From ABC to BBC – Trump’s Media Litigation Roadshow Claims New Victim Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The BBC finds itself staring down the barrel of Donald Trump’s latest legal offensive, this time demanding $1 billion for a Panorama documentary edit. With two top executives already out the door, Britain’s public broadcaster faces what may […]
The Paul Weiss Heckle Evening Brad Karp, chairman of Paul Weiss, found himself on the business end of vocal hecklers during the New York Bar Foundation gala as he valiantly defended his firm’s pro bono track record after the firm agreed to represent Donald Trump. The evening, intended to honor a Paul Weiss partner, quickly
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The UK government’s latest plan to bump the minimum wage is causing some serious eyebrow acrobatics across the City and among law firms as Rachel Reeves, (pictured) ever keen to show she’s on the side of “working people,” is reportedly preparing to lift the National Living Wage to around £12.70 an hour, according to a
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Paris Travel Beyond the Postcards John Bowie, LawFuel publisher There’s something magnificently perverse about Paris that means every time I arrive, the city is busy tearing itself apart. In 2018 it was the yellow vests blocking roundabouts and setting fire to things. In 2023, Marseilles was ablaze with riots after a police shooting days earlier
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A third of UK law firms have failed to meet basic anti-money-laundering (AML) standards, according to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s latest inspection blitz. Of the 833 firms checked, 270 were non-compliant and another 451 were only partly compliant, a statistic that should make any managing partner’s blood run cold. The SRA handed out about £1.5
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As capital pours into legal tech and operations, talent acquisition could be the next frontier for private equity investment in the legal business as it may follow lawyers themselves into lateral partner hires, something already helping change the legal business.
Private equity has already reshaped the legal services industry, from backend infrastructure to litigation finance. Now there may be capital deployed to help law firms poach high-value talent, open new markets, and consolidate
A New Zealand-based insurance intermediary has been identified in a Reuters investigation as a key enabler in the shipment of Russian and Iranian oil in apparent breach of international sanctions regimes. The firm, Rosier Insurance, based in Auckland, is reported to have arranged marine insurance for dozens of oil tankers linked to sanctioned oil trade,
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Robin’s Legal Tech Backfire Robin AI, the poster child for the “AI meets law” revolution, is learning the hard way that venture capital fairy dust doesn’t guarantee happily-ever-after. The London-based legal tech firm, once proudly waving its genAI-plus-human-experts flag, is now cutting staff after growth dreams collided with the brick wall of economic reality. The
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John Bowie, LawFuel Publisher The death of former Supreme Court judge Bill Wilson KC in September has been marked by a striking silence within New Zealand’s legal and media circles, a fact that itself seems more noteworthy than any tribute or obituary could be. The Press pubished a respectful piece from Martin Van Beynen, (who
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Law Star Sigrid McCawley’s Royal Litigation Credentials Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor If you only know Sigrid McCawley as “Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer,” you’ve missed the plot. The Boies Schiller Flexner co-managing partner is the litigator who made banks, boardrooms and Prince Andrew all do the math on enabling abuse. A recent profile in The Times
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