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  "id": 14544760,
  "title": "Law Firm Freshfields Weighs Billion-Dollar Spinoff for AI Unit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/law-firm-freshfields-weighs-billion-dollar-spinoff-for-ai-unit",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-14T21:33:29.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/law-firm-freshfields-weighs-billion-dollar-spinoff-ai-unit/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Senior partners at global law firm Freshfields have discussed making its in-house legal technology unit, Freshfields Lab, a separate company that could be opened to external investors, the Financial Times reported Wednesday (Oct. 14). The senior partners believe the unit, which develops artificial intelligence tools for the firm’s lawyers and clients, could be worth billions, […] The post Law…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}