
Davis+Gilbert: The Law Firm Behind the PR Industry Survey
Davis+Gilbert is the New York advertising and media law firm behind the annual PR Industry Trends Report. Its PR Law practice, the report's editions and the privilege link.
AI communications & PR intelligence for legal and litigation communications.
Legal communications answers to two disciplines at once: what protects the case and what protects the reputation. The second objective only works when it never compromises the first.


Davis+Gilbert is the New York advertising and media law firm behind the annual PR Industry Trends Report. Its PR Law practice, the report's editions and the privilege link.






25 BigLaw firms ranked across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Kirkland leads. Wachtell wins with the smallest website in BigLaw. Above the Law overtakes Chambers as the retrieval anchor.

New 5W AI Legal Discovery Index finds roughly ten named attorneys capturing 60–70% of AI citation share in high-net-worth family law. The AmLaw 200 has almost none of the answer. Page Six is teaching ChatGPT which lawyer to name.

The top MBB feeder schools outscore the median business school by 12 points on AI readiness. McKinsey, BCG, and Bain recruit from programs that teach AI — but most MBA programs still don't require it.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center, has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Justice Department demanding a national security investigation into the Hind Rajab Foundation — its funders, its foreign-principal ties, and its operations on U.S. soil.

Driven Brands — owner of Maaco, Meineke, Take 5 Oil Change — substituted a restatement 8-K for its expected annual report on February 25, 2026. The stock fell 30.2% in a day. The Q3 2025 disclosure-controls language is now the spine of two securities class actions.

An EPR Citation Share Study of Courts, Legal Media, Law Firms, and Legal Nonprofits Across Five AI Engines in May 2026 explores the redistribution of operative interpretation away from licensed practitioners into large language models answering citizen legal questions. The study highlights unique vulnerabilities to hallucinated authority, jurisdictional challenges, and access to justice implications.

A&O Shearman — the May 2024 merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling that created the first true transatlantic Magic Circle-tier law firm. ~4,000 lawyers, 47+ offices, ~$3.5B combined revenue.

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz posted $12.152M profits per equity partner in 2025, per Above the Law. See revenue, size, history and why it stays in one office.

Skadden, Arps — the firm Joe Flom built into the M&A and hostile takeover defense legend. ~$3.5B revenue, ~1,700 lawyers, the modern M&A history standard. Executive Partner: Jeremy D. London. Entity reference.
Legal advertising is a $10 billion-plus category — and the buyer journey for legal services has moved decisively upstream into conversational search.
The TV ads still run, but generative search has moved upstream of every legal advertising channel. Coverage of how AmLaw 100 firms, plaintiff networks, regional brands, and LegalTech platforms build authority across earned media, paid acquisition, and AI-assisted research.
Topics: AmLaw 100 · Plaintiff PR · Mass tort · Litigation communications · LegalTech · Lateral hiring · High-profile cases · Bar regulation
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