Legal Tech AI News – Relativity Expands Data Management With Generative AI

Relativity announces expanded capabilities in modern data management and enhanced processing, and spotlights how the EMEA legal community is embracing generative AI LONDON, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Relativity, a global legal technology company, announced expanded capabilities to meet the evolving needs of legal teams managing emerging data types during the opening keynote at Relativity Fest London. The company […]

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Ex-Magic Circle Duo’s AI Legal Tech Definely Secures $30M

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From Magic Circle to AI Startup Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor Two former Magic Circle lawyers, Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaeid, have just secured a $30 million (£22 million) in funding for their AI-powered legal tech company, Definely. Emelifeonwu and MacDaeid raised several million last year as we reported. They aren’t just any ex-lawyers but

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Leading law firm launches industry first social justice fund

Initiative sets a new precedent that funds legal support for vulnerable individuals, while meeting the needs of business clients seeking socially responsible suppliers. Bindmans, an award-winning multidisciplinary law firm with a 50-year human rights and social justice record, has today set a new precedent in the legal industry by announcing the launch of its 10%

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US Attorney News – Founder of Cryptocurrency Payment Company Charged

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Evading Sanctions and Export Controls, Defrauding Financial Institutions, and Violating the Bank Secrecy Act  Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a 22-count indictment was unsealed charging Iurii Gugnin with wire and bank fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), operating an unlicensed money transmitting

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Sunny Days Ahead As Baker McKenzie Names New Global Chair

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Sunny Mann Takes the Helm at Baker McKenzie International trade, compliance, and investigations guru Sunny Mann is stepping into the role of Global Chair, succeeding Milton Cheng this October. Sunny Mann is a frequent flyer on the international law circuit. Based in London but with stamps in his legal passport from Washington DC, New York,

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AI Firm Implodes—And Law Firms Are on the Creditor List

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“Builder.ai Bankruptcy: Lawyers Left Holding the AI Bag” Builder.ai, a once‑heralded AI-driven app developer backed by Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, has collapsed into bankruptcy. The real shocker isn’t just the firm’s collapse, but that prominent law firm Quinn Emanuel has landed on the creditor list, Reports from the Financial Times reveal the firm

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From Courtroom to Coastlines: The Rich List Journey of Peter Cooper

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Who Is The Gold-Plated Lawyer Peter Cooper? John Bowie, LawFuel publisher In the 1980s when I started the first ‘Rich List’ for the NZ Financial Review there were few lawyers who made the List – perhaps only Michael Friedlander – but as the world changes. The NBR bought the Review and the Rich List and

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Objection Upheld As Auckland Law Faculty Fends Off Business Takeover Attempt

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Auckland Law School Merger Rejected The University of Auckland’s controversial plan to merge its Law and Business faculties is officially dead. >> Your new law job here . . After months of resistance and razor-sharp critiques from legal minds across New Zealand, Vice-Chancellor Dawn Freshwater’s proposed merger has been, in bureaucratic terms, “paused.” In plain

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Debevoise Ditches Equity & Launches Partner Class with Perks, No Price Tag

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Debevoise & Plimpton just joined the ranks of elite Big Law firms reconfiguring partner structures by launching a non-equity partner tier in a move that signals strategic flexibility in today’s tight talent market.

As reported by The Lawyer, this isn’t just a cosmetic title change. The firm’s non-equity tier effectively allows it to separate capital-holding partners from what amounts to income-only partners. It’s a strategic pivot that echoes ongoing industry trends.

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How Piers Morgan’s Badly Behaved Barrister Interview Shows He Has Become The Jerry Springer of News

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Attacking A Barrister Guest Was A New Low Point In Screaming-Match TV ‘News’ When leading public law barrister and international speaker and commentator Natasha Hausdorff (pictured) appeared on Piers Morgan’s YouTube channel to debate the tragedy in Gaza, the diginity of her position was assailed by a screaming-head in the form of ‘new media’s’ hero,

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