Stevens & Bolton expands private wealth disputes team with partner hire Alexa Payet Leading PWD lawyer Alexa Payet’s arrival from Michelmores follows 9 internal promotions reflecting the firm’s continued investment in talent and growth 1 June 2026 – Independent law firm Stevens & Bolton has today announced the appointment of Alexa Payet as a Partner in […]
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Contributed LawFuel article Divorce cases involving complex property and real estate portfolios can be difficult because the assets are often valuable, illiquid, tax-sensitive, and spread across different ownership structures. A couple may own a family home, investment properties, commercial premises, sites with planning potential, holiday homes, farms, offshore property, or assets held through companies and
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For clients, a law firm is supposed to be the steady hand guiding them through bureaucracy, deadlines and legal complexity. For hundreds of clients of Melbourne-based Gold Migration Lawyers, it has become quite the opposite. The law firm has gone into liquidation, leaving visa applications unresolved, client funds in dispute and many migrants scrambling to
5 Law Firm Marketing Website Winning Moves Rachel Williams, LawFuel contributor If you’ve seen one law firm website, you’ve seen approximately 847 of them. Dark blue header. Stock photo of a gavel. A tagline that says “Experienced. Trusted. Results.” A partner page where everyone looks like they’re suppressing mild indigestion. And an “About Us” page
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This is more than a ‘sex scandal’ case and shows that standard redaction and anonymisation techniques are no match for AI‑enhanced pattern matching Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The “sex in chambers” angle was always going to dominate: a federal judge carrying on an affair with a senior Atlanta police official, including sexual encounters in
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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While Elon Musk’s legal team tried to transform a federal courtroom in Oakland, California into an existential debate about the fate of human civilization and a “stolen charity,” Sam Altman’s defenders quietly built a procedural guillotine.
A unanimous nine-member federal advisory jury took less than two hours to reject all of Musk’s claims against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and President Greg Brockman, which presumably was both surprising and disappointing for the multi-billionaire.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers immediately adopted the verdict from the bench, dismissing the case in full. The same statute-of-limitations finding wiped out Musk’s aiding-and-abetting claim against Microsoft, an early backer of OpenAI’s for-profit arm.
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Norma Harris The short answer: When AI cuts a doc review from 40 hours to 4, BigLaw does not lose 90% of the revenue — at least not yet. Firms are absorbing the productivity gain into higher effective rates, expanding scope, and pushing the saved hours onto more matters. Aggregate Am Law 100 revenue rose
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Australia’s legal market has its latest sign that AI is moving from conference-room buzzword to business model as national law firm Thomsons (formerly Thomson Geer) unveils a major rebrand alongside the launch of Faculti Lawyers, a new incorporated legal practice built to handle high-volume legal work using proprietary AI technology. The move reflects a growing
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A federal judge, Edward Chen (pictured) in California has ordered Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to pay nearly $3 million in sanctions, alongside additional penalties and mandatory ethics training for three of its lawyers, in a sharply worded ruling that criticises the firm’s conduct in high-stakes pharmaceutical litigation. In the order issued by Judge
