In recent weeks, collaborative AI platform Legora has both raised US$550 million at a US$5.55 billion valuation in a Series D funding round to accelerate its expansion and seen global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer adopt it as its firmwide general-purpose AI platform.

A bold prediction by Mustafa Suleyman that legal work could be fully automated within 18 months has sent ripples through the legal profession, with many legal leaders at the forefront of this technological shift insisting that the reality will be quite the opposite.

A partner who specialises in arbitration and commercial litigation has been appointed to Dentons’ dispute resolution practice.

The right to protest is a hallmark of a healthy democracy. The events surrounding the Palestine Action Group’s planned February 2026 march reveal a system in which executive and police power have expanded in ways that have significantly narrowed the practical space for democratic dissent, writes Sam Lee.