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December 22, 2025
ILFA Spotlight: Boies, Kobre, Irell, McDonald Hopkins Saluted
The International Legal Finance Association has honored Kobre & Kim LLP, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Irell & Manella LLP and McDonald Hopkins LLC for trailblazing work in high-stakes litigation and facilitating litigation funding deals.
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December 22, 2025
Burges Salmon Denies Negligence In Fund Set-Up Dispute
Burges Salmon LLP has denied an investment banker's allegations it negligently led him into a "hopeless" case, telling a London court it advised the financier he was likely to lose his claim that he was excluded from the creation of an investment strategy.
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December 22, 2025
Winston Taylor Will Eye Growth Beyond $1.75B Merger
The architects of the deal to create a major new transatlantic player called Winston Taylor say that "there's no finishing point" to their plans for expansion as they signal an openness to more deals and even external investment.
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December 22, 2025
Insurer Travelers Denies Liability For £6M Axiom Client Funds
Insurer Travelers has argued at a London court that it is not liable under its policy with Axiom Ince for £5.8 million ($7.8 million) that a home buyer lost when the now-collapsed law firm misappropriated his cash during a property deal.
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December 22, 2025
BHP Switches To HSF Kramer Guidance In Mariana Dam Case
BHP has replaced Slaughter and May with HSF Kramer to represent it in the £36 billion ($48 billion) Mariana dam litigation after a London court found the miner liable for the collapse that triggered Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
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December 19, 2025
Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader's Divergent Paths Led To Deal
The blockbuster combination between Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced this past week involves two law firms that have charted very different paths in recent years. Here, a look at what events led up to the firms joining together at the deal table.
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December 19, 2025
Hogan Lovells Seeks Repeat Merger Success With Cadwalader
The chief executive tapped to lead what will be known as Hogan Lovells Cadwalader said Friday that the deal that will create the world's fifth‑largest law firm by revenue is set to succeed, promising to repeat the success of the merger that originally founded Hogan Lovells.
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December 19, 2025
FCA's AML Role May Overburden Barristers, Bar Council Says
The Bar Council has warned that making the Financial Conduct Authority the sole anti-money laundering watchdog for professional services firms could disproportionally hit barristers with more regulation and costs, calling on the government to tread carefully with any proposed increase in the financial regulator's powers.
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December 19, 2025
2 Temple Gardens Barrister Appointed To High Court
A senior barrister at 2 Temple Gardens who practices in commercial and common law matters has been appointed as a High Court judge, assigned to the King's Bench Division.
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December 19, 2025
Yodel Wins Share Dispute With Ex-Director Over Forged Docs
Delivery company Yodel defeated a claim alleging it owed a controlling stake in it to two companies controlled by its former owner, as a London judge ruled Friday that he had probably created false share warrant documents to support the claim.
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December 19, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the designer of an 88-facet diamond bring a copyright claim against a luxury watch retailer, collapsed firm Axiom Ince bring legal action against the solicitors' watchdog, and the Post Office hit with compensation claims from two former branch managers over their wrongful convictions during the Horizon information technology scandal.
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December 19, 2025
The Revolving Door: Duane Morris Hires Willkie Arbitration Pro
Over the past week, Ward Hadaway said it had hired a private client specialist from Weightmans, Duane Morris said it had recruited a new partner from Willkie for its international disputes practice, and Sullivan & Cromwell said it had hired two partners from Kirkland to boost the firm's private equity and tax capabilities.
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December 18, 2025
TLT Unveils Tool To Help Clients Fast-Track Adoption Of AI
TLT LLP has unveiled a new service to help clients fast-track the adoption of artificial intelligence and see quicker results in legal work.
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December 18, 2025
$3.6B Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader Deal To Form Top 5 Firm
Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft are planning to combine, creating what the firms say will be the world's fifth-largest firm by revenue, they announced Thursday.
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December 18, 2025
Meet The Lawyers Tapped To Defend In Entain Bribery Case
Eleven gambling managers and employees, including former top executives at Ladbrokes and Coral owner Entain PLC, have enlisted veteran defense counsel and some of the country's most experienced trial solicitors and barristers to defend themselves against the Crown Prosecution Service's bribery and fraud charges.
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December 18, 2025
Mazur Appeal Brought Forward To February 2026
The Court of Appeal will hear a major case over whether legal executives and other unauthorized staff at law firms can conduct litigation under a solicitor's supervision in February, expediting a claim that has caused upheaval in the sector.
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December 18, 2025
SFO Can Seize £928K From Ex-Adviser Over Legal Fund Fraud
The Serious Fraud Office got the go-ahead on Thursday to seize almost £1 million ($1.3 million) from a former financial adviser convicted of siphoning £5.8 million in covert commission payments from a legal financing fund.
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December 18, 2025
Ex-Stephenson Harwood Pro Barred For Office Attendance Lie
The solicitors' watchdog has hit a former compliance officer at Stephenson Harwood LLP with restrictions that prevent him from working for another law firm after he made false claims about his office attendance.
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December 18, 2025
Fox Williams Hires Apple Compliance Chief
Fox Williams LLP said Thursday that it has recruited a senior lawyer at Apple to boost its financial services and financial technology capability.
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December 18, 2025
White & Case Partners With Legora for Global AI Rollout
White & Case said Thursday that it will adopt Legora's artificial intelligence platform across its global network, becoming the latest major law firm to work with the fast‑growing Swedish legal technology company as competition in the sector intensifies.
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December 18, 2025
Gender-Critical Barrister Loses Stonewall Appeal Over Probe
Barrister Allison Bailey has lost her appeal to hold Stonewall liable for a discriminatory probe into her online activity as a court ruled Thursday that a complaint by an employee at the LGBT+ charity about her gender-critical tweets was not the cause of her mistreatment.
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December 17, 2025
Gibson Dunn Names Largest Partner Class In Firm History
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has promoted its largest partner class in history, promoting 42 attorneys in 17 offices across the globe, effective Jan. 1, the firm announced Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025
Clifford Chance's Legal Tech Head Jumps To Slaughter & May
Slaughter and May has hired Clifford Chance LLP's director of legal technology solutions as head of innovation to spearhead its artificial intelligence and legal tech strategy, the Magic Circle firm said Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025
BHP Hit With £189M Legal Costs Bill Over Dam Collapse Case
Lawyers for more than 640,000 individuals argued at court Wednesday that BHP should pay out £189 million ($254 million) of their legal costs after the mining giant was found liable for a dam collapse that triggered Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
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December 17, 2025
Ex-Reed Smith Pro Struck Off For Faking Cancer Diagnosis
A former Reed Smith LLP associate was struck off on Wednesday after he admitted that he lied about being diagnosed with cancer and gave a forged doctor's report to the firm to back up his false claim.