While rivals scramble to merge, the world’s biggest law firm is playing the long game

While rivals scramble to merge, the world’s biggest law firm is playing the long gameWhile rival law firms grapple with mergers and headline tie‑ups, Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by size, is quietly betting that an ‘already there’ strategy will play in its favour. Even though it has 100‑year‑old legacy firms underpinning it, she stressed the “firm’s togetherness is about 14 years old”. Dentons’ global chief executive Kate Barton. The firm may be credited as the largest law firm in the world by scale, but when measured by revenue, it is not even in the top 10. She said: “We’re probably one of the largest institutions in the law firm context that’s using enterprise ChatGPT.”