But Lawyers Shouldn’t Cancel Their Harvey Subscriptions Yet Norma Harris Anthropic has done something the legaltech market has been quietly demanding for years and made its AI play nicely with the tools lawyers already use. KEY TAKEAWAY: Anthropic has added 12 legal features to Claude — covering contract drafting, e-discovery, research and document management —
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Norma Harris The short answer: When AI cuts a doc review from 40 hours to 4, BigLaw does not lose 90% of the revenue — at least not yet. Firms are absorbing the productivity gain into higher effective rates, expanding scope, and pushing the saved hours onto more matters. Aggregate Am Law 100 revenue rose
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Anthropic’s Claude for Legal Puts BigLaw‑Grade AI on a Small Firm Budget Norma Harris Anthropic has finally taken the wraps off Claude for Legal – a suite of 12 practice‑area plugins, 20+ MCP connectors into mainstream legal systems, and deep Microsoft 365 integration – and it lands squarely in the workflows where lawyers actually live.
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The U.S. law firm lateral market shows healthy expansion and also provides a strategic shift toward senior leverage and a surprising surge at smaller firms.
According to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) 2025 Survey of Law Firms on Lateral and 3L Hiring (released April 22, 2026), total lateral hiring volume rose 16.4% year-over-year among the 305 offices/firms reporting comparable data.
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BigLaw associates are earning more than ever yet they’re leaving faster than firms can replace them. Despite an 8.2% average compensation increase across U.S. law firms in 2025, associate attrition rates remain stubbornly high and, in some metrics, are climbing.
The human and financial toll is mounting, and the structural drivers in law firms go far deeper than salary. We took at look at some of the recent stats and surveys to identify whast is happening acccording to the people who should know these things.
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London High Court orders full assessment of WilmerHale invoices after judge flags “charges so high as to raise concern”
A Brazilian billionaire is pushing back on a jaw-dropping $35 million legal bill from BigLaw heavyweight WilmerHale and one eye-popping detail has caught the court’s attention: a partner who logged more than 19 hours in a single day.
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JustFund is an Australian legal finance startup that has rapidly evolved from a niche divorce funding provider into a dual-purpose lender targeting both family law and estate administration. Founded in 2022 by Sydney lawyers Jack O’Donnell and Andy O’Connor alongside fintech entrepreneur Craig Carroll, (pictured) the company has positioned itself as Australia’s first and only dedicated provider of legal funding for both family law and estate matters. As we reported last year, the company has also expanded to the New Zealand legal market.
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Today, 31 March 2026, marks the official launch of Mallesons as a fully independent, top-tier Australian law firm operating in Australia and Singapore, effectively unwinding the 14-year Swiss verein partnership with China’s King & Wood that created King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in March 2012. The split was first announced on 9 December 2025 (KWM
In the latest sign of relentless consolidation among UK regional law firms, AIM-listed Knights Group Holdings PLC has confirmed it is in advanced discussions to acquire South East heavyweight Moore Barlow LLP — a deal that, if completed, would create one of the largest independent national platforms outside the City with combined revenues approaching £200m.
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The job cuts that sent 700 Baker McKenzie employees home in February has sent major ripples around law firms everywhere.
The cuts, affecting less than 10% of Baker McKenzie’s total support workforce, touched nearly every non-lawyer function across every office. This is the kind of story that makes managing partners and chief operating officers sit up straight, because it’s not about associate headcount or NQ retention. It’s about the infrastructure that keeps a modern firm running.
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