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The Shift: Move Over Wall Street. Silicon Valley Is Big Law’s New Power Alley.
In the last two years, as law firms survived the early anxiety of the pandemic and rode soaring legal demand to extraordinary financial results, one trend has emerged that gives us a glimpse at the future of the legal industry: The firms making the biggest year-over-year leaps are increasingly those with close ties to the technology industry and the sunny skies of Northern California.
