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Smokeball Rebrands: Why ‘People-Law’ Is Legal Tech’s Next Big Bet

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Legal tech heavyweight Smkeball has rolled out a major global brand refresh, rallying around a singular ethos: “People-Law.” After 14 years in the practice management space, the company isn’t changing its core software or leadership, but it’s changing how it tells its story, taking direct aim at the administrative burnout plaguing community-level practitioners. What Is

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Private Equity Eyes $700m WSHB Deal in Major Test for Big Law’s Ownership Rules

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The announcement that Charlesbank Capital Partners is reportedly in advanced discussions over a transaction involving national law firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman (WSHB), valued at about $700 million, according to the Financial Times., shows that private equity interest is moving beyond the contingency fee and consumer market. Neither Charlesbank nor WSHB has publicly announced

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These 11 Lawyers Have Been Client Service All-Stars Three Years Running — Here’s Why

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Corporate counsel have named just 256 attorneys from 129 firms as the absolute best at client service in BTI Consulting Group’s 25th annual ranking. The list is purely organic, without submissions, self-nominations, or payments. That’s cool, right? Only clients identify individuals by name based on real-world performance. Who Are The Standout Lawyers? Eleven attorneys have

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KPMG Crisis – KPMG General Counsel & HR Chief Exit Firm Days Before Scandal Hearing

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Shock exits at scandal-hit KPMG as top legal and people leaders step down ahead of key parliamentary grilling. KPMG’s general counsel Louise Capon and national managing partner of people and inclusion Dorothy Hisgrove are leaving the firm, just days before they are due to appear at a high-stakes parliamentary hearing into allegations of misconduct and

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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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How AI Really Sees Law Firms — And Why Most Look Exactly the Same

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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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Trainee To Equity Partner: The 12-Year BigLaw Timeline, Mapped Honestly

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Roughly one in twenty associates who start at a top US firm will make equity partner there.

That is the number nobody puts in the recruiting brochure. The brochure says the partnership track is “approximately eight to ten years.” That is technically true and practically misleading — because it describes the timeline of people who finish, not the probability of finishing.

The honest answer is that the BigLaw partnership track is a twelve-year funnel with five stages, four exit ramps, and a survival rate that would not pass muster as a clinical trial outcome.

Here is what each stage actually looks like.

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How Many Lawyers Are in the US? (2026 Statistics)

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1,374,720 Active Lawyers in 2026 – Salaries, Demographics, State Rankings & BigLaw Trends Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing editor Knowing how many lawyers are in the US tells you more than just a headcount. It shows where the legal job market is heating up, how the profession is shifting demographically, what new graduates can realistically expect

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How The New York Times Just Changed the AI Content Game Forever

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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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