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The fast-growing Irish legal firm works with blue-chip multinationals. It has now been bought by an American augmented intelligence platform that recently raised $105m.

Mark Reihill has claimed in court he loaned €2 million to Stephane Fund but €1.3 million of it has not been repaid. Fund, a technology entrepreneur who previously ran a property company with his brother-in-law Brendan Mullin, is preparing his defence.

Amid claims and counterclaims, now $12 billion-valued Deel alleges its rival Rippling ran a campaign against it using its “Competitive Intelligence Department”. Rippling rejects these claims and says it has the "highest ethical standards."

Wolters Kluwer is buying the Irish legal software company to give it leg-up in generative AI. Brightflag’s trajectory over the last decade is key to understanding how the deal came to be.

Within 30 minutes of news of the ending of merging talks being announced, Eversheds Sutherland International said its Dublin office "is to be led by partner Pamela O’Neill".

The Dublin-based company, which develops AI tools for legal departments, is being bought out by Dutch IT giant Wolters Kluwer.

The High Court has reversed a Labour Court decision in favour of a former employee at Debenhams, a move that has implications for a further 800 former workers. The move comes following a successful appeal by the company’s liquidators.

The legal profession has largely been immune to market forces that have forced other sectors to reinvent themselves. Until now. Legal service providers and AI promise efficiencies that are too big to ignore.

Backed by leading Irish investors, the Dublin tech start-up has been locking horns with a client in a New York court. After nearly four years, settlement talks are in play.

The AI legal research start-up launched in recent weeks after incorporating in Ireland. Now it’s been hit with a lawsuit in Canada by a non-profit, alleging it wrongfully accessed its data.