Blog

Academics from Lancaster University Management School leading a £1.8m project to help UK accounting and law firms become more productive by using digital technology and artificial intelligence are hosting a free online festival for businesses this month.

Both tech giants will spend this year fighting off rivals hungry for a piece of their payments revenue.

Law firm Lander & Rogers will run its seventh accelerator program for legal tech startups in 2024, with applications now open.

Fisher Phillips, an international labor and employment law firm representing employers, has been named a finalist by Law.com in its Legalweek Leaders in Legal Tech Law Awards 2024 in the Innovations in Knowledge Management Category.

Global law firm Clifford Chance acted as counsel to Van Eck Digital Assets LLC (together with its affiliates, VanEck), on the registration and launch of the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States, which on January 10, 2024 received approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list the shares for trading.

Revolut is facing a legal challenge potentially worth millions due to its storage of user biometric data in the US.

Law firms will need to adjust staffing and billing approaches to thrive in what has become a buyer’s market for legal services, according a new report analyzing the state of client demand, firm finances and shifts in the legal market since 2009.

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times.

Top New York law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Milbank have raised salaries for senior associates by as much as $20,000 in recent weeks and handed out year-end bonuses worth between $15,000 and $115,000.