Wake Up Call: Kirkland Gets $765 Million IP Win for Motorola

In today’s column, DLA Piper topped $3 billion in revenues for the first time last year. Partners at a handful of Big Law firms last year rode work on litigation and corporate megadeals to average profits topping $3 million; but big firms are not prepared for the next recession and might need a “Brody Moment” to wake up.

• Leading off, Kirkland & Ellis lawyers for Motorola Solutions last week got a $765 million verdict in an intellectual property case in which the company accused a Chinese-based competitor of using former Motorola employees to get proprietary source code for digital mobile ...