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July 08, 2025
KPMG Legal Appoints Legal Head Of Central, Eastern Europe
Czech-based law firm KPMG Legal announced Tuesday the appointment of a longtime attorney as head of legal for Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on integrating legal services, building the firm's technology base and driving digital transformation of both clients services and internal operations.
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July 08, 2025
Post Office Blamed For Adversarial Stance To Scandal Claims
The Post Office and its advisers adopted an "unnecessarily adversarial attitude" to those seeking financial redress for the Horizon IT scandal, according to the first findings published Tuesday by the public inquiry into what has been labeled the worst miscarriage of justice in U.K. modern history.
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July 08, 2025
PwC Vet Becomes Permanent Chair Of Judicial Pension Board
The Ministry of Justice on Tuesday named former PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP pensions pro Josephine Maguire as the permanent chair of the Judicial Pension Board, making her interim role permanent for the next three years.
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July 08, 2025
Epiq Expands Global Footprint With Case Pilots Acquisition
Epiq expanded its class action administration services in the U.K. and Europe by acquiring the claims administration company Case Pilots, the legal technology and services provider announced Tuesday.
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July 08, 2025
MoJ Staffer Wins £29K Over Refusal Of WFH Requests
The Ministry of Justice has agreed to pay £29,100 ($39,500) to an administrative officer after admitting that its refusal to let her work from home during bouts of migraine was discriminatory.
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July 08, 2025
Appeal Win Gives Certainty To UK Class Action Funding
The Court of Appeal's decision to endorse the validity of litigation-financing agreements devised to sidestep a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that upended class action funding provides certainty over what is allowed, but lawyers remain wary that further legislative changes are likely.
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July 08, 2025
Oil Co. Says Nigeria Shouldn't Profit From £44M Legal Bill
An oil and gas company at the center of a fraud scandal arising from an $11 billion arbitration award issued against Nigeria urged the U.K.'s highest court Tuesday to change the currency for Nigeria's legal costs, arguing that the country would unjustly benefit from the depreciation of its own currency.
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July 08, 2025
Students Get Review Panel To Weigh Late SQE Appeals
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has introduced a new review panel for late appeals from candidates sitting the Solicitors Qualifying Exam, part of a broader series of changes to its appeals and complaints policies designed to make those processes clearer and fairer.
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July 08, 2025
Howden Teams Up With Law Firm For Crypto Theft Product
Broking giant Howden has released a cryptocurrency theft insurance and recovery product in partnership with law firm Lawrence Stephens, in what it called a first-of-its-kind solution for the sector.
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July 08, 2025
Ban On Misconduct NDAs Throws Settlements Into Question
The government's proposal to void nondisclosure agreements covering alleged harassment and discrimination at work will discourage employers from settling claims, putting more pressure on tribunals and early conciliation services.
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July 08, 2025
Spanish Firm Nixes 'LegalFly' AI Tech Trademark
A Spanish law firm has convinced European officials to nix a trademark registered by a company using artificial intelligence to review and draft documents, ruling that lawyers would mix up the similar-looking signs.
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July 08, 2025
Cripps, Michelmores Drop Merger Plans After Talks
Two English law firms said Tuesday they had ended talks to merge to form a nearly £100 million ($135 million) firm, as legal practices reassess growth strategies amid rapid technological change and intensifying competition.
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July 08, 2025
Ex-Law Firm Owner Barred For Breaches Of Accounts Rules
A defunct law firm's former owner has been disqualified for failing to pay legal expenses with money from the Legal Aid Agency and for allowing a client account shortage to exist of more than £50,000 ($67,800).
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July 08, 2025
Ex-Axiom Chief Ordered To Pay £5M SRA Intervention Costs
A London court ordered the former chief of Axiom Ince Ltd. to pay the multimillion-pound cost of regulatory intervention into the firm on Tuesday after concluding that he was involved with its misuse of £65 million ($88 million) of its clients' cash.
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July 07, 2025
Pinsent Masons To Use ContractPodAi's Leah AI
Pinsent Masons LLP said Monday that it will adopt the automated legal assistant Leah from contract management software provider ContractPod Technologies Ltd., aka ContractPodAi, for use in its managed legal services offering.
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July 07, 2025
Ashurst Adds Director To Help Boost AI And Digital Offerings
London-headquartered law firm Ashurst announced the hiring of a former executive director with the Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law Australia as director overseeing the firm's digital enablement team as part of its legal services division.
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July 14, 2025
Gide Hires Restructuring Partner From HSF Kramer In Paris
Gide Loyrette Nouel has strengthened its restructuring team in Paris with the hire of a new partner from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.
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July 07, 2025
Law Firm Gets 'Vague' £4.6M Negligence Case Struck Out
A London court struck out on Monday an energy company's £4.6 million ($6.3 million) claim against Benson Mazure LLP, because the law firm would have unreasonable difficulty understanding and responding to the "vague and confused" case.
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July 07, 2025
Funder Claims Developer Used Biz As Facade To Pocket £4M
A litigation funder has alleged that a property developer owes it more than £3.8 million ($5.2 million) for pocketing his real estate business' money for nothing in return and operating his company as a facade to renovate properties he owns without taking on liability for the work.
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July 07, 2025
Opera House Faces £350K Libel Claim Over Settlement Breach
A writer and former fundraising executive has brought a legal claim against an English opera house and Loch Employment Law, alleging that both sides breached a legal settlement by repeating damaging allegations in a later court filing.
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July 07, 2025
Waste Co. Blames Trowers & Hamlins For Lost Tenancy
A waste haulage company has accused Trowers & Hamlins of negligently failing to protect a long-standing lease over its premises, telling a London court that its new arrangement does not have the same favorable terms.
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July 07, 2025
HFW's Revenue Tops £270M In New High Amid Growth Push
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP said Monday that its revenue has hit an all-time high of more than £270 million ($368 million) and that it has posted record profits as its strategy for growing the business shows success.
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July 04, 2025
AI Startup Legora Aims To Reshape Law Firm-Client Dynamics
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
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July 04, 2025
BSB Looks To Speed Up Disciplinary Process With Reforms
The Bar Standards Board has proposed that it will give staff broader powers to refer cases for disciplinary action and trimming tribunal panels under plans to modernize its enforcement system after recent criticism of its efficiency and transparency.
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July 04, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The past week in London has seen the owner of Crystal Palace and the troubled Olympique Lyonnais football clubs sue its current chief executive John Textor, Fieldfisher faces a claim by Georgian businessman Zaza Okusahvili, and a dispute partner at Travers Smith file a personal injury claim against the firm.