Four years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the battlefield has long since expanded beyond territory. Courts, treaties and international accountability now matter just as much as tanks. This week, Ukraine made that point formally. London-based partner Julianne Hughes-Jennett of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been awarded the Order of Merit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, recognising […]
Martyn Day didn’t build Leigh Day into one of the most feared claimant firms in the country by playing nice. But even he’s raising an eyebrow at the American cavalry now thundering through the Royal Courts of Justice.
“From my experience,” the Leigh Day co-founder told The Times this week, “American firms tend to be more aggressive.”
“With the English firms, you know the lawyers… you can have sensible conversations with them and, where necessary, you can do deals and sort things out in a sensible, proper way.”
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Article source: Buzbee Law Firm The Power of the Courtroom Beyond Verdicts High-stakes trial lawyers operate in a space where law meets public consequence. Their work does not end with a verdict. In many cases, it begins there. When powerful institutions are challenged in court, the outcomes can influence policy, corporate behavior, and public trust.
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Sidley Austin has made its second raid on Lathams in London and the 12th since 2024 as it moves to further strengthen its private equity, leveraged finance, capital markets, and real estate capabilities in London. The firm hired James Inness, who was the co-head of capital markets at Latham & Watkins’ London office, as part
A security flaw that allowed Microsoft’s AI assistant to bypass privacy safeguards and summarise confidential emails is more than a tech inconvenience. For law firms and legal departments, it is a wake-up call. Microsoft has confirmed that a bug in its Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat tool allowed the AI assistant to access and summarise emails
Linklaters continues its aggressive U.S. expansion, highlighted by the recent February 2026 lease of an additional 48,000 square feet at 1290 Avenue of the Americas in New York, following a 6,500 square foot addition in October 2025, pushing total NY space beyond 150,000 square feet at approximately $100 per square foot. This move, driven by
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The war for legal talent never really ended. It just got more expensive with big law partner pay hitting record levels, but law firm retention bonuses becoming increasingly important as talent retention retains top level importance for law firms. While headline-grabbing salary bumps and biglaw salary information dominate the conversation, the quieter – and often
While public markets flinch at every new AI headline, Melbourne-based Affinda is doing something unfashionable in tech right now: raising money, growing revenue, and selling actual products lawyers use.
In a fresh $25 million funding round, Affinda lifted its valuation to $220 million, up from $120 million in mid-2024. The round was led again by Toll Group founder Paul Little, with backing from Ellerston Capital’s Ashok Jacob and former MYOB and REA Group CEO Greg Ellis.
No meme tokens. No vaporware. Just document AI doing unglamorous but billable work.
From “Legal AI Tool” to AI-Native Infrastructure
Affinda isn’t trying to replace lawyers with chatbots. It’s doing something far more dangerous to incumbents: making legal work faster, cheaper and harder to justify billing for inefficiency.
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The legal profession has a mathematics problem. Women now constitute the majority of law school graduates, comprise over half of associates at major firms, and represent 47% of all lawyers globally.
Yet when the elevator reaches the executive floor, the numbers tell a different story: just two in ten law firm leaders are women (although when they do reach the top women legal leaders are making a difference).
The latest research from the International Bar Association’s Raising the Bar: Women in Law project confirms what many practitioners have long suspected – the profession is experiencing a spectacular leakage of female talent somewhere between the mid-career mark and the managing partner’s office.
The Numbers That Should Keep Managing Partners Awake
The IBA’s December 2024 Progress Report, synthesizing data from 11 countries across five continents, reveals the uncomfortable arithmetic:
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Lawhive, the legaltech company transforming how consumer legal services are delivered, has raised $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate its expansion across the US and scale its model of building the world’s first AI-native consumer law firm. The round was led by Mitch Rales, co-founder of Danaher Corporation, with participation from TQ Ventures,
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