INSIGHTS
The Debate Over AI Adoption at Elite UK Law Firms is Largely Over. A Different Question Has Taken Its Place.
Slaughter and May's adoption of Harvey firmwide completes the picture at Magic Circle level. For NQ lawyers, the debate over AI adoption is settled. The harder question is whether they can show they know how to use it.
The New Magic Circle: What It Means for Early-Career Lawyers in London
The Magic Circle has been recast for 2026. Every firm on the new list is American. Here is what it means for lawyers qualifying in London.
The lawyers who will matter most in five years are already making a choice today.
Anthropic has just published over 90 named AI agents as part of Claude for Legal, all available on GitHub, each configured for a specific legal workflow. Not a generic contract review tool, nor a research assistant. Agents with names like DSAR Responder,...
London’s new legal AI track
Analysis published this month by ResultSense suggests London now accounts for a larger share of senior AI hires at leading global law firms than any other city, a position that likely reflects the reach of English law across international commercial markets as much...
AI in the world of commodity trading
The most advanced data-led trading operation in the sector is arguably found at the Miami-headquartered hedge fund Citadel, which hired commodity trader Sebastian Barrack from Macquarie in 2017 to lead a bigger push into energy and raw materials. In the hunt for an...
The future – what happens when data sources for large language models run dry
Beauty’s not enough Data may well present the most immediate bottleneck. Epoch AI, a research outfit, estimates the well of high-quality textual data on the public internet will run dry by 2026. This has left researchers scrambling for ideas. Some labs are turning...