John Bowie

John Bowie is the founder and publisher of LawFuel.com, the leading online source for law firm news established in 2001 and one of the earliest dedicated legal news platforms.
With over two decades of experience in legal publishing, he is a recognized authority on law firm developments, including legal technology (legal tech and LawAI), law firm marketing, SEO strategies, business trends, Big Law dynamics, firm rankings, salaries, careers, and innovative disruptions in the legal industry.
His insights on law marketing, technology and market shifts have been featured across legal media, and he continues to track and comment on the evolving landscape of law firm operations and growth.

Ex-Latham Lawyer Launches ‘NewMod’ AI-Driven Law Firm Targeting Private Equity Clients

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Nicvetta

And a hideous new AI Law Term Enters the Lexicon Nic Vetta is betting that private equity-backed businesses need something more useful than another law firm charging by the hour. His new London ‘newmod‘ venture (meaning ‘new model’, but headlined by his own name, of course) combines lawyers, engineers and fixed monthly fees. The interesting

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Weil Gotshal Merger Talk: What Happens When You Lose 30 Partners And Your Rainmaker

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Weil says it is not in merger talks. Read the sentence again, slowly Bloomberg Law reported on Friday that Weil, Gotshal & Manges, battered by an exodus of senior talent, is weighing options for its future that include a possible combination with a rival. Firm leaders have reportedly grown more receptive to the idea, and

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Deborah Chambers KC Joins a Very Crowded Argument About Who Makes New Zealand Law

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KEY TAKEAWAY Lady Deborah Chambers KC published a two-part examination of the Supreme Court in the New Zealand Herald on 17 August and 11 September. Part One praised the Court. Part Two warned that judicial activism risks becoming normal. Two days before Part Two, Roger Partridge used the same paper to argue that Parliament should

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The Law Firm Traffic Apocalypse Keeps Being Announced. Someone Should Check On The Traffic

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Every legal marketing newsletter in your inbox has now run the same story. Google’s AI Overviews are eating law firm websites. Legal queries trigger them more than any other industry. Traffic is down nineteen percent even where rankings held. Clicks to the top organic result have fallen fifty eight percent. In other words – act

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The Gentlemen in the Life of Meghan Markle

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Meghan Markle’s Russian Billionaire Connection Has a Curious LawFuel Twist As we are all once again subjected to more emetic Harry-and-Meghan headline hogging, this time yet another trans-Atlantic move and apparently the possible resurrection of her acting gig, I’m energised by the idea of her appearing in Guy Ritchie’s gangster romp ‘The Gentlemen’.  What ever

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Thomson Reuters Builds Its Own AI Brain – Here’s Why Thomson May Matter More Than Another Legal Chatbot

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Power Points: Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, trained using its vast stores of legal, tax and professional information. The significance is not simply that another AI model has arrived. Thomson Reuters is attempting to turn the Westlaw and Practical Law data moat into an AI moat, reducing its dependence

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Four SLAPPs In A Decade Of New Zealand Judgments. LawFuel Was One Of Them

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Grishinlawsuit

The Oligarch Lost Under California’s Anti-SLAPP Law. So He Came Here Key Points: >>A SLAPP is not a case you lose, but one that nobody ever gets to win. The point is the legal process rather than the merit of the case – the letter, the interlocutory application, the costs order, the settlement. >>New Zealand

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Bishop to Judicial Pawns – Your Move

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New Zealand’s Quiet Constitutional War Is Getting Louder Attorney-General Chris Bishop, fresh from yet another National Party leadership stoush and infrastructure fisticuffs, has tipped his toes into the quicksands of tikanga Māori, judicial power and climate litigation. For a former Russell McVeagh and Crown Law summer clerk with scant hands on legal experience the boy

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The Judge’s Brutal Verdict on the Lawyering Behind Harry’s £50m Mail Disaster

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John Bowie, LawFuel publisher The takedown by a UK Judge of Prince Harry and his celebrity claimants’ case against the Daily Mail was just about as savage as any major litigation could be. Apart from the financial consequences for the complainants in the case, the actual legal ‘setup’ that lead to its implementation was as

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