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  1. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Sonia Hickey

    Lawyers Are Training AI to Do the Work They Used to Hate . . And It’s Working (opens the original)

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    Legal AI companies are making a blunt pitch for law firm associates to escape the all-nighters, the non-billable document slog, and the mind-numbing reviews and to help build the technology that makes those tedious tasks disappear. Dozens are taking the offer, leaving Big Law for a hybrid role called “legal engineer”a description that is part product developer, part customer liaison, part translator between practicing lawyers and software teams. The job is simple in concept but disruptive in eff

  2. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Sonia Hickey

    Burnham Cabinet Reshuffle: David Lammy and Richard Hermer Exit Government (opens the original)

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    Andy Burnham wasted little time putting his own stamp on government, and the legal establishment was among the first casualties. Within hours of entering Downing Street, the new prime minister swept aside some of the most recognisable legal figures of the Starmer years, with Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy (pictured) and Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer (below) both departing the cabinet. The reshuffle was hardly a surprise. Hermer, a close ally of former prime minist

  3. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Sonia Hickey

    Why Law Firm Growth Now Depends on Better Data, Not Just Referrals (opens the original)

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    Referrals built the legal industry, but they can no longer carry its growth alone. Firms that rely only on word of mouth are losing ground to competitors who use data to find clients before a referral even happens. Treating data as optional is now a costly mistake. This article explains why law firm growth now depends on better data, not just referrals. Referrals depend on timing and relationships that a firm cannot control, which makes them inherently unpredictable. A slow quarter for referral

  4. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sonia Hickey

    How Trump Turned Big Law Lobbying Into A Billion‑Dollar Profit Engine (opens the original)

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    When Donald Trump turned Washington into a rolling policy experiment, most law firms braced for chaos, but a handful quietly built something else: - a brand new profit engine. Lobbying and government‑relations work, once treated as a sideline for politically connected partners, has become one of Big Law’s fastest‑growing business and a new career path for lawyers from DC to Westminster For decades, lobbying has sat on the fringes of large law firms and what they traditionally do. There were alwa

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