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There are two questions: firstly whether AI itself actually exists and secondly, whether the businesses that purport to be selling AI services are actually ‘AI washing’.

As a youth in the 80s, I never had much success with “actually I’m in insurance” as a chat-up line. It evoked the image of a corporate pencil pusher living for their retirement.

We are seeing some evidence of law firm buyers taking a more cautious approach to the way they structure deals and conduct their due diligence.

Insurance market cycles usually work in peaks and troughs, and are sensitive to interest rates – when rates are high, many write for volume so they can earn decent returns from the money they have banked.

Africa is consistently proving itself to be an attractive market and rapidly becoming one of the biggest players in the global economy. So how can law firms successfully expand to the market?

On 5 November 2015, the Fundão Dam in eastern Brazil burst, causing Brazil’s worst-ever environmental disaster. Nearly seven years later, BHP has failed to compensate the victims.

Apprenticeships are a great tool that law firms and legal teams can use to upskill existing employees as well as recruit new team members, with a proven positive impact.

It is difficult to imagine that the Post Office scandal could get worse than it already is, but it can and it has. Sir Wyn Williams must wonder what on earth he got himself into in agreeing to chair the inquiry into it.

Evidence shows that the majority of law firms got through the pandemic relatively unscathed, with many thriving during Covid. But looking ahead, storm clouds are gathering.

What does a slowing economy mean for various practice areas – from conveyancing and immigration to crime and family – and firms’ professional indemnity insurance prospects?