Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK arm have now completed a full transatlantic combination with real scale, real intent, and, if the messaging holds, real integration. The newly minted “Winston Taylor” arrives not as another loose alliance but as a 1,400-lawyer operation spanning the US, UK, Europe and beyond. Whether this proves to be […]
Founder of Citron Research Found Guilty of Scheming to Manipulate Stock Market via Media Campaigns LOS ANGELES – Stock analyst and frequent guest on business television news channels was found guilty by a jury today for using his public platform to illicitly profit by manipulating stock market activity and trading opposite to the position he presented
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The Commerce Commission welcomes the passing of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill, which confirms 1 July 2026 as the date for the transfer of regulatory responsibility for the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (CCCFA) to the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Acting General Manager, Office of the Board and Chief Executive,
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Article source: Kaplan Rothstein Pruss Peraza Attorneys Image generated by Gemini A corporate data breach is no longer just an IT issue—it’s a business shutdown, with the average cost at $4.4 million globally, and U.S. breaches often exceeding $10 million. So what strategic steps should your business take after an incident? This guide outlines the
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Article source: Protection Visa Australia Proving eligibility for an LGBT protection visa in Australia calls for more than a sincere account of fear. Decision-makers look for a careful link between identity, risk, and conditions in the home country. Australian law asks whether a person meets the refugee test or faces significant harm after return. For
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This is more than a ‘sex scandal’ case and shows that standard redaction and anonymisation techniques are no match for AI‑enhanced pattern matching Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The “sex in chambers” angle was always going to dominate: a federal judge carrying on an affair with a senior Atlanta police official, including sexual encounters in
Article source: Randhawa Law Firm, CA A decade ago, defending a DUI prosecution that turned on blood evidence usually meant attacking the science: chain of custody, lab procedure, calibration of the gas chromatograph, the possibility of fermentation or contamination. Those challenges still matter. But the constitutional framework around how blood evidence is obtained has shifted
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But Lawyers Shouldn’t Cancel Their Harvey Subscriptions Yet Norma Harris Anthropic has done something the legaltech market has been quietly demanding for years and made its AI play nicely with the tools lawyers already use. KEY TAKEAWAY: Anthropic has added 12 legal features to Claude — covering contract drafting, e-discovery, research and document management —
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The legal tech arms race just moved up a weight class. Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest‑grossing law firm, has set aside an eye‑watering $500 million to build its own proprietary generative AI platform, rather than relying on the same off‑the‑shelf tools everyone else can buy.
The strategy, revealed by firm chair Jon Ballis and first reported by the Financial Times, marks a deliberate pivot away from simply licensing commercial software. Ballis says the firm expects to spend more than $100 million this year alone on custom AI services, with hundreds of millions more to follow over the next three to four years – roughly 1% of Kirkland’s annual revenue.
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Gibson Dunn announced today that Matthew Roose has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. A leading restructuring lawyer, Matt brings extensive experience representing ad hoc groups of creditors in Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. “Matt combines exceptional creditor-side fluency with extensive liability management
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