Litigation has long been a central legal practice pillar and profit center. The term is applied narrowly to describe disputes that invoke the judicial process and broadly to encompass any formal dispute resolution process involving legal rights. The broader definition entails internal and governmental investigations, arbitration, mediation, regulatory, administrative, and other extra-judicial proceedings. Lawyers have long regarded dispute resolution— like contract drafting and other self-proclaimed “legal” functions— as their birthright. It epitomized the lawyer-centric, artisanal, brute force, approach to disputes and the hubris of the profession’s “lawyers and ‘non-lawyers’” mindset. Litigation is protracted, arcane, opaque, inefficient,…

Family Beef is our family advice column at HuffPost Family. Have a beef you want us to weigh in on? Submit it here. Dear Family Beef, My parents have never had a “happy” marriage. My dad was always the loud, life-of-the-party, at least in public, and my mom is generally more reserved and quieter with him — mostly because it seems like he bullied the life out of her. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember. I don’t have much of a relationship with my father for a lot of reasons – but how he’s treated […]

Billionaire mogul David Geffen’s refusal to leave his now ex-husband his $590 million superyacht helped lead to their ugly divorce, a new report claims. Geffen, 82, first connected with Donovan Michaels, 32 – also known as David Armstrong – on SeekingArangements.com in 2016 and went on a date the billionaire said cost him $10,000. Soon, Geffen asked Michaels to get a passport so he could more easily join him aboard the Rising Sun, a a 454-foot-long super-yacht with a basketball court, wine cellar and a crew of 45, the Wall Street Journal reports. The yacht, which Geffen bought for an estimated […]

As AI development accelerates, copyright tensions rise. Explore how the EU AI Act and landmark cases like Getty v. Stability AI could reshape the legal landscape for AI training data and spark global litigation. Summary The use of copyright works to train models for AI is a vexed subject. In the last six months in the UK alone we’ve seen national newspapers campaign against the technology, more than 1,000 musicians release a silent album in protest, and a government consultation which received 11,500 responses. Over the course of the next two months there are likely to be two significant further […]

Marriage is one of the most celebrated milestones in life. The white dress, the vows, the excitement of building a future together—it’s often portrayed as the ultimate happily-ever-after. Yet, for many women who have walked the long and difficult road of divorce, marriage holds a different, more complex meaning. Divorced women rarely voice the truths they carry inside. Some feelings are too raw, others too easily misunderstood, and many are wrapped in cultural taboos or fear of judgment. Yet, if you listen carefully—or if you’ve been there yourself—you’ll sense the quiet truths that echo beneath the surface. In this article, […]

A recent Supreme Court judgment on the division of assets in a “big money” divorce has been hailed by the legal and accountancy professions as a landmark ruling. While it was atypical because of the sums involved, it was important because it concerned the movement of assets between spouses for tax purposes and how those assets should be treated, as a result, on divorce See also: IHT planning must include an all round review of assets The divorce case Standish v Standish (2025) concerned a couple who married in 2005. They have two children together and the marriage broke down […]