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The Legal and Financial Implications of Consolidating Your Student Loans

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Article source: Sofi.com Student loan consolidation is often seen as a quick fix to simplify the repayment process, but it’s not always as straightforward as it seems. While consolidating your loans can make your life easier in some ways, it also comes with significant legal and financial implications that you should fully understand before making

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Sydney’s Non-Ivy League Law Schools Rule the Under-30 Club

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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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Artificial intelligence has already colonised BigLaw. Now it’s moving into the lecture theatre.

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Harvey, the legal AI platform that has become shorthand for “serious AI” in elite firms, is expanding its Law Schools Program to Australia, partnering with the University of Sydney Law School and UTS Faculty of Law. From February, students and faculty at both institutions will gain hands-on access to Harvey’s platform, learning how to deploy

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Hogan Lovells Warns on 2026’s Biggest Employment Law Risks

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Hogan Lovells’ Employment Horizons 2026 flags 2026 as a pivot year for global employment law, with political instability and AI regulation driving a sharp reset in how multinationals manage risk and workforce strategy. The report zeroes in on five pressure points: AI and data governance in the workplace, protections for vulnerable and platform workers, DEI and pay

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Is AI Erasing Legal Careers? Here’s The Short Answer

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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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Future-Proof Your Law Career – Blend Law with Tech Savvy

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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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This Law Student’s Side Hustle is Earning More Than BigLaw Partners

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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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Is This Private Equity’s Next Legal Bet?

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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

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Steve Witkoff’s Career From Lawyer to Billionaire to Peace Dealmaker

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A swearing in ceremony for Senior Adviser and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, May 6, 2025 (cropped)

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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