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January 13, 2026
Jo Sidhu Fails To Overturn Disbarment For Sexual Misconduct
The former chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Jo Sidhu KC, lost his fight on Tuesday to overturn his disbarment for sexual misconduct toward a young aspiring lawyer, as a London court ruled that the sanction was justified.
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January 13, 2026
Quinn Emanuel's Revenue Ticks Up To £227M In London
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP said Tuesday that its London office returned to seeing its profits grow in 2025, following a dip the previous year, as its revenue ticked up to £227.1 million ($305.8 million).
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January 13, 2026
LSB Names Permanent CEO During 'Critical' Period
The Legal Services Board said on Tuesday that it has appointed Richard Orpin as permanent chief executive as the oversight regulator navigates what it described as a critical time for the profession.
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January 13, 2026
Freeths Hires Private Client Director Amid UK Expansion
Freeths has bolstered its tax, trusts and estates practice by hiring Suzanne Porter, who is the first recorded female steward of a historic disputes court in Derbyshire, as a director to lead the launch of the firm's practice in the north of England.
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January 12, 2026
Clifford Chance Continues US Growth With Freshfields Atty
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it is continuing to grow in the U.S. with the hiring of a private equity attorney from Freshfields LLP, touting her experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, equity financings and restructurings.
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January 12, 2026
Squire Patton Elects Three New Global Board Members
Squire Patton Boggs announced the addition of two European partners and one U.S. partner to its global board Monday.
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January 12, 2026
Paralegal Banned From Law For Lying About Missing Docs
A former paralegal has been permanently banned from working for law firms after a tribunal concluded Monday she lied to a firm and a client by falsely claiming documents had been misplaced.
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January 12, 2026
City Law Firm Liable For £2M Over Partner's AML Oversight
A London court ruled Monday that the liquidators of a property company can recover just over £2.1 million ($3 million) from a City law firm after it found a partner had ignored obvious red flags of a client involved in fraud.
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January 12, 2026
Make Legal Aid Priority Like Health, Education, Bar Chair Says
The new chair of the Bar Council called on Monday for legal aid funding to get the same kind of priority as spending on education and health care as she outlined her priorities for the year ahead.
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January 12, 2026
Solicitor Accused At Trial Of Stalking Court Blogger
A solicitor stalked a legal blogger who had covered litigation in which he was involved by sending repeated emails that included threats of litigation and comments about his sexuality, prosecutors said at a London criminal court Monday.
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January 12, 2026
Ward Hadaway's Turnover Passes £50M With 12% Growth
Ward Hadaway LLP said Monday that strong performances across the business have helped its annual turnover jump to more than £50 million ($67 million), an increase of about 12%.
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January 12, 2026
Knights Hits £103M In Revenue In First-Half Results
Knights said Monday that a series of law firm acquisitions and a return to organic growth have helped the group's revenue pass £100 million ($135 million) as it released financial results for the first half of its current financial year.
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January 12, 2026
Fixed Costs Regime Unfair To Winners, Law Society Says
The fixed recoverable costs regime is failing to deliver the certainty it promised to winning parties in civil litigation, the Law Society said Monday in response to an impending government consultation.
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January 12, 2026
Master Of The Rolls Geoffrey Vos To Retire
Master of the Rolls Geoffrey Vos announced Monday that he will step down from his post as the most senior civil judge in England and Wales later in 2026.
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January 09, 2026
SDT Clears Two Over Trainee-Run Firm, Fines Others £40K
A tribunal has fined two individuals a total of more than £41,000 ($55,000) for allowing a trainee to run a firm for nine months, but didn't sanction two others involved after concluding that they were misled about who would be in control.
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January 09, 2026
Ropes & Gray Expands AI Program To Europe
Ropes & Gray LLP said Friday that it has extended a program to its European offices that allows junior lawyers to spend time experimenting with artificial intelligence, empowering them to develop competency and to help drive the firm's strategy for integrating the new technology.
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January 09, 2026
Court Term Starts With Move To Close 'Transparency Gap'
The start of a new court term on Monday will usher in a pilot program designed to increase the transparency of court documents, but there are unanswered questions about whether it will fulfill a stated aim of informing public understanding of court proceedings.
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January 09, 2026
JLG Adds 5 New Partners Amid Pogust Woes
Johnson Law Group has added five new partners from Pogust Goodhead amid doubts over the litigation boutique's future viability.
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January 09, 2026
Jones Day To Help Restore David Bowie's Old London Home
Jones Day's charitable foundation will help to restore the childhood home of musical icon David Bowie before it opens to the public in late 2027, the historical trust leading the project said Friday.
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January 09, 2026
Part Of Barrister's Race Bias Case Dismissed As Speculatory
A tribunal has tossed out part of a barrister's race discrimination claim against her professional regulator, ruling that the claim was a "fishing expedition" because it was based on speculation and had no realistic prospect of success
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January 09, 2026
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a collapsed investment firm revive a $15 million dispute with a hedge fund, major Hollywood studios bring an IP claim against the U.K.'s largest internet providers over illegal streaming, and the Department of Health and Social Care sue the law firm and barrister representing it in a pharma competition damages case.
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January 09, 2026
Barrister Disbarred Over LLM Dissertation Plagiarism
A barrister who was recently called was disbarred by a London legal disciplinary tribunal panel Friday after it found that he had copied another student's work and submitted it for his law master's degree dissertation.
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January 09, 2026
The Revolving Door: Latham Raids A&O For Finance Trio
Over the past week, Latham & Watkins recruited a finance trio from A&O Shearman, Morgan Lewis & Bockius bolstered its employment bench with an expert from DLA Piper, and DAC Beachcroft lost a commercial disputes veteran to Shoosmiths.
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January 08, 2026
Ex-UnitedHealth GC Joins WilmerHale As Partner In London
After more than 25 years as a general counsel handling some of the direst corporate crises imaginable, former UnitedHealth Group general counsel Rupert Bondy is returning to London to co-lead WilmerHale's crisis management and strategic response group.
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January 08, 2026
Alston & Bird Largely Turns To Litigators In 22-Partner Class
Alston & Bird LLP has elected 22 attorneys in Dallas, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as London, to its partnership, with litigators comprising the bulk of the new partners, a move that comes after the firm promoted 20 partners in 2025.
Expert Analysis
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Once More Unto The Breach — Rehearing In Newman?
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York decided to seek appellate review of several aspects of the recent insider-trading decision in U.S. v. Newman and Chiasson. En banc rehearing petitions are rarely granted in any circuit, and are particularly rare in the Second Circuit, which hears the fewest number of rehearings of any circuit in the country, say Eugene Ingoglia and Gregory Morvillo of Morvillo LLP.
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UK Tax Advisers Are Beyond Legal Advice Privilege
A recent judgment from the U.K. Supreme Court in one of the most significant decisions on legal advice privilege for many years. Prudential PLC v. Special Commissioner of Income Tax, which dealt a blow to tax advisers and other nonlegally qualified service providers who provide legal advice to their clients, confirmed that — consistent with the position in the U.S. — legal advice privilege only protects communications to or from a qualified lawyer, say Richard Hornshaw and Daniel Cohen of Bingham McCutchen LLP.