Sixteen Partners Join Debevoise & Plimpton Partnership

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announces that Megan Arrogante, Fatema Al-Arayedh, Tom Berry, Konstantin Bureiko, Jake Grandison, Anne-Mette Heemsoth, Samuel Krawiecz, Matthew Parelman, Felix Paterson, Anne-Lise Quach, Aseel Rabie, Sergio Torres, Dominique Trudelle, Wendy Widman, Chen Xu and Guang Yang will become partners of the firm, effective July 1. Fatema Al-Arayedh is based in the London office and a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group. Her practice focuses on advising private fund sponsors on

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Panel Games: Revolut’s New Legal Model is a Quarterly Hunger Games for Big Law

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If you’re a partner at a Magic Circle firm currently leaning back in your Herman Miller chair, comforted by the warmth of a three-year panel appointment, you might want to sit up. The fintech disruptor that refuses to play by the rules is, predictably, about to break yours.

Revolut, the neobank recently valued at a staggering $45 billion following a secondary share sale (with some internal projections whispering closer to $75 billion), is officially binning the traditional legal panel model. In its place comes “Revolut Partners,” a system designed to treat law firms less like venerable institutions and more like high-performance software vendors.
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Legora Hires Atlassian CMO Star To Sell AI To Sceptical Lawyers

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Tom Borman Lawyers are trained to pull apart arguments, not sign up for AI hype. Swedish legal AI startup Legora has just hired someone whose job is to change that, according to a report from BusinessInsider. The company has appointed former Atlassian marketing leader Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir as its first chief marketing officer, handing her

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AI vs The Billable Hour Leak: Litify Targets Law Firms’ Missing 30%

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Law firms have spent decades tolerating one of their most expensive inefficiencies: time that simply never gets billed. Now, with AI quietly embedding itself into the operational spine of legal practice, that gap is starting to close. Litify’s latest move — integrating Billables AI into its platform — targets the profession’s most stubborn leak: manual

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NZ Lawyers – Russell McVeagh welcomes returning alumni and new senior associates

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Russell McVeagh has appointed four new Senior Associates across its Banking and Finance, Real Estate and Construction, Litigation and Public Law and Regulation practices, further strengthening the depth of expertise across the firm. Nasif Azam and Rayhan Langdana are returning alumni, bringing valuable international experience from leading firms in London. Andy Cartwright and Jess Elder

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The Partner Who Signed the Brief: Inside Morgan & Morgan’s $5,000 AI Lesson

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If you wanted a single case to put on the cover of every CLE brochure for the next five years, Wadsworth v. Walmart Inc. would do nicely. A hoverboard explodes in a Wyoming family’s home. The family sues. Their lawyers — from America’s loudest plaintiffs’ firm, no less — file a motion in limine citing nine cases. Eight of them do not exist. They have never existed. They were, in the now-familiar verb of our age, hallucinated.

And so on 24 February 2025, U.S. District Judge Kelly H. Rankin handed down what is shaping up to be the defining American sanctions order of the generative-AI era. Rudwin Ayala — the Morgan & Morgan associate who actually fed the brief into the firm’s in-house AI tool, charmingly named MX2.law — lost his pro hac vice admission and was fined $3,000.

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Knights Law Hits £207m Revenue: UK Legal Powerhouse Delivers 28% Growth

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Knights Law continues its growth with an announcement of revenues exceeding 200 million and an 18 percent profit growth. We last reported on the company when it acquired Moore Barlow law earlier this year. Knights plc, officially known as Knights Group Holdings plc (LSE: KGH), is a corporatised legal service providing legal and professional services

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Southampton Football Club Disappointed at Arbritation Panel Decision

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Southampton Football Club has this evening been informed that the EFL’s League Arbitration Panel has upheld the sanctions imposed earlier this week. As a result, the club will not participate in Saturday’s Championship Play-Off Final. This is an extremely disappointing outcome for everybody connected with Southampton Football Club. We know how painful this moment will

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