Socially Aware Millennials Want Meaning & Skee Ball, As Partnership Paths Narrow There was a time when a good salary and a door open to partnership were enough to keep associates at BigLaw firms. Then the millennials came.

For Kirkland & Ellis, the October deal that took cybersecurity company Imperva private was another example of how private equity (PE) activity is driving demand and profits at big law firms — and will continue to do so.

Big Law Meets Big Weed: Diminishing Risks Amid a Green Rush Seattle lawyer Christopher Barry knows a gold rush when he sees one, having witnessed the microcomputer, biotechnology and Internet revolutions and the wealth they generated. In legal weed, he’s seeing the same.

From Nashville to New York, Demand for Law Services Gaining in U.S. Cities Polsinelli’s chair-elect Chase Simmons is spending more time in the air these days, jetting from city to city to meet clients and oversee the firm’s growing network of offices. From Polsinelli’s established strongholds of New York, Chicago and Silicon Valley, to its newest outpost in Seattle, Simmons manages rising demand from clients for the firm’s services.

California pushed law further into cyberspace on Sept. 28 with the passage of SB-327 , the first state law regulating the expanding, amorphous network known as the Internet of Things. And as with most new rules, law firms are in various states of preparedness.