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OnlyFans Content Creators Seeking To Leave The Industry Could Be Trapped If They Don’t Pay Taxes
Some people turn to adult content platforms such as OnlyFans to generate income. Recently, a few that have made significant amounts of money went on podcasts to explain the life and finances of an adult content creator. Some did not make wise financial decisions with...
Before Weil, The Biggest Collapse In Biglaw History Ended In Criminal Court
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today’s news that Weil Gotshal is winding down after 95 years has Biglaw reaching for comparisons — and the obvious one is Dewey & LeBoeuf, whose 2012 implosion remains one of the largest law firm...
Every Term Looked Reasonable But the Parenting Agreement Failed Anyway
It is 4:40 on a Friday. The exchange is at 6:00. A text arrives: Something came up. Can we do Sunday instead? Let me know ASAP. Nothing in the parenting agreement has been breached. It says the parents will communicate respectfully, act in the children’s best...
How Firms Like Norm (AI) Law and Legal MSOs Will Change the Profession
For generations, law firms competed against other law firms that looked and operated remarkably alike. Partners brought in business, associates billed hours, and the partners divided whatever survived the overhead. Even the internet barely disturbed a profession that...
Clio Says AI Is Boosting Billable Hours: Maybe I Was Wrong. Or Maybe Not.
A few weeks ago, I wrote that for law firms billing by the hour, the return on investment from AI was really a loss on investment. LOI, not ROI. If AI does what the vendors say it does, it does work that associates and paralegals used to bill. That would mean fewer...
Weil Practice Head Tells His Associates To Start Looking For Work Elsewhere
Earlier today, the advice for Weil Gotshal & Manges lawyers was blunt: look out for number one and enter the lateral market post haste. Turns out at least one Weil practice group leader agrees. According to Bloomberg Law, Alex Lynch, the head of Weil’s capital...
Weil’s New AI Summer Program Has One Small Problem: Weil’s Future
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I don’t believe that to be a great lawyer that is AI-enabled someone needs to have deep technical history. Anyone who wants to learn this stuff—sufficient enough to be an advanced AI builder as a lawyer—can do...
Weil Cancels Webinar Inviting 1Ls To ‘Explore What A Career Here Could Look Like’
Weil Gotshal & Manges has canceled an upcoming Summer Experience webinar for law student recruits, according to a post on X from Paul Kim, scheduled for tonight. The event was pitched to 1Ls as a chance to connect with the Weil team, learn more about the firm, and...
Buchalter Continues Growth With Addition of Corporate Law Partner in Dallas
DALLAS, TX—Following its significant expansion across Texas earlier this month, Buchalter announced that Scott Murray has joined the Firm’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Corporate Practice Group and Chair of the Private Funds Practice. His arrival continues...
Fenwick Strengthens Healthcare Regulatory Practice with Addition of Partner Roger Cohen in New York
NEW YORK, NY— Fenwick announced today that Roger Cohen has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office and healthcare regulatory practice. Working closely with the firm’s corporate, intellectual property, and litigation teams, Cohen will advise healthcare...
Weil Management Committee Opts to Dissolve Firm
"Following a careful review of strategic alternatives, the Firm's Management Committee has recommended to the partnership that the Firm pursue an orderly wind-down," the firm said in a statement. "Following a careful review of strategic alternatives, the Firm's...
When You Need Outside Counsel, Where Do You Turn?
We are compiling our annual list of the top outside counsel and, as always, we turn to those who know best — the clients. We’re asking all in-house counsel to share their perspectives on the law firms they engage. Just tell us which firms you work with and the level...
The Best Law Schools For Business Law (2026)
In today’s world, business lawyers need to understand more than the law; they need to know how businesses operate, weigh risk, and make decisions in a fast-moving marketplace. Law schools are responding with more opportunities to put that knowledge into practice, from...
Critical Mass With Law.com’s Amanda Bronstad: Meta Hit With $25B Judgment; MDL Judges Becoming More Diverse
Also: Federal judges of color made up 38% of those assigned to multidistrict litigation last year, the highest in a decade, according to Law.com data. Also: Federal judges of color made up 38% of those assigned to multidistrict litigation last year, the highest...
