In the middle of the night on April 1, 2026, officials from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence arrested prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. Her arrest came amid the ongoing war in Iran, and as ...

Courts across the world have started penalising lawyers for submitting fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence tools, making it clear that errors caused by AI will not shield legal ...

In a month designated by many nations as a time to address mental health awareness, The Global Lawyer looks at what lawyers, known to be part of an unwell profession, can do in these fraught times.

This year’s cohort is smaller, though the 2024 round was the largest in the firm’s 160-year history. Sidley Austin has announced the promotion of 29 lawyers to partner worldwide, a decrease from last ...

A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal ...

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