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Legora raises US$550m in Series D round, partners with HSF Kramer
In recent weeks, collaborative AI platform Legora has both raised US$550 million at a US$5.55 billion valuation in a...
17 March 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
Mary Technology secures $7m funding to fuel US expansion
Legal tech provider Mary Technology has received $7 million in funding to scale its infrastructure and take its...
17 March 2026
By Grace Robbie
DEI: Anticompetitive, or a recruitment necessity?
In the US, BigLaw firms that factor DEI metrics into hiring decisions are being warned they may be violating antitrust...
11 February 2026
By Jerome Doraisamy
Australian legal NGO condemns US action in Venezuela, urges government denunciation
An Australia-based international law organisation has strongly criticised the US intervention in Venezuela, calling on...
12 January 2026
By Grace Robbie
Ashurst to merge with Perkins Coie
Overnight, global law firm Ashurst (which has five offices across Australia) and US-headquartered BigLaw practice...
18 November 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Cowed’ legal profession clears path for authoritative rule, judge says
By bowing down to the threat of executive orders and allowing the purge of independent lawyers, the US legal profession...
25 August 2025
By Naomi Neilson
Landmark anti-SLAPP case filed against US oil giant
Greenpeace International has launched the first test case under the European Union’s anti-SLAPP legislation, taking...
08 July 2025
By Grace Robbie
Trump administration sued over ‘uniquely destructive’ intimidation of BigLaw firms
The American Bar Association has filed proceedings against the US government, as well as federal departments and...
18 June 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer goes live
The merger between Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin has been completed, with the new combined entity having now...
03 June 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
AI-generated video of murder victim used in court to address killer
In a move that may represent the future of criminal proceedings, an AI-generated video has been used in a US court to...
14 May 2025
By Daniel Croft
Will lawyers reject employers that backslide on DEI?
With BigLaw firms in the United States (including some with Australian offices) coming under fire for their diversity,...
07 May 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Could Trump-like attacks on the judiciary happen here?
Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump’s attacks on the legal system – from probing BigLaw firm’s DEI...
07 May 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
US man uses AI-avatar to plead case in court
The New York Supreme Court was left astonished last month when a man used an AI-generated avatar to stand in and argue...
14 April 2025
By Grace Robbie
White & Case ditches diversity and inclusion function
Global law firm White & Case, which has offices in Sydney and Melbourne, has discontinued its diversity and...
10 April 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
HSF, Kramer Levin vote for merger, creating a US$2bn turnover practice
The partnerships of both Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin have voted in favour of becoming “the first truly...
05 April 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Are global firms still committed to DEI in the age of Trump?
The Trump administration is probing the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices of 20 US-headquartered BigLaw...
28 March 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Dismayed’: Law Council, global bodies respond to Trump’s targeting of lawyers
The Law Council of Australia has signed a joint statement calling on the US government to “immediately halt” all...
24 March 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Trump targets 20 BigLaw firms over DEI, including Australia-based players
Not content with going after firms it deems to have acted against US interests, the Trump administration is now probing...
20 March 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘Be alert, not alarmed’ about Trump tariffs, lawyers say
Donald Trump’s apparent indecision about whether to exempt Australia from trade prevents certainty in a much-needed...
13 February 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
DEI in BigLaw ‘not going away’, despite Zuckerberg’s call for more ‘masculine energy’
Time will tell how receptive American corporations are to a shift back to “bro culture”. For the heads of some of...
20 January 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy