A recent article on AI legal tools provides a reality check for law firms that still treat artificial intelligence as either futuristic nonsense or something the IT team is “looking into.” The message in the article in Software Advice by content analyst Marcela Gava (pictured) is blunt: AI is already embedded in mainstream legal software, […]
Forget probabilistic guesswork – this London outfit promises auditable, flight-simulator precision for rule-heavy work like immigration. Second tech-led firm to clear the regulator after Garfield.Law, but the first to bet everything on verifiable legal logic rather than clever chatbots. The UK Solicitors Regulation Authority has just done something quietly revolutionary – it has authorised a
You know that moment when a client looks at a bill and just… nods? Christopher Clark, a litigator at a boutique law firm, got one of those last year, the WSJ reported. He’d hiked his rate to a once-absurd $3,000 an hour. The client’s reply? “Congratulations. That’s the highest we’ve seen.”
A year earlier, $2,500 felt like the ceiling. Now it looks almost cute.
According to Persuit’s latest billing data, senior partners at the biggest 50 firms pushed rates up an average 16% in 2025. Some are now openly quoting $3,400 an hour. And that’s before you get to the real outliers.
In bankruptcy filings, Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis have partners clearing the $3,000 mark this year. Reuters reported in January that Susman Godfrey’s Bill Carmody and Neal Manne quietly set their 2026 rack rate at $4,000 an hour — up from $3,000 last year. (Lawfuel broke the same story and called it “Four Thousand an Hour Arrives in US Big Law Billing.”)
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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For the law firm managing the defence of Peter Mandleson — Mishcon de Reya — today’s arrest represents a decisive escalation. What began as a high-profile reputation management brief has become one of the most significant criminal defence instructions in the firm’s history.
Mishcon de Reya was first reported to be representing Mandelson by The Lawyer earlier this month, with Johanna Walsh (pictured) head of the firm’s white-collar crime and investigations practice, leading the team.
The choice of Walsh, recognised by Legal 500 as a first-tier practitioner in serious and organised crime and by Who’s Who Legal as a Global Leader in Investigations, signalled from the outset that Mandelson and his advisers anticipated criminal exposure well before today’s arrest.
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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
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Legal AI heavyweight Harvey has snapped up one of the UK’s most recognisable legal innovation figures, hiring Joe Cohen from Charles Russell Speechlys as a legal innovation partner.
Cohen joined Charles Russell Speechlys in 2023 after a high-profile stint at Dentons, where he served as head of innovation. At CSR, he built the firm’s Advanced Client Solutions team from a standing start to around 25 specialists and oversaw the rollout of Harvey itself. Which is either ironic or efficient, depending on your tolerance for legal tech symmetry.
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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
