Australia’s next generation of legal stars isn’t coming from the usual marble-hall suspects. According to Lawyers Weekly’s survey of the 2026 30 Under 30 finalists, the most common alma maters are Macquarie University and UTS. Not the sandstone aristocracy, nor the old-money pipeline. It’s a quiet rebuke to the myth that only a handful of […]
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US legal employment just hit a record. More lawyers than ever. More desks filled. More LinkedIn “thrilled to announce” posts clogging your feed. And yet, nobody believes it’s stable. The market feels like a party where the music is still playing but the host is quietly counting coats. Firms are hiring, yes, but with one
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AI is reshaping, not erasing, legal careers. Recent reports from MIT, Deloitte, Thomson Reuters and others show generative tools can automate up to a quarter of legal tasks and expose about 11.7% of jobs economy‑wide, especially routine research and drafting. Yet firms are using AI primarily to boost productivity, redesign junior roles and create new
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Back in 2022, US powerhouse Orrick decided its UK company setup process was about as efficient as a horse-drawn carriage in rush hour. So, they sicced a squad of lawyers on it, birthing a snazzy digital form via Orrick Labs, their in-house tech wizardry arm.
But here’s the surrprise – they roped in two fresh-faced associates to rub elbows with the geeks, all in the name of molding the “lawyer of the future” into a triple-threat: part esquire, part biz whisperer, part code cracker.
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Turns out, the Best-Paying Gig in Law School Isn’t law. It’s Lingerie Emily Cocea is flipping the script at the University of Michigan Law: while her classmates scramble for Big Law bonuses, she’s pocketing $1.5 million annually selling “lewd but not nude” adult content as her online alter ego, hotblockchain. Forget barista gigs or library
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As capital pours into legal tech and operations, talent acquisition could be the next frontier for private equity investment in the legal business as it may follow lawyers themselves into lateral partner hires, something already helping change the legal business.
Private equity has already reshaped the legal services industry, from backend infrastructure to litigation finance. Now there may be capital deployed to help law firms poach high-value talent, open new markets, and consolidate
The Stunning Steve Witkoff Career Moves Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor Before Steve Witkoff became a commanding presence in international real estate, and an unlikely Middle East diplomat, he was doing what thousands of law graduates do: practicing law at a New York firm, navigating contracts, and learning the intricate mechanics of deal-making. But Witkoff,
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A federal judge just handed DLA Piper a reality check, ruling the firm must face trial over allegations it fired a pregnant senior associate for seeking maternity leave. Anisha Mehta, a seventh-year intellectual property associate claims she was terminated in June 2023 when she was six months pregnant, just days after requesting maternity leave. The
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The Role of Junior Lawyers in the Age of AI Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Business Insider reports that Harvey’s chief executive Winston Weinberg, himeelf not long out of the junior lawyer blocks, told TechLaw Fest that junior lawyers remain central to the future of legal work as AI changes training and tasking. Business Insider The
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Notre Dame Embraces Harvey AI Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor Notre Dame Law claims bragging rights as the inaugural law school to integrate Harvey AI into their curriculum—while Stanford, NYU, Michigan, UCLA, and Texas quietly passed pilot phase. Students get to craft prompts, faculty get gen-AI lesson plans, and the industry… well, is still trying to
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