UK Chancellor Reeves Aims Her Sights on Lawyers & Others Ben Borman, LawFuel contributing editor UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is eyeing roughly £2 billion a year by slapping employer-style National Insurance contributions (NICs) on members of LLPs, that’s lawyers, accountants and anyone else who looks suspiciously well-remunerated. Under the current regime, LLP members are taxed
Lincoln Lawyer AI Copyright Case Ben Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Lincoln Lawyer creator Michael Connelly has joined other bestselling authors like John Grisham to battle OpenAI and its ChatGPT empire in an alleged ‘book heist’. The class action involves not only Connelly and Grisham, two of the world’s bestselling writers, but also other names including
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Media reports show a new funding surge for plaintiff side legal AI with EvenUp and Eve raising rounds that put both firms at or above the billion mark. EvenUp closed one hundred and fifty million and says most new revenue comes from AI products for demand letters and prep, Reuters report. Eve raised over one
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Plaintiff firms just got their own AI arms dealer. San Francisco startup Eve raised $103 million (Series B) at a $1 billion valuation to fuel AI for plaintiffs’ firms. Led by Spark Capital with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo piling in. Eve now claims 450+ law firm customers, touts tools for case evaluation, demand letter drafting,
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Well, well, well . . nothing says “strategic legal planning” quite like hiring the very lawyer who helped broker your multibillion-dollar acquisition to then become your top legal talent. Makan Delrahim has officially traded his Latham & Watkins partnership for the corner office at Paramount Skydance Corporation, stepping into the CLO role on October 6th
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The Role of Junior Lawyers in the Age of AI Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Business Insider reports that Harvey’s chief executive Winston Weinberg, himeelf not long out of the junior lawyer blocks, told TechLaw Fest that junior lawyers remain central to the future of legal work as AI changes training and tasking. Business Insider The
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Big pay cheques, flashy AI demos, bold merger promises — these are all the usual theatrics in law firm press releases. But beneath the PR sheen, cracks are widening: not every firm can sustain both rising compensation and heavy AI spending without wobbling.
Some are already looking shaky.
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Google has ripped up the old SEO playbook and replaced it with AI Overviews—algorithmic cliff notes that sit at the very top of search results. If your firm isn’t there, you’re invisible.
But here’s the twist: this shift isn’t a death knell for law firm marketing, it’s a brutal wake-up call. Firms that adapt to AI-driven search are already seeing higher-quality leads, even as overall web traffic dips.
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What Lawyers Could Learn from Fashion’s Last Emperor Norma Harris, Contributing writer Giorgio Armani died last week at 91, still clutching the reins of his $12 billion empire like a silk-suited Napoleon. While the fashion world mourns the loss of its most stubborn perfectionist, lawyers—those other merchants of expensive suits—might want to examine what the
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Another Slater & Gordon Departure Heightens Crisis Slater & Gordon earns its bleeding stars this month with the departure of a third Chief People Officer to have resigned in just over a year, as employee morale crashes harder than their trust in management. The firm has turned what should be a simple HR transition into
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