{"id":6040,"date":"2025-05-25T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/despite-hurdles-private-equity-has-high-hopes-for-legal\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T09:59:09","slug":"despite-hurdles-private-equity-has-high-hopes-for-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/despite-hurdles-private-equity-has-high-hopes-for-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Hurdles, Private Equity Has High Hopes For Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Private equity has successfully made its mark on a host of American industries, including some professional services businesses, and the law firm world is an enticing next target, even with rules of professional conduct for attorneys that serve as a stiff barrier for entry. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>In all but two U.S. states, nonlawyers are generally prohibited from having an ownership stake in law firms. This has served as a hurdle for PE firms who eye the law firm business as a potential cash cow. But that doesn\u2019t mean that private equity has abandoned a desire to invest in legal businesses stateside. On the contrary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/05\/20\/everyone-will-be-competing-with-a-private-equity-funded-firm-former-ao-leaders-launch-consultancy-to-advise-on-investment-in-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PE appears more interested than ever<\/a> in investing in the law firm industry, which recently has seen an explosion in profitability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity has successfully made its mark on a host of American industries, including some professional services businesses, and the law firm world is an enticing next target, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[726,327,5913,6091,136,1353],"class_list":["post-6040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-equity","tag-high","tag-hopes","tag-hurdles","tag-legal","tag-private"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}