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May 02, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Premier League football club Newcastle United FC sue the owner of the land next to its stadium, Laurence Fox face a defamation claim by TV presented Narinder Kaur and a further sexual assault claim filed against actor Kevin Spacey.
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May 02, 2025
A&O Shearman Ex-Partners Cite Leadership Gap Amid Exits
Partners are still heading for the exit at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling in London, prompting lawyers to note that the firm鈥檚 top decision-makers are not based in the U.K. Here, former partners talk about leadership and the growing emphasis on billable hours at the firm.
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May 02, 2025
The Revolving Door: Linklaters Hires Public Law Head
Over the past week, Linklaters hired a new arbitration partner to head its international law practice, Pinsent Masons bagged a pensions expert from Taylor Wessing, and Clyde & Co. opened its doors to an AI veteran from Kennedys Law.
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May 02, 2025
Ex-UN Judge Gets 6 Yrs For Forcing Woman To Work As Slave
A former United Nations judge was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of modern slavery offenses, including forcing a woman to work as her maid and conspiring to violate U.K. immigration law, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
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May 02, 2025
Excello Law Expands With Launch Of Boutique Firm
Excello Law has helped a corporate law specialist to launch a boutique firm in southwest England under a business model that gives entrepreneurial lawyers the resources they need to establish their own legal business.
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May 02, 2025
BCLP Is Latest Firm To Launch Redundancy Consultation
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP said Friday that it has launched a redundancy consultation that will affect approximately 8% of its global business services on both sides of the Atlantic as the firm pursues its "business modernization program."
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May 02, 2025
Ashurst Appoints Claire Dutch As London Office Chief
Ashurst LLP has appointed senior planning law specialist Claire Dutch to lead its office in London as she takes over from her predecessor, Helen Burton, who had held the position for two years.
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May 01, 2025
Kennedys Names 21 Partners In Bumper Promotion Round
Kennedys LLP announced Thursday that it had elevated 21 lawyers to partnership across nine of its offices, marking a 23% increase on the number it promoted in 2024.
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May 01, 2025
DLA Piper Names New Office Chief For Manchester, Liverpool
DLA Piper has appointed a corporate crime and investigations partner to oversee its offices in northwest England after his predecessor helped them overcome the challenges they faced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
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May 01, 2025
Keystone Law Nears Revenues Of 拢100M
Keystone Law Group PLC said Thursday that investing in senior lawyers has reaped dividends for the firm as it recorded revenues of almost 拢100 million ($133 million) and saw profits increase by double digits in its latest financial results.
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May 01, 2025
BNY Can't Escape A&O Shearman's 拢93M Negligence Claim
Bank of New York Mellon lost its fight Thursday to escape a claim from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling alleging that the lender caused Nationwide Building Society to face a 拢93 million ($109 million) tax bill by bungling the issuance of notes.
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May 01, 2025
Richard Susskind On What Attys Should Do In The Age Of AI
Author Richard Susskind, who has a new book out about artificial intelligence, discusses how legal institutions are not ready for AI and what it will take for lawyers to recognize their potential vulnerability to being replaced by it.
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May 01, 2025
Injury Lawyers 4U Defeats Law Firms' Case Over Ad Prices
Injury Lawyers 4U has beaten a case brought by three law firms in a fight over prices for TV advertising, with a court ruling that the company's directors were legitimately appointed before removing preferential ad rates.
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May 01, 2025
Ex-Solicitor Gets Prison For Pocketing 拢160K In Client Money
A former solicitor who duped more than 300 clients over three years into paying more than 拢160,000 ($213,000) into her personal bank account rather than to her firm has been jailed for two-and-a-half years, police have said.
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May 01, 2025
Osborne Clarke Promotes 10 To Partner, Addleshaw Adds 15
Osborne Clarke said Thursday that it has elevated 10 lawyers based in England to its partnership, a day after Addleshaw Goddard confirmed that it has boosted its numbers with a smaller intake of 15 new partners.
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April 30, 2025
DEI Champion Appointed Next City Law Society Chief Exec
The former head of learning at Linklaters LLP will take over as chief executive of the trade body for City of London law firms, the appointment of a long-time diversity and inclusion champion as big U.S. firms face pressure over DEI.
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April 30, 2025
Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Practice With Milbank Hire
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.
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April 30, 2025
Cyberattack Forces Co-op Legal Services To Restrict Access
The Co-operative Group said Wednesday that measures it took to restrict access to key internal systems caused delays within its legal services arm, after the company took action to minimize the threat from an attempted cyberattack.
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April 30, 2025
Clyde & Co. Picks Up Ex-Kennedys AI Partner
A former partner of artificial intelligence strategy and delivery at Kennedys Law LLP shared on his LinkedIn Wednesday that he would be joining Clyde & Co. LLP as a partner of global innovation.
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April 30, 2025
Fried Frank Taps Sidley's UK Tax Head
The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.
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May 07, 2025
White & Case Hires Back PE Pro From Kirkland In London
White & Case LLP announced Wednesday the return of a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost its cross-border private equity offering to deal with the increase in transactions it expects to continue through the year.
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April 30, 2025
WFW, Stewarts Add 5 Partners Each In 2025 Promotions
Watson Farley & Williams LLP and Stewarts Law LLP both said Wednesday that they have promoted five lawyers to their partnerships worldwide for 2025.
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April 30, 2025
Clyde & Co. Adds Cross-Border Insurance Pro From Brazil
Clyde & Co. LLP has hired a corporate insurance expert as a partner in London, as the firm looks to strengthen its access to the "fast-evolving" and complex Latin American market.
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April 30, 2025
Axiom Ince Execs Deny Fraud Charges Over Firm's Collapse
Five former senior figures at Axiom Ince denied allegations on Wednesday that they had defrauded clients and covered up their wrongdoing during a regulatory probe into the law firm, which collapsed with a hole of more than 拢60 million ($80.1 million) in its client accounts.
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April 30, 2025
Bird & Bird Appoints 17 To Partner In Latest Promotions
Bird & Bird LLP said Wednesday that 17 lawyers have made the grade as partners in a wider annual round of promotions across the legal business globally.