A Fortune commentary by Thomson Reuters CPO David Wong captures a pivotal market moment — and carries a pointed warning for lawyers still treating AI as interchangeable. Our analysis, with key observations for legal practitioners. By LawFuel Editors | March 2026 “The companies that understand this will win. The rest will eventually learn the hard
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Former Laguna Niguel Resident Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Prison for Threatening to Kill Judge Who Presided Over His Family Law Case SANTA ANA, California – A former Orange County resident was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for threatening to kill a superior court judge who had presided over his family law case.
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Sidley Austin has been joined by a highly experienced fintech lawyer and expert in crypto issues with Jess Cheng joining the firm from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati where she was a partner in the Fintech and Financial Services practice. The firm’s media release is below – Sidley is pleased to announce that Jess Cheng has
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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has filed charges against Matekino Marshall, the former Chief Executive of a charitable trust, alleging he misappropriated just over $2.1 million from two trusts and a third entity which he was involved in. The SFO alleges that, while Chief Executive of the Ngāti Tamaoho Trust, Mr Marshall misappropriated $547,408. He faces three representative charges of obtaining
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The profile London-based law firm has announced that it will open a representative office in the Big Apple in April. The firm’s media statement on the announcement is shown below – Macfarlanes announces that it will open a representative office in New York in April 2026, which will operate alongside its London headquarters and Brussels
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LOS ANGELES – An actor who is the founder and president of an animal welfare organization based near the Antelope Valley has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with the attempted kidnapping of a former employee who won a $6.7 million wrongful-termination judgment against him, the Justice Department announced today. Leo Grillo,
The Restructuring and Insolvency team at leading law firm Freeths has once again been recognised as the UK’s top-performing insolvency practice, securing the number one position in Solomonic’s newly released Year in Review 2025. According to the latest analysis from litigation data and analytics platform Solomonic, Freeths issued 548 claims in the Insolvency & Companies List during
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Fried Frank have recruited two leading lawyers who will work on boosting the firm’s work in M&A and private equity. Rhett McPhie is from Kirkland & Ellis and one, Morgan Pusey, (pictured) is from Morgan Lewis. The firm’s media announcement is below – Fried Frank announced today that Rhett McPhie and Nathan R. Pusey have
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Fresh from its raid on Latham & Watkins Sidley Austin has returned for more with the recruitment of Jeremy Trinder which is now the 13th recruitment since 2024, hiring a lawyer with strong cross-border experience in the real estate and property financing area with over 30 years’ experience in the market. We reported the move
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After the preliminary report was recently issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for a fatal airplane crash in the Colorado mountains, a nationally recognized aviation safety attorney says the plane’s approach for landing and the operation of its instruments and avionics systems may be areas of further investigation. On February