Weil Gotshal Is Now Discussing A Possible Wind-Down
Yesterday, we told you Weil Gotshal & Manges was panic mode, and now we know just how bad that is. The Financial Times reports that Weil has brought in Brian Resnick, one of Davis Polk’s top bankruptcy lawyers, to advise on a potential restructuring. A wind-down...
US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of Manhattan Federal Court Dies at 92
Hellerstein oversaw the United States' narcoterrorism conspiracy case against ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Hellerstein oversaw the United States' narcoterrorism conspiracy case against ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas...
Want To Show Legal Tech ROI? Start By Getting Your Data In Order
Kurt Thies, Global Head of Information Governance Strategy at Morae“Garbage in, garbage out” has become a cliche in the age of generative AI, but many law firms are still storming ahead with technology investment despite the messy reality of their data governance. ...
Weil’s Successor Walked Away, And Now The Firm Has A ‘Run On The Bank’ Problem
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The very fact that she declined to step up would signal to any partner with their head screwed on that she has lost faith. And what I’m afraid is going to happen is the run on the bank psychology, which all too...
Sun Through The Clouds
There is a good reason it has been a month since my previous column. I am coming off one of the great adventures of my professional career: a trip to Tokyo as a co-host of the first-ever Patent Monetization Symposium. Thankfully, to say the event was a success would...
Hill Ward Henderson Announces Strategic Partnership With Embarc Collective to Support Florida’s Growing Startup Ecosystem
TAMPA, FL—Hill Ward Henderson announced its new strategic partnership with Embarc Collective as part of the organization’s Shared Services Partner Program. The partnership underscores the firm’s commitment to supporting Florida’s growing technology and entrepreneurial...
How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘Create an Environment Where People Feel Empowered,’ Says Vassi Iliadis of Hogan Lovells
"What I have learned is that effective leadership is far more about listening than directing. It is about creating an environment where people feel empowered to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and innovate. My role is not to have every answer; it is to bring...
How Vestiaire Collective Is Preventing Reselling Stolen Goods
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Morning Docket: 10.28.26
* Alaska election suit isn’t really about winning as much as establishing a template. [Election Law Blog] * Prediction markets usher in era of Supreme Court gambling. [ABA Journal] * DOJ whiffs again… this time failing to convince a grand jury to charge January 6...
‘This Isn’t the End of It’: Will $25B Judgment Against Meta Hold Up on Appeal?
Meta is likely to raise due process and other constitutional issues on appeal, which could end up before the New Mexico Supreme Court or U.S. Supreme Court, experts told Law.com. Meta is likely to raise due process and other constitutional issues on appeal,...
Weil’s Journey: What the Data and the Market Say
For all the acceleration of late, changes have come over time for the prominent Am Law 100 firm. For all the acceleration of late, changes have come over time for the prominent Am Law 100 firm.
The Age Of The Orchestrator Arrives As AI Tokengeddon Looms
NetDocuments CEO Josh Baxter has an analogy about streaming. Viewers subscribe to these services and start out loving all the TV on demand at their disposal, but before long they’re hopping from Netflix to Paramount+ trying to find what they want to watch before...
Weil Gotshal Hits Panic Mode — See Also
Weil Gotshal’s Weekend Included All-Day Meetings, Restructuring Counsel, And A Résumé Stampede: Dewey know what’s going on here? Federal Judge Issues 70-Page Injunction, President Responds In One Truth Social Post: Because of course he did. One Comey Beats The DOJ, So...
Harvard Law, DePaul Law Receive Record $30M+ Donations
Alumni, both 1976 graduates, donated historic gifts to the law schools this week. Alumni, both 1976 graduates, donated historic gifts to the law schools this week.
Federal Reserve Must Scrap 21-Cent Cap on Debit Card Swipe Fees, US Appeals Court Says
The Federal Reserve had improperly factored in banks' fixed costs when deciding the maximum they could charge to process debit transactions, according to the Eighth Circuit. The Federal Reserve had improperly factored in banks' fixed costs when deciding the...
