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Dentons Canada adds 10-lawyer employment and labor team from Norton Rose Fulbright in Toronto
Dentons Canada hired a 10-lawyer employment and labor team from Norton Rose Fulbright's Toronto office, led by partners Richard J. Charney, John Mastoras and Daniel McDonald, Law.com reported October 13, 2026. The group advises unionized and federally regulated employers on collective bargaining, labor arbitration, human rights litigation and workplace safety.
Announcement (Law.com International) → · Law Times, International Employment Lawyer
Clifford Chance and Cavenagh Law to end 14-year Singapore formal law alliance
Clifford Chance and Singapore disputes firm Cavenagh Law will end the formal law alliance formed in 2012 to give Clifford Chance clients access to Singapore litigation advice, a mutual decision the firms confirmed October 13, 2026, the Global Legal Post and Legal Business reported. The alliance is expected to wind down in four to five months; Clifford Chance will keep operating in Singapore under its Qualifying Foreign Law Practice license.
Announcement (The Global Legal Post) → · Legal Business
Sidley hires Kirkland funds partner Justin Solomon to co-lead private equity funds group
Sidley Austin hired investment funds partner Justin Solomon from Kirkland & Ellis in Los Angeles to co-lead its private equity funds group with John Muno, Bloomberg Law reported October 13, 2026. Solomon spent nearly 20 years at Kirkland building practices in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and arrives as Sidley extends a funds build that has drawn teams from several rival firms this year.
Announcement (Bloomberg Law) → · Sidley Austin
Rulings this week
- UK · EWHC Spares 5,000 late-served Dieselgate claims but makes claimants share costs
- 9TH CIR. Keeps California's captive audience meeting ban on hold
- CANADA Ontario Court of Appeal says licensed paralegals can negotiate accident benefits settlements for parties under disability
- UK · UKSC Backs insurer against Spain and France in Prestige oil spill arbitration case
Skadden adds five-lawyer mass torts team from DLA Piper in Chicago
Skadden added Lyn Pruitt, Adria Conklin, Mary Catherine Way and David Koehler as partners in its mass torts and product liability group, affiliated with the Chicago office, with Lauren Grinder joining as counsel, Law.com and Bloomberg Law reported October 13, 2026. The five came from DLA Piper and follow Brian O'Donoghue, who joined Skadden as a mass torts partner in July.
Announcement (Law.com) → · Bloomberg Law
Legora launches Intake, a Slack-based agentic front door for in-house legal requests
Legora launched Intake, a front door for in-house legal teams built around the Legora Agent and available now in Slack, Artificial Lawyer and Legal IT Insider reported October 13, 2026. Intake turns business requests into tracked work and can prepare first drafts using the legal team's own Skills and playbooks; Legora plans to extend it to Microsoft Teams, email and MCP.
Announcement (Artificial Lawyer) → · Legal IT Insider
Z.ai launches GLM-Legal, a legal-specific model built on GLM-5.3-Flash
Chinese AI company Z.ai, known in China as Zhipu AI, launched GLM-Legal, a legal-domain large language model mid-trained and post-trained from its GLM-5.3-Flash model for contract review, evidence analysis and compliance research, Artificial Lawyer and MarkTechPost reported October 13, 2026. Access is through an application-only API beta, with no public weights or published pricing.
Announcement (MarkTechPost) → · Artificial Lawyer
Upper Tribunal sets February 2027 hearing on challenges to FCA motor finance redress scheme
The Upper Tribunal will hear challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance compensation scheme from February 16 to 26, 2027, the FCA said October 13, 2026. Three lenders and consumer group Consumer Voice are challenging the scheme, which remains partially suspended. The FCA told lenders to prepare for the scheme being quashed, while a claimant firm said drivers are turning to litigation.
Filing (Financial Conduct Authority) → · Law Society Gazette, Legal Futures
Goodwin expands Microsoft partnership, moving its Regina OS legal AI platform onto Microsoft Foundry
Goodwin expanded its relationship with Microsoft, making Microsoft Foundry the enterprise AI platform for its proprietary Regina OS legal operating system and widening Microsoft Copilot access firmwide, the firm announced October 13, 2026. Law360 Pulse reported the expansion October 14. Regina OS combines matter context, firm knowledge and AI tools in one platform.
Announcement (Goodwin) → · Law360 Pulse
Mayer Brown hires Sheppard Mullin's Joseph Jay as white collar co-chair
Mayer Brown hired A. Joseph Jay III, who co-led Sheppard Mullin's governmental practice, as co-chair of its global investigations and white collar defense practice, Bloomberg Law reported October 13, 2026. Jay said he moved to work again with practice chair Ken Wainstein, a former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush; Bloomberg Law reported the pair wrote the University of North Carolina academic fraud report.
Announcement (Bloomberg Law) → · Mayer Brown