Freshfields has continued its seemingly relentless Wall Street recruitment drive, hiring leading M&A partner Keith Hallam in New York from White & Case. Hallam previously spent almost a decade at Cravath, where he built a reputation advising on some of the market’s biggest corporate transactions before joining White & Case in 2022. His arrival further […]
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Merged firm delivers on strategy HSF Kramer has posted robust first-year results following its high-profile merger, reporting global revenue of $2.4 billion (£1.8 billion) for the financial year ending 30 April 2026. The figures cover a full 12 months of legacy Herbert Smith Freehills performance alongside 11 months of legacy Kramer Levin, following the combination
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The English High Court has handed Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe a decisive win, granting summary judgment and striking out a $74 million negligence claim against its London office on limitation grounds.
In a ruling that turned heavily on timing, Mr Justice Cotter found that the claimants, a Nigerian company and its two owners, had failed to bring their case within the required statutory period, describing their delay in pursuing the claim as “truly extraordinary.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 20, 2026 — Lathrop GPM and HG Law today announced their combination, effective January 1, 2027. HG Law is a premier intellectual property firm with offices in San Jose, New York and London. The combination brings 27 attorneys and 23 patent agents and technical advisors from HG Law, increasing Lathrop GPM’s attorney
Sonia Hickey Andy Burnham wasted little time putting his own stamp on government, and the legal establishment was among the first casualties. Within hours of entering Downing Street, the new prime minister swept aside some of the most recognisable legal figures of the Starmer years, with Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy (pictured)
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Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor Norm Ai’s latest funding round does more than crown the New York‑based startup as a $1.2 billion legal tech unicorn but displays full‑stack model for delivering complex legal work that sits very close to Big Law’s core business. The legal AI ‘infrastructure provider’, founded by John Nay (pictured), sits with
How to Build a Solo Law Practice in 2026 (Field Guide) Norma Harris, LawFuel contributing editor Building a solo or small firm in 2026 is cheaper and more feasible than it has ever been, and the same three things still sink new practices: trust-accounting mistakes, running out of cash, and a marketing plan that amounts
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has recruited highly regarded financial services and regulatory lawyer Emma Rachmaninov from Freshfields, further expanding the firm’s London financial team. Rachmaninov will co-head its European financial services and funds regulatory team. Media release is here – Simpson Thacher has announced that Emma Rachmaninov will join the Firm’s European Funds Practice in
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For three decades, law firm marketing has been built around being “known”: directories, awards, rankings, pitch documents and carefully honed websites. That world hasn’t disappeared but the way clients first meet your firm has. And a new UK report on law marketing in the age of AI has thrown an interesting light on what your firm needs to do to be recognized by AI.
First impressions of law firms is increasingly formed not by your homepage, but by an AI system summarising everything it can find about you into a single paragraph, before the prospective client has clicked a thing.
In that world, the question stops being “Does my page rank?” and becomes “When an AI assembles a view of my firm, is that view distinctive, credible and worth recommending?”.
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UK-based Michelmores is one of the law firms who are deploying a newbreed of executive who are not litigators, rainmakers or tax specialists but chief innovation officers, chief technology and AI officers, legal operations directors and heads of digital transformation. The titles differ, but law firms are scrambling to keep pace with the industry’s technology
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