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April 07, 2025
Leigh Day Promotes 12 Lawyers To Partner
Leigh Day said Monday that it has elevated 12 lawyers to its partnership as it bolsters areas including personal injury, employment and clinical negligence.
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April 04, 2025
UK Gov't Reviews £820M Legal Roster
The U.K. government's public procurement agency has said that an exercise is underway for law firms to bid to be included in a consolidated £820 million ($1.06 billion) legal roster as it makes arrangements for the provision of advice.
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April 04, 2025
Bar Council Backs ABA Against 'Abhorrent' Political Attacks
The Bar Council of England and Wales on Friday threw its weight behind the American Bar Association in condemning U.S. President Donald Trump's actions against the courts and the legal profession, describing the attacks as "abhorrent."
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April 04, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Russian industrialist Oleg Deripaska target the intelligence arm of CT Group with a commercial fraud claim, Big Technologies sue its former CEO for allegedly concealing interests in several shareholders, and an investment firm tackle a professional negligence claim by Adidas. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 11, 2025
Jones Day Hires 4 Pros In Madrid For Financial Markets Team
Jones Day has hired a group of four lawyers from Simmons & Simmons LLP and Spanish law firm RocaJunyent SLP to enhance its services in leveraged finance and capital markets transactions.
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April 11, 2025
HSF Hires Patent Litigator From EIP In Germany
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has hired a new intellectual property partner to its Düsseldorf office from EIP, with the new arrival saying Friday that the draw of working at a global firm led him to jump ship.
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April 04, 2025
BCLP Increases NQ Pay In London To £115K
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has raised the salaries of newly qualified lawyers at its London office to £115,000 ($148,000) in its effort to remain attractive to young talent.
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April 11, 2025
HSF Private Equity Pro Moves To Dechert As Merger Looms
A seasoned private equity lawyer from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP is moving to Dechert LLP as HSF edged a step closer to its anticipated transatlantic merger with Kramer Levin.
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April 04, 2025
The Revolving Door: Travers Smith Bags Restructuring Head
Over the past week, Addleshaw Goddard LLP rehired a regulatory veteran after his 15-year stint at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, Travers Smith LLP appointed a partner to head its restructuring and insolvency practice, and Baker Botts LLP picked up a seasoned finance duo from Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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April 04, 2025
HSF, Kramer Levin Partners Vote In Favor Of Merger
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin said Friday that their partners have voted "overwhelmingly" to approve the merger of the two law firms, adding that the combination was now expected to be completed a month later than initially anticipated.
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April 03, 2025
International Disputes And Trade Lawyer Heads To Foley Hoag
A trade lawyer with experience in World Trade Organization dispute settlement and commercial mediation has joined Foley Hoag LLP's international litigation and arbitration practice in Paris as senior counsel, according to the law firm.
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April 03, 2025
4 Questions For Mishcon De Reya IP Chief David Rose
By any measure, Mishcon de Reya LLP's soft intellectual property team had a good 2024. The team advised on three of the year's largest trademark cases, in a particularly busy year at the U.K. courts.
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April 03, 2025
Diageo GC Resigns For Top Legal Role At Thermo Fisher
The general counsel at Diageo PLC will depart the British spirits maker for a similar position at biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., he announced in a LinkedIn post.
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April 03, 2025
Trump Must Pay £626K Legal Costs In Steele Dossier Case
President Donald Trump was ordered by a London judge Thursday to pay about £626,000 ($820,000) to cover the legal costs for the defense of the authors of the infamous "Steele dossier" against his data protection claim, which was thrown out of court last year.
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April 03, 2025
Gowling, Police Team Up To Recoup Fraud Victims' Assets
City of London Police said Thursday that it has teamed up with international law firm Gowling WLG to support victims of fraud through a civil asset recovery program.
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April 03, 2025
Co-op Legal's Revenues Top £80M In Financial Results
The Co-operative Group said Thursday that revenue at its legal services business had exceeded £80 million ($105 million) in 2024 as profits surged, fueled by growth in its probate and estate-planning practices.
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April 03, 2025
New Corker Binning Partner Hails Firm's 'Good Bones'
Boutique criminal practice Corker Binning has recruited a criminal litigation specialist as a partner from Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP as the firm continues to bolster its serious and general crime practice.
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April 03, 2025
Pinsent Masons Promotes 24 Partners In Latest Global Round
Pinsent Masons said Thursday that it has promoted 24 lawyers to its partnership, a slight rise from 2024's numbers, with women accounting for more than half of those who made the grade.
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April 03, 2025
Charles Russell Boosts Partnership With 11 Promotions
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Thursday that it is promoting 11 lawyers from its U.K. offices to its partnership, boosting partner numbers in practice areas including private client, employment and dispute resolution.
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April 03, 2025
All SQE Exams 'Equally Challenging,' SRA Test Body Says
The assessment provider for the Solicitors Regulation Authority sought on Wednesday to reassure future candidates taking the lawyers' qualifying exam that all test papers are "equally challenging," despite noticeable differences in pass rates between exams.
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April 02, 2025
Ex-Metro Bank CFO Followed Legal Advice Over £900M Error
Metro Bank PLC's former chief financial officer, David Arden, said at a London tribunal Wednesday that he had followed legal advice when preparing to publish a market announcement at the center of a £900 million ($1.1 billion) reporting scandal, arguing he and the bank's former chief executive officer should not face "career-ending allegations" for doing so.
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April 02, 2025
Law Firms Urged To Turn Up Client Wealth Scrutiny
Solicitors in England and Wales must demand credible explanations for clients' wealth, or risk the public seeing firms as enablers of "kleptocracy, state capture and grand corruption," a charity task force warned Wednesday.
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April 02, 2025
Fladgate Promotes Corporate Duo To Partner
Fladgate LLP said Wednesday that it has elevated two senior associates to its partnership, adding to the firm's intake of partners after it recently recruited nine from Memery Crystal as part of a larger team hire.
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April 02, 2025
Shoosmiths Launches £1M Staff Bonus To Boost AI Use
Shoosmiths LLP said Wednesday that it has allocated £1 million ($1.3 million) to reward employees who use artificial intelligence more often as law firms strive to increase the productivity of their workforce.
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April 02, 2025
Corporate Pro Appointed To Lead Squire Patton In Manchester
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has appointed a senior corporate dealmaker to lead its office in Manchester as its longtime incumbent exits from the post he has held for over a decade.