Tom Borman

Tom Borman is a regular LawFuel contributor writing on the top law firms and best law firm lists in American law. He has written recently about law firm pay rates, major law firms like Kirkland & Ellis, law firm SEO and related legal matters. He can be contacted through news@lawfuel.com

Lawfront Hits £175m As Private Equity Legal Roll-Up Adds Two More Firms

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Private equity-backed Lawfront is stepping harder on the consolidation accelerator, adding two more regional law firms as its acquisition count reaches 18 in five years and projected group revenue hits £175 million. The fast-growing UK legal services group has announced that Fisher Jones Greenwood has acquired 35-strong South Essex firm Giles Wilson, while Lancashire-based Farleys

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Big Law Firms Have Been Keeping the AI Savings – Now Wall Street Wants Them Back

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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citi are asking a rather uncomfortable question of their outside lawyers: if AI is making legal work faster, why aren’t the bills getting smaller?

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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are pushing major law firms to demonstrate how AI efficiencies are being reflected in their legal bills.
Citi has begun asking firms bidding for work to explain their AI-related savings, while Morgan Stanley is moving much of its outside legal work toward competitive bidding and alternative fee arrangements.
The pressure goes directly to the BigLaw leverage model, where armies of associates traditionally generated large volumes of billable hours.
New LexisNexis research shows 94 per cent of lawyers now use AI for legal work and 55 per cent expect AI to change law firm billing.
The battle is shifting from whether lawyers should use AI to a much more interesting question: who gets the financial benefit?
For the past few years BigLaw has been enthusiastically telling anyone within PowerPoint range that artificial intelligence will transform legal practice and clients have been listening.

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Silk, Rejection and Privacy: Why a Sydney Solicitor Wants the AFR’s Barrister List Taken Down

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Sydney solicitor has demanded that the Australian Financial Review remove an article naming barristers who have repeatedly applied for silk, arguing the paper has turned a selection process closed to the public into a searchable record of rejection.

Jacob Carswell-Doherty, of Jake McKinley, (pictured) wrote to AFR editor-in-chief James Chessell on 28 August, the day after publication of “Meet the barristers who apply for silk year in, year out” by legal affairs reporter Janek Drevikovsky.

His complaint is not that the AFR examined the silk selection process. It is the table naming this year’s applicants and setting beside each name the number of times that person has applied since 2016.

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Is This Hidden AI Prompt a New Problem for Lawyers?

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Law firms’ AI problem is moving from contaminated outputs to contaminated inputs. A Connecticut court has sanctioned a self-represented litigant for hiding AI-directed instructions in court filings. The case serves as an early warning for law firms: when AI reads external documents, those documents may be trying to instruct the AI. Power Points: The Connecticut

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Big Law’s Revenue Party Is Back — But the Bills Still Aren’t Getting Paid Fast Enough

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It’s all good news for US law firms’ for the first half of 2026 – revenues up (12.4%) and a sharp prise in demand – but that’s not the full picture yet as the second half of the year will tell the story about whether US lawyers are having a great year, or just a

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From Phone-Hacking Hero to Courtroom Zero – ‘Golden Boy’ Lawyer’s Reputation Tattered By Prince Harry Defeat

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Golden Lawyer Tarnished: Sherborne’s High-Stakes Privacy Battle Ends in Humiliation Celebrity barrister David Sherborne, long the go-to “barrister to the stars” with the permanent tan, wind-swept locks and A-list Rolodex,has taken a severe bruising after the comprehensive collapse of Prince Harry’s privacy claim against Associated Newspapers. The Times reported his recent appearance in fancy Belgravia

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These 11 Lawyers Have Been Client Service All-Stars Three Years Running — Here’s Why

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Corporate counsel have named just 256 attorneys from 129 firms as the absolute best at client service in BTI Consulting Group’s 25th annual ranking. The list is purely organic, without submissions, self-nominations, or payments. That’s cool, right? Only clients identify individuals by name based on real-world performance. Who Are The Standout Lawyers? Eleven attorneys have

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How a Mid-Tier Firm Became Canberra’s $40 Million Government Legal Powerhouse

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Ashurst’s exit from Canberra has handed mid-tier rival Thomsons a major windfall, vaulting it into second place among firms advising the Commonwealth. In early 2025, Ashurst jettisoned roughly 60 staff and seven partners from its Canberra office and stepped back from the bulk of its Commonwealth government work, as a result of margin pressure and

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The $20 Billion World Cup Sell-Off Collapsed in Seven Days. The Lawyers Are Fine.

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A capital raise that valued the World Cup’s commercial engine at $20 billion. A magic circle firm quietly hoovering up FIFA’s top litigators a fortnight earlier. One of those lasted a week. Guess which. The battle for football’s future was supposed to be fought in Manhattan conference rooms, but it was over almost before it

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