Every legal marketing newsletter in your inbox has now run the same story. Google’s AI Overviews are eating law firm websites. Legal queries trigger them more than any other industry. Traffic is down nineteen percent even where rankings held. Clicks to the top organic result have fallen fifty eight percent. In other words – act
There is no causal link between the two events. That is precisely why they matter. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan had the sort of week that gets discussed at partner retreats for years, through gritted teeth and very painful memories. On Thursday 3 September, Reuters reported that Quinn Emanuel and McDermott Will & Schulte had
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Private equity-backed Lawfront is stepping harder on the consolidation accelerator, adding two more regional law firms as its acquisition count reaches 18 in five years and projected group revenue hits £175 million. The fast-growing UK legal services group has announced that Fisher Jones Greenwood has acquired 35-strong South Essex firm Giles Wilson, while Lancashire-based Farleys
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Article source: Banks & Brower Law The requirement to comply with workplace immigration issues was long perceived by companies as something that did not require immediate attention and could be considered a mere formality during employee onboarding. In 2026, however, the legal environment related to employment authorization has changed dramatically. U.S. government agencies have become
Ratepayers across Tauranga are picking up a legal and professional advice bill exceeding $1.2 million in the aftermath of the fatal Mauao (Mount Maunganui) landslide, highlighting the mounting exposure and legal complexities facing local authorities in disaster response.
Figures presented to the Tauranga City Council (TCC) reveal that responding to the tragic 22 January 2026 slip, which claimed six lives at the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park, has so far cost more than $5 million from the council’s $7 million emergency risk reserves.
Of that, professional advice and legal review expenses have rapidly spiralled past $1.7 million, with external counsel and legal support alone accounting for well over $1.2 million.
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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citi are asking a rather uncomfortable question of their outside lawyers: if AI is making legal work faster, why aren’t the bills getting smaller?
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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup are pushing major law firms to demonstrate how AI efficiencies are being reflected in their legal bills.
Citi has begun asking firms bidding for work to explain their AI-related savings, while Morgan Stanley is moving much of its outside legal work toward competitive bidding and alternative fee arrangements.
The pressure goes directly to the BigLaw leverage model, where armies of associates traditionally generated large volumes of billable hours.
New LexisNexis research shows 94 per cent of lawyers now use AI for legal work and 55 per cent expect AI to change law firm billing.
The battle is shifting from whether lawyers should use AI to a much more interesting question: who gets the financial benefit?
For the past few years BigLaw has been enthusiastically telling anyone within PowerPoint range that artificial intelligence will transform legal practice and clients have been listening.
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Ogletree Deakins, the specialist labor law firm has expanded its international network by opening a nine-lawyer team in Moterrey, Mexico with lawyers joining from labor law heavyweight Littler. The firm’s media announcement is below – MONTERREY, Mexico – September 2, 2026 – Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management,
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Power Point: South African lawyer and former politician Mathews Phosa pursued an unusual approach to legal fees: helping mining communities secure and develop mineral rights and, in some cases, taking equity rather than conventional fees. Decades later, his business interests stretch across mining, forestry, logistics and other sectors, although claims about the precise size of
Author – Marco Antonio Gonçalves, Legal Consultant* For more than two decades, corporate legal leaders have been telling their external counsel what they expect, yet the disconnect persists. Perhaps the problem lies less in the Law and more in how value is created and delivered. Is it possible to narrow the expectation gap between legal
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Sydney solicitor has demanded that the Australian Financial Review remove an article naming barristers who have repeatedly applied for silk, arguing the paper has turned a selection process closed to the public into a searchable record of rejection.
Jacob Carswell-Doherty, of Jake McKinley, (pictured) wrote to AFR editor-in-chief James Chessell on 28 August, the day after publication of “Meet the barristers who apply for silk year in, year out” by legal affairs reporter Janek Drevikovsky.
His complaint is not that the AFR examined the silk selection process. It is the table naming this year’s applicants and setting beside each name the number of times that person has applied since 2016.
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