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June 01, 2026
Fladgate LLP said Monday that its revenue has crossed £100 million ($134.4 million) for the first time and partner profits have exceeded £1 million, driven by the firm's increased focus on work for clients in the private capital market.
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June 01, 2026
Newly created Winston Taylor is re‑drawing the map of its European operations around a handful of high‑value hubs, bringing the Netherlands and Belgium into a single profit pool, while keeping Germany on a cooperation footing — for now, at least.
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June 01, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Monday that it has appealed a decision by a tribunal to allow an owner of a law firm to continue to practice, despite findings that he bullied and harassed five young female employees.
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June 01, 2026
Winston Taylor officially launched on Monday, bringing together Winston & Strawn LLP and the U.K. arm of Taylor Wessing to form a unified transatlantic law firm.
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May 29, 2026
The past week in London has seen the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 29, 2026
A recent High Court ruling that exposed how lawyers had relied on fake artificial intelligence-generated legal authorities during insolvency proceedings has punctured an "arrogance" within the profession that AI hallucinations were a problem confined to smaller firms and inexperienced practitioners.
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May 29, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP was recently hacked and had a "limited number" of client documents uploaded to an external cloud storage site, Law360 Pulse confirmed Friday.
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May 29, 2026
After some false starts, Squire Patton Boggs is handling its first dispute at the Unified Patent Court, and new European IP and technology chief Carlton Daniel could not be happier to see the firm through its new foray into European patent litigation.
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June 05, 2026
Hogan Lovells said Friday that it has boosted its international arbitration practice by hiring a team of four lawyers from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Paris, led by Hughes Hubbard's office managing partner.
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June 05, 2026
Dentons has hired a real estate partner from Maples and Calder for its practice in Dublin, the latest arrival to bolster its services to Irish and international clients.
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May 29, 2026
A barrister was fined £3,000 ($4,033) at a London disciplinary tribunal on Friday after she admitted that she had referred to a Pakistani woman as a "little goat farmer" while acting in Crown Court proceedings.
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May 29, 2026
Clyde & Co. LLP said Friday that it has launched an in-house consultation over job cuts in its business services departments in the U.K. as the global law firm seeks to overhaul its back-room operations.
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May 29, 2026
Over the past week, Charles Russell Speechlys hired Mishcon de Reya's private equity head, Clyde & Co. lost a construction litigator to Stephenson Harwood LLP, and U.S. firm Alston & Bird LLP hired a Simmons & Simmons lawyer as its first ever tax partner in London.
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May 29, 2026
A manager at a law firm has been sanctioned for behaving inappropriately with female colleagues at a work conference after a tribunal expressed concerns that he didn't understand why it was wrong to joke about someone's virginity and restrict a wheelchair user's movements.
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May 28, 2026
Legal artificial intelligence startup nu:legal has raised €1.3 million ($1.5 million) to develop software that mixes the capabilities of a chatbot with attorney oversight, beginning in the employment law and data privacy fields.
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May 28, 2026
A London-based startup aimed at providing AI tools for litigation and founded by former associates at Willkie and Patterson Belknap has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and launched a New York office as part of its U.S. expansion, the company announced Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earmarked $500 million of its revenues to develop its own artificial intelligence platform that will allow its attorneys to leverage the firm's collective knowledge, Law360 Pulse confirmed Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Aliter Capital has continued its foray into the legal services market by making "a significant investment" in Clarkslegal LLP, a legal business based in Reading, south-east England.
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June 04, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP said Thursday that it has hired three partners from Morrison Foerster LLP into its London mergers and acquisitions team, with two of the lawyers rejoining the firm they left 10 years ago.
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May 28, 2026
Freeths LLP has revealed that eight lawyers at the firm have made the grade to become partners in 2026, part of a record-breaking group of 97 people across the business who have progressed to new roles.
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May 28, 2026
Gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore confirmed on Thursday that she is suing Good Law Project founder Jolyon Maugham KC for libel after he accused her of harassing a trans woman.
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May 28, 2026
A senior tax barrister accused of cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) genuinely believed he was using a legal tax strategy, his defense counsel told jurors at his criminal trial in London on Thursday.
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May 27, 2026
Octopus Group's estate planning and bereavement support business said Wednesday that it has acquired the private client team of NewLaw Legal Ltd., adding more than 50 legal professionals from the Cardiff-based law firm as it builds out its tech-enabled services.
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May 27, 2026
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP said Wednesday that it has appointed its first chief operating officer, a position that will involve operational oversight in the U.K. and other international offices.
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May 27, 2026
HF said Wednesday it has hired a team of around 40 lawyers from Rosling King, rescuing dozens of jobs after the law firm entered into administration.