Power Points BigLaw has hit a snag in its AI revolution. Lawyers who are expected to bill all day have no time left to reinvent how they work but the fix is to let associates take the time to learn the technology rather than squeezing the learning time into late night sessions when the billing
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Class action firm Pogust Goodhead is reverting to its former trading name, PGMBM, after both namesake founders demanded their surnames be removed amid a bitter dispute over the multi-billion-pound Mariana dam litigation. A firm spokesperson said the change followed stakeholder feedback: “We have listened carefully to feedback from our people, partners and those closest to
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The London law firm behind Britain’s biggest group litigation is preparing to rebrand after co-founder Harris Pogust demanded the removal of his name. But the fight over its identity is only one part of an increasingly bitter struggle for control of the Mariana dam disaster litigation. A law firm losing its founding partners is hardly
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Custom AI is becoming a practical growth lever for businesses that need more than off-the-shelf automation. From AI agents and RAG-powered applications to predictive analytics and workflow automation, custom systems can be built around a company’s own data, processes and operational goals. As demand for AI agent development services grows, the challenge is choosing a
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Key Takeaway Law firms poured record money into AI through 2025, with technology spend up 9.7% and knowledge-management investment up 37.2% since 2021. New BARBRI research finds most firms rolled the tools out faster than they built any way to measure whether lawyers actually work differently. The question underneath: firms are deploying software that does
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For three decades, law firm marketing has been built around being “known”: directories, awards, rankings, pitch documents and carefully honed websites. That world hasn’t disappeared but the way clients first meet your firm has. And a new UK report on law marketing in the age of AI has thrown an interesting light on what your firm needs to do to be recognized by AI.
First impressions of law firms is increasingly formed not by your homepage, but by an AI system summarising everything it can find about you into a single paragraph, before the prospective client has clicked a thing.
In that world, the question stops being “Does my page rank?” and becomes “When an AI assembles a view of my firm, is that view distinctive, credible and worth recommending?”.
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Former Legends Global Asia Pacific Group General Counsel Adam Lister has launched a specialist boutique law firm targeting the fast-growing intersection of sport, entertainment, venues and major infrastructure. The law firm, which opened in April 2026, is focused on advising governments, venue operators, promoters, investors and supply chain partners on high-value transactions, commercial partnerships and
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5 Law Firm Marketing Website Winning Moves Rachel Williams, LawFuel contributor If you’ve seen one law firm website, you’ve seen approximately 847 of them. Dark blue header. Stock photo of a gavel. A tagline that says “Experienced. Trusted. Results.” A partner page where everyone looks like they’re suppressing mild indigestion. And an “About Us” page
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Roughly one in twenty associates who start at a top US firm will make equity partner there.
That is the number nobody puts in the recruiting brochure. The brochure says the partnership track is “approximately eight to ten years.” That is technically true and practically misleading — because it describes the timeline of people who finish, not the probability of finishing.
The honest answer is that the BigLaw partnership track is a twelve-year funnel with five stages, four exit ramps, and a survival rate that would not pass muster as a clinical trial outcome.
Here is what each stage actually looks like.
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Neal Katyal, the superstar legal hotshot, set off a minor legal‑Twitter firestorm by posting a victory‑lap tweet and TED‑talk teaser crediting a bespoke AI tool, “Harvey,” with helping him win the Supreme Court tariffs case—a bit of self‑branding that many lawyers found tone‑deaf and over‑the‑top. A subsequent reader poll by David Lat found roughly 70
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