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Latham & Watkins Add General Counsel From Private Equity House HG

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Latham & Wakins have secured General Counsel Samantha McGonigle to their London M&A and private equity team in a move that further strengthens the firm’s private equity practice. The firm’s media announcement is below – Latham & Watkins Adds Experienced Sponsor-Side M&A Partner in London, Further Strengthening Its Global Private Equity Platform Samantha McGonigle brings […]

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Lawyers Are Training AI to Do the Work They Used to Hate . . And It’s Working

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Legal AI companies are making a blunt pitch for law firm associates to escape the all-nighters, the non-billable document slog, and the mind-numbing reviews and to help build the technology that makes those tedious tasks disappear. Dozens are taking the offer, leaving Big Law for a hybrid role called “legal engineer”a description that is part

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Meet James Sackl: The Deep-Tech Disruptor Forcing Big Law to Rethink Time

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Billable Hour on Life Support The billable hour is on life support, and artificial intelligence is holding the plug. A recent Deloitte Legal report found that 85 percent of industry insiders expect hourly billing to plummet within two years, which leaves firms clinging to outdated pricing models in an economically irrational spot. As Bloomberg Law

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Legal AI Unicorn Harvey Lands Major Backing from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan

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Artificial intelligence legal platform Harvey continues its aggressive expansion, announcing new investments from Wall Street heavyweights Goldman Sachs Alternatives and JP Morgan’s Growth Equity Partners. While the exact financial terms of this latest investment remain undisclosed, the backing comes hot on the heels of a massive $200 million funding round in March. T hat earlier

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UK Law News – Private Equity’s Legal Buying Spree Continues With Second Acquisition

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Private equity-backed Adeptio Law Group has completed its second law firm acquisition of the year, continuing its plan to build one of the Midlands’ largest regional legal groups in UK law. Its founding firm, FBC Manby Bowdler, has acquired Worcester practice The Specialist Law Group, operator of the The Employment Solicitor and The Company Solicitor

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Workplace Violence, Threat Escalation and the Legal Team’s Role

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Article source: Pacific West Academy Threats against executives, attorneys and employees rarely arrive in a neat category. A hostile former employee may begin with angry messages. A litigant may appear repeatedly at a law office. A domestic dispute may spill into the workplace. A public controversy may generate online attention that includes credible threats among

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Freshfields Strikes Again With Another Wall Street Rainmaker

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Freshfields has continued its seemingly relentless Wall Street recruitment drive, hiring leading M&A partner Keith Hallam in New York from White & Case. Hallam previously spent almost a decade at Cravath, where he built a reputation advising on some of the market’s biggest corporate transactions before joining White & Case in 2022. His arrival further

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Former Cooley Compensation Law Expert Joins Baker McKenzie in Palo Alto

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Former Cooley compensation lawyer Jeff Goldman has joined Baker McKenzie in the firm’s Palo Alto office, boosting the firm’s employee benefits and compensation team. Baker McKenzie’s media announcement about the appointment is below – Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie announced today that Jeffrey (Jeff) Goldman has joined the Firm as a partner in its

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Former ANZ CEO Abandons Court Fight Over Unpaid Bonus as Board Holds the Line

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Former ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott has dropped his legal case against the bank over an alleged A$13.5 million unpaid bonus, ending one of the most closely watched boardroom fights over executive pay and misconduct fallout in Australia’s banking sector. ANZ has confirmed that the proceedings were discontinued without any settlement or additional payment to

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The Great BigLaw Heist. How Private Equity Is Buying Law Firms Through the Back Door

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Private equity can’t own a US law firm. So it bought everything else — and 2026 is the year the profession worked out that this was not a hypothetical. Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor For decades the answer to “can outside investors own a piece of your law firm?” was a flat no, and the

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