Manual Ayala – Law firm AI creator and manager and owner of AI Vortex The BigLaw AI exodus everyone’s citing is six people at one firm. The bigger story is what happens when private capital decides it has a better theory of legal services than law firms do. Ten named partners have left BigLaw for […]
The New York Times has struck a groundbreaking multiyear licensing agreement with Amazon, marking the newspaper’s first commercial deal allowing a tech giant to use its editorial content for artificial intelligence training and platforms. The agreement represents a significant shift in the media industry’s approach to AI partnerships, coming after The Times previously sued OpenAI
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Tom Borman, LawFuel legal editor If you thought legal drama was just for the Supreme Court, think again. Washington’s legal scene just got a new player in the form of law star Abbe Lowell, famed for defending Hunter Biden, who has left Winston & Strawn to launch his own boutique-Lowell & Associates. The firm’s focus is
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59 A&O Partners Down and Counting as Partnership Shuffle Continues In the post-merger musical chairs at A&O Shearman, it seems quite a few partners couldn’t find a seat when the music stopped. Fifty nine partners have headed for the exit doors outside of Asia since the firm announced its plan to trim 10 percent of
Law Firm Seeks To Remove Hamas From The UK Government Terror List Stephen Daisley* This week on Britain: The Decline Years, a firm of London solicitors has announced it is acting on behalf of Hamas in a legal challenge to the Islamist group’s inclusion on the UK government terror list. The paramilitary wing has been proscribed
Law Firms Fold on Their Royal Flush John Bowie, LawFuel publisher When your mid-size firm is dropping 11 percent on office space where associates strategically hide from partner eye contact, but can’t spare 1 percent for legal publishing, perhaps it’s time to reconsider your budget priorities? That’s the free management advice law firms might need
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Pro Bono Leader Exits Following $40M Trump Settlement Steven Banks has stepped down as Paul Weiss’s pro bono practice leader just weeks after the firm’s contentious deal with the Trump administration. Banks, 68, didn’t directly blame the Trump agreement but stated his “opportunity to make an impact as a lawyer is diminishing.” He expressed a
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via GIPHY Ella Daniels – Dating lawyers is not something to be done lightly for more reasons than any of us might think, but we recently came across an article in law jobs site LawCrossings that caught our eye. The problem is that of the 11 tips, only four – five at most – made
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Stefan He Qin Stole and Dissipated Nearly All the Assets of His $90 Million Flagship Hedge Fund and Attempted to Steal Millions of Dollars from a Secondary Fund to Pay Back Investors Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of the New
Boies Schiller Flexner continues to make the news over disruptions at the firm, now heightened by the departure of co-managing partner Nick Gravante, (pictured left with co-leader Natasha Harrison) who has left the firm he headed for just one year to join Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Boies Schiller has been controversial in recent times with
