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Above the Law 2026 Rankings: Chicago Tops an Outcomes‑First Law School Table

Featured, Law Schools, Power Briefs / June 11, 2026

Inside Above the Law’s 2026 Law School Rankings If U.S. News still rules the prestige conversation, Above the Law’s newly released 2026 Top Law Schools list is doubling down on a different question – that is, what actually happens after graduation. Its rankings are unapologetically built around post‑JD outcomes—who gets real legal jobs that pay […]

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UK Law Firms Are Finally Coming for the Billable Hour – Sort Of

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / June 10, 2026

The billable hour isn’t dead in the UK, but for the first time it’s looking genuinely ill. A growing slice of work is being priced on fixed or value‑based fees, clients are pushing back on “time spent” as a proxy for value, and AI is quietly blowing up the economics of the sacred six‑minute unit.

And we’ve talked about the BH’s death many times before.

The billable hour’s first real wobble

UK legal spend is still mostly billed hourly, but value‑based and fixed‑fee work has crept up to take a sizeable minority share of the market, and it’s moving in one direction. Clients like predictability, finance teams like budgetable numbers, and nobody likes the month‑end surprise when a “quick” matter turns into a timesheet novella.

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Colorado’s AI Act Is Dead. Long Live Colorado’s AI Act.

Featured, Law Firm Management, Power Briefs, US Law / June 9, 2026

It was supposed to be the most consequential AI regulation in the United States. Two years of political battles, two deadline delays, a federal court injunction, a lawsuit from Elon Musk, and an intervention by the Department of Justice later , Colorado’s landmark AI Act has been repealed, replaced and is now scheduled to take effect January 1, 2027.

If you blinked, you missed most of it. But if you’re advising clients who use AI to make decisions affecting employees, customers, or borrowers, you cannot afford to blink again.

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Quinn Emanuel Joins the Fray: London Juniors Now Pocket £189k as the Pay Wars Heat Up

Big Law Salary Scale, Featured, UK Law / June 5, 2026

Hot on the heels of Milbank breaking the long freeze and kicking off the 2026 pay war stateside, London litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel has cranked up its associate pay by 5% across the board. Effective 1 July 2026, newly qualified lawyers in the firm’s City office will now take home £189,000 (up from £180k), with

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Sex, Secrecy, and AI -How the Eleanor Ross Scandal Blew Up ‘Confidential’ Judicial Discipline

Featured, Law Firms, US Law / May 30, 2026

This is more than a ‘sex scandal’ case and shows that standard redaction and anonymisation techniques are no match for AI‑enhanced pattern matching Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The “sex in chambers” angle was always going to dominate: a federal judge carrying on an affair with a senior Atlanta police official, including sexual encounters in

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Anthropic’s Legal Plug-Ins Signal a New Era for Legaltech

Briefings, Featured, Law Firm Management, LawPreneur, Legal AI, Power Briefs, US Law / May 30, 2026

But Lawyers Shouldn’t Cancel Their Harvey Subscriptions Yet Norma Harris Anthropic has done something the legaltech market has been quietly demanding for years and made its AI play nicely with the tools lawyers already use. KEY TAKEAWAY: Anthropic has added 12 legal features to Claude — covering contract drafting, e-discovery, research and document management —

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BigLaw AI Blunder: Pinsent Masons Refers Itself to SRA After Court “Hallucinations”

Briefings, Featured, UK Law / May 26, 2026

In a case described as a “public admonishment” for the international firm, Pinsent Masons and three of its solicitors have been referred to the SRA following a series of AI-driven failures that twice misled the court. Like the recently reported Sullivan & Cromwell ‘hallucinati0n’ disaster. The Failure: AI “Hallucinations” in Court The incident occurred during

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The OpenAI Defense: Inside the Wachtell Trial Team That Just Beat Elon Musk

Featured, Headlining, Law Firms, LawStars, Power Briefs, Power Firms, US Law / May 26, 2026

While Elon Musk’s legal team tried to transform a federal courtroom in Oakland, California into an existential debate about the fate of human civilization and a “stolen charity,” Sam Altman’s defenders quietly built a procedural guillotine.

A unanimous nine-member federal advisory jury took less than two hours to reject all of Musk’s claims against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman, which presumably was both surprising and disappointing for the multi-billionaire.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately adopted the verdict from the bench, dismissing the case in full. The same statute-of-limitations finding wiped out Musk’s aiding-and-abetting claim against Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI’s for-profit arm.

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Australian Firm Thomsons Bets on AI With Launch of New AI Legal Brand

Australia Law News, Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms, LawPreneur, Power Briefs / May 25, 2026

Australia’s legal market has its latest sign that AI is moving from conference-room buzzword to business model as national law firm Thomsons (formerly Thomson Geer) unveils a major rebrand alongside the launch of Faculti Lawyers, a new incorporated legal practice built to handle high-volume legal work using proprietary AI technology. The move reflects a growing

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Quinn Emanuel Hit With $3M Sanctions as Judge Blasts “Deeply Disturbing” Litigation Conduct

Briefings, Featured, Law Firms, Legal AI / May 25, 2026

A federal judge, Edward Chen (pictured) in California has ordered Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to pay nearly $3 million in sanctions, alongside additional penalties and mandatory ethics training for three of its lawyers, in a sharply worded ruling that criticises the firm’s conduct in high-stakes pharmaceutical litigation. In the order issued by Judge

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