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We helped clients achieve business-critical breakthroughs across the globe
I am pleased to welcome you to White & Case’s annual review, Perspective: 2025.
This past year, our clients navigated extraordinary complexity—driven by rapid technological advances, shifting geopolitics and evolving market demands. At every turn, our people met these challenges head-on, delivering solutions and steady guidance that empowered our clients to achieve their goals.
In these pages, you’ll find stories of impact: transformative deals in energy, technology and infrastructure; landmark victories in the courtroom; and strategic investments that shape industries worldwide. Our work with clients such as Blackstone, EchoStar, Toshiba, Shutterstock and many others showcases the power of collaboration, creativity and a relentless commitment to excellence.
2025 was also a year of growth and renewal for our Firm. We set a new revenue record, expanded our global reach and launched initiatives that invest in our people and our future—including our partnership with Legora, a leading AI platform, and our Momentum program, which is redefining associate development at White & Case.
Thank you for being part of our journey. Whether you are a longstanding client, a new colleague or simply interested in learning more about White & Case, I invite you to explore Perspective: 2025 and see how we are shaping the future—together.
All my best,
Chair Heather McDevitt shares 2025 highlights and what’s in store for 2026
Highlights of our work in 2025
We helped clients achieve business-critical breakthroughs across the globe
Stats that tell a story about the work we do
US$3.59 billion in annual revenue
2,643 total lawyers
693total partners
51new lateral partners
37new promotions
120nationalities
99languages spoken
6 continents
43offices
29countries
Creating pathways for our future
Our new lawyer-led training program kicked off with “summits” for midlevel and senior associates
Chief Innovation Officer Isabel Parker and partner Elizabeth Kirk on AI at White & Case
Chief Innovation Officer Isabel Parker and partner Elizabeth Kirk discuss our partnership with Legora and more
Isabel, thanks so much for joining me today. I'm so excited to talk about AI and innovation at White & Case. I want to start with our strategy: build, buy and partner. What does that mean for our people and for our clients?
It's a great question Elizabeth. So, the AI landscape is moving at lightning speed, as of course, you know. That's why we went for a buy, build, partner strategy. We will buy best-in-class tools available on the market where, for example, they give us access to a data set we couldn't get somewhere else or where we need really significant scale. We build where there are particular custom uses for clients or for practices that we simply can't procure out in the market. They're not on the roadmap of a third-party tool. So, we built our own AI platform called Atlas, completely secure and safe, and White & Case-branded and owned. And finally, we partner where we can see really strategic first-mover advantage with cutting-edge providers. Our latest strategic partnership is with Legora, who, as you know, is a leading legal AI workbench in the AI space. And that strategy of build, buy, partner keeps us really flexible and agile to serve our clients better.
How do you see our AI investments differentiating White & Case in the market and driving value for our clients?
AI can deliver so much value to our clients, which is why we're seeing it as such a core strategic priority for the Firm. Of course, there's efficiency gains, that goes without saying, but there are other stores of value too, if we use these tools really smartly. There's the ability to deliver greater global consistency to our clients, which is critical because we are a global firm and our client base is also global. Also, faster response times, which AI enables. And the third value is really around deeper insights. We hold a lot of data and knowledge and expertise in our firm, and we want to use that data and that knowledge and that expertise, combine it with AI to deliver real insights back to our clients. So really, AI makes us better business partners to our clients.
Data security and responsible use of AI are top priorities for our clients. How do we, as a firm, ensure that our use of Atlas and Legora is safe and ethical?
We've got a Responsible AI Committee and that reports into our Global Risk Management Committee, and we've got several areas of focus. Firstly, we make sure that any work product produced by our lawyers gets a human review before it goes out to our clients. That is absolutely non-negotiable. We have a very robust generative AI and AI policy. We never train with client data, any kind of LLM or application or product. And we make sure that our people always undergo their mandatory training and stay up to date.
I want to talk more about our strategic partnership with Legora. How will that benefit clients and client service?
So Legora is a really standout leading-edge AI platform. As you know, because I know you're a big user, Elizabeth. And we're the first truly global firm to partner with Legora. And it's a genuine strategic partnership. And that means that we're working with them to meaningfully influence their roadmap. We get early sight of their new features, and we can guide them on what works really well for our practitioners, and we can collaborate with them on custom builds for our clients.
You mentioned training. How are we equipping our people to confidently use AI on their client matters?
So, we've got, as you'd expect, a really robust global training program for all our lawyers and all our people at the Firm. But we go beyond that, because we really want people to develop an innovation mindset as well as that skillset. So, we give our lawyers space to experiment and to learn, and we make sure that we incentivize and reward that activity as well.
Thanks so much for your insights today, Isabel. I'm really looking forward to the future of AI at White & Case.
Thanks so much, Elizabeth.
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