Happy Friday!

This week, we celebrate a major community milestone: Legal.io has officially crossed 150,000 members, cementing its place as one of the largest legal professional communities.

But the number is just the headline. Behind it is a community that has fundamentally changed how legal professionals find their next opportunity and how legal teams find the talent they need.

The flexibility, the transparency, the speed: none of it works without the people who built it alongside us.

To every member, every partner, and every team who's been part of this journey: thank you. 

You didn't just join a community. You built one.

— Pieter Gunst

CEO & Co-Founder, Legal.io

📊 Data-driven legal

$2T

Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk land lead roles on SpaceX's IPO, which could become the largest in history.

$80M

As of last month, a Kirkland & Ellis lawyer holds the highest guaranteed pay package ever publicly reported for a lateral hire in the global legal profession.

3.2 quadrillion

The number of AI tokens Google processes per month according to Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai.

Industry snapshot

OpenAI cleared of breach of charitable trust in Musk-Altman jury verdict 

A federal jury in Oakland needed just two hours to find Musk's claims fell outside the three-year statute of limitations, also clearing Microsoft. Musk has vowed to appeal to the 9th Circuit.

Georgia joins growing list of states regulating AI companion chatbots

The law targets AI systems that retain session memory, ask emotion-based questions, and sustain ongoing personal relationships. Companies face mandatory AI disclosures, crisis-resource referrals, and protection requirements.

Harvey rolls out Contract Intelligence for in-house teams

Co-designed with customers, the product brings CLM-style intake, triage, fallback positions, and portfolio-wide visibility into Harvey. Waitlist now, GA in Q3.

UC Berkeley Law tightens its AI policy

Faculty introduce a stricter AI use rule for students, betting that future lawyers should learn to think like one before being "abandoned to merely prompting like lawyers.”

DIY lawsuits aided by AI are clogging US courts

Self-represented litigants armed with ChatGPT are pushing motions all the way to the Supreme Court, where a December order from Justice Sotomayor indirectly validated the AI-aided approach.

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