Lawyer Isn’t Close To The Most Impressive Thing On His Résumé
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Since the National Baseball Hall of Fame opened in 1936, it has enshrined roughly 346 players, managers, executives, and commissioners — and, by a recent tally, 11 of them were also lawyers. Who is the...
Haynes Boone Expands Trademark and Advertising Capabilities With Partner Holly Melton in New York
NEW YORK, NY—Haynes Boone is adding to its Trademark and Advertising bench with Partner Holly Melton, who joins the firm’s New York office. Melton, the former co-chair of the Advertising and Brand Protection Group at Crowell & Moring, brings a distinctive...
Fenwick Elects 2027 New Partner Class
NEW YORK, NY—Fenwick today announced the election of five lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2027. The partners-elect, who are based in New York, Santa Monica, and Silicon Valley, are Dargaye Churnet, Glenn Foulds, Adine Mitrani, Charles Moulins and...
Strengthening Client Relationships: A Simple, Effective Q4 Meeting Agenda
Jay Harrington | One great way to add value for business clients is having a Q4 “off the clock” meeting to discuss the coming year. The post Strengthening Client Relationships: A Simple, Effective Q4 Meeting Agenda appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law...
The Jack Newton Keynote: Doubling Down On Unification
Jack Newton (Image via Clio)“We are not making hodgepodge of 16 different MCP connectors and a Rube Goldberg machine passing your data across different systems.” — Jack Newton, ClioCon Keynote 2026 The annual keynote by Clio CEO and founder Jack Newton always spells...
Trump Tees Off On Golf Course Injunction Hours After It’s Issued
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a 70-page preliminary injunction in the fight over the East Potomac Golf Course. It bars the Trump administration from removing or damaging any more trees, and requires 10 business days’ written notice before the...
Reports Of The Billable Hour’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, 8am Data Finds
The post Reports Of The Billable Hour’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated, 8am Data Finds appeared first on Above the Law.Reports of the demise of the billable hour have been greatly exaggerated, at least at smaller law firms.With apologies to Mark Twain, that is the...
Cole Schotz Adds Jackson Warren as Special Counsel in Delaware
WILMINGTON, DE—Cole Schotz P.C. announced that Jackson Warren has joined the firm in Delaware as Special Counsel. A corporate litigator, Mr. Warren helps clients facing disputes arising from executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, stockholder agreements,...
Cole Schotz Adds Litigator Utibe Ikpe to Growing Miami Team
MIAMI, FL—Cole Schotz P.C. announced that Utibe Ikpe has joined its Miami office as a Member in the Litigation Department. Ms. Ikpe joins the firm from Meland Budwick, P.A., where she was a partner and advised large and emerging businesses in complex, high-stakes...
Former Maryland Department of the Environment Chief of Staff Scott F. Goldman Joins Baker Donelson in Baltimore
BALTIMORE, MD—Scott F. Goldman, former chief of staff of Maryland’s Department of the Environment and a veteran attorney with more than 16 years of experience in environmental regulation, government, public policy, and national security law, has joined Baker Donelson...
Venable Welcomes Commercial Litigation Partner Amy Wong in Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY, CA—Venable LLP announced today that Amy Wong has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation practice in Orange County. Wong advises national and global companies on complex litigation and risk management, including contract disputes,...
Jones Foster Welcomes Ryan D. Lantz to Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution Team
WEST PALM BEACH, FL—Jones Foster welcomes Ryan D. Lantz to the firm as an associate in its West Palm Beach office. A graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Mr. Lantz joins Jones Foster after participating in the firm’s 2025 Summer Associate...
Weil Partners Are ‘Frantically Sending Résumés’ As Leadership Weighs Its Options
Things at Weil Gotshal & Manges have officially gone from rough patch to panic mode. According to the Wall Street Journal, Weil’s management committee met nonstop all day Sunday and picked things back up Monday, and that committee was already short a few members...
