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Editorial · 30 Oct 2026Weil, Gotshal & Manges plans to wind down after 95 years. Its partners are already landing at Cravath, Paul Weiss, Simpson Thacher and Sullivan & Cromwell. Here is where its leaders are going, what alumni are saying, and why the end of one firm is often where the next one starts.
Cover story · 29 Oct 2026Cetera Legal built something that answers the questions which never needed a lawyer. The harder work was deciding which questions those are.
Editorial · 21 Oct 2026At one 500-person company, the biggest AI gains went to the most motivated people. The legal leaders posting about AI this month say the next job is Legal's: writing down the judgment the tools are supposed to follow.
Editorial · 21 Oct 2026In one month we found 120 LinkedIn posts about a newly created role, team or seat. Lululemon, Maple Leaf Foods and Boeing are among the employers. Separately, leaders wrote about careers that changed direction more than once, and, according to Black Women on Boards cofounder Merline Saintil, boards are filling seats with CEOs.
Editorial · 14 Oct 2026Harvey and Legora launched products called Intake a day apart, two months after Wordsmith shipped its own. The name is the joke. The door is the story.
Cover story · 6 Oct 2026Diana Lauritson learned the legal industry’s template for leadership in rooms where she did not fit it. Now she has a clear view of the people the template keeps missing.
Cover story · 24 Sep 2026Roy Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer at Vedder and past International President of the Legal Marketing Association, on why legal marketing is a career, not an accident. The lead piece of Behind the Brand's Class of 2027.
In conversation · 24 Sep 2026Luis Machado spent nearly forty years arguing that the category itself does the damage. He thinks the profession is finally coming around.
In conversation · 10 Sep 2026When a legal department is already running lean, one extended leave, transaction surge, regulatory deadline or product launch can create an immediate capacity issue. Daniel Feingold is helping build the market for the option many legal leaders need before they know what to call it.
Cover story · 28 Aug 2026College sports spent five years arguing about who gets paid. This August the argument became about who gets to play, and the answer now depends on which judge you can reach before kickoff.
In conversation · 17 Aug 2026Adam Frankel built NWN's first in-house legal department in 2019. Three acquisitions later he has stopped believing in the one thing every acquirer wants, and he is unusually direct about why.
In conversation · 27 Jul 2026When Tochukwu Okezie joined the legal team at Interswitch, the thing that stopped him was not a hard legal question. It was a queue.
Leaders to Watch · 22 Jul 2026Jonathan Z. Cohen spent years training under resistance, learning the position, proving the function, building the bench. The results are compounding now. He talks about why the goal is never to arrive.
