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December 16, 2025
Employment Tribunal Case Backlog Tops Half A Million
The backlog of open cases at the Employment Tribunal rose nearly 12% over the past year after it hit 515,000 in the third quarter of 2025, the Ministry of Justice has revealed.
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December 16, 2025
5 Questions For Clyde & Co.'s James Roberts
James Roberts' father was a Red Arrows pilot, but the Clyde & Co. LLP team leader says that he wanted a career for himself that was more down to earth, particularly given his fear of heights. Roberts has instead climbed to head up the professional practices group of the law firm.
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December 16, 2025
Haynes Boone Moves To Larger London Office To Fuel Growth
Haynes Boone said Tuesday that it has relocated to a bigger office in London's financial district to support further growth of the business as it prepares to enter its 10th year in the capital.
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December 16, 2025
Gannons Sued Over Advice To Advertising Biz On Settlement
An advertising business has sued Gannons at a London court, alleging that its dispute with a shareholder escalated to arbitration after the law firm failed to help properly exercise an option to buy shares under a settlement deal.
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December 15, 2025
Cadwalader Promotes 7 To Partner In London, NY
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP said Monday that it has elevated seven lawyers to its partnership, with those from its offices in London and New York representing the latest class of newly minted partners.
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December 15, 2025
Winston, Taylor Eye Spring Launch For $1.75B Merged Firm
Taylor Wessing said Monday it has agreed to merge with U.S. firm Winston & Strawn to form a new transatlantic business with an estimated turnover of $1.75 billion.
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December 15, 2025
Broadfield Denies Liability For Botched £10M Property Deal
Broadfield Law has hit back against a £10 million ($13.4 million) negligence claim over a botched property transaction, arguing it cannot be held liable for the actions of its predecessor.
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December 15, 2025
Axiom Ince Files Negligence Claim Against SRA
Axiom Ince has lodged a professional negligence claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, two years after the failed law firm was shut down when almost £65 million ($86 million) of its clients' money went missing.
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December 15, 2025
Freshfields' US Revenue Rises 21%, Outshines Europe
Freshfields' revenue has slowed in the latest financial year, rising less than 6% to £2.25 billion ($3 billion), although U.S. performance far outpaced the rest of the business, according to the law firm's latest financial accounts.
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December 15, 2025
Barbri Expands SQE Partnerships With 15th University
Barbri said Monday it has partnered with the University of East London, making it the latest law school to revamp its master's program to align with the solicitors qualifying exam.
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December 15, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Elects 12 Lawyers To Partnership
Quinn Emanuel said on Monday that it has elected 12 lawyers to its partnership, taking the total number at the firm to 312.
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December 15, 2025
Solicitor Barred For Operating Without License
A solicitor has been struck off for misleading a member of the public into paying more than £4,000 ($5,400) by falsely claiming he was authorized to practice and for failing to carry out the work he was paid to do.
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December 12, 2025
How Dentons Benefits From Partnering Directly With OpenAI
Dentons has partnered with OpenAI to get direct access to the ChatGPT creator's newest large language models, the global law firm confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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December 12, 2025
SRA Disqualifies Ex-SSB Managers For Dishonesty
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said on Friday it has disqualified two former directors at SSB Group Ltd., holding them to account for "multiple, serious failings over an extended period of time" before the law firm collapsed.
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December 12, 2025
Microsoft Says £2B Class Action Fails To ID Viable Legal Test
Microsoft said at a London antitrust tribunal on Friday that a claim potentially worth £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) should not be given clearance to continue, arguing the competition lawyer proposing to bring it had not identified a route for it to go to trial.
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December 12, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Shell hit with a climate change claim from 100 survivors of a typhoon in the Philippines, London Stock Exchange-listed Oxford Nanopore bring legal action against its co-founder, and the editors of Pink News sue the BBC for defamation following its investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the news site.
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December 12, 2025
Carter-Ruck Pro Cleared Over Alleged OneCoin SLAPP
A disciplinary tribunal on Friday dismissed allegations that a Carter-Ruck partner improperly threatened to sue a whistleblower who exposed the multibillion-dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, ruling that the case against her "was based on hindsight" rather than misconduct.
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December 12, 2025
Sidley Promotes 29 Lawyers To Partner, 15 To Counsel
Sidley Austin LLP has elected 29 lawyers to its partnership and named more than a dozen new counsel, with all the newly promoted individuals being based in offices in the U.S. and Europe.
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December 12, 2025
Taylor Wessing In Merger Talks With Winston & Strawn
Taylor Wessing said Friday that it is in talks to merge with Winston & Strawn LLP, as law firms in England continue to seek growth in the big American legal market.
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December 12, 2025
The Revolving Door: Eversheds Bags MoFo M&A Pro
Over the past week, Eversheds Sutherland hired a corporate finance partner from Morrison Foerster, Clyde & Co. lost an infrastructure specialist to Addleshaw Goddard and Brodies expanded its construction practice with a team of nine lawyers as it prepares to open its new office in Leeds.
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December 12, 2025
Legal Sector Defies Economic Trends With 8% Revenue Surge
Revenue generated by the U.K. legal industry hit a record high in October, growing by 8% and bucking the wider economic trend, according to official statistics published on Friday.
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December 11, 2025
SRA Looks To Boost Client Money Protections
The Solicitors Regulation Authority tabled new proposals on Thursday to strengthen safeguards for protecting client money under the existing regulatory regime, after it shelved potentially longer-term changes to the system earlier this year.
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December 11, 2025
UK Startup AttiFin AI Raises £5M, Relocates To Newcastle
United Kingdom startup AttiFin AI, which aims to launch an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for British law, announced the raising of £5 million ($6.7 million) in seed funding as it looks to expand and launch next year.
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December 11, 2025
Pallas Offers Up To $232K In Bonuses To Top US, UK Lawyers
Litigation boutique Pallas Partners announced Thursday that it is offering high-performing senior U.S. and U.K. associates and counsel as much as $232,000 in bonuses this year.
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December 11, 2025
Microsoft Battles Proposed £2.1B Server License Abuse Claim
A competition lawyer argued at a London antitrust tribunal Thursday that she should be allowed to bring a case potentially worth £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) on behalf of thousands of businesses against Microsoft for allegedly charging abusive license fees for Windows Server, its server operating system.