Willkie’s Unexpected Growth Run Sees Firm Go Deep in New Markets

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column. I’m Roy Strom, and today we look at how one firm entered multiple new legal markets. Sign up for Business & Practice, a free morning newsletter from Bloomberg Law.

It wasn’t obvious in late 2019 that Willkie Farr & Gallagher was on the brink of a breakout.

Willkie had lingered over the previous decade near the midpoint of the 100 largest law firms by revenue. And it took a black eye in October that year, when former co-chairman Gordon Caplan was sentenced to a month in prison as part of ...