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July 10, 2026
Michelmores LLP said Friday that it has appointed a partner at Greenwoods Legal Services Ltd. as its first head of knowledge and innovation as the firm invests in artificial intelligence and knowledge management to enhance how it delivers legal services.
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July 10, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred a non-lawyer to a tribunal to face disciplinary proceedings over allegations that he engaged in inappropriate behavior while working at Pinsent Masons.
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July 10, 2026
The past week in London has seen lawyer Ian Rosenblatt launch legal action against music mogul Simon Cowell, Boohoo face a fresh investor claim after previously facing allegations that it feigned ignorance of labor abuses in its supply chain, and an ex-Tory MP and his chief of staff sued by their former employer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 10, 2026
Over the past week, King & Spalding continued its recruitment drive with the hire of an international disputes partner from WilmerHale, Mishcon de Reya saw a longtime private equity lawyer depart for Charles Russell Speechlys, and a new international firm made its U.K. debut by appointing a Trinity M&A specialist as managing partner.
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July 10, 2026
The legal industry had another busy week as BigLaw firms expanded headcounts and practices. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
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July 10, 2026
Shoosmiths LLP has signed a five-year deal with a carbon asset manager to offset its remaining operational greenhouse gas emissions as it works toward reaching its net-zero emissions target by 2040.
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July 09, 2026
A solicitor told a London court Thursday that it should overturn a disciplinary tribunal ruling from more than five years ago, arguing that the solicitors' regulator had no power to bring its case against him.
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July 09, 2026
The founder of Rosenblatt Solicitors has sued Simon Cowell in a London court almost a year after resigning as a director from companies within the television personality's entertainment business.
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July 09, 2026
The judiciary said Thursday that intellectual property specialist Justice Colin Birss will replace Geoffrey Vos as Master of the Rolls, as he steps up to become head of civil justice in England and Wales.
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July 09, 2026
The administrators of SSB Law have sued the collapsed firm's insurer for £19.5 million ($26 million), seeking to recover premiums the firm paid for insurance that covered its clients' cavity wall insulation claims.
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July 09, 2026
Bevan Brittan LLP said Thursday that its revenue has crossed the milestone figure of £100 million ($134 million) and profit has increased by double digits in the 13th consecutive year that it has recorded growth.
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July 09, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that it is consulting on plans to require law firms to notify it when they use or arrange third-party litigation-funding for consumer claims, after the collapse of SSB Group exposed risks to consumers.
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July 08, 2026
Google should face a £5 billion ($6.7 billion) class action on an opt-out basis, an academic seeking to bring the claim told a U.K. tribunal Wednesday, saying smaller businesses would otherwise be shut out of compensation for allegedly inflated search ad prices.
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July 15, 2026
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP has boosted its transactional capabilities with the hire of a private equity lawyer from Mishcon de Reya LLP.
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July 08, 2026
The Law Society has pushed back against the U.K. government's plan to ban nondisclosure agreements in cases of workplace harassment and discrimination, saying its proposals to make employers cover the cost of written legal advice for workers could undermine settlements and draw out disputes.
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July 08, 2026
Bird & Bird reported another year of slowing revenue growth and a second consecutive decline in profit per equity partner on Wednesday, saying that a challenging market shaped by geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility had weighed on its performance.
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July 08, 2026
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP announced on Wednesday the hiring of the former chief knowledge and innovation officer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as its chief artificial intelligence officer.
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July 08, 2026
English law is equipped to determine civil liability arising from the use of artificial intelligence, according to a government-backed legal statement which concludes that established principles of contract and negligence are capable of addressing harms linked to AI.
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July 08, 2026
A former M&A solicitor at Goodwin Procter was charged with insider dealing Wednesday over allegations that he traded a British maternity wear company's stock while working on a deal to take the business private.
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July 08, 2026
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Wednesday that it has hired a team of lawyers from Withers to establish a permanent presence in the U.S. for the first time, the next step in its international expansion strategy.
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July 07, 2026
Haynes Boone announced Monday that it has launched a firmwide initiative treating generative artificial intelligence as a "core lawyering skill," with workshops at all attorney levels administered by legal learning platform Hotshot.
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July 07, 2026
A provider of residential care has revived a claim for unjust enrichment against a National Health Service body after a court ruled that a deputy master wrongly relied on evidence from the defendant's solicitor while rejecting the claimant's expert evidence.
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July 07, 2026
A former Digby Brown legal claims adviser can continue pursuing a case over alleged cuts from his final paycheck, but a tribunal has thrown out his unfair dismissal claim, finding he filed it too late.
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July 07, 2026
A law firm shut down for dishonesty has been ordered to pay almost £30,000 ($40,000) to a former employee after a tribunal ruled that she had been discriminated against and harassed.
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July 14, 2026
Ropes & Gray LLP is set to lose a finance lawyer to rival Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Paris, a little more than a year after Ropes & Gray opened its office in the French capital.