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76% A&O Shearman has confirmed 32 of its 42 final-seat trainees due to qualify this coming spring will remain at the firm. The Magic Circle giant revealed 40 trainees put…
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend The AI Shift: If AI is coming for junior lawyers’ jobs, why does their pay keep going up?…
Which one is it? The confusion about whether AI is a total game-changer or a useful but flawed bit of new tech continues — with law once again providing the…