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Harvey Gets Harvey Specter. Legora Gets a Judge and a Law. The AI Labs Get the Rent.

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Legal AI has gone Hollywood: celebrity ambassadors, baseball stadiums and $20bn of combined valuations. But the companies that matter most in this market may not be the ones buying the billboards. Legal AI has apparently concluded that what lawyers really need is more celebrities but there is a question as to who really controls the

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15 Smartest TV Lawyers Of All Time, Ranked

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TVLine’s Russell Murray undertook a recent ranking of television’s 15 Smartest TV Lawyers that catalogues everything from seersucker suits to outright obstruction of justice. It’s a job that he best legal minds on screen rarely resemble the ones in your firm’s partnership directory. Hollywood’s definition of legal genius is markedly different from what you may

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Cahill Blinks First -Two Months Later, BigLaw Finally Has a Milbank Bonus Match

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Cahill Gordon & Reindel has become the first firm to match Milbank’s 2026 special bonuses in full, ending a summer-long standoff. The real question is whether anyone else moves before Cravath does. Cahill Gordon & Reindel has told associates it will match the special bonuses Milbank announced on July 27, making it the first firm

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Big Law Salary Scale 2026: NQ to Partner, Firm by Firm

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15 September 2026 – Latest Update As of September 2026, first-year associates at market-rate US law firms earn a base salary of $235,000, rising to $455,000 by their eighth year. Add the standard market bonus and total compensation runs from roughly $261,000 to $595,000. The numbers come from the Milbank scale set in June 2026

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Former Ashurst Startup Lawyer Joins Pillsbury in Austin

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Pillsbury is continuing its aggressive build-out of its emerging companies and venture capital business, adding Austin technology and startup lawyer Valeska Pederson Hintz as the tenth startup-focused lateral partner to join the practice in just two years. Hintz joins from Ashurst Perkins Coie and brings almost two decades of experience advising companies and investors across

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Slaughter And May Still Rules London’s Listed Market. The Problem Is The Market Is Shrinking

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What IS Happening in the London Legal Market? The Q3 2026 Corporate Advisers Rankings Guide is out, and the interesting story is not who is on top. Every quarter, a small data publisher in the UK causes a modest flurry of law firm marketing activity, and this week was no exception. Adviser Rankings Ltd has

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Legal AI – Can’t Work Without It: Why 15% of Big Law Attorneys Are Now Officially Dependent on AI

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According to fresh survey data from LexisNexis UK, 15% of lawyers at large commercial law firms now admit they are completely dependent on AI to carry out their daily legal work. The reliance is almost as pronounced in corporate legal departments, where 13% of in-house counsel report identical dependency.

Artificial intelligence in the legal sector has crossed the rubicon from experimental pilot project to standard operating equipment.

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Why Modern Law Firms Need Smarter Access Control Systems to Protect Client Confidentiality

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Article source: Coram AI Law firms have always been entrusted with some of the most sensitive information in society. From merger agreements and intellectual property documents to criminal defense strategies and personal financial records, every file represents information that clients expect to remain confidential. While many firms have invested heavily in cybersecurity, physical security is

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Google Goes for Big Law’s Jugular: Inside Gemini Enterprise for Legal

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Google Cloud has officially fired a massive shot across the legal tech bow, unveiling Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built, agentic AI platform designed to move past generic chat prompts and directly tackle the billable grind of high-stakes practice. Developed in direct collaboration with major global law firms including Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams

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Listed Legal Disrupter Completes Second Major Law Firm Acquisition

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Listed legal consolidator Knights has finalised a £27 million acquisition of the commercial and private wealth practices of South East firm Moore Barlow, its second-largest deal since floating on the London Stock Exchange in 2018. Knights has been one of the higher profile listed law firm operators in the UK market, hitting £207m revenue. Knights

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