Image generated by Gemini Article source: Nix Law UH Utah sets the legal age of consent at 18, but that single number doesn’t tell the whole story. Understanding how criminal liability actually works here means digging into Utah Code § 76-5-401.2, which lays out a complex matrix of age, relationships, and conduct types that determines
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>> See LawFuel’s Power List Law Firms Kennedys has spent the past decade quietly doing something many law firms talk about but few achieve: building a genuinely global practice. Now the insurance and disputes specialist has smashed through the £450 million revenue barrier, with North America and Asia Pacific driving double-digit growth as the firm
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London Law’s Senior Associate Problem No One Wants to Talk About Fresh from Quinn Emanuel joining the fray in London, as we reported last week, the latest 5% across-the-board hike has pushed newly qualified lawyers to £189,000 from 1 July, with the scale running up to £373,000 for the most experienced associates. That puts QE
Inside Above the Law’s 2026 Law School Rankings If U.S. News still rules the prestige conversation, Above the Law’s newly released 2026 Top Law Schools list is doubling down on a different question – that is, what actually happens after graduation. Its rankings are unapologetically built around post‑JD outcomes—who gets real legal jobs that pay
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Law360 Pulse covered Kilpatrick’s recent launch of Kilpatrick Labs, an innovation program focused on developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools for the firm’s attorneys, professional staff and clients. “We didn’t want to bolt AI onto the practice — we wanted to rebuild around it,” Charles Gray, partner at Kilpatrick and leader of Kilpatrick Labs, said in a statement
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Britomart Chambers has bolstered its public and regulatory law credentials with the arrival of Dr Jonathan Coates, one of New Zealand’s leading health sector lawyers. Coates joins the Britomart set in Auckland while remaining a member of Canterbury Chambers in Christchurch and practising as a barrister sole with a national practice. Coates has specialised in health law since
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The billable hour isn’t dead in the UK, but for the first time it’s looking genuinely ill. A growing slice of work is being priced on fixed or value‑based fees, clients are pushing back on “time spent” as a proxy for value, and AI is quietly blowing up the economics of the sacred six‑minute unit.
And we’ve talked about the BH’s death many times before.
The billable hour’s first real wobble
UK legal spend is still mostly billed hourly, but value‑based and fixed‑fee work has crept up to take a sizeable minority share of the market, and it’s moving in one direction. Clients like predictability, finance teams like budgetable numbers, and nobody likes the month‑end surprise when a “quick” matter turns into a timesheet novella.
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Foley & Lardner LLP announced today the addition of partners Melissa McGrory and Teresa Napoli and associate Madeline Clasen to its Chicago office. Joining from Sidley Austin LLP, the team further strengthens Foley’s national Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice and enhances the firm’s capabilities in its Health Care & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Innovative
Here’s What LawVu’s LegalOS Actually Does LawVu announced LegalOS on 2 June 2026 and the framing is the most interesting thing about it. Where Harvey, Thomson Reuters CoCounsel and LexisNexis Protégé are racing for private-practice budget, the Tauranga-headquartered company is going after the target almost everyone else has under-served — the in-house legal team that
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In Jones v Family Court at Whangārei [2026] NZSC 1, the Supreme Court used a published judgment to call out a litigant for citing case law that an AI application had invented. Meanwhile, Bell Gully had become the first large New Zealand firm to roll out Harvey AI to its entire 200-plus lawyer team.
What the Supreme Court Said
Justices Ellen France, Stephen Kós and Forrest Miller dismissed Mr Jones’s leave application after identifying that submissions cited several authorities that “appear to have been hallucinated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application”.
Specific examples included “Teddy v Police [2015] NZSC 62” and “Baird v R [2013] NZSC 120” — real case names combined with incorrect citations, while four genuine cases were misused to support propositions they did not stand for.
The issue for New Zealand law firms.
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