David Fox, who helped build Kirkland & Ellis into a top law firm, now sees AI as the industry’s future, writes Lauren Thomas, The Wall Street Journal.
Decades of neglect have left many regional courts in disrepair, impacting access to justice and sparking fears of "legal deserts". As practitioners campaign to save them, the Courts Service is trying to balance preservation with consolidation of its estate.
Trial lawyers and jury consultants say an erosion of trust in the justice system, more rigid viewpoints and starker political divides have made pitched juror battles more common, writes Corinne Ramey, The Wall Street Journal.
Addleshaw Goddard has enjoyed a decade of rapid expansion and has a 2030 revenue target of £1bn. Four years after it merged with Eugene F Collins, managing partner Andrew Johnston says they are still "scratching the surface" at their Irish hub.
Waterford native Michael Power has been locked in a battle with Telia and the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development since 2019 to have his case of alleged mistreatment heard. In December, his efforts received a boost in the Supreme Court.
A year after opening its new Dublin office, Schillings explains the business of reputation management and how the firm reinvented itself to be more than legal advisers.
Kate Barton is the global chief executive of the law firm Dentons, which has a growing presence in Ireland. She talks about her Irish links, plans to double in size in Dublin, and running a firm of 12,000 people.
The crux of the EPA case rests on the courts' interpretation of what is an area of active peat extraction. The decision will have ramifications for its enforcement activity and on the under-pressure midlands peat industry.
Andrew Tzialli, the son of two refugees, does not fit the mould of a typical British lawyer. Now the head of Irish law firm Philip Lee's London outpost, he speaks about his career-defining work and the advancement of Dublin post-Brexit.
Mairéad Cullen has traded in telecoms for law, becoming McCann FitzGerald’s first CTO and shepherding the stalwart law firm into the AI age.
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