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August 14, 2026
Over the past week, Simons Muirhead Burton hired two lawyers for its corporate team, Weil lost top talent to Paul Hastings and Akin Gump, and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner brought Crowell & Moring's head of digital law on board in London and San Francisco to co-lead its digital transformation practice.
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August 14, 2026
Paul Hastings has recruited an intellectual property and technology expert from Weil as businesses grapple with new transparency rules under the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act.
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August 14, 2026
A solicitor who was struck off for misconduct including practicing without valid insurance asked a disciplinary tribunal on Friday to readmit him to the profession, arguing that he "unequivocally" accepts his sanction and is genuinely remorseful.
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August 14, 2026
London law firms Russell-Cooke and Teacher Stern will continue to operate independently after they agreed not to go ahead with a proposed merger, it emerged on Friday.
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August 13, 2026
Fieldfisher has added corporate disputes attorney Benny Wünschmann as a partner in Berlin, launching a dispute resolution practice in the German capital as the firm continues to expand its European disputes team.
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August 13, 2026
Online divorce and separation specialist Amicable said Thursday it is planning to launch a new tech-enabled law firm to offer legal services and representation in family and conveyancing matters that Amicable does not provide.
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August 13, 2026
Female students outnumbered male students by almost two to one among A-level Law students this year, with female students also achieving higher grades, data published Thursday shows.
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August 13, 2026
A barrister has been disbarred after she was discovered secretly recording a number of family court hearings and making fun of an employee's mental health condition, the Bar Standards Board said.
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August 13, 2026
Flint Bishop has moved to a new permanent home in Sheffield as part of a wider investment program to sustain the firm's growth after it generated more than £40 million ($54 million) in revenue for the first time.
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August 12, 2026
E-discovery platform provider Relativity announced Wednesday the expansion of its existing artificial intelligence platform with the unveiling of claiR, a chatbot linked to the data a customer provides inside its RelativityOne software.
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August 12, 2026
Law firm consolidator Oak Legal Group has acquired Perrin Myddelton Ltd. days after the Hertfordshire-based legal business entered administration, its second acquisition in as many months as part of a "buy and build" strategy.
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August 12, 2026
The government said Wednesday it has appointed DWF and other top firms as the go-to legal advisers for its wide range of public bodies in a program valued at £600 million ($809 million).
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August 12, 2026
The founder of Rosenblatt Solicitors has sued Simon Cowell in London, alleging that the music mogul failed to pay him a cut of a confidential 2025 deal under a contract "written on a napkin" over dinner.
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August 12, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined a law firm £25,000 ($33,800) after it uncovered failures in its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing controls.
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August 19, 2026
Bird & Bird LLP has hired a senior in-house lawyer at Nokia as a partner, rejoining the firm's intellectual property team after two decades specializing in patent litigation.
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August 12, 2026
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Wednesday that it has raised salaries of newly qualified lawyers in its Bristol office to £104,000 ($141,000), widening the gap with rival firms in the southwest England city while London salaries climbed to £130,000
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August 11, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it spent more than £17 million ($23 million) on external lawyers in its last financial year amid "an unprecedented increase" in reports about potential misconduct in the profession.
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August 18, 2026
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Tuesday that it has expanded its fund finance bench with a lawyer from Reed Smith LLP who joins as a partner, marking Simmons & Simmons' second hire from the U.S. firm's funds team in two months.
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August 11, 2026
Meta's controversial glasses can no longer be worn in the U.K.'s courts and tribunals in line with a long-standing ban on using recording devices during judicial proceedings, HM Courts and Tribunals Service confirmed Tuesday.
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August 11, 2026
LawCare has disclosed that hackers who breached its records management software provider Beacon CRM accessed personal information about people who contacted the legal support charity.
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August 11, 2026
A former mergers and acquisitions solicitor at Goodwin Procter appeared at a London court on charges of insider trading on Tuesday, when his plea date was adjourned by a month.
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August 11, 2026
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain will retain 84% of trainees from its offices in London and Bristol when they qualify as lawyers in September.
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August 10, 2026
Gunnercooke has denied costing a family £4.7 million ($6.3 million) by bungling a settlement reached in the wake of their bankruptcies over a £245 million fraud against HBOS, arguing that the deal reflected what it was instructed to do.
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August 17, 2026
Paul Hastings said Monday that it has hired two senior restructuring partners from Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Sidley Austin LLP to continue its expansion in London.
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August 10, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has rebuked a lawyer at Essex firm Davis Solicitors over delays to the administration of a will for a client who died in Iran.