Meghan Markle’s Russian Billionaire Connection Has a Curious LawFuel Twist As we are all once again subjected to more emetic Harry-and-Meghan headline hogging, this time yet another trans-Atlantic move and apparently the possible resurrection of her acting gig, I’m energised by the idea of her appearing in Guy Ritchie’s gangster romp ‘The Gentlemen’. What ever
Power Point – Tony Buzbee’s latest River Oaks acquisition isn’t simply another trophy-home purchase. The Houston trial lawyer is assembling a two-acre estate by demolishing a 15,000-square-foot neighbouring mansion, while salvaging an estimated $4 million of its contents and building gardens in its place. It is an unusually vivid glimpse of the wealth generated at
Power Points: Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, trained using its vast stores of legal, tax and professional information. The significance is not simply that another AI model has arrived. Thomson Reuters is attempting to turn the Westlaw and Practical Law data moat into an AI moat, reducing its dependence
Law firms’ AI problem is moving from contaminated outputs to contaminated inputs. A Connecticut court has sanctioned a self-represented litigant for hiding AI-directed instructions in court filings. The case serves as an early warning for law firms: when AI reads external documents, those documents may be trying to instruct the AI. Power Points: The Connecticut
Is This Hidden AI Prompt a New Problem for Lawyers? Read More »
Google Cloud has officially fired a massive shot across the legal tech bow, unveiling Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built, agentic AI platform designed to move past generic chat prompts and directly tackle the billable grind of high-stakes practice. Developed in direct collaboration with major global law firms including Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil, and Williams
Google Goes for Big Law’s Jugular: Inside Gemini Enterprise for Legal Read More »
Oscar Tang is a big tech legal specialist who is to spread his time between Shoosmiths’ London and Brussels offices, strengthening the firm’s digital regulation and tech capability. Shoosmiths’ media release is below – Shoosmiths is pleased to announce the hire of Oscar Tang as a Partner, within the firm’s Privacy & Data team, part
Shoosmiths Hire Former Clifford Chance & Skadden Tech Lawyer Read More »
Golden Lawyer Tarnished: Sherborne’s High-Stakes Privacy Battle Ends in Humiliation Celebrity barrister David Sherborne, long the go-to “barrister to the stars” with the permanent tan, wind-swept locks and A-list Rolodex,has taken a severe bruising after the comprehensive collapse of Prince Harry’s privacy claim against Associated Newspapers. The Times reported his recent appearance in fancy Belgravia
The Oligarch Lost Under California’s Anti-SLAPP Law. So He Came Here Key Points: >>A SLAPP is not a case you lose, but one that nobody ever gets to win. The point is the legal process rather than the merit of the case – the letter, the interlocutory application, the costs order, the settlement. >>New Zealand
Four SLAPPs In A Decade Of New Zealand Judgments. LawFuel Was One Of Them Read More »
Listed legal consolidator Knights has finalised a £27 million acquisition of the commercial and private wealth practices of South East firm Moore Barlow, its second-largest deal since floating on the London Stock Exchange in 2018. Knights has been one of the higher profile listed law firm operators in the UK market, hitting £207m revenue. Knights
Listed Legal Disrupter Completes Second Major Law Firm Acquisition Read More »
Kirkland & Ellis, the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, is putting half a billion dollars of its own money into a proprietary AI platform. That’s a big bold move (what else would you expect from Kirklands?) which is not to keep up with Harvey or Legora, or to shave a few hours off due diligence. It’s something far more valuable.
The plan is to bottle the firm’s “collective intelligence” and put it in every lawyer’s hands and, in the process, lean hard into the long-predicted death of the billable hour.
Log in to read –
Kirkland’s $500 Million AI Bet Isn’t About Speed. It’s About Killing the Billable Hour Read More »
