Relativity is making a play for one of the last pieces of legal work that has remained stubbornly outside the legal AI ecosystem, Microsoft Word. Its acquisition of Gavel signals a push to connect legal intelligence, document drafting and matter management into a single workflow, potentially eliminating the gap between the evidence lawyers analyse and
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Lyle Solomon, Attorney* Committing to a Chapter 13 repayment plan means agreeing to three to five years of structured monthly payments under court supervision. That is a long time. And life rarely cooperates with court schedules. A sudden job loss, a serious medical diagnosis, or an unexpected divorce can trigger a Chapter 13 income drop
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‘ GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A Texas judge’s decision to allow a college quarterback who admitted betting on his own team to remain eligible has exposed what one sports law attorney calls a growing crisis in college athletics. On June 8, Lubbock County Judge Ken Corry granted a temporary injunction allowing Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby
Image generated by Gemini Article source: Nix Law UH Utah sets the legal age of consent at 18, but that single number doesn’t tell the whole story. Understanding how criminal liability actually works here means digging into Utah Code § 76-5-401.2, which lays out a complex matrix of age, relationships, and conduct types that determines
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>> See LawFuel’s Power List Law Firms Kennedys has spent the past decade quietly doing something many law firms talk about but few achieve: building a genuinely global practice. Now the insurance and disputes specialist has smashed through the £450 million revenue barrier, with North America and Asia Pacific driving double-digit growth as the firm
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Article source: Keller & Keller Law A serious injury can alter work capacity, sleep quality, mobility, and family routines within hours. Bills often arrive before swelling settles or a treatment plan becomes clear. Insurance representatives may call while pain is still acute and judgment feels strained. A personal injury law firm helps protect the claim
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e firm that built its empire on highway billboards and the populist slogan “For the People” is now talking to Wall Street.
Morgan & Morgan, the largest personal injury law firm in the United States, has hired JPMorgan to explore a minority stake sale that could raise more than $1 billion and pave the way for a public listing years from now.
Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan, a Florida-based billionaire and political donor, confirmed he was exploring deal options in a statement to Bloomberg Law, describing the discussions as “purely exploratory” with no immediate plan or timeline in place. “We’re simply listening to people smarter than us and working to understand the pros and cons,” he told BloombergLaw.
The story, first reported by the Financial Times and subsequently confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg Law, lands as a landmark moment for the US legal services industry, which has long resisted outside capital while watching adjacent professional services sectors transform under private equity ownership.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has been recognized in the top five of Bloomberg Law’s 2026 Leading Law Firms list, which evaluates firms in four categories: financial performance, talent, growth and technology/innovation. The firm’s strong ranking can be attributed to its significant revenue growth, high retention and commitment to adopting generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that improve efficiency and
Forget the Vault 100. Forget the AmLaw 100. Especially forget the breathless rankings that measure law firm “prestige” by how many billionaires a firm represents or how many billions it bills.
Those lists tell you who the market thinks is elite. They don’t tell you whether the lawyers inside those buildings are happy, burnt out, mentored, or quietly updating their LinkedIn profiles at 11pm on a Tuesday.
So we built something different. Call it the LawFuel Tomatometer — a composite “freshness score” for US law firms that aggregates what associates and midlevel lawyers actually say about their own employers, drawn from the most credible lawyer-driven surveys in the industry.
And in 2026, the results are telling a very different story than the prestige rankings.
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How the Tomatometer works
Rotten Tomatoes works because it aggregates. One critic might love a film and another might hate it, but pool 200 reviews and you get a signal that’s hard to fake.
We applied the same logic to law firms. The Tomatometer score for each firm is a weighted composite of five lawyer-centric data sources:
Source Weight What it measures
Vault Best Law Firms to Work For 2027 45% Direct associate ratings across 12 quality-of-life categories (50 firms ranked, survey Oct 2025–Jan 2026)
American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey 2025 25% 3rd–5th year associates at ~70 firms rate 12 satisfaction factors
AmLaw A-List 2025 15% Composite of associate satisfaction, pro bono, revenue per lawyer, and diversity (top 20 firms scored on 100-point scale)
BTI Associate Satisfaction A-Listers 2026 10% Independent survey of 5,000+ associate responses on mentoring, growth, and partner investment
Glassdoor + qualitative signals 5% Sentiment from public review sites, Reddit r/biglaw, Above the Law reporting
We deliberately excluded the Vault 100 prestige rankings, AmLaw 100 revenue tables, and Chambers practice rankings. Prestige and profitability are easy to measure and well documented elsewhere. The Tomatometer is about something rarer: what it feels like to actually work there.
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London-based Mishcon de Reya has opened a Dubai office in DWTC Free Zone marking the firm’s continued growth in the Middle East. The firm has offices in Singapore and an associated office in Hong Kong and continues to grow its globasl links in its specialist areas. The media statement announcing the latest move is below
