Law Firm Disrupted: Reinvention Yields Reward

Prevailing themes of Legalweek—disruption and reinvention—were fitting, given how much programming focused on two phenomena currently rattling the legal industry as we know it: AI and private equity investment.

If you look at the first-ever Am Law 200 rankings, published in 1999, you might notice one startling fact: of the original top 200 firms in the country, one-third have disappeared.