The latest round of Biglaw associate salary increases has been unusually quiet this summer, with only a handful of firms matching Milbank’s elevated scale. Ice Miller has now joined the fray but with conditions – it is only for its New York associates, and the higher paychecks won’t arrive until next year. The firm announced […]
Ashurst’s exit from Canberra has handed mid-tier rival Thomsons a major windfall, vaulting it into second place among firms advising the Commonwealth. In early 2025, Ashurst jettisoned roughly 60 staff and seven partners from its Canberra office and stepped back from the bulk of its Commonwealth government work, as a result of margin pressure and
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Jeremy Diamond, founding partner at Diamond & Diamond. Source: Diamond & Diamond Search for Jeremy Diamond lawyer, and you’re usually after one of two answers: who he is, and what kind of cases he takes on. The short version? He’s a Canadian lawyer and founding partner whose practice centers on plaintiff personal injury litigation in
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Private equity-backed Adeptio Law Group has completed its second law firm acquisition of the year, continuing its plan to build one of the Midlands’ largest regional legal groups in UK law. Its founding firm, FBC Manby Bowdler, has acquired Worcester practice The Specialist Law Group, operator of the The Employment Solicitor and The Company Solicitor
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BigLaw Pay vs Boutique Pay Scale Sonia Hickey The boutiques are once again teaching BigLaw a lesson in how to spend money on associates with New York boutique Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider, a New York-founded antitrust and litigation shop, is dishing out special bonuses of $10,000 to $25,000, payable by 15 July, per a 23
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For Pamir Ehsas (pictured), co-founder of AI-powered law firm Moritz, a tech-trained former Oxford lawyer who advised Open AI among others, Moritz Legal is the fast-turnaround, non-billable hour perfect law firm.
Moritz is pitching itself as an AI‑native, YC‑backed alternative to Big Law: fixed fees, fast turnaround, senior lawyers only, and software claiming to do most of the heavy lifting so humans focus on judgment.
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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
JustFund is an Australian legal finance startup that has rapidly evolved from a niche divorce funding provider into a dual-purpose lender targeting both family law and estate administration. Founded in 2022 by Sydney lawyers Jack O’Donnell and Andy O’Connor alongside fintech entrepreneur Craig Carroll, (pictured) the company has positioned itself as Australia’s first and only dedicated provider of legal funding for both family law and estate matters. As we reported last year, the company has also expanded to the New Zealand legal market.
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Anthropic’s Legal AI Plugin Exposes the Vulnerability of the Legal Tech Emperor’s Wardrobe The legal software establishment just experienced its worst week since the internet arrived—and this time, they can’t buy their way out of trouble. Barbara Napolitano When Anthropic dropped its legal plugin for Claude Cowork on January 30th, it wasn’t just another product
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FTI’s Ex-Star Economist, Goldman and the Talent War That Became a Lawsuit FTI Consulting just reminded everyone that professional services isn’t so much a marketplace as an all-out battlefield where poaching a rainmaker morphs into a fiduciary duel. The firm’s blockbuster lawsuit against its departed top economist isn’t just paperwork, but a declaration that talent
