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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.
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January 08, 2026
Bar Standards Board Director General To Stand Down
The Bar Standards Board said Thursday that its director general has moved his planned retirement ahead to March as recruitment is underway for a new chief operating officer.
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January 08, 2026
SRA Investigates Lawyer Over Threats To Leaseholders
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday it is investigating a London lawyer accused of bullying and threatening leaseholders into buying freeholds from him at inflated prices.
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January 15, 2026
Pinsent Masons Hires Litigation Pro From Close Brothers
Pinsent Masons has hired a senior in-house solicitor from Close Brothers to boost its services to companies and financial services institutions in complex litigation.
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January 08, 2026
Pulse UK's 2026 NQ And Trainee Salary Tracker
LAST UPDATED March 12, 2026 - U.S. law firms continue to lead the way on the salaries paid to newly qualified solicitors in London, offering as much as £180,000 ($242,000) for lawyers who are starting out in their careers after completing training.
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January 08, 2026
Solicitor Accused Of Misleading Court In Personal Injury Case
A solicitor faces being prosecuted before a tribunal over allegations that she made a series of misleading statements to the court and defense counsel when she represented a client in a personal injury matter, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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January 07, 2026
Three Crowns Comes To Dubai International Financial Centre
International arbitration law firm Three Crowns LLP has expanded its global footprint with a new office in the Dubai International Financial Centre, saying it now operates out of offices in London, Paris, Singapore, Madrid and Washington, D.C., as well as in its new DIFC locale.
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January 07, 2026
Burges Salmon Boosts Bristol HQ In Record Deal
Burges Salmon LLP sad Wednesday that it is increasing the space it occupies at its headquarters in Bristol, southwest England, and has renewed its lease in what it says is the city center's largest-ever office letting.
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January 07, 2026
Goodwin Adds IP Pro From Cooley In London
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired a patent expert from Cooley LLP as a partner in London, bolstering its life sciences team with expertise in complex European intellectual property matters.
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.