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LegalTech Latest: LawAI Company Legora Announces $80 Million Funding

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Today, Legora announces an $80 million funding round led by ICONIQ and General Catalyst, with continued support from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, and Y Combinator. This latest round is a strong endorsement of Legora’s product quality, velocity and the remarkable traction it has achieved globally—underscored by its rapid progression from inception to Series B in under […]

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Eminem’s Legal Battles: The Full Rap Sheet of Lawsuits, Drama & Courtroom Showdowns

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Eminem’s Legal Battles: A Comprehensive Timeline of Lawsuits and Controversies Updated and revised, May 2025 – Norma Harris, Contributing writer Love him or loathe him, Eminem doesn’t just spit fire in the booth — he’s lit up courtrooms too. Marshall Mathers, better known as Slim Shady, has built a career on controversy, and his legal

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Top 10 ‘Value’ Law Schools in 2025 – Who Takes the Top Spot for Law School ROI?

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Law School ROI = Career Outcomes ÷ Costs. In simple terms, a law school’s ROI measures how well its graduates’ salaries and job prospects stack up against the cost of attending.

A high ROI school either produces high earners (think big law firm associates) or keeps debt low (through low tuition or scholarships) – or, ideally, both.

The job market for new JDs has been hot: 92.1 percent of the Class of 2022 found employment within 10 months, the best rate in 35 years. National median pay hit $85,000, with graduates in private practice earning a median of $150,000.

And at large firms, first-year associate salaries now start around $215,000.

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Paul Clement: The Undisputed Supreme Court Superstar Taking On Trump

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The Lawyer Taking on Trump Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Paul Clement may be the most prolific Supreme Court advocate of our time. Clement has argued more cases before the nation’s highest court since 2000 than any other lawyer. And he’s still in the trenches of today’s biggest constitutional battles such as his latest case

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Freshfields Look at Salaried Partner Tier . . Again!

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Big Law Pay News Sees Freshfields’ Fresh Look Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the UK’s Magic Circle heavyweights, is thinking about bringing back a salaried partner tier, placing some partners on a fixed, hefty salary instead of a share of the firm’s profits. It’s a big deal, especially since Freshfields had moved away from this

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How Harvey AI Is Redrawing the Legal Tech Playbook

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Harvey’s Legal Tech Growth Norma Harris, LawFuel contributing writer Harvey AI exploded onto the scene three years ago, and the truth is—it hasn’t let up. This week, the San Francisco–based legal tech startup revealed that its annual recurring revenue just cracked $70 million, up from roughly $50 million at year-end. Even more, investors now peg

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Sidley Poaches Entire A&O Shearman Finance Team in Bold Talent Grab

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Sidley’s Talent Raid In a move that’s less “talent acquisition” and more “legal talent heist,” Sidley Austin has swiped nine lawyers from A&O Shearman across New York and Washington DC, continuing their apparent mission to collect BigLaw partners like they’re rare Pokémon cards. The New York haul includes a seven-lawyer finance group led by partner

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No Punches Pulled And How Bob Jones Was New Zealand’s Unruly National Treasure

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Remembering the Uncontainable Bob Jones John Bowie Bob Jones.  It is such an ordinary name, a ‘nothing to see here’ one, yet attaching to a man so extraordinary in so many ways.   But Bob, as those who always knew him before the honorific interfered, was a character almost undefinable by most standards and one of

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