Sonia Hickey Andy Burnham wasted little time putting his own stamp on government, and the legal establishment was among the first casualties. Within hours of entering Downing Street, the new prime minister swept aside some of the most recognisable legal figures of the Starmer years, with Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy (pictured)
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For three decades, law firm marketing has been built around being “known”: directories, awards, rankings, pitch documents and carefully honed websites. That world hasn’t disappeared but the way clients first meet your firm has. And a new UK report on law marketing in the age of AI has thrown an interesting light on what your firm needs to do to be recognized by AI.
First impressions of law firms is increasingly formed not by your homepage, but by an AI system summarising everything it can find about you into a single paragraph, before the prospective client has clicked a thing.
In that world, the question stops being “Does my page rank?” and becomes “When an AI assembles a view of my firm, is that view distinctive, credible and worth recommending?”.
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Dr. Yannek Wloch, Director Legal Engineering Libra by Wolters Kluwer Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday legal work. Across law firms and legal departments, organizations are experimenting with new tools to accelerate research, automate drafting, and improve efficiency. Yet the most important questions are no longer about technology alone. Increasingly, they are about
Sam Neill may never have practised law but he has spent a large amount of time circling the profession, as though the legal world kept trying to recruit him before Hollywood arrived with dinosaurs and better catering. Before Jurassic Park, before the vineyard, before the endlessly reposted photos with farm animals, Sam Neill, who died
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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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 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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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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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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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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