FBT Gibbons Adds Real Estate, Tax Partners as New York Growth Continues
NEW YORK, NY—FBT Gibbons is continuing the strategic expansion of its New York office with the addition of two partners, Seth Liebenstein and Amir-Kia Waxman, who join the firm’s Real Estate and Tax practice groups, respectively. A former commercial real estate...
Michael G. Dryden and Maria Elena Dryden Named Among Top 100 Injured Worker Attorneys by Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Willig, Williams & Davidson is pleased to announce that workers’ compensation attorneys Michael G. Dryden and Maria Elena Dryden have been named among the Top 100 Injured Worker Attorneys nationally by the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group...
Venable Adds Former SEC Attorney Susan Poklemba as Counsel
WASHINGTON, D.C—Venable LLP announced today that Susan Poklemba has joined as counsel in the firm’s Government Division, further strengthening its securities and financial regulatory capabilities. Ms. Poklemba brings nearly a decade of federal financial regulatory...
Venable Expands Its Family Offices Services Amid Evolving Client Needs
WASHINGTON, D.C—Venable LLP announced today the expansion of its Family Offices offering to address the increasingly interconnected legal and business needs of family offices as they take on broader roles in acquiring businesses and real estate, managing investments,...
Do It With Us, Not To Us
At a recent discussion, a leader described what he wanted from a technology provider: someone willing to work through implementation with his team. He was concerned about the opposite experience. A large commitment. An expensive license. A provider eager to move ahead...
The Elections: Grab Your Popcorn, And Stay Near Your Fallout Shelter
(Image via Getty)The elections in Israel will be held tomorrow, October 27. Election Day in the United States is a week from tomorrow, November 3. Grab your popcorn, and stay near your fallout shelter. In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu urgently needs the electoral support...
After Maurene Comey Kicked Trump Admin In The Teeth, DOJ Reveals *Third* Attempt To Jail James Comey
The Trump Justice Department spent Monday getting its ass kicked by one Comey and countered by revealing it charged the other. The administration has charged James Comey for a THIRD time, continuing to chase the former FBI Director as Seashellgate flops. Let’s begin...
When Will Alito Retire? Nearly $6 Million Says It’s A Question Worth Betting On
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This is not a court that is reactionarily prudish to any sort of vice behavior. But it does involve this larger question around what we want to allow under law and as a society. — Josh Kirschner, a partner on...
How Experts Are Reacting To Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order
The post How Experts Are Reacting To Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order appeared first on Above the Law.Last week, the Trump administration announced an executive order focused on women’s health, leading to mixed reactions from women’s health experts.The executive...
Morning Docket: 10.27.26
* Weil spent the weekend trying desperately to save itself. [WSJ] * Court says Maurene Comey fired illegally. [AP News] * Meanwhile, the DOJ has come up with yet a third effort to prosecute James Comey. [NBC News] * Judicial financial disclosures “reveal too little.”...
Plaintiff Law Firms Pay First-Years $131K on Average, With Raises and Bonuses Highly Variable
Only about 49% of the respondent firms had a structured or lockstep pay raise structure, and 21.5% had no official policy. Only about 49% of the respondent firms had a structured or lockstep pay raise structure, and 21.5% had no official...
Tylenol Maker Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyer of Using Sanctions Appeal to Reassign MDL
Kenvue urged a US appeals court to uphold sanctions against Ashley Keller, accusing him of improperly using the appeal as a “strategic opportunity to seek reassignment of multidistrict litigation alleging Tylenol causes neurodevelopmental disorders. Kenvue urged...
Weil’s Tough Decisions in Path Ahead
Firms in Weil's position have few options. Merger or no merger, Weil's current form is risky. Firms in Weil's position have few options. Merger or no merger, Weil's current form is risky.
This 250-Lawyer Firm Had Exactly One Partner… And He Was Running A $700 Million Fraud
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which now-defunct Manhattan law firm, with roughly 250 lawyers and offices in five cities, wasn’t a partnership in the usual sense: it had a single equity partner, who was secretly running one of the...
Looks Like Weil’s Succession Plan Has One More Vacancy — See Also
Weil’s Next Chair May Be Out The Door Before She Ever Takes Over: Simpson Thacher should consider opening a Weil wing. Todd Blanche Had One Job In The Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, And It Was Apparently Changing The Subject: In a sex trafficking investigation… with the...
