepper & Locke Lord . Using publicly-available data tracked by Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP) , we've taken a look at which locations & practices would grow under the merger.

Which US states and cities have the highest number of attorneys, which practice areas are the most prominent and which firms are leading the market with the highest Partner headcount

Using publicly-available data from Pirical Legal Professionals (PLP), we've taken a look at the lateral Partner hires and headcount growth from 2024 to see which law firms and practices had the most interesting growth stories of the year.