Legal AI Just Went All Hollywood The legal technology sector has seen plenty of bold claims. But very few startups have had the audacity — or the funding — to enlist a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive to sell AI software to managing partners. Swedish legal AI company Legora is doing exactly that. “We felt […]
The acquisition adds a critical new layer to Legora’s platform: real-time visibility into regulatory change. Regulation is growing more complex, more global, and more consequential every year and the tools available to legal and compliance teams to track it have failed to keep pace. Graceview was built to replace the patchwork of fragmented, noisy sources
Smaller class, sustained demand, and a notable dip in BigLaw and government hiring: what the latest ABA numbers actually mean for law firm recruiting and your next career move.
The legal job market held firm for the Class of 2025, but the full picture is more nuanced than the headline rate suggests. According to employment data released April 22, 2026 by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 87.7% of 2025 graduates from Council-accredited law schools were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Admission Required/Anticipated or J.D. Advantage positions as of March 16, 2026 — roughly ten months after graduation.
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Former Berwin Leighton Paisner boss Neville Eisenberg has done what an increasing number of senior law firm leaders seem unable to resist: he’s launched a consultancy.
After nearly two decades at the top of BLP and a stint running alternative services at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Eisenberg has unveiled ClarityX Advisory, a strategy outfit aimed squarely at law firms trying to survive what everyone politely calls “market disruption.”
The latest move indicates that AI, private equity money, and client pressure show that the old model is wobbling.
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Rachel Williams We all know that every billable minute counts in BigLaw, but the biggest productivity killers often hide in plain sight: glacial tech that turns simple tasks into ordeals. A recent viral rant captured it perfectly — one associate reported it took a staggering 13 minutes just to open a single Word document from
Sheppard has continued its aggressive expansion of its high-stakes patent litigation and trials practice, hiring a 15-lawyer intellectual property team from Perkins Coie, the firm announced Thursday. This follows the departures from the Seattle office earlier in the year. The new partners include Veronica Ascarrunz, Robin Brewer, Andrew Klein, Tom Millikan, and Joseph Reid. The
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Manual Ayala – Law firm AI creator and manager and owner of AI Vortex The BigLaw AI exodus everyone’s citing is six people at one firm. The bigger story is what happens when private capital decides it has a better theory of legal services than law firms do. Ten named partners have left BigLaw for
DLA Piper is scrapping its Swiss verein structure and pulling the operation under a single leadership umbrella after partners in both its US and International LLPs voted overwhelmingly in favour.
The firm is betting that a more unified structure will make it easier to chase high-value, cross-border work and compete for top-tier talent without the usual internal friction that verein structures quietly encourage.
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In yet another high-profile reminder that AI “hallucinations” remain a clear and present danger to even the most sophisticated law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C) has formally apologised to New York federal bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn after a major court filing in the Prince Group restructuring contained fabricated citations and misquoted the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
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BigLaw associates are earning more than ever yet they’re leaving faster than firms can replace them. Despite an 8.2% average compensation increase across U.S. law firms in 2025, associate attrition rates remain stubbornly high and, in some metrics, are climbing.
The human and financial toll is mounting, and the structural drivers in law firms go far deeper than salary. We took at look at some of the recent stats and surveys to identify whast is happening acccording to the people who should know these things.
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