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The Law Firm Branding Battle And Why Law Partners Is Rethinking Its Marketing

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Personal Injury Marketing Battle Heats Up Australia’s largest specialist personal injury firm, Law Partners, is sharpening its marketing strategy, appointing independent agency Today the Brave to handle brand strategy, creative and media following a competitive pitch. It is more than the customary agency reshuffle in the law branding space as the move reflects an increasingly […]

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BigLaw Spent a Fortune on AI. It Still Bills by the Hour

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Key Takeaway Law firms poured record money into AI through 2025, with technology spend up 9.7% and knowledge-management investment up 37.2% since 2021. New BARBRI research finds most firms rolled the tools out faster than they built any way to measure whether lawyers actually work differently. The question underneath: firms are deploying software that does

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Texas firm pays $15 million for a partner’s secret romance with the bankruptcy bench

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Jackson Walker, one of Texas’s largest law firms, has agreed to pay US$15 million to settle litigation over its failure to disclose that a former partner, Elizabeth Freeman, was in a long-running romantic relationship with the federal bankruptcy judge, David R. Jones ,who was hearing cases involving the firm. It sounds like a textbook lesson

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Wachtell’s Waterloo And The Chaos Marty Lipton Spent 50 Years Preventing

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Wachtell’s Summer of Love – And The Day Marty’s Firm Got Old What would brilliant lawyer Marty Lipton make of it? Restructuring and finance partners walking out in unison, litigation partners follow and a partner is filmed cosying up in Bryant Park when he should probably be billing. The once‑unthinkable idea of Wachtell Lipton coming

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“A National Embarrassment”: Deborah Chambers Slams NZ’s 14-Year Kim Dotcom Extradition Farce

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Latest NZ law jobs – Napier Roles – Check LawFuel Jobs The Kim Dotcom extradition saga has devolved into a staggering display of judicial inefficiency, exposing a glaring incompetence at the heart of New Zealand’s justice system, according to Deborah Chambers KC’s latest NZ Herald column. After more than a decade of endless legal gymnastics,

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Safeguarding Legal Data in the Age of AI – Key Tips For Law Firms

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Scott Nicholson, Senior Product Manager, iManage.com As AI use accelerates across law firms, so does the concern over how to adopt it responsibly without risking confidentiality or compliance. According to a recent global research report surveying 3,000+ professional services organizations (including law firms), 85 percent of respondents are piloting AI in some form – while

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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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Judge Blasts Maurice Blackburn Over Delayed $120M Qantas Payout

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Federal Court Justice Michael Lee (pictured) has delivered a blistering rebuke to prominent class action firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, refusing to grant a last-minute extension to distribute a $120 million compensation package to illegally sacked Qantas workers. The payout stems from a landmark 2024 agreement following a grueling four-year legal battle between the airline and

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