Wake Up Call: White & Case Cross-Border Work Drives 20% Growth

In today’s column, Dentons poached a sustainability and operations specialist from Hogan Lovells to be its first global head of ESG; two Big Law firms announced investigations of lawyers accused of misconduct; Silicon Valley-based Gunderson Dettmer matched the Milbank scale for associate pay.

• Leading off, White & Case’s revenue rose 20.2% to $2.87 billion in 2021 with more than half of that growth coming from cross-border work. Revenue was up by double-digits for all the firm’s global regions led by Asia-Pacific’s 30% growth. The firm’s profits per equity partner jumped 16.3% to $3.51 million, while its headcount and equity partnership ...