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Legal AI – JustFund: From Divorce Funding Pioneer to Estate Law Disruptor

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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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Sports Law Deal Sees Simpson Thacher Score Triple Partner Hire for M&A Boom

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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has strengthened its position as a go-to firm for sports lawyers and high-stakes sports M&A with a high-profile triple partner hire. Michael Kuh and Eric Geffner have joined as Partners in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and will co-head the firm’s Sports group within its Sports, Media and Entertainment offering.

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Simpson Thacher Announces Plans to Open Singapore Office

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New York and Singapore——Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP this week announced plans to open an office in Singapore with Ian Ho and Tony King named Co-Heads of the Firm’s Asia Private Equity Practice, reflecting their leadership roles and recognized strength in advising sponsors on high‑value, cross‑border transactions in the Asia-Pacific. Both Ian and Tony will

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Macfarlanes Hits £3.1m PEP – Proof That Staying Small Can Beat The Magic Circle At Its Own Game

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he 150-year-old City firm just posted profitability numbers that will make some London big law partners wince, but the strategy is deceptively simple.

While the Magic Circle firms continue their global expansion arms race, adding offices in places most partners couldn’t find on a map, Macfarlanes has been quietly doing something almost heretical in modern BigLaw: staying focused, staying small, and getting spectacularly rich in the process.
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Record £534m PE Cash Floods UK Law Firms With AI As the Rocket Fuel

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If you’re a lawyer watching your firm’s P&L or thinking about the next tech upgrade, here’s the headline you can’t ignore: private equity poured a record £534 million into UK law firms in 2024, which is a chunky 42% jump from £377m the year before. Over the past five years that’s more than £1.2 billion of fresh capital heading into the sector.

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The New Chapter for Mallesons And Why the Australian Firm Chose Independence After 14 Years with KWM

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Today, 31 March 2026, marks the official launch of Mallesons as a fully independent, top-tier Australian law firm operating in Australia and Singapore, effectively unwinding the 14-year Swiss verein partnership with China’s King & Wood that created King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in March 2012. The split was first announced on 9 December 2025 (KWM

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No Timesheets, Pure Trial Focus – How This Litigation Boutique Rewrote the BigLaw Rulebook in Just 10 Years

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What happens when elite trial lawyers walk away from BigLaw’s billable-hour machine and build a firm laser-focused on taking cases all the way to verdict?

You get Wilkinson Stekloff—a lean, highly effective trial boutique that has quietly become one of the most respected names in high-stakes litigation, without ever sending a single traditional timesheet to a client.
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Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI Again — What Florida Law Really Means for Him Now, and the Elite Lawyers Who Fight These Cases

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Three days after he stepped back onto a competitive golf course for the first time in nearly two years, Tiger Woods was in handcuffs. On Friday afternoon, just before 2 p.m., the most recognisable golfer on the planet climbed out of the passenger window of his overturned Range Rover on South Beach Road in Jupiter

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RollOnFriday Drops the 2026 Career Development Rankings – Where UK Lawyers Actually Get Ahead

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If you’re a lawyer who’s ever stared at the partnership ladder and wondered whether it’s actually bolted to the wall or just an optical illusion designed to keep you billing, RollOnFriday has done you a quiet favour.

Its latest Best Law Firms to Work At 2026 survey – drawing on thousands of anonymous responses from lawyers and support staff across the UK market – zeroes in on career development satisfaction.

This is the category that cuts through the glossy recruitment brochures and “we invest in our people” slogans, revealing who actually delivers clear progression routes, meaningful mentoring, early client exposure and merit-based advancement rather than vague promises and political games.
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