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Australian Firm Thomsons Bets on AI With Launch of New AI Legal Brand

Australia Law News, Featured, Law Firm Marketing, Rankings / May 25, 2026

Australia’s legal market has its latest sign that AI is moving from conference-room buzzword to business model as national law firm Thomsons (formerly Thomson Geer) unveils a major rebrand alongside the launch of Faculti Lawyers, a new incorporated legal practice built to handle high-volume legal work using proprietary AI technology. The move reflects a growing

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Legora Hires Atlassian CMO Star To Sell AI To Sceptical Lawyers

Featured, Legal AI / May 22, 2026

Tom Borman Lawyers are trained to pull apart arguments, not sign up for AI hype. Swedish legal AI startup Legora has just hired someone whose job is to change that, according to a report from BusinessInsider. The company has appointed former Atlassian marketing leader Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir as its first chief marketing officer, handing her

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$230bn in Five Days, Two Partners Out the Door – Wachtell’s High-Stakes Reckoning

BigLaw, Press Releases / May 11, 2026

The firm that pays its partners $12 million a year just can’t stop losing them. Here’s why that paradox may be the most important story in Big Law right now.

Wachtell Lipton broke every profitability record in Am Law 100 history in 2026 — and watched nine partners walk out the door to rivals offering something the numbers alone couldn’t match. What’s really driving the exodus from Wall Street’s most envied firm, whether the lockstep model can survive the age of the $80 million guarantee, and what it all means for the future of elite legal practice: it’s all inside.

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Paul Weiss Sheds Litigation Associates Citing Performance Reviews as Firm Navigates Litigation Slowdown

BigLaw / May 8, 2026

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has parted ways with several litigation associates following its annual performance review cycle, possibly marking a structural change from the relatively recently annointed firm chair Scott Barshay (pictured).

According to reporting by The American Lawyer, the New York-based firm, which has long prided itself on avoiding public layoffs, including during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2022 financial correction . . Log in to read more . . .

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DLA Piper Votes Overwhelmingly to Scrap Verein Structure

BigLaw, Featured, Press Releases / April 25, 2026

DLA Piper is scrapping its Swiss verein structure and pulling the operation under a single leadership umbrella after partners in both its US and International LLPs voted overwhelmingly in favour.

The firm is betting that a more unified structure will make it easier to chase high-value, cross-border work and compete for top-tier talent without the usual internal friction that verein structures quietly encourage.
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Sports Law Explodes As Elite Deal-Makers Command $10M+ in Poaching Frenzy

BigLaw, US Law / April 13, 2026

If you’re a sports lawyer with a strong book of business, or an ambitious associate eyeing the biggest payday of your career with BigLaw firms currently writing checks most lawyers only dream about.

Elite transactional rainmakers who live and breathe NBA, NFL, MLB, WNBA and private-equity sports deals are now routinely commanding $8 million to $12 million-plus in annual compensation, with the very top names clearing eight-figure packages in the fiercest poaching war the practice has ever seen.

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London Law Boss ‘Spitting Feathers’ Over Partners’ Sexual Harassment Pattern

BigLaw, UK Law / March 27, 2026

The boss of one of the London’s elite insurance law firms has taken the extraordinary step of personally overseeing misconduct complaints after rising allegations of bullying and sexual harassment among senior partners, shining a fresh, unflattering light on law firms’ ongoing struggle to clean up their cultures.
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Ropes & Gray Raids Latham & Watkins for Eight-Lawyer Paris PE/M&A Team

BigLaw, Rankings / March 25, 2026

In a bold lateral strike that underscores the fierce talent battle in Paris Big Law, Ropes & Gray has snapped up a high-powered eight-lawyer private equity and M&A group from rival Latham & Watkins.

The move, confirmed by multiple sources including The Lawyer andLaw.com International, brings three partners — Denis Criton, (pictured) Gaëtan Gianasso, and Michael Colle

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$11 Million a Partner -The Big Law Pay Story That Makes Every Other Firm’s Numbers Look Modest

BigLaw, US Law / March 20, 2026

Kirkland & Ellis just changed the frame for the entire industry

If you write about lawyers for long enough, you make a quiet peace with the gap between your pay packet and theirs. This week, however, Kirkland & Ellis has made that gap feel almost cosmic.

Equity partners at the world’s highest-grossing law firm averaged $11.1 million each for 2025 – a 20% increase on 2024. The major money figure places Kirkland’s partners in the earnings bracket of a top Premier League footballer, at roughly £22,500 a day.

The firm simultaneously became the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, posting $10.56 billion for the year.

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Billable Hours vs. Billion‑Dollar Bots – Legora and the New Economics of Law

BigLaw, Legal AI / March 12, 2026

A two‑year‑old Swedish startup has just become one of the most valuable legal tech businesses on the planet—and it is using that war chest to plant its flag squarely in the US legal market. Legora’s $550 million Series D at a $5.55 billion valuation is not just another exuberant AI round; it is a blunt message to law firm leaders that the window for treating AI as a side project has closed.

Legora’s pitch is disarmingly simple. Built on top of large language models, its platform targets the work that eats most of a junior lawyer’s life: research, document review, contract drafting and due diligence.

The company claims tens of thousands of legal professionals using the product daily, across some 800 customers in more than 50 markets, including heavy‑hitting firms like Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, White & Case, Linklaters, Goodwin, Dentons and advisers such as Deloitte.

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