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The Scoreboard Goes Dark: An Epilogue To The DOGE Trilogy On Law Firm Profit Maximization
In the first week of October 2026, the world’s highest-grossing law firm announced that it will stop keeping score in public. Kirkland & Ellis informed The American Lawyer by letter that 2026 would be the last year it supplies revenue and profit figures to the press. Public reporting, the firm wrote, “does not provide meaningful value to our clients,” and the rankings it feeds “could incentivize quantitative metrics over qualitative strengths.” Justin Henry, Kirkland Goes Dark on Reporting Revenue and Profits to Media, Bloomberg L. (Oct. 7, 2026).
Japan Law Performance
YMF Law Tokyo
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Amendments To The Act On The Protection Of Personal Information Promulgated
Japan has enacted sweeping amendments to its Act on the Protection of Personal Information, introducing an administrative surcharge regime with monetary penalties for data protection violations, new protections for children under 16 and biometric data, and expanded exceptions for data utilization in statistical analysis and AI development. The reforms, which take effect in stages through 2028, fundamentally reshape Japan's privacy enforcement landscape by granting the Personal Information Protection Commiss
Japan Privacy
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A&O Shearman
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Japan’s Sovereign Cloud Commitment At The U.S.-Japan Summit: Defense Interoperability, Not Just Digital Policy
Japan's commitment to building a secure sovereign cloud platform for defense data marks a strategic shift toward deeper intelligence integration with Five Eyes partners. The initiative addresses critical gaps in classified information-sharing infrastructure and positions Japan to meet U.S. security standards that few Japanese cloud services currently satisfy. This development creates significant opportunities for U.S. cloud providers with FedRAMP and DoD authorizations while reshaping the allied defense clo
Japan Government
CM
Crowell & Moring LLP
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