Omar Haroun, who led AI strategy for e-discovery provider Relativity, left the company in 2023 with hints of a stealth project in the works. On Thursday, he announced the launch of Legal Data Intelligence, also known as Cicero. Haroun will serve as the CEO of Cicero, and is one of its many…

Australia’s Gilbert + Tobin is advising private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) on its $1.4 billion plan to buy Australian fund manager Perpetual, which is being advised by Herbert Smith Freehills. Under the $1.4 billion deal, KKR will take corporate trust and wealth management operations, as well…

The most remarkable statistic to emerge from Law.com International’s research into the Top 30 law firms in the Middle East is that 60% of lawyers choose to make Dubai their home. A ringing endorsement of the emirate’s positioning as a global hub, this underlines the potency of Dubai’s international financial…

A report by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings looks at whether climate change litigation will impact oil and gas companies in the same way earlier rounds of lawsuits had on the tobacco, asbestos and opioids industries. Litigation over climate change has quadrupled over the past decade, rising to about 2,410 cases by 2023…

A South Florida attorney said the “victim-shaming” strategy the United States Tennis Association allegedly used throughout a federal district court trial in Orlando was key to jurors returning a $9 million award to a once-rising tennis prospect, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by one of the organization’s coaches at its…

Austin-based Reid Collins & Tsai, as counsel to a federal receiver, prevailed over defendant-law firm Morris, Manning & Martin’s motion to dismiss a legal malpractice suit in South Carolina federal court. Counsel for Atlanta-based Morris Manning argued the statute of limitations bars the bankruptcy receiver’s effort to disgorge the law firm’s…