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Perkins Coie Loses Partners as Seattle Rival Offices Launch

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A significant group of partners has left Perkins Coie to help establish new Seattle offices for Morrison Foerster and McGuireWoods, The moves land just as Perkins Coie prepares for a transformational merger with Ashurst. Reuters reports the departures involve senior partners with deep client relationships in technology and corporate work. Seattle is not a satellite […]

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Anthropic’s Legal AI Plugin Triggers ‘SaaSpocalypse’ — $50B Wiped from Legal Tech Stocks

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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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Why Was Jeffrey Epstein Trying to Get BigLaw’s Brad Karp Into Augusta National?

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The Augusta Connection: Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Want to Get Brad Karp Into America’s Most Exclusive Golf Club? When a convicted sex offender tries to work “magic” to get you into Augusta National, maybe ask yourself what you’re paying for that membership with. For Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp that is a question worth asking.

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Former MinterEllisonRuddWatts Counsel Joins Hesketh Henry

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Hesketh Henry has appointed Simon Gray as a partner to lead our banking and finance practice and further strengthen our capabilities across key sectors. Simon joins from MinterEllisonRuddWatts, where he was a Special Counsel.  He brings substantial international experience, having previously served as a Local Principal in the finance and projects team at Baker &

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BigLaw Pay – Taylor Wessing’s Top Rainmaker Banks the Legal Equivalent of a Premier League Salary

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Taylor Wessing’s highest-earning partner managed to haul in a whopping £200,000 a week in the latest financial year — that’s roughly the same as a Premier League striker on a good bonus season. It highlights just how ludicrous top-end pay has become in London’s legal market.

According to Law Society Gazette, the top-paid LLP member at Taylor Wessing managed to net that £200k-a-week haul as profits were dished out across the partnership. That kind of pay packet makes even the notorious Cravath scale seem almost modest.

Sure, mid-market firms can cry “but we’re all about work-life balance,” but when your top partner’s annual take amounts to north of £10m, it’s hard not to feel the sting of disparity.

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High Court Upholds £50,000 Legal Ombudsman Payout Against Law Firm

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The UK High Court has firmly slammed the brakes on a law firm’s attempt to undo a maximum-level award made by the Legal Ombudsman, effectively telling solicitors that you cannot pick and choose your procedural niceties when you’ve lost a complaint. The court rejected the Kent-based law firm Knights Solicitors, headed by Matthew Knight, (pictured)

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California Draws a Line on Legal AI And Lawyers Need to Pay Attention

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For years, lawyers have been quietly experimenting with generative AI while publicly pretending it was all very theoretical. That luxury just expired however has expired as the California passes a first-of-its kind bill that will doubtless be replicated in other jurisdictions.

The California Senate has passed SB 574 aimed squarely at how lawyers use artificial intelligence in legal practice. If it becomes law, California will be the first major jurisdiction to formally regulate AI use by lawyers, not with vague principles, but with obligations that cut straight to competence, ethics, and liability.

In short: lawyers can use AI, but they own the consequences. And that’s something many will find daunting given the hallucinations and legal repercussions of legal AI’s misuse.

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Britain’s Happiest Law Firm – The RollonFriday Winner – Again!

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Bristol-based Burges Salmon has claimed top spot as the UK’s happiest law firm for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year in RollOnFriday’s Best Law Firms to Work At 2025 survey, scoring an impressive 85% satisfaction rating. Staff praised the firm’s “unmatched” culture and absence of significant weak spots rollonfriday, with one junior lawyer notably declaring they’d

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Brabners’ Eight-Year Growth Streak Powers London Expansion: What Regional Firms Can Learn

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While London’s legal market dominates headlines with US firms driving salary wars and Magic Circle mergers, Brabners’ consistent growth story offers a compelling counter-narrative.

The firm’s eight consecutive years of profitable expansion demonstrates that sustainable growth doesn’t require a City postcode—it requires strategic vision, client focus, and calculated expansion timing. And leadership from people like managing partner Nik White (Pictured), who the firm described as the ‘driving force’ behind its growth.

At a time when UK law firms collectively generated £37 billion in revenue, with more than half posting double-digit increases, Brabners’ measured approach to London expansion represents a textbook case of regional strength leveraging metropolitan opportunity.
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New, Aggressive Ransomware Group Attack New Zealand Law Firm

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A New Zealand law firm is investigating a cyber incident that has seen passport scans and other sensitive data linked to staff and clients posted online by the Anubis ransomware group, a Russian-linked ransomeware group with an increasingly menacing way of attacking organisations.​ Langley Twigg Law, based in Napier, says a “small proportion” of its

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