The latest Legal Practice Pulse innovations, trends, actions and strategies shaping the working world

  • Quora adds group chat feature to Poe AI platform

    Quora adds group chat feature to Poe AI platform

    Poe, Quora’s AI platform, has launched a group chat feature allowing up to 200 users to collaborate using over 200 AI models. This functionality enables interactive experiences, such as planning trips or brainstorming projects. Users can start group chats from the app’s home screen, with real-time chat history syncing across devices. Quora developed the feature…

  • Free Guide to Manage Cash Flow

    Free Guide to Manage Cash Flow

    Managing your law firm’s money doesn’t have to be complicated. Our free guide, “10 Simple Ways to Manage Your Law Firm’s Cash Flow,” offers practical, proven strategies to help you take control of your finances and boost cash flow. Inside, you’ll discover easy-to-use cash forecasting techniques, smart billing tips, expense management strategies, risk prevention tools,…

  • Law firm merger will ‘leverage the power of AI’ to serve clients

    Law firm merger will ‘leverage the power of AI’ to serve clients

    U.K. law firm Ashurst and U.S. firm Perkins Coie have announced a merger to form one of the largest 20 global law firms by revenue. The new entity, named Ashurst Perkins Coie, will employ around 3,000 lawyers across 23 countries. Paul Jenkins, global chief executive of Ashurst, will be global co-CEO of the merged firm…

  • Court pauses Delta-Aeromexico breakup

    Court pauses Delta-Aeromexico breakup

    A U.S. appeals court has temporarily halted the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) order requiring Delta and Aeromexico to unwind their joint venture by January 1. The airlines sued to block the decision, citing irrecoverable costs. Delta praised the court’s pause, while Aeromexico confirmed the venture will remain active during legal proceedings. The DOT had called…

  • BHP found liable over Mariana dam disaster

    BHP found liable over Mariana dam disaster

    The High Court in London has ruled that BHP, the world’s biggest mining company, is legally liable for one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of Brazil. Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians, around 2,000 businesses, and dozens of local governments had sued BHP over the collapse of the Fundao dam in Mariana, in…

  • Starbucks workers launch strike in at least 40 U.S. cities

    Starbucks workers launch strike in at least 40 U.S. cities

    Starbucks Workers United has launched an open-ended strike to coincide with today’s Red Cup Day, involving over 1,000 baristas at more than 65 stores in at least 40 U.S. cities, after contract negotiations with Starbucks stalled. The union is seeking better hours, higher wages, and resolution of unfair labor practice charges, warning the action could…