BigLaw
Noun
Meaning
BigLaw (uncountable)
(informal, chiefly US) Large-scale law firms and their work, specializing in multiple areas of legal practice.
Examples
Even the world’s largest law firm — the Biglaw behemoth known as Dentons — fell prey to COVID-19’s casualties.
More bad news from the Biglaw trenches.
More good news for Biglaw.
The goal was to provide a buffer from the attorney’s exit out of Biglaw, and possibly a route back in. Indeed many of our candidates resumed working at Biglaw firms after the crisis abated.
With almost 70 percent of its graduates heading to Biglaw firms after graduation, Columbia has ruled this ranking for the past seven years.
With the historic occasion of many Biglaw firms designating today, Friday June 19th (also known as Juneteenth, Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, or Jubilee), as firm-wide holidays, I would like to begin by speaking to this moment.