The rise of “luxury lawyers” signals how seriously the world’s top brands now treat law as a core business function, not a back‑office cost. And ‘luxury lawyer’ are a growing sub-branch, well coiffed and dressed of course, in the legal universe. Luxury law sits at the intersection of fashion, beauty, hospitality, automotive, art and high‑end
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Lawyers Weekly’s Australian Law Awards are rarely short of competition, particularly among the growing ranks of boutique and NewLaw firms challenging the old guard. This year, one of the finalists attracting attention is Amanda Harrison, founder of Melbourne-based Pivotal Law Group, whose nomination reflects the continuing rise of specialist firms built around commercial practicality rather
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is steering SpaceX through what has become the largest stock market debut ever, while Davis Polk & Wardwell is guiding the underwriting banks led by Goldman Sachs. Reports from Bloomberg indicate that SpaceX has committed to $25.5 million in legal costs in its amended S-1 — a figure that dwarfs the typical IPO legal spend, though it’s broadly in line with what other mega-deals have paid out.
For context, the largest US IPO of 2025, Medline’s $6.3 billion listing advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, generated $25.2 million in legal fees and expenses, while Cerebras Systems’ $5.5 billion IPO, handled by Latham & Watkins, racked up $4.1 million.
SpaceX’s number sits almost exactly where Medline landed except SpaceX is aiming for a deal roughly twelve times the size.
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Lyle Solomon, Attorney* Committing to a Chapter 13 repayment plan means agreeing to three to five years of structured monthly payments under court supervision. That is a long time. And life rarely cooperates with court schedules. A sudden job loss, a serious medical diagnosis, or an unexpected divorce can trigger a Chapter 13 income drop
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Image generated by Gemini Article source: Nix Law UH Utah sets the legal age of consent at 18, but that single number doesn’t tell the whole story. Understanding how criminal liability actually works here means digging into Utah Code § 76-5-401.2, which lays out a complex matrix of age, relationships, and conduct types that determines
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>> See LawFuel’s Power List Law Firms Kennedys has spent the past decade quietly doing something many law firms talk about but few achieve: building a genuinely global practice. Now the insurance and disputes specialist has smashed through the £450 million revenue barrier, with North America and Asia Pacific driving double-digit growth as the firm
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Inside Above the Law’s 2026 Law School Rankings If U.S. News still rules the prestige conversation, Above the Law’s newly released 2026 Top Law Schools list is doubling down on a different question – that is, what actually happens after graduation. Its rankings are unapologetically built around post‑JD outcomes—who gets real legal jobs that pay
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In Jones v Family Court at Whangārei [2026] NZSC 1, the Supreme Court used a published judgment to call out a litigant for citing case law that an AI application had invented. Meanwhile, Bell Gully had become the first large New Zealand firm to roll out Harvey AI to its entire 200-plus lawyer team.
What the Supreme Court Said
Justices Ellen France, Stephen Kós and Forrest Miller dismissed Mr Jones’s leave application after identifying that submissions cited several authorities that “appear to have been hallucinated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application”.
Specific examples included “Teddy v Police [2015] NZSC 62” and “Baird v R [2013] NZSC 120” — real case names combined with incorrect citations, while four genuine cases were misused to support propositions they did not stand for.
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It was supposed to be the most consequential AI regulation in the United States. Two years of political battles, two deadline delays, a federal court injunction, a lawsuit from Elon Musk, and an intervention by the Department of Justice later , Colorado’s landmark AI Act has been repealed, replaced and is now scheduled to take effect January 1, 2027.
If you blinked, you missed most of it. But if you’re advising clients who use AI to make decisions affecting employees, customers, or borrowers, you cannot afford to blink again.
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Tom Fail, a former long-serving MinterEllison partner who left to run his own banking, infrastructure and project law firm has returned to his old firm as consultant. The firm’s media statement on the return is below – MinterEllison is pleased to announce the return of leading projects, banking and infrastructure specialist Tom Fail to the firm’s partnership.
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