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Quinn Emanuel Joins the Fray: London Juniors Now Pocket £189k as the Pay Wars Heat Up

Big Law Salary Scale, Featured, UK Law / June 5, 2026

Hot on the heels of Milbank breaking the long freeze and kicking off the 2026 pay war stateside, London litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel has cranked up its associate pay by 5% across the board. Effective 1 July 2026, newly qualified lawyers in the firm’s City office will now take home £189,000 (up from £180k), with […]

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Sex, Secrecy, and AI -How the Eleanor Ross Scandal Blew Up ‘Confidential’ Judicial Discipline

Featured, Law Firms, US Law / May 30, 2026

This is more than a ‘sex scandal’ case and shows that standard redaction and anonymisation techniques are no match for AI‑enhanced pattern matching Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The “sex in chambers” angle was always going to dominate: a federal judge carrying on an affair with a senior Atlanta police official, including sexual encounters in

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Anthropic’s Legal Plug-Ins Signal a New Era for Legaltech

Briefings, Featured, Law Firm Management, LawPreneur, Legal AI, Power Briefs, US Law / May 30, 2026

But Lawyers Shouldn’t Cancel Their Harvey Subscriptions Yet Norma Harris Anthropic has done something the legaltech market has been quietly demanding for years and made its AI play nicely with the tools lawyers already use. KEY TAKEAWAY: Anthropic has added 12 legal features to Claude — covering contract drafting, e-discovery, research and document management —

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BigLaw AI Blunder: Pinsent Masons Refers Itself to SRA After Court “Hallucinations”

Briefings, Featured, UK Law / May 26, 2026

In a case described as a “public admonishment” for the international firm, Pinsent Masons and three of its solicitors have been referred to the SRA following a series of AI-driven failures that twice misled the court. Like the recently reported Sullivan & Cromwell ‘hallucinati0n’ disaster. The Failure: AI “Hallucinations” in Court The incident occurred during

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The OpenAI Defense: Inside the Wachtell Trial Team That Just Beat Elon Musk

Featured, Headlining, Law Firms, LawStars, Power Briefs, Power Firms, US Law / May 26, 2026

While Elon Musk’s legal team tried to transform a federal courtroom in Oakland, California into an existential debate about the fate of human civilization and a “stolen charity,” Sam Altman’s defenders quietly built a procedural guillotine.

A unanimous nine-member federal advisory jury took less than two hours to reject all of Musk’s claims against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman, which presumably was both surprising and disappointing for the multi-billionaire.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately adopted the verdict from the bench, dismissing the case in full. The same statute-of-limitations finding wiped out Musk’s aiding-and-abetting claim against Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI’s for-profit arm.

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Australian Firm Thomsons Bets on AI With Launch of New AI Legal Brand

Australia Law News, Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms, LawPreneur, Power Briefs / May 25, 2026

Australia’s legal market has its latest sign that AI is moving from conference-room buzzword to business model as national law firm Thomsons (formerly Thomson Geer) unveils a major rebrand alongside the launch of Faculti Lawyers, a new incorporated legal practice built to handle high-volume legal work using proprietary AI technology. The move reflects a growing

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Quinn Emanuel Hit With $3M Sanctions as Judge Blasts “Deeply Disturbing” Litigation Conduct

Briefings, Featured, Law Firms, Legal AI / May 25, 2026

A federal judge, Edward Chen (pictured) in California has ordered Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to pay nearly $3 million in sanctions, alongside additional penalties and mandatory ethics training for three of its lawyers, in a sharply worded ruling that criticises the firm’s conduct in high-stakes pharmaceutical litigation. In the order issued by Judge

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Trainee To Equity Partner: The 12-Year BigLaw Timeline, Mapped Honestly

Big Law, Featured, Featured, Law Firms, Law Job News, US Law / May 24, 2026

Roughly one in twenty associates who start at a top US firm will make equity partner there.

That is the number nobody puts in the recruiting brochure. The brochure says the partnership track is “approximately eight to ten years.” That is technically true and practically misleading — because it describes the timeline of people who finish, not the probability of finishing.

The honest answer is that the BigLaw partnership track is a twelve-year funnel with five stages, four exit ramps, and a survival rate that would not pass muster as a clinical trial outcome.

Here is what each stage actually looks like.

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Legora Hires Atlassian CMO Star To Sell AI To Sceptical Lawyers

Featured, Legal AI / May 22, 2026

Tom Borman Lawyers are trained to pull apart arguments, not sign up for AI hype. Swedish legal AI startup Legora has just hired someone whose job is to change that, according to a report from BusinessInsider. The company has appointed former Atlassian marketing leader Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir as its first chief marketing officer, handing her

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The Partner Who Signed the Brief: Inside Morgan & Morgan’s $5,000 AI Lesson

Featured, Law Firms, Lawyers, Legal AI, US Law / May 21, 2026

If you wanted a single case to put on the cover of every CLE brochure for the next five years, Wadsworth v. Walmart Inc. would do nicely. A hoverboard explodes in a Wyoming family’s home. The family sues. Their lawyers — from America’s loudest plaintiffs’ firm, no less — file a motion in limine citing nine cases. Eight of them do not exist. They have never existed. They were, in the now-familiar verb of our age, hallucinated.

And so on 24 February 2025, U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin handed down what is shaping up to be the defining American sanctions order of the generative-AI era. Rudwin Ayala — the Morgan & Morgan associate who actually fed the brief into the firm’s in-house AI tool, charmingly named MX2.law — lost his pro hac vice admission and was fined $3,000.

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