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DWF director Julie-Ann McCaffrey is second council member to step down amid controversy over chief executive’s reference for cousin convicted of indecent assault | 6d

Collaboration will allow mutual clients to use Legora’s agentic system on documents stored in Box | 6d

Suzana Blades replaces GC Grant McGee, who left to join Target in June | 6d

CEDR co-founder remembered as ‘colossal figure’ who helped transform commercial dispute resolution | 1w

Society president Mark Borland says David Lavery will remain in post but admits controversy has damaged profession’s reputation | 1w

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group reported to have paid about £40m for the struggling luxury retailer | 1w

Firms including Maples Group, Walkers, Conyers Dill & Pearman and Ropes & Gray also on deal | 1w

Swiss knowledge management startup’s Agent Handoff Protocol aims to preserve context as users move work between different AI systems | 1w

Tokyo-based firm prepares to add fourth regional office in Japan | 1w

Initiative combines firm’s structured products practice and Scissero’s AI verification services | 1w

Hires from Crowell, Squire Patton Boggs and Baker Botts strengthen technology, employment and corporate practices | 1w

Asset manager says its Litigation Finance Private Credit platform now has more than $600m in assets | 1w

Michael Adler joins Akerman’s AI strategy platform and its corporate practice group as a partner in Washington | 1w

Caroline Miller Oyler resumes legal duties as GC John Matter moves to chief development officer role | 1w

National US firm points to building destination IP practice as a strategic priority as trio joins in Denver | 1w

Technology partner Shahin Baghaei joins with three EY colleagues as the firm looks to expand its legaltech and AI capabilities | 1w

Benny Wünschmann joins from commercial law firm Flick Gocke Schaumburg as Fieldfisher’s seventh partner in the German capital | 1w

Gibson Dunn acts for Intel on first public share sale since 1971 as Davis Polk steers underwriters | 1w

Ohio family lawyer Barbara Howard has succeeded Michelle Behnke at the helm of the American Bar Association | 1w