Client industry · November 2026
Individuals & Consumers: who advises the sector
Dated deals for individuals & consumers clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 658
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +15.8%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $19m
- Median disclosed value
- 298
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 658 dated deals for Individuals & Consumers clients from November 2025 to October 2026. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 676 deals against 584 the year before, the deal count rose 15.8%. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Product Liability & Torts is involved in 21.3% of these deals and Public Law & Government in 18.7%. By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 91.2% of these deals.
Deal value was disclosed on 5.8% of them; where disclosed, the median was $19 million. 298 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Irwin Mitchell, with deals in the 21-40 band.
Lawyers whose work centers on Individuals & Consumers changed firm 216 times in the same window. Partners were 21.8% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed +27.7%.
For a general counsel in Individuals & Consumers, these are the firms and practices that see the most of the sector's work: the bench to brief, and the bench in-house hires come from.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irwin Mitchell | 21-40 |
| 2 | Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro | 21-40 |
| 3 | Stewarts | 11-20 |
| 4 | Sidley Austin | 11-20 |
| 5 | Duncan Lewis Solicitors | 11-20 |
| 6 | Bressler, Amery & Ross | 11-20 |
| 7 | Leigh Day | 11-20 |
| 8 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | 11-20 |
| 9 | Jones Day | 11-20 |
| 10 | McGuireWoods | 6-10 |
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Reports
- Consumer Litigation Lawyers Are Mostly Associates: 65.7% of Movers
Associates are 65.7% of the lawyers acting for individuals and consumers who changed firms, against 58.5% in the market, and fewer of them join the largest firms. A company hiring a consumer-claims litigator should look at associate level and beyond firms of 1,000+ lawyers.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Which Law Firms Act for Consumers: Disputes Are 91.2% of Deals
When the client is a person, the matter is almost always a dispute: 91.2% of deals for individuals and consumers, 3.6 times the market share, at a median disclosed value of $18.8 million. Washington, not New York, is the first city for the lawyers on these matters.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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