Legal Ethics Roundup: Supreme Court Recusals Derail Case, DOJ Targets Judges, Judicial Endorsement Controversy, Judge Leaks Sealed Records, Private Equity Rebuffed & More
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Happy Monday! Highlights from Last Week – Top Ten Headlines 📰 #1 “Supreme Court Recusals Stop Music Case In Its Tracks, Strike...
House Democrats Say Todd Blanche Steered Ghislaine Maxwell Away From A Trump Accuser
Eight days before Election Day, House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-plus-page staff report whose title borrows from the birthday letter Donald Trump insists he never wrote, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump...
Ninth Circuit Bats Around DOJ Lawyer In CA ‘Emergency’ Vote Purge
On Wednesday, October 21, the Trump administration waltzed into federal court in California, demanding a temporary restraining order to force the state to “set aside vote-by-mail ballots” from some 20,000 people it claims are noncitizens registered to vote. The motion...
Robert Bello Joins Womble Bond Dickinson’s Houston Office as a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Practice
HOUSTON, TX—Womble Bond Dickinson announced Friday that Robert Bello has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its real estate practice. He will also work from the firm’s San Diego office. With nearly two decades of legal experience, Bello guides owners,...
This Biglaw Firm’s New Year’s Resolution? Pay Associates On The $235K Salary Scale
Biglaw associates may be busy wondering what bonus season will bring, but some firms are already giving their lawyers something to celebrate in the new year: bigger salaries. Yet another firm is making its move without waiting for Cravath’s blessing. Nothing says...
Fortune 500 Healthcare Company Asks For AI To Negotiate Contracts With No Human Lawyers
Typically, when we describe a company as “conservative,” we’re talking about a company refusing to use the cloud because they’re imaging all the servers falling into the sea. So it’s a little hard to accept the adjective being applied to a company trying to turn over...
Weil’s Incoming Leader Won’t Take The Job, And Might Take One At Simpson Thacher Instead
Weil Gotshal & Manges was supposed to rebuild its new leadership team around Ramona Nee. Now she may be doing her building somewhere else. Semafor reports that Nee, Weil’s incoming executive partner, has held talks to join Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Weil...
Ogletree Deakins Expands Chicago Office With Three Attorneys, Including Shareholder Christina Wernick
CHICAGO, IL—Ogletree Deakins welcomed three attorneys from Laner Muchin Ltd. to the firm’s Chicago office: Christina Wernick as a shareholder, Megan Wilkes as of counsel, and Emily Chramiec as an associate. Christina Wernick is a labor and employment attorney with...
Kaufman Dolowich Expands Maritime and Admiralty Practice with Addition of Joseph B. Staph
HACKENSACK, NJ—Kaufman Dolowich today announced that Joseph B. Staph has joined the firm as a partner in its Maritime and Admiralty Law Practice Group. Staph will split his time between the firm’s New York City and Hackensack, New Jersey offices, bringing experience...
Jason R. Sanderson Joins Lowenstein Sandler
PALO ALTO, CA—Lowenstein Sandler announced that Jason R. Sanderson has joined the firm as a partner in its Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) Group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Sanderson has spent nearly two decades as a San Francisco Bay...
Greenspoon Marder Adds Experienced Family Law and Criminal Defense Group in Denver
DENVER, CO—Greenspoon Marder announced that partners Sibylle M. Clark and Ben King and associate Hunter Martin, as well as three paralegals, have joined its Denver office. Together, the new domestic relations team strengthens the firm’s Family Law practice and...
Connell Foley Appoints Alexa C. Salcito Co-Chair of Labor & Employment Law Group
JERSEY CITY, NJ—To support the continued growth of its Labor & Employment Law Group and meet evolving client needs, Connell Foley LLP has appointed Alexa C. Salcito as Co-Chair. Salcito joins Michael A. Shadiack, the group’s longtime leader, and will oversee its...
