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Top 7 UK Divorce Lawyers for Complex Property and Real Estate Portfolios

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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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How to Recover Financial Losses After a Corporate Data Breach in 2026

Article source: Kaplan Rothstein Pruss Peraza Attorneys Image generated by Gemini A corporate data breach is no longer just an IT issue—it’s a business shutdown, with the average cost at $4.4 million globally, and U.S. breaches often exceeding $10 million. So what strategic steps should your business take after an incident? This guide outlines the

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Anthropic’s Legal Plug-Ins Signal a New Era for Legaltech

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But Lawyers Shouldn’t Cancel Their Harvey Subscriptions Yet Norma Harris Anthropic has done something the legaltech market has been quietly demanding for years and made its AI play nicely with the tools lawyers already use. KEY TAKEAWAY: Anthropic has added 12 legal features to Claude — covering contract drafting, e-discovery, research and document management —

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How Service Outages Can Trigger Contract and Liability Disputes for SaaS Providers 

Article source: Castle Garden Law Imagine waking up to a Slack channel overflowing with red alerts. While your tech team fights to bring the servers back online, a storm also brews in the legal department. In the modern business landscape, downtime is not just a technical headache but a legal minefield with financial repercussions. Many

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Akin Gump Strengthens Global Creditor-Side Franchise with Addition of Market-Leading London Restructuring Team; Neil Devaney Named Head of London Financial Restructuring

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(London) — Akin announced today that Neil Devaney, Lois Deasey and Matt Benson—all of whom previously practiced at Akin—have re-joined the firm as partners in London. The team, who have worked together for over a decade advising the world’s most sophisticated credit investors on complex cross-border restructurings and capital solutions, brings next-generation leadership and depth of experience

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The OpenAI Defense: Inside the Wachtell Trial Team That Just Beat Elon Musk

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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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From 40 Hours To 4: Is AI Forcing A $200 Billion Rewrite Of The BigLaw Billable Hour?

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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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Australian Firm Thomsons Bets on AI With Launch of New AI Legal Brand

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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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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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Jude Law, Aaron Judge, and the Legal AI Arms Race: Why Legora Is Betting Big on Star Power

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Legal AI Just Went All Hollywood The legal technology sector has seen plenty of bold claims. But very few startups have had the audacity — or the funding — to enlist a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive to sell AI software to managing partners. Swedish legal AI company Legora is doing exactly that. “We felt

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