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The London-headquartered law firm is the latest major corporate targeted by cyber criminals
UK law firm is latest business to take PE money to help expand non-core units
Tie-up between ‘magic circle’ law firm and US rival creates $3.5bn transatlantic law firm after 99% of votes cast in favour
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Rising salary costs and decline in dealmaking hits earnings at City’s international law firms
Fall comes as firm embarks on merger with New York’s Shearman & Sterling
The magic circle law firm’s senior partner has long held ambitions for a transatlantic merger
Merger between US and UK firms would create a legal giant with almost 4,000 lawyers worldwide
The firms may need each other so much that they have to combine
Deal is first tie-up between a ‘magic circle’ group and an American rival in more than 20 years
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The need to untangle differences in business culture, politics and regulation means the region’s legal sector is open up to experimentation
Breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence are forcing a rethink of the tech being used by lawyers
Chatbots trained in legal data are already a ‘serious part of the operating model’, say firms
Magic circle law firm adopts much-hyped tech to help draft legal documents, but insists move will not replace jobs
Top firms are making progress but American incumbents will prove hard to disrupt
Listings for groups expelled from the US are keeping lawyers busy
The top 10 individuals featured below have looked beyond their specialisms to solve client demands
Lawyers master tech tools to help disgraced banking clients handle information quickly
Legal problem-solving is required to keep sustainable energy goals on track amid geopolitical pressures
DLA Piper and Allen & Overy show the way in responding to clients’ desire for longer-term, big-picture thinking
Carriers and their lawyers used legal innovation in a race against the clock
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