AI is Eating the Entry-level Lunch For years, partners have whispered about how many juniors they actually need if a machine can read 10,000 documents in an hour. This week, MinterEllison in Australia stopped whispering and started acting. The firm has effectively put the Australian legal market on notice, slashing its 2025-26 graduate intake by
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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
In what feels like the legal sector’s latest bid to colonise every available earbud, Chapman Tripp has dipped its toes into the podcast waters with The Special Conditions. Because, of course, what New Zealand’s infrastructure industry really needed was yet another podcast. Chapman Tripp have already dived into podcasting with The Aotearoa Circle (with Alana
Lawmakers Eye Caps on Social Security Benefits and COLAs – What Elder Law and Retirement Attorneys Need to Watch – And How they can market to the lucrative elder law market Social Security is barreling toward a funding cliff, and Washington policy wonks have zeroed in on a politically palatable fix to rein in the
Cleary Gottlieb announced that David Christmas will join the firm’s London office on May 5 as a partner in its top-tier Global Funds practice David’s practice focuses on fund formation across a range of alternative asset classes, and he also has significant experience in GP-led secondary transactions. “The continued expansion of our global funds and
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Law firms have finally learned to ignore the spammy emails promising “1st page of Google in 7 days.” But many still sign long-term SEO contracts that quietly lock up their website, erode their brand, and flood their intake teams with the wrong work.
The problem isn’t that firms are unsophisticated. It’s that the real risks in legal SEO tend to be buried in contracts, reporting structures, and “proprietary” pitches that sound impressive — until you try to leave.
A bad SEO partner doesn’t just waste budget. They can damage your domain and local reputation, breach advertising and ethics rules, flood intake with low-value noise, and leave you rebuilding from scratch when you try to switch providers. The danger lies not in the obvious cowboys, but in the subtler red flags — the lines in a pitch that sound efficient or clever but should make you pause.
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Davis Polk today announced the launch of a Supreme Court & Appellate practice. The new practice will be led by Kannon Shanmugam, one of the nation’s foremost Supreme Court litigators. Mr. Shanmugam and fellow leading Supreme Court litigator Masha Hansford join Davis Polk today as partners in the firm’s Washington DC office. “We are thrilled
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The Musk v Altman trial is being sold as a grudge match between two tech billionaires over the future of artificial intelligence. But the real contest is between two skilled commercial litigators. Elon Musk has turned to New York trial lawyer Steven Molo of MoloLamken who delivered his opening statement in Oakland to a nine-person jury on April 28, 2026 with Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella’s Los Angeles office playing a supporting role having been lead counsel on Musk’s original state court filings.
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Manual Ayala – Law firm AI creator and manager and owner of AI Vortex The BigLaw AI exodus everyone’s citing is six people at one firm. The bigger story is what happens when private capital decides it has a better theory of legal services than law firms do. Ten named partners have left BigLaw for
Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Diane Hazel as a partner in the Antitrust Law Group in the Denver office. Hazel is a nationally recognized antitrust litigator and former government enforcer who represents clients in complex litigation and high-stakes investigations. A former attorney at both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and
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