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£230 Million Divorce Deal Shows Coercive Control Nullifies Consent

Divorce & Family Law, Featured, LawStars, UK Law / July 7, 2025

How a landmark UK ruling Reframed Post-nups and Power Plays A landmark divorce judgment from the UK Family Court has delivered the third-largest financial award in English legal history – £230.78 million – and, more significantly, a strong judicial recognition of coercive behaviour and the vital role legal advice plays in safeguarding post-nuptial agreements. In […]

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Why Elon Musk’s Favourite Lawyer Alex Spiro is Done Just Lawyering

Headlining, LawPreneur, LawStars / July 6, 2025

What Next For The Star Lawyer? Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Alex Spiro—the courtroom maestro who’s played legal defense for heavy hitters like Tom Brady, Elon Musk, Jay‑Z (yeah, that Jay‑Z), Alec Baldwin, and even WeWork’s Adam Neumann—is telling Emily Chang on The Circuit that he’s officially bored. He wants to jump into something bigger than law.

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Meet the Hollywood Lawyer Who Saved the Lakers and Clippers – And Now Represents Rupert Murdoch

LawStars / June 30, 2025

From Britney Spears to Rupert Murdoch – Inside Adam Streisand’s Courtroom Victories Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor Adam Streisand doesn’t just practice law – he writes the playbook for Hollywood’s biggest legal dramas, which now includes Rupert Murdoch in his ‘Succession’-style battle with the media mogul’s family as well as a roster of celebrity clients

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Linklaters Extend Terms for Senior Partners

LawStars, Press Releases, UK Law / June 27, 2025

Linklaters today announces that the global partnership has voted to extend Aedamar Comiskey’s and Paul Lewis’ terms as Senior Partner and Firmwide Managing Partner respectively until 2029. Their terms were extended with overwhelming support following another year of record results, including the biggest year-on-year increase in profit in more than 20 years and significant revenue

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Sunny Days Ahead As Baker McKenzie Names New Global Chair

Big Law, Featured, LawStars / June 10, 2025

Sunny mann lawfuel - new top lawyer at Baker McKenzie

Sunny Mann Takes the Helm at Baker McKenzie International trade, compliance, and investigations guru Sunny Mann is stepping into the role of Global Chair, succeeding Milton Cheng this October. Sunny Mann is a frequent flyer on the international law circuit. Based in London but with stamps in his legal passport from Washington DC, New York,

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Kirkland’s Big Hiring Spree Nets Major Litigators

Big Law, Headlining, LawStars / May 28, 2025

Kirkland & Ellis just made a major power move in the mass torts space, snagging a heavyweight 13-partner team from King & Spalding that’s sure to shake up the litigation landscape.

The star of this lateral hire is Kristen Fournier, (pictured) who Kirkland is calling “among the most distinguished mass tort litigators practicing today” – and honestly, her track record backs up that claim.

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Cleary Gottlieb Announce Return of Star Partner From Goldman Sachs

LawStars, Press Releases / May 23, 2025

Cleary Gottlieb announced today that Humayun Khalid returned to the firm as a partner in its growing Capital Solutions and Private Credit practice. Humayun will focus on private credit origination, an area which has seen significant growth over the past five years. “We are thrilled to welcome Humayun back to Cleary,” said Cleary Managing Partner

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Kim Kardashian Moves From Reality Star to Legal Reality—She’s Finally Done It

LawStars, Press Releases / May 23, 2025

Kim K. Passes Law School Kim Kardashian has officially graduated from law school. This is the actual, bar-bound, passed-the-baby-bar, six-year legal grind kind of law school. The 44-year-old Skims mogul, reality TV icon, and now certifiable legal scholar has completed California’s Law Office Study Program, the unorthodox alternative to law school that involves apprenticing under

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Keegan Jones Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for Free Māori Legal Clinics

LawStars, New Zealand Law News / May 21, 2025

Kiwi Lawyer Makes Forbes Under 30 List Keegan Jones, a 26-year-old lawyer from Northland, has been named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Asia in the social impact category. He is the only New Zealander to appear in that category this year. Jones founded a charitable trust that offers free legal clinics

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Paul Clement: The Undisputed Supreme Court Superstar Taking On Trump

Featured, LawStars, Press Releases / May 18, 2025

The Lawyer Taking on Trump Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Paul Clement may be the most prolific Supreme Court advocate of our time. Clement has argued more cases before the nation’s highest court since 2000 than any other lawyer. And he’s still in the trenches of today’s biggest constitutional battles such as his latest case

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