In Kapa-Kingi v Tamihere [2026] NZHC 517 (10 March 2026), the High Court has delivered a landmark ruling on internal Te Pāti Māori governance, granting the judicial review application in part. Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and the Te Tai Tokerau Electorate Council challenged the National Council’s November 2025 suspension and expulsion of Kapa-Kingi, […]
James Cleary and Pedro F. Suarez to Lead Expansion in Key Innovation Hub ATLANTA—(March 2, 2026)—FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and one of the largest distributed law firms in the world, has opened a new office in San Diego, California, further expanding the firm’s coast-to-coast footprint and strengthening its presence in one of the country’s leading
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Need-to-Know: Ex-Goodwin Lawyers Raise $3M Seed to Automate Side Letters & MFN Workflows – ILS’s ProVision Platform Already Powers $150B+ in Global Fundraises In a clear signal that private funds legal tech is heating up, London-based Intelligent Legal Solutions (ILS) has closed a $3M seed round led by Chicago Ventures, bringing total funding to more
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New research highlights how artificial intelligence is reshaping corporate legal services, operational efficiency, and competitive strategy. Seattle, Washington, United States, March 6, 2026 — Law.co, an AI-powered legal technology platform serving modern law firms, today announced the release of its latest market research report: AI for Corporate & Business Law Firms. The report delivers a data-driven analysis of
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Lawyers worrying about AI giving bad advice to users may have been looking in the wrong direction. The real risk might be the collateral damage. A new U.S. lawsuit against OpenAI seeks US$10 million, alleging the company’s chatbot effectively engaged in the unauthorised practice of law after a user relied on ChatGPT to dismantle her
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For decades, BigLaw partnership compensation had the reassuring predictability of a Swiss watch. Progress through lockstep. Accumulate seniority. Collect your reward. Repeat.
That model isn’t dead. But the announcement in February 2026 that Freshfields, the world’s 13th largest firm by gross revenue, and an institution that maintained an all-equity partnership for its entire existence, was introducing a nonequity partner tier while simultaneously stretching its lockstep to reward higher earners at the top of the pay scale, made something abundantly clear.
The Pay Reset is Now
Freshfields isn’t alone. Cravath created a salaried partner tier in November 2023, and that move gave other highly-ranked firms permission to follow suit — Paul Weiss, WilmerHale, Cleary, Skadden, Debevoise, and Sullivan & Cromwell have all introduced nonequity tiers in the two years since.
Shazadi Stinon joins Trustpilot after building more than 20 years of legal experience, most recently as Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at MONY Group plc. She previously held senior legal roles at Severn Trent and began her career as a solicitor at Eversheds Sutherland. The company’s media release is below – March 02, 2026
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Power Briefing: Substance Law Image generated by Gemini In the initial excitement of launching a new business, founders are often consumed by their innovative idea, market strategy, and growth projections. Foundational legal structures, like a comprehensive shareholders agreement, can seem like a low-priority formality. This oversight, however, is a critical misstep, as informal understandings and
A Fortune commentary by Thomson Reuters CPO David Wong captures a pivotal market moment — and carries a pointed warning for lawyers still treating AI as interchangeable. Our analysis, with key observations for legal practitioners. By LawFuel Editors | March 2026 “The companies that understand this will win. The rest will eventually learn the hard
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Former Laguna Niguel Resident Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Prison for Threatening to Kill Judge Who Presided Over His Family Law Case SANTA ANA, California – A former Orange County resident was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for threatening to kill a superior court judge who had presided over his family law case.
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