Weil, Gotshal & Manges had no debt and US$5.6 million in profit per equity partner, yet it’s winding down after more than 50 partners left for firms that paid more. In a profession that can’t find lawyers for people earning $30,000 a year, that appetite raises the question of what law is supposed to be about.
Young lawyers who draft documents and form legal opinions by prompting AI, without ever having done the work themselves, lack the understanding to know which questions need to be asked — something AI can’t yet figure out on its own. The result: they rely on bad answers because they don’t know better, and that’s how negligence claims happen.
A Canadian Judicial Council study found that judges report less than half the anxiety and depression lawyers do, and high satisfaction with their work. Marcel Strigberger’s not surprised: he concludes that considering the pay, the pension and the power, it’s good to be the judge.
By Janet Carr & Julius Melnitzer | October 27, 2026 Stratford has long drawn visitors for its theatre. Jennifer Birmingham, owner of The Bruce Hotel, wants you to come for the food as well, and she has built much of the hotel around that idea, from the beehives and Chef’s Garden on its grounds to […]
Australian companies are developing spacecraft designed to service other spacecraft, but Australian patent law may not protect what they invent or do in orbit. By Julius Melnitzer | October 26, 2026 In March 2024, a 270-kilogram spacecraft called Optimus lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Designed and […]
Photo by Mike Bird at Pexels By Murray Gottheil | October 25, 2026 It is an ill wind that blows no good. – John Heywood I recently wrote what I thought was a rather nifty article about the ills in the legal profession, and concluded, as I often do, that many of them can be traced to […]
By Julius Melnitzer | October 22, 2026 AI CONFESSES— SIX WAYS I GET THE LAW WRONG Roshi Sharma of LawBEAM ran output from Harvey, a generative AI platform, through LawBEAM’s own legal AI engine and, Sharma says, found fatal errors of law and fact. Asked to explain, Harvey admitted six failings. In its own words: […]
Does anybody think Humpty Dumpty took his fall off the wall lying down? No way. Mr. Dumpty actually commenced a lawsuit seeking compensation as a result of injuries suffered. I recently came across a copy of a little-known decision of the High Court of Wonderland, which I would like to share. High Court of Wonderland […]
Apart from the employers and the unions, the people who bear the consequences have no defined way to be heard By Michelle McHale | October 17, 2026 Parliament is now debating when the federal government can step into a labour dispute without first answering a basic question: how do we know the system is working […]
By Murray Gottheil | October 15, 2026 I liked some of my partners all of the time; most of my partners most of the time; and one or two, almost never. I suspect that my partners, as a group, had similar sentiments about me. The first thing to know about being a partner in a […]