Expansion & Growth Barnes & Thornburg is actively expanding its footprint with new offices in Palm Beach Gardens and Atlanta, and hiring multiple partners to bolster tax, insurance recovery, and entertainment, media, and sports practices, signaling ongoing growth and cross-border opportunities for clients needing comprehensive regulatory, tax, and IP support.

Entertainment & Sports Recent hires strengthen the Entertainment, Media and Sports practice, presenting a clear sales angle to clients in sports franchises, media companies, and entertainment entities seeking robust legal support across transactions, investigations, and sponsorship deals.

Strategic Hiring Multiple partner-level additions across dates in 2026 indicate a strategy to deepen senior bench strength and diversify practice areas, which can translate into expanded advisory services for mid-market to large enterprises seeking integrated legal teams.

Digital Enablement The firm’s tech stack leveraging cloud/CDN, Sitecore, DocuSign, and analytics suggests a tech-forward client experience; opportunities may exist to offer data-driven contract workflows, governance, e-signature optimization, and secure client portals for large-scale corporate engagements.

Financial & Scale With revenue in the half-billion to one-billion range and a headcount near 5,000, Barnes & Thornburg presents as a mature large law firm capable of multi-jurisdictional work, creating opportunities to cross-sell services such as tax, IP, corporate, labor, and litigation to existing clients and new Fortune-500–style accounts.