Law firm mergers are being signed at the fastest pace in years. What the press releases don’t cover is what happens the morning after.

Fairfax Associates tracked 59 completed law firm mergers in 2025, an 18% increase over 2024, with 16 more already announced for 2026, including three combinations where both firms have more than…

Managing partners have been running some version of this conversation for thirty years: a lateral arrives, a conflict surfaces, a screen goes up, the file gets walled. An ethical wall (also called an ethics wall) is a documented, court-recognized information barrier that separates an attorney from matters where their prior client relationships create a conflict…

Over the last two years, AI landed on every desk in professional firms. Sure enough, professionals got measurably faster at completing work, armed with review tools, drafting assistants, research accelerators, modeling plug-ins, and more. Yet looking at big-picture firm economics, not much has changed. Growth is the same. Margins are the same. The COO is…

Your GC is already asking how you’d prove that an AI agent didn’t pull from a restricted engagement when it answered a partner’s question. And most firms don’t have a clean answer but because the architecture required to answer it confidently wasn’t part of the original deployment decision.

That gap is more manageable than it…

AI governance, for a law firm, means being able to document what AI tool was used on a matter, what client data it accessed, who reviewed the output, and whether the client’s specific outside counsel guidelines were applied before work began. Most firms have an AI policy. Far fewer have AI governance.

When a financial…

Conflicts clearance is the process of screening a lateral partner’s prior representations against the hiring firm’s active client and matter database to identify adverse conflicts before the hire is finalized and new matters open. It sounds straightforward. At volume, it isn’t.

Every lateral partner hire generates a conflicts clearance requirement. AmLaw 200 firms made hundreds…

The 2026 Technology Perceptions Survey Research Report reveals that 92% of fee-earners at financial and professional services firms now use AI at work, up from 48% in 2024.

This statistic is important, signaling a major shift in how daily work gets done. But there’s a more important statistic that remains unexplored: How many firms have…

Every major investment banking and advisory (IB&A) firm has an AI strategy these days. But many of those firms aren’t actually AI-ready: they lack the infrastructure and governance frameworks required to effectively scale it and unlock its full value.

The governance issue is particularly widespread, with 63% of institutions reporting that they have limited or…

The phrase “data-driven” has become so overused in private markets that it’s nearly lost meaning. Every firm claims it. Pitch decks reference proprietary data, systematic sourcing, rigorous analytics. And yet in the same industry, associates still spend hours pulling from pitch books and digging through recent news articles just to prepare for IC. Partners still…

Newly launched restructuring-focused investment bank selects Intapp DealCloud to track relationships, manage deal pipeline, and scale with confidence

PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 09, 2026 — Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA), the governed AI platform for professional firms in highly regulated industries, today announces that Ensis Partners, a growing investment bank, has selected Intapp DealCloud with…

Your private capital firm probably has an AI strategy. But is your firm AI-ready?

If you’re stuck in an ongoing cycle of AI point-tool pilots focused on narrow use cases, the answer is probably “no.”

And you’re not alone. Research from FTI Consulting indicates that private equity firms get the greatest value from AI when…

There’s a distinction I find myself making more often in conversations with law firms: the difference between the practice of law and the business of law.

AI tools are advancing fast on the practice side. Harvey is a good example, helping lawyers research, draft, and reason faster than was possible even two years ago. Firms…