From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> To: • Subject: 2019 Year In Review: The Legal Industry Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:33:27 +0000 `1.aw360 Special Report Year In Review Thursday, December 26, 2019 -;;Follow Law360 r;r3Stock-1044578200.jpg 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 EFTA00032918