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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.
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July 06, 2026
Mitsubishi UFJ is redesigning how it trains junior lawyers and reshaping its legal team as artificial intelligence forces in-house counsel to prove they can add value beyond widely available tools such as ChatGPT, the bank's top lawyer for the EMEA region has said.
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July 06, 2026
Regional law firm BLB Solicitors faced a prolonged slowdown in clinical negligence and conveyancing work that left it unable to offset rising costs, the firm's administrators said in new filings.
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July 13, 2026
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has hired two partners from Hengeler Mueller to launch a litigation practice in Germany.
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July 06, 2026
London-based event company Hyve Group announced Monday its acquisition of the European legal technology and transformation conference LegalTechTalk, with plans to expand it to the United States next year.
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July 06, 2026
Britain's employment tribunals have expanded the judicial functions that legal officers can carry out under the supervision of an employment judge as the system continues to grapple with rising numbers of claims.
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July 06, 2026
Knights Group Holdings PLC said Monday that its revenue has risen to more than £200 million ($267 million) and underlying pre-tax profit is up by around a fifth as it targets further opportunities to expand.
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July 03, 2026
The past week in London, Russia's state development bank was sued in a commercial fraud claim involving military GPS technology, one of Nike's subsidiaries brought an intellectual property claim against a menswear company owner, BlackBerry re-opened a $6.49 million claim against its South Asian licensee and CBRE property services filed a claim against CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP.
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July 03, 2026
Reed Smith LLP will retain almost its entire cohort of trainees who are due to qualify as solicitors this fall after 11 of its 12 trainees accepted permanent positions at the firm.
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July 03, 2026
Over the past week, DWF lost top talent to Hill Dickinson, RPC and Shoosmiths, an insurance M&A pro left DLA Piper for Sidley Austin, and Ashurst Perkins Coie hired a partner from Stephenson Harwood to head up its post-merger real estate litigation team. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires across the U.K.
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July 03, 2026
DLA Piper has hiked the pay of newly qualified solicitors in London to £140,000 ($187,000), marking its second increase in less than 12 months as law firms continue to offer higher pay to attract emerging talent.