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Pogust Goodhead Ditches Founders’ Names Amid Mariana Feud

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Class action firm Pogust Goodhead is reverting to its former trading name, PGMBM, after both namesake founders demanded their surnames be removed amid a bitter dispute over the multi-billion-pound Mariana dam litigation. A firm spokesperson said the change followed stakeholder feedback: “We have listened carefully to feedback from our people, partners and those closest to

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Best Rideshare Accident Lawyers in San Diego: A Guide for Accident Victims

Article source: HHJ Trial Attorneys Getting hurt in an Uber or Lyft in San Diego is not a normal car accident claim. Under California rules created by AB 2293, the coverage available depends entirely on what the driver’s app was doing at the moment of impact. If the app was on but no ride had

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Thomson Reuters Won the Right to Its Moat Until Someone Sued Over It

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Power Points: In three days, a federal appeals court confirmed that Westlaw’s headnotes cannot be freely used to train a rival AI tool, and a California law firm filed a proposed antitrust class action alleging that Thomson Reuters’ $650 million Casetext purchase was a “killer acquisition.” One case says the content moat is legally protected

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LEGAL AI AGENTS NEED MATTER-SPECIFIC AUTHORITY BUDGETS

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LawFuel’s September 24 coverage of Casepoint’s new purpose-built agents captures where legal technology is heading. The systems are moving beyond chatbots and drafting assistants toward agents that perform relevance review, issue coding, and other steps inside live legal workflows. Casepoint’s emphasis on audit trails, performance testing, and human validation is a useful start. The next

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Takes the Police to Court, and the King Won’t Pick Up the Tab

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The Duke of York may be out, but the litigation claimant is in. Stripped of his royal titles and his dukedom last October, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has gone from pariah to a significant public-law litigant having launched judicial review proceedings against Thames Valley Police and the Central Criminal Court following his birthday arrest. The first round

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Trial Lawyer Who Bested Big Tobacco Turns 45 Years of Courtroom Battles into Legal Thriller, Poison in the System

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Hagens Berman co-founder Steve W. Berman’s novel follows a Seattle plaintiffs’ attorney as he fights for a community being poisoned and a manipulative AI companion SEATTLE — Steve Berman, managing partner and co-founder of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, has a storied 45-year legal career. He represented Holocaust survivors seeking lost family heirlooms, traveled in a

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The Legal Tech Paradox Sees Billions Invested, But 79% of Leaders Still Fly Blind on Deals

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The $1.3B Blind Spot and Why Enterprise Leaders Can’t Explain Their Own Contracts Corporate legal teams are sitting on billions of dollars in contract commitments—and almost none of them can remember why those terms were agreed to in the first place. A stark new report from legal AI provider Luminance, titled The Billion-Dollar Blind-Spot, reveals

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15 Smartest TV Lawyers Of All Time, Ranked

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TVLine’s Russell Murray undertook a recent ranking of television’s 15 Smartest TV Lawyers that catalogues everything from seersucker suits to outright obstruction of justice. It’s a job that he best legal minds on screen rarely resemble the ones in your firm’s partnership directory. Hollywood’s definition of legal genius is markedly different from what you may

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The Ex Kiwi Lawyer Who Taught Himself to Code, Raised US$75 Million and Then Gave Away the Model

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Power Points – This week, at its first user conference in San Francisco, legal AI company IVO did something none of the legal AI heavyweights have been willing to do by releasing a contract-trained AI model that anyone can download, poke at and build on, for free. (The full announcement is here.) Min-Kyu Jung, a

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From $250k Prenup Disaster to Law Grad – Tan Watson’s Fix for Australia’s Binding Financial Agreements

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A single mother of two signed a prenup agreement without proper legal advice, leading to a Binding Financial Agreement that she spent years and $250,000 in a failed bid to have it set aside, has launched a prenup service to avoid the same thing happening to others. Most people would walk away from a torrid

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