Ex-A&O chief Wim Dejonghe bets on Falcon, the AI law firm that wants to bury the billable hour Wim Dejonghe spent 16 years running Allen & Overy, a firm whose economics were built, like just about every other law firm, on the billable hour but is now backing a startup, Falcon Law, whose founding premise
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Nicky Hager’s latest political book. Launched with great fanfare at the bastion of Wellington enlightenment, Unity Books, has produced an unexpected legal sequel with fellow investigative journalist Ian Wishart turning to Hager’s own sworn testimony from a High Court defamation trial to ask whether the publication standards he advocated then were followed now. Investigative journalism
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Weil Gotshal’s extraordinary partner exodus is exposing an uncomfortable truth about the world’s richest law firms – they have spent years creating superstar rainmakers whose commercial power can sometimes rival the firms employing them. If a firm’s biggest rainmakers can walk away with their teams, expertise and potentially their clients, what exactly does the partnership
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Noxtua’s €100 Million Power Play: As a major legal publisher takes control of European legal AI company Noxtua, the battle for legal AI supremacy is shifting from clever algorithms to something that’s more valuable, being the ownership of authoritative legal content. The legal AI funding frenzy has another €100 million to celebrate as a legal
As the owner of Kathmandu and Rip Curl battles a major $414 million loss, its legal fees have surged more than 1,400 per cent with Chapman Tripp pocketing the massive law fees’ surge as KMD Brands bleed money.
Two directors have connections to its longstanding legal adviser, raising questions about corporate governance and the management of potential conflicts.
Chapman Tripp received NZ$1.192 million in legal fees from the troubled retailer during the financial year ended July 2026, compared with just $79,000 the previous year, according to financial records from KMD and reported in the Australian Financial Review.
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping law offices at breakneck speed, but the gap between technical efficiency and professional liability has never been narrower. At the center of this transition is Pearl, the hybrid intelligence powerhouse connecting advanced AI infrastructure with a network of over 20,000 verified licensed professionals across 100+ disciplines. By pairing automated workflows with
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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 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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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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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
