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New Zealand Legal Tech Company Just Launched An AI Workspace For In-House Teams Globally

Law Firm Technology, Legal AI, New Zealand Law News / June 10, 2026

Here’s What LawVu’s LegalOS Actually Does LawVu announced LegalOS on 2 June 2026 and the framing is the most interesting thing about it. Where Harvey, Thomson Reuters CoCounsel and LexisNexis Protégé are racing for private-practice budget, the Tauranga-headquartered company is going after the target almost everyone else has under-served — the in-house legal team that

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Litigation Won The First Round Of The 2026 Pay War

Big Law Salary Scale, Law Firm Salary Scale, US Law / June 8, 2026

The deal firms have not yet decided what to tell the market in the Pay War KEY TAKEAWAY: Six firms have matched Milbank’s 2 June 2026 scale of $235K–$455K. Every one — McDermott Will & Schulte, Hueston Hennigan, Quinn Emanuel, Katten, Texas litigation boutique Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes, and Dunn Isaacson Rhee on bonuses —

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How Many Lawyers Are in the US? (2026 Statistics)

Briefings, Featured, Featured, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal Pay Watch, Power Briefs, Power List, US Law / May 14, 2026

1,374,720 Active Lawyers in 2026 – Salaries, Demographics, State Rankings & BigLaw Trends Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing editor Knowing how many lawyers are in the US tells you more than just a headcount. It shows where the legal job market is heating up, how the profession is shifting demographically, what new graduates can realistically expect

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Jude Law, Aaron Judge, and the Legal AI Arms Race: Why Legora Is Betting Big on Star Power

Featured, Law Firms, Lawpreneur, Legal AI, Power Briefs / May 10, 2026

Legal AI Just Went All Hollywood The legal technology sector has seen plenty of bold claims. But very few startups have had the audacity — or the funding — to enlist a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive to sell AI software to managing partners. Swedish legal AI company Legora is doing exactly that. “We felt

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BigLaw’s Latest Escape Artist Heads for Consulting Land

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms, UK Law / May 4, 2026

Former Berwin Leighton Paisner boss Neville Eisenberg has done what an increasing number of senior law firm leaders seem unable to resist: he’s launched a consultancy.

After nearly two decades at the top of BLP and a stint running alternative services at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Eisenberg has unveiled ClarityX Advisory, a strategy outfit aimed squarely at law firms trying to survive what everyone politely calls “market disruption.”

The latest move indicates that AI, private equity money, and client pressure show that the old model is wobbling.

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The Lawyer Awards 2026 Shortlist Drops And Slaughter and May Hoards the Silverware While New Law Gatecrashers Crash the Party

Briefings, Law Firms, UK Law / April 17, 2026

The Lawyer Awards 2026 shortlist has landed like a surprise costs order on a Friday afternoon, and if you were banking on seismic upheaval in the legal pecking order… well, take a nap and wait for another year.

Slaughter and May has basically turned The Lawyer Awards shortlist into its own personal trophy room, racking up nods in Team of the Year for Energy Transition, Finance, Private Capital, Corporate, Litigation, plus Talent Management and Client Service.

That’s not a shortlist appearance; that’s a hostile takeover with better stationery. Freshfields, Linklaters, Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (post-merger glow-up fully activated) are also doing their usual Magic Circle victory lap across the heavy-hitting categories too.

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No Timesheets, Pure Trial Focus – How This Litigation Boutique Rewrote the BigLaw Rulebook in Just 10 Years

Best Firms, Featured, Law Firms, LawPreneur / March 30, 2026

What happens when elite trial lawyers walk away from BigLaw’s billable-hour machine and build a firm laser-focused on taking cases all the way to verdict?

You get Wilkinson Stekloff—a lean, highly effective trial boutique that has quietly become one of the most respected names in high-stakes litigation, without ever sending a single traditional timesheet to a client.
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Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI Again — What Florida Law Really Means for Him Now, and the Elite Lawyers Who Fight These Cases

Best Firms, Headlining, US Law / March 29, 2026

Three days after he stepped back onto a competitive golf course for the first time in nearly two years, Tiger Woods was in handcuffs. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m., the most recognisable golfer on the planet climbed out of the passenger window of his overturned Range Rover on South Beach Road in Jupiter

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Big Law’s Hiring Boom – Am Law 200 Firms Snapped Up 20% More Lateral Partners in 2025

Big Law, Briefings, US Law / March 5, 2026

The lateral partner market didn’t just heat up in 2025 but it ran hot. New data from Law.com Compass shows that Am Law 200 firms hired 4,152 lateral partners in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, up from 3,473 the prior year.

That’s a nearly 20% jump — a sharp contrast to the modest 3.7% increase recorded the year before in the lateral hiring report.

The numbers tell a story of a legal industry that has found its footing again, and firms that are spending aggressively to prove it.

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