Stories making recent headlines on LawFuel . .
- What is still missing to close the gap between law firms and legal departments?
- Texas Trial Lawyer Tony Buzbee Buys $15.5 Million Mansion Next Door. Then Calls In The Wrecking Ball
- Thomson Reuters Builds Its Own AI Brain – Here’s Why Thomson May Matter More Than Another Legal Chatbot
- Google Goes for Big Law’s Jugular: Inside Gemini Enterprise for Legal
- From Phone-Hacking Hero to Courtroom Zero – ‘Golden Boy’ Lawyer’s Reputation Tattered By Prince Harry Defeat
- Listed Legal Disrupter Completes Second Major Law Firm Acquisition
- Kirkland’s $500 Million AI Bet Isn’t About Speed. It’s About Killing the Billable Hour
Kirkland & Ellis, the first law firm in history to break $10 billion in revenue, is putting half a billion dollars of its own money into a proprietary AI platform. That’s a big bold move (what else would you expect from Kirklands?) which is not to keep up with Harvey or Legora, or to shave a few hours off due diligence. It’s something far more valuable. The plan is to bottle the firm’s “collective intelligence” and put it in every lawyer’s hands and, in the process, lean hard into the long-predicted death of the billable hour. Log in to read – - Private Equity Eyes $700m WSHB Deal in Major Test for Big Law’s Ownership Rules
- What Will Clients Still Pay Lawyers For When AI Can Do The Work?
- KPMG Crisis – KPMG General Counsel & HR Chief Exit Firm Days Before Scandal Hearing
- BigLaw’s Private Equity Moment -The Next Deal Won’t Be Paul Weiss
- Second Office Romance Report Deepens Wachtell’s Extraordinary Week
