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Latham Raids MoFo London Boss in Tech-Heavy M&A Play

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Latham & Watkins has hired a three-partner M&A and private equity team from Morrison & Foerster in London, led by MoFo’s former City boss Andrew Boyd, in a move that underlines the firm’s appetite for tech-heavy deal work and high-end public company mandates.

Boyd, previously managing partner of MoFo’s 60-lawyer London office, is joined by fellow partners Gary Brown and newly-minted partner Luke Rowland, all three decamping to Latham’s corporate bench in the City.
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The Partner Who Signed the Brief: Inside Morgan & Morgan’s $5,000 AI Lesson

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If you wanted a single case to put on the cover of every CLE brochure for the next five years, Wadsworth v. Walmart Inc. would do nicely. A hoverboard explodes in a Wyoming family’s home. The family sues. Their lawyers — from America’s loudest plaintiffs’ firm, no less — file a motion in limine citing nine cases. Eight of them do not exist. They have never existed. They were, in the now-familiar verb of our age, hallucinated.

And so on 24 February 2025, U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin handed down what is shaping up to be the defining American sanctions order of the generative-AI era. Rudwin Ayala — the Morgan & Morgan associate who actually fed the brief into the firm’s in-house AI tool, charmingly named MX2.law — lost his pro hac vice admission and was fined $3,000.

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Freshfields Names New Global Client Partner and UK Managing Partner

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Global law firm Freshfields has named Mark Sansom as its new global Client Partner, with Victoria Sigeti appointed as the firm’s new UK Managing Partner. Sansom will have responsibility for shaping and driving the firm’s global client strategy across practice groups and sectors. He will continue his client work in full alongside undertaking the new

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How Many Lawyers Are in the US? (2026 Statistics)

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1,374,720 Active Lawyers in 2026 – Salaries, Demographics, State Rankings & BigLaw Trends Sonia Hickey, LawFuel contributing editor Knowing how many lawyers are in the US tells you more than just a headcount. It shows where the legal job market is heating up, how the profession is shifting demographically, what new graduates can realistically expect

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Neal Katyal, Harvey AI and the Supreme Court TED‑Gate

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Neal Katyal, the superstar legal hotshot, set off a minor legal‑Twitter firestorm by posting a victory‑lap tweet and TED‑talk teaser crediting a bespoke AI tool, “Harvey,” with helping him win the Supreme Court tariffs case—a bit of self‑branding that many lawyers found tone‑deaf and over‑the‑top. A subsequent reader poll by David Lat found roughly 70

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Cravath News – Elad Roisman Named to Washingtonian’s List of “Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2026” 

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On May 5, 2026, Cravath partner Elad Roisman was named to Washingtonian’s list of “Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2026,” which recognizes the “power players who work to understand and shape rapidly shifting priorities across the capital.” Elad was highlighted for his reputation and work in the Banking & Finance category.   Elad, who

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Working in International Aid and Humanitarian Law: Here’s What You Need to Know

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Article source: LBMW charity solicitors When considering an International and Humanitarian Law career, you need to be aware of the nature of the challenges and rewards in this profession.  The field of law is important in addressing the legal aspects of global crises, whether in military conflicts or in refugee protection.  International aid lawyers are

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KC Under Fire: When Silk Meets Substance — And Politics

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Lady Deborah Chambers KC does not shy away from a fight, which is, one supposes, rather the point of her opinion piece. Writing in the New Zealand Herald this week, the Auckland barrister and silk delivers a crisp, combative argument: the KC rank exists to signal courtroom excellence, full stop. The 2019 addition of a

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Leading Litigator Joins Paul Weiss From Chicago Boutique

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Adam L. Hoeflich, a nationally recognized courtroom lawyer with a distinguished practice, has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. He will be joining the New York office. Hoeflich joins from a prominent litigation boutique. “Adam has a 30-plus-year track record of successful

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