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The Public Want Blood: Class Action Awareness Hits Five-Year Peak

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The British public have developed rather a taste for watching corporations squirm in court. Portland’s latest Reputation and Accountability report reveals that awareness of class actions has reached its highest level since 2020. The citizenry are increasingly keen to see litigation deployed as a cudgel against corporate misbehaviour.

Based on a poll of nearly 2,000 UK adults, the study shows 27 percent now report high awareness of class actions, up from 24 percent last year. This is despite the Competition Appeal Tribunal experiencing a slight dip in filings during 2024. The public, as Portland drily observes, is starting to notice. Log in to read more . . .

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SEO For Lawyers: 4 Tips For Success

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Souce: The eDigital CompanyToday, the modern client’s journey often begins with a search engine. For legal practices, establishing a robust online presence is no longer a luxury but a fundamental component of a successful marketing strategy. A foundational element of this strategy is a deep understanding of legal SEO. This specialized discipline focuses on optimizing

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The Legal Battle Over Ghost Guns in California

Briefings, Criminal Law, US Law /
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The Rise of Unserialized Weapons in the Golden StateBy MyRightsLawGroup.com, CACalifornia has long stood at the forefront of firearms regulation, but few issues have tested its legal framework as intensely as the rapid proliferation of unserialized or unregistered firearms—commonly known as “ghost guns.” These weapons, assembled from unfinished frames or kits lacking serial numbers, bypass

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How Would Elon Musk Run Your Law Firm?

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"What would Musk's 'first principles' approach mean for legal practice?" LawFuel and The Musk Algorithm for law firms

The man who sent rockets into orbit while simultaneously disrupting the automotive industry has articulated a management philosophy that’s equal parts brilliance and brutality.

And while we can’t all aspire to his sleep schedule or his Twitter habits, there’s something law firms, those bastions of precedent and process, might learn from a leader who treats bureaucracy as “a substitute for thinking” and regards failure as the admission price to innovation.

So what might the key to building a successful law firm be if Elon Musk was on the management committee?

First, let’s consider the five key, “Musk steps{ that are simple but devastingatinlgy effective.

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What’s Behind The BigLaw Litigation Hiring Surge?

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The masters of the M&A universe are discovering what the rest of us have known all along – that litigation pays, and it doesn’t evaporate when the dealmakers take a sabbatical.​

Fresh data from Bloomberg Law reveals that some of the legal industry’s most ludicrously profitable firms, the ones that built fortunes advising private equity titans, are now scrambling to stockpile litigators like they’re preparing for the apocalypse.

Four heavyweights – Kirkland & Ellis, Paul Weiss, Davis Polk, and Paul Hastings – have inflated their litigation benches by at least 22 percnt since early 2024. It is noteworthy that these are firms that climbed to the top of the profitability charts primarily by perfecting the art of billing seven figures for corporate transactions, not courtroom combat.

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Publishers vs Perplexity: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue AI Upstart Over Copyright Grab

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Copyright

Perplexity AI has landed itself in yet another courtroom. Following lawsuits from Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, Britannica and Merriam-Webster have now filed in the Southern District of New York, accusing the AI answer engine of wholesale scraping and misattribution.The complaint alleges that Perplexity’s model “systematically harvests” copyrighted definitions and reference content without credit

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The Best John Grisham Screen Adaptations: A Top-10 Countdown (with the New Rainmaker TV Series)

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The Top 10 John Grisham Screen AdaptationsTom Borman, Lawfuel contributing editorThe 90s films still set the bar, but USA Network’s new Rainmaker series shows there’s life in Grisham’s case files yet. That doesn’t surprise me with Grisham’s trademark tight plotting and David vs. Goliath themes that deal with major issues from environmental scandal to corporate

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Meet the $105M AI Startup Betting on A Legal Revolution With An AI Law Firm

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BigLaw’s Billable Hour Gets a Funeral While law firms continue their often theatrical performances about embracing AI—all while billing rates climb 9 percent year-over-year—one startup has decided to skip the performance and host a proper funeral. Eudia, fresh off raising $105 million in Series A funding, literally hired an actor dressed as a priest to

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The Lawyer Who Worked 23 Hours a Day And the Billing Scam Everyone Knows About

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The Law Firm Billing MythBen Thomson, LawFuel contributing editorThe legal profession has always been fond of a long lunch, a late night, and a generous definition of billable. But every now and then, someone pushes the grift so far it becomes a morality tale, which is what just occurred with an associate at Irwin Mitchell

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Cuban Immigration Through the Cuban Adjustment Act: 6 Things to Know

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LawFuel power briefing: Fiol & Morros Law GroupSince 1966, the Cuban Adjustment Act has given Cubans a path unlike any other nationality in the U.S. immigration system. It allows a direct route to permanent residency after a year of physical presence. That unique status makes it central to Cuban migration to the United States.The process

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