Perspective:
2025

What's inside

A brief overview of the ambitions and achievements powering the Firm

Welcome

Chair

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,


Heather K. McDevitt, Chair

“Our Firm is built for complexity”

Chair Heather McDevitt shares 2025 highlights and what’s in store for 2026

Client wins

Highlights of our work in 2025

Serious success for clients

We helped clients achieve business-critical breakthroughs across the globe

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By the numbers

Stats that tell a story about the work we do

Annual revenue

US$3.59 billion in annual revenue


Our lawyers worldwide

2,643 total lawyers


693total partners

51new lateral partners

37new promotions


120nationalities

99languages spoken


Wherever clients need us

world map

6 continents

43offices

29countries

In 2025, we advised clients from
128
countries
on matters in
201
countries
Cross-border matters accounted for
48%
of revenue

Global accolades

70 Band 1 rankings 
10 Band 1 rankings
Corporate Team of the Year
European TMT Legal Advisor of the Year 
Third most innovative firm of past 20 years
Innovation Award
North America Pro Bono Firm of the Year

Gen next

Creating pathways for our future

Leveling up: “Momentum” offsites accelerate associate development

Our new lawyer-led training program kicked off with “summits” for midlevel and senior associates

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Pioneer spotlight

Chief Innovation Officer Isabel Parker and partner Elizabeth Kirk on AI at White & Case

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Pioneer spotlight: How AI makes us better business partners

Chief Innovation Officer Isabel Parker and partner Elizabeth Kirk discuss our partnership with Legora and more

Insight

4 min read

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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