Over 80 Percent Of Citations ‘Fictitious, Erroneous, or Irrelevant’ In Trump Admin Brief
MAHA might just stand for “Make America Hallucinate Again.” The Department of Health and Human Services attempted to force its employees back to their desks by unilaterally rescinding existing flexible work agreements. The National Treasury Employees Union opposed the...
ClioCon 2026: Keynotes, Educational Sessions, And Parties. What’s On The Horizon?
Another week, another legal tech conference. We just finished NetDocuments Inspire conference. Now comes a big one: ClioCon 2026. It starts October 26 and runs for two days. Of all the vendor conferences, this is known as one of the most extravagant. Its theme this...
How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘Think of It as Relationship Development, Not Business Development,’ Says Andrea Griswold of Skadden
"While all of these skills matter, to me, business development is the most important. I think of it as relationship development, not business development. You don't expect a dinner with a prospective client to turn into a matter. You have to consistently deliver...
Retired Mass. Judge Faces Discipline for Jailing, Holding Public Defender in Contempt
The attorney was handcuffed and placed in a holding cell with leg restraints at the Fall Rivers District Court for more than five hours before the judge withdrew the contempt finding and ordered his release, the complaint said. The attorney was handcuffed and...
From Disclosures to Prohibitions: The New Legal Landscape on the Use of Consumer Data for Personalized Pricing
Three states—Maryland, Connecticut, and New Jersey—have enacted laws banning or restricting companies from using personal data for personalized pricing, with the FTC signaling potential enforcement and other states likely to follow. While these laws share the goal of...
Congress’s Patient Matching Fix Won’t Work — Here’s What Would
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Morning Docket: 10.26.26
* Weil’s incoming executive partner abruptly tells firm she’s not taking the job. [Bloomberg Law] * SEC plans to start testing financial firm vulnerability to cyberattack. †[Law360] * Supervisor ordered immigration judge to reverse four rulings at the direction of...
Who’s Behind a Successful Complex Case? The Experts Every Litigation Team Needs
A practical guide to what “excellent” looks like for each role on a litigation team, from Michael Murray and Stacey DiGerardo. The post Who’s Behind a Successful Complex Case? The Experts Every Litigation Team Needs appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law...
Under Client Pressure to Save Time with AI, Law Firms Face Verification Challenge
Time spent verifying AI outputs is cutting into efficiency gains for some Big Law associates. Time spent verifying AI outputs is cutting into efficiency gains for some Big Law associates.
Law Firm Leaks — See Generally
Forwarding Fail: Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm’s AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities… even when they’re between the keyboard and the chair. Weil They Ever Find Someone?: About a month after...
Legora and Laurel Partner to Enable Automatic Time Capture; Will Later Develop Measures of Legora’s Value to Firms
Legal professionals will now be able to automatically record the time they spend working in the legal AI platform Legora, as the result of a new partnership with the AI timekeeping platform Laurel. With this partnership, the companies announced today, Laurel will turn...
Former Big Law M&A Lawyer Launches useABI, an AI ‘Associate’ That Produces Deal Docs Without Prompting
A former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer at Greenberg Traurig today launched useABI, a legal AI platform for M&A lawyers that is designed to function not as just another AI assistant but as something closer to a working member of a deal team. “With useABI, an...
New SCOREalytics CEO Jennie Morawetz on Building Regulatory Intelligence Lawyers Can Rely On
Jennie Morawetz, who was named this week as CEO of regulatory intelligence company SCOREalytics, wants the company’s product to become the accepted standard for how lawyers keep up with regulatory change. “I want using SCORE to be the standard for due diligence, or...
Control Risks To Spin Off Its Discovery, Data and Forensics Businesses Into A New Company
Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of...
Microsoft Launches Copilot for Legal, Becoming the Fourth AI Giant in Five Months to Build Out a Legal Vertical
Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more...
Chariot Claims Raises $10M Series A To Fuel Mass Consumer Arbitrations
Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday. Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd...
New MCP Makes Tax Research from Blue J Available from within Legora
Users of the Legora legal AI platform can now access tax research from Blue J Legal via an integration the companies launched today. Legora customers with a subscription to Blue J can now query Blue J’s platform from within Legora and receive answers with inline...
