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Is AI about to get too expensive for lawyers?

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Just as the world of law was getting carried away with the excitement of AI, legal tech firm Legora has brought us all thudding back …

2 hours ago

AI and lawyer job cuts: the annoying truth

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It is an uncertain time for those wanting a career in the law.

Doom-mongers would have you think that AI is about to lead to a mass cu…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

It's raining men at A&O Shearman (and BigLaw)

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In 2015, The Lawyer wrote: “eight candidates for two top roles at Allen & Overy, and not one woman. For a law firm committed to that …

1 month, 1 week ago

Legal AI: Have Harvey and Legora peaked?

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We’ve all been seeing a lot more of Jude Law lately.

Legal AI firm Legora’s effort to cement itself in our consciousness with expensiv…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Fess up about Germany, Freshfields

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Ever since its big German mergers in 2000, the firm has been one of the major international players in Europe and is now the second l…

2 months, 1 week ago

REPLAY: Taylor Wessing and Winston & Strawn's transatlantic tie-up

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The Lawyer Podcast is on holiday this week, but with Taylor Wessing and Winston and Strawn aiming to complete their merger in three w…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Kirkland's partners make $11m a year – but can it last?

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In hindsight, Kirkland & Ellis’s rise to the top of BigLaw may now seem as predictable as death and taxes.

There was even a sense of i…

3 months ago

Scottish lawyers are raging about private equity

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Private equity investment in law firms is kicking off in England. But in Scotland, lawyers are at risk of falling behind as regulatio…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Slaughter and May is a Silver Circle firm

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The Silver Circle was a concept coined by The Lawyer more than 20 years ago. Rather than describing a set of “magic circle wannabes”,…

4 months ago

Brad Karp, the Epstein files, and the future of Paul Weiss

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Brad Karp became a household name - for Big Law at least - during his 17 year tenure at the helm of Paul Weiss.

But the long serving c…

4 months, 2 weeks ago