Linklaters continues its aggressive U.S. expansion, highlighted by the recent February 2026 lease of an additional 48,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York, following a 6,500 square foot addition in October 2025, pushing total NY space beyond 150,000 square feet at approximately $100 per square foot. This move, driven by
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The war for legal talent never really ended. It just got more expensive with big law partner pay hitting record levels, but law firm retention bonuses becoming increasingly important as talent retention retains top level importance for law firms. While headline-grabbing salary bumps and biglaw salary information dominate the conversation, the quieter – and often
While public markets flinch at every new AI headline, Melbourne-based Affinda is doing something unfashionable in tech right now: raising money, growing revenue, and selling actual products lawyers use.
In a fresh $25 million funding round, Affinda lifted its valuation to $220 million, up from $120 million in mid-2024. The round was led again by Toll Group founder Paul Little, with backing from Ellerston Capital’s Ashok Jacob and former MYOB and REA Group CEO Greg Ellis.
No meme tokens. No vaporware. Just document AI doing unglamorous but billable work.
From “Legal AI Tool” to AI-Native Infrastructure
Affinda isn’t trying to replace lawyers with chatbots. It’s doing something far more dangerous to incumbents: making legal work faster, cheaper and harder to justify billing for inefficiency.
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The legal profession has a mathematics problem. Women now constitute the majority of law school graduates, comprise over half of associates at major firms, and represent 47% of all lawyers globally.
Yet when the elevator reaches the executive floor, the numbers tell a different story: just two in ten law firm leaders are women (although when they do reach the top women legal leaders are making a difference).
The latest research from the International Bar Association’s Raising the Bar: Women in Law project confirms what many practitioners have long suspected – the profession is experiencing a spectacular leakage of female talent somewhere between the mid-career mark and the managing partner’s office.
The Numbers That Should Keep Managing Partners Awake
The IBA’s December 2024 Progress Report, synthesizing data from 11 countries across five continents, reveals the uncomfortable arithmetic:
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Lawhive, the legaltech company transforming how consumer legal services are delivered, has raised $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate its expansion across the US and scale its model of building the world’s first AI-native consumer law firm. The round was led by Mitch Rales, co-founder of Danaher Corporation, with participation from TQ Ventures,
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Pinsent Masons is opening an office in Poland with six partners as it expands is European operations, while also expanding its legal services in South Africa with its Pinsent Masons Vario business that will provide support services such as administrative, paralegal, company secretary, project management and and consultancy expertise to the firm’s clients outside of
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The Legal Employment Reality Check If you believed the louder corners of LinkedIn, the legal jobs market is either collapsing or booming. But it can’t be both. So what is happening in the legal jobs arena? According to Reuters, the truth is far less dramatic and far more interesting. The annual report states that the
Paul Weiss Goes to Houston And The Energy Talent War Just Escalated When Paul Weiss just poached senior energy M&A dealmakers from Kirkland & Ellis and promptly announced a strategic push into Houston, this was not a polite handshake between firms but a major shakeup with weaponized intent. Paul Weiss, fresh from the headline-making resignation
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A significant group of partners has left Perkins Coie to help establish new Seattle offices for Morrison Foerster and McGuireWoods, The moves land just as Perkins Coie prepares for a transformational merger with Ashurst. Reuters reports the departures involve senior partners with deep client relationships in technology and corporate work. Seattle is not a satellite
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Widely recognised for her strategic judgement and client care, Claire Gordon takes the helm of Farrer & Co’s Family team following a period of sustained growth and success for the practice. Claire trained at Farrer & Co and has been a Partner at the firm since 2007. The eight-partner practice is one of the largest
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