Harvey Now Connects to Legal Research Platform Midpage Through An MCP Connector
A new connector announced today enables Harvey customers to access the AI legal research platform Midpage. The connector makes Midpage’s research library of U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and agency materials accessible from directly within Harvey, so lawyers...
LexisNexis Protégé Is Now Live In EvenUp, Letting PI Lawyers Query Case Law Using Facts From Their Case Records
On Sept. 1, LexisNexis and EvenUp, an AI platform for personal injury lawyers, announced a forthcoming integration by which EvenUp’s customers could access legal insights and agentic AI in LexisNexis Protégé directly from within the EvenUp platform. That integration...
He Created The World’s Most Famous Fictional Lawyer And Freed Real Innocent People
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the largely self-taught California trial lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1911, who defended poor immigrants with a flair for courtroom theater — then spun his legal know-how into fiction,...
The Cheese Stands Alone… And By Cheese, We Mean Weil — See Also
Weil You Look At That!: Weil and Willkie flirted with a merger, but it’s not to be. Footnotes And Footballs: Law student joins law review… and football team. Long Live The Billable Hour: AI isn’t reducing the time lawyers are working. Ranking Your Dans: Trump...
Chris Dreyer: Playing to Dominate
Chris Dreyer: Playing to Dominate By Susan Cushing “Most people tell you to go to the blue ocean, go where there’s opportunity and there’s no competition,” says Chris Dreyer, founder and CEO of Rankings.io. “I think you should go to the red ocean where it’s a...
From One Mock Jury to Continuous Jury Research: Enter AI Jury Simulations
Every trial lawyer knows that a case is decided on more than law and evidence. Jurors build stories about what happened from incomplete information. They judge whether a witness seems trustworthy, whether an expert sounds independent, whether an attorney appears too...
Rev: A Platform Built to Get Closer to the Truth Across the Whole Case
Over the last decade the volume of evidence in a typical case has grown roughly twelvefold. More devices with more storage, more body cams, more jail calls, more discovery,” says Rev CEO and Founder Jason Chicola. “Meanwhile there are still 24 hours in a day, agency...
Gemini Legal: Solving Bottlenecks to Drive Case Velocity
Civil litigation cases, especially in personal injury, rely on momentum. Administrative bottlenecks halt that momentum and delay case timelines. Gemini Legal has built software law firms can thoughtfully integrate into their workflows to overcome two common...
Beyond SEO Rankings: Why Law Firms Must Compete for Recognition, Consistency, and Trust in the Age of AI Search
For the past two decades, the law firm marketing playbook was built around a single benchmark: did you land on page one of Google? Search engine optimization, or SEO, was a numbers game all in service of one goal: showing up in the traditional list of top 10 clickable...
Why Adding More Tech Doesn’t Automatically Modernize Your Firm
Law firms have invested heavily in technology over the past decade. Nearly every aspect of legal work now has its own application, from document management and legal research to timekeeping, e-discovery, and client communication. Yet many attorneys and staff still...
Irys: Building the Legal Platform Lawyers Wished Existed
“I loved being a lawyer. I liked the work, the clients and the people. What I could never get past was the technology,” says Sabih Siddiqi, co-founder and CEO of Irys. Siddiqi spent approximately seven years practicing law in New York at the international law firm...
Dailey Curation Puts Content Creation in the Attorneys’ Hands
For seven years, Melissa Dailey worked as a subcontractor in the legal marketing industry – ghostwriting, editing, and redesigning websites for some of the top firms in the country. Before that, she spent many years as a freelance SEO writer and marketing specialist...
Google Personal Intelligence and the Future of Legal Search
Google is taking another major step in AI-powered search with the expansion of its new “Personal Intelligence” capabilities across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome. The development signals a shift from search as a broad information-retrieval tool toward a...
Marc Apple: Solving the Invisible Excellence Problem
Forward Push Law Firm Marketing was founded in 2011 to solve what Founder Marc Apple calls the invisible excellence problem: skilled attorneys losing cases to inferior competitors who simply had better marketing. Before that, he spent years in senior marketing...