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Michelmores Law The Latest to Join The Rush Towards Innovation Chiefs

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UK-based Michelmores is one of the law firms who are deploying a newbreed of executive who are not litigators, rainmakers or tax specialists but chief innovation officers, chief technology and AI officers, legal operations directors and heads of digital transformation. The titles differ, but law firms are scrambling to keep pace with the industry’s technology […]

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From Sorbonne to the Riviera: The Young Lawyer Building a Modern Practice in Monaco

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Monaco’s New Legal Generation – Inside Maeva Zampori’s Unusual Life at the Bar Sonia Hickey Monaco is a place of contradictions. It is smaller than New York’s Central Park, yet hosts some of the world’s wealthiest residents. Ferraris idle beside fishing boats. Billionaires and baristas share the same narrow streets. And somewhere between the superyachts

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Australia’s First $10 Million Law Partner? The Race Is On

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Australia is on the cusp of producing its first A$10 million‑a‑year law firm partner – and the smart money says that partner will sit at Corrs Chambers Westgarth or Gilbert + Tobin, according to a legal journalist who should know.

Veteran legal affairs journalist Michael Pelly made the claim in his Capital Brief’s Prima Facie newsletter, reporting that Australian legal partner earnings at the very top of the market have accelerated sharply since the pandemic, driven by fierce competition for rainmakers and a sustained boom in high‑value corporate work.
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Legal Technology – AI set to reshape legal work, law firm pricing and legal careers

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New research by Deloitte Legal finds that AI adoption in legal departments has moved rapidly from experimentation to active deployment, with corporate legal teams expecting significant automation, greater cost pressure on external advisers, and a reset of the skills needed in the profession. Deloitte’s report, The AI Imperative: Reshaping of the Legal Industry, is based on

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How Trump Turned Big Law Lobbying Into A Billion‑Dollar Profit Engine

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When Donald Trump turned Washington into a rolling policy experiment, most law firms braced for chaos, but a handful quietly built something else: – a brand new profit engine. Lobbying and government‑relations work, once treated as a sideline for politically connected partners, has become one of Big Law’s fastest‑growing business and a new career path for lawyers from DC to Westminster

The Trump‑Era Shock

For decades, lobbying has sat on the fringes of large law firms and what they traditionally do. There were always a few partners with good contacts, intermittent mandates, and work that was important but they were rarely central to the firm’s story and what the firm really ‘did’.
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BigLaw’s $440,000 Problem -The AI Director Job Nobody Can Fill

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Key Takeaway: At least 16 major law firms, including Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn, and Pillsbury, are chasing more than 25 AI leadership hires, with pay running from $200,000 to $440,000. The problem is not the budget, but the fact that lawyers with real AI implementation experience barely exist yet. Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor

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UK Law – Foot Anstey Reports Double-Digit Growth and Belfast Rebrand One Year After Strategic McKees Tie-Up

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UK national law firm Foot Anstey has reported double-digit growth and bolstered its cross-jurisdictional capabilities one year after its strategic tie-up with 138-year-old Northern Irish heritage firm McKees. Buoyed by three new partner appointments and a surge in corporate, real estate, and banking transactions, the Belfast office will officially transition to the Foot Anstey name

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A&O Shearman New Co-Chairman in Australia Shows Sharpened Aussie Ambitions for Firm

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A&O Shearman is sharpening its ambitions in Australia, signalling a more aggressive push against the country’s heavyweight independent firms with the appointment of veteran partner Peter McDonald as local co-managing partner. The Australian Financial Review indicated in a report that McDonald makes little attempt to disguise the firm’s intentions. Arguing that A&O Shearman’s global reach

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US Supreme Court FTC Ruling Raises Fresh Threat to EU–US Data Transfers

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The US Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Trump v. Slaughter has triggered renewed scrutiny of the legal foundations underpinning EU–US data transfers, with potential long-term consequences for law firms, multinational clients, and legal tech providers relying on cross-border data flows. At the centre of the issue is the status of the US Federal Trade Commission

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NZ Family Law’s Cashflow Crunch Drives Shift to Third-Party Funding

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New Zealand family lawyers are starting to treat third-party funding less as a last resort and more as a core business tool, particularly as fee recovery pressures continue to bite. JustFund, the Australian-based family law funder and the country’s only dedicated family law finance provider, which launched from in New Zealand last year, has approved

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