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May 09, 2025
Arbitration Pro Joins Outer Temple In Move To Bar Full-Time
Outer Temple Chambers has strengthened its international arbitration team with the arrival of a solicitor advocate-turned barrister with a growing reputation in investor-state and complex commercial disputes
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May 09, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a subsidiary of State Street Corp. sue British sports betting giant Entain, Manolete Partners and聽HSBC tackle action just weeks after signing a 拢17 million revolving credit facility agreement, and a commercial fraud claim launched by EFG Bank against Mirabaud & CIE.
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May 09, 2025
LSB To 'Escalate' Action Against Barristers' Regulator
The Legal Services Board has piled on pressure on the Bar Standards Board to improve how it deals with alleged misconduct by barristers after it failed to pass its annual performance assessment earlier in the year.
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May 16, 2025
Akin Hires Another White & Case Disputes Pro In London
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has recruited an international arbitration expert for its London office聽from White & Case LLP聽as it continues to expand its global disputes and energy practices.
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May 09, 2025
McDermott, Schulte Roth Unveil Plans To Join For $2.8B Firm
McDermott Will & Emery LLP said Friday that it was wrapping up a deal to join forces with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP to create a law firm with more than $2.8 billion in global revenue, the latest merger in an increasingly competitive legal landscape.
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May 09, 2025
Goodwin Expands In Brussels With Former Quinn Antitrust Pro
Goodwin Procter LLP has strengthened its recently opened Brussels office, hiring an antitrust and competition partner from Quinn Emanuel as the firm continues to expand its European competition team.
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May 08, 2025
Solicitors' Watchdog Seeks 拢16.3M Budget Increase
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday it would seek to raise an extra 拢16.3 million ($21.6 million) in fees for its next financial year, as it juggles several high-profile investigations into scandals and large law firm failures.
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May 08, 2025
Freeths Hires Real Estate Pro From Knights, Picks New Leader
Freeths LLP said Thursday that it has hired a real estate partner from Knights PLC for its office in Manchester and that it has also appointed a new practice head in the city.
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May 08, 2025
King's College, Birmingham Profs To Join Law Commission
The Ministry of Justice said Thursday that two law professors from King's College London and the University of Birmingham have been approved to serve as commissioners at the Law Commission.
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May 15, 2025
Akin Hires Tech And IP Pro From Orrick To Boost Deals Team
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has recruited a tech and intellectual property lawyer from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP to add to better advise clients on the use, acquisition and protection of technology.
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May 08, 2025
The Times Pays Pogust Goodhead Damages Over BHP Article
The Times newspaper has apologized to Pogust Goodhead for falsely suggesting that the law firm had pressured clients to reject a settlement offer in their 拢36 billion ($48 billion) Brazilian dam collapse claim against global mining giant BHP.
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May 08, 2025
Fieldfisher Expands Into Poland With 2 New Offices
Fieldfisher LLP has opened two new offices in Poland, becoming the latest law firm to enter the country's legal market in recent weeks as it expands operations into Eastern Europe.
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May 08, 2025
Tribunal Clears CPS In Legal Adviser's Discrimination Case
The Crown Prosecution Service did not discriminate against a former legal adviser by giving him formal warnings about his attendance after multiple spells of sickness absence, a tribunal has ruled.
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May 07, 2025
Norton Rose Fulbright Rolls Out Associate-Led Client Program
Norton Rose Fulbright introduced a new initiative in its London office that shifts certain client relationship management responsibilities to mid-level and senior associates, offering associates up to 拢500 ($667) each year to boost relationships with clients.
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May 07, 2025
Taylor Wessing Launches New Patent Practice In Paris
Taylor Wessing LLP said Wednesday that it has hired Pinsent Masons' head of intellectual property in Paris and three other lawyers to launch a new patent practice in the French capital.
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May 07, 2025
Partner Moves In London Up 7% In March And April
London law firms continued their partner hiring spree in March and April, with Sidley Austin LLP leading the charge as U.S. companies continue to be top hirers in the U.K. capital's legal market.
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May 07, 2025
Leigh Day Can't Ax 拢26M Negligence Claim Over Clinical Case
Leigh Day can't strike out a former client's 拢26 million ($34.7 million) professional negligence claim after failing to convince a London court that the allegations are time-barred and have no real prospect of succeeding.
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May 07, 2025
Solicitor Wins Unpaid Wages From Shuttered Ex-Firm
An employment tribunal has awarded a former solicitor at a defunct law firm in northwest England more than 拢4,000 ($5,346) in unpaid wages and other entitlements.
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May 07, 2025
RFB Beats Ex-Partner's Claim He Was Ousted By Boss
The ex-head of employment law at Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP has lost his claim that he was forced to quit by the conduct of its former managing partner, after an employment tribunal rejected his allegation that he was demoted unfairly and exposed to bullying.
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May 14, 2025
Squire Patton Adds To EY Law's Woes With 5-Lawyer Hire
Squire Patton Boggs LLP said Wednesday that it has hired a team of five specialists in financial regulation from EY's legal services arm in Britain, adding to the division's woes as it continues to go through a period of turbulence.
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May 06, 2025
India Stays Closed To UK Lawyers Despite New Trade Deal
The Law Society called the absence of legal services from the trade deal that the U.K. and India inked on Tuesday "a missed opportunity" to open up market access for lawyers from both countries, as India continues to block foreign lawyers from setting up shop.
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May 06, 2025
HSF Names Chair, Senior Partner Of New Transatlantic Firm
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has named a leading Australian corporate lawyer as the senior partner of the new firm being established through its merger with New York's Kramer Levin due to complete in June.
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May 06, 2025
SRA OKs 1st AI Law Firm In Bid To Broaden Access To Justice
The solicitors' watchdog said Tuesday it has approved the first legal services provider powered entirely by an artificial intelligence large language model, rather than human lawyers, describing it as a significant step toward enhancing access to justice.
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May 06, 2025
Knights Continuing Expansion With 拢16.6M Birkett Long Buy
Knights Group Holdings PLC said Tuesday that it has struck a deal to acquire Birkett Long's law firm and financial advisory business for up to 拢16.6 million ($22.2 million) to continue its expansion in southeast England.
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May 06, 2025
Lewis Silkin Says Property Sale Advice Was Not Its Job
Lewis Silkin LLP said it was never hired to advise a developer on the sale of a former car dealership, denying his bid for up to 拢8.7 million ($11.6 million) in alleged losses from a rushed sale.