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April 15, 2025
Tribunal Judge Sanctioned Over Solicitor Restraint Incident
A retired magistrate has been sanctioned for misconduct for allowing a duty solicitor who was denied re-entry to a court to return without going through security, which led to him being restrained by security staff.
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April 14, 2025
Firm Owner, Consultant Sanctioned Over Misled Insurer
A London tribunal has sanctioned a law firm owner who knowingly allowed another lawyer to manage the firm's bank accounts in breach of the conditions of his practicing certificate.
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April 14, 2025
Shoosmiths Appoints Sustainability Steering Committee
Shoosmiths said Monday that it has refreshed its environmental strategy with a new role and steering committee, as it aims to halve its greenhouse gas emissions in the next five years.
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April 14, 2025
Law Firm Owner Suspended For Conflict In Investment Plan
A disciplinary tribunal said in a decision released on Monday that it has suspended a law firm owner after he advised clients on a property investment without flagging his ties to the project, which later went bust.
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April 14, 2025
Gowling WLG Promotes 5 Lawyers To Partnership In UK
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP has promoted five Britain-based lawyers to the role of partner in a move to recognize individuals who have the requisite talent to help take the business forward.
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April 14, 2025
Eversheds Sutherland International Names 23 New Partners
Eversheds Sutherland International said on Monday that it is promoting 23 lawyers to its partnership in 2025, a significantly reduced round compared with the record-breaking number it elevated a year ago.
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April 11, 2025
Gowling Partner Revives Claim Against Ex-Boss At Credit Firm
A Gowling WLG partner on Friday rekindled her whistleblowing claim against her boss at a credit firm where she previously worked, convincing a London appeals judge that an earlier tribunal was wrong to let the executive off the hook.
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April 11, 2025
Mayer Brown Brings Dechert Cap Markets Atty To Dubai Office
Mayer Brown LLP announced that it has brought a capital markets lawyer from Dechert LLP to its Dubai office, touting his talents as an adviser to sovereign entities, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds and asset managers.
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April 11, 2025
Latham's London Head Remains 'Restlessly Ambitious'
Following a decade of significant expansion in the London market by Latham, the firm’s new London managing partner says he is focusing on growth in its second-largest office while maintaining unwavering ambition.
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April 11, 2025
Teacher Loses Racial Bias, Harassment Claim
An employment tribunal has thrown out a teacher's claims that staff at a grammar school in southeast England discriminated and harassed her, putting an end to her case after she'd already had allegations that the head teacher committed insurance fraud to pay his solicitors tossed out.
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April 11, 2025
Microsoft To Embed Legal AI Tool In Copilot
Microsoft will collaborate with Belgian startup LegalFly on integrating its artificial intelligence platform for legal and compliance professionals into Microsoft's Copilot chatbot, the companies said Friday.
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April 11, 2025
UK Legal Sector Trails Economy Again In February
The U.K. legal industry's revenues continued to trail the U.K. economy in February, though its earnings remain slightly higher than a year ago, official statistics published Friday revealed.
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April 11, 2025
HSF London Partner Joins Jones Day's NY Office
Jones Day has recruited a long-serving partner from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for its New York office, the second departure from HSF in London in a week.
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April 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen law firm Michael Wilson & Partners reignite a 20-year dispute with a former director over an alleged plot to form a rival partnership, headphone maker Marshall Amplification sue a rival in the intellectual property court, and a commercial diving company pursue action against state-owned nuclear waste processor Sellafield. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new cases in the U.K.
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April 11, 2025
The Revolving Door: HCR Law Hires White Collar Crime Pro
Over the past week, HCR Law has tapped Squire Patton Boggs for a financial crime expert, A&O Shearman lost a brace of capital markets partners to Latham, and White & Case continued to shed partners from its infrastructure team.
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April 11, 2025
Law Firm Can't Dodge Penalty For 'Incoherent' Costs Budget
A London court has denied an attempt by a sports law firm to swerve sanctions for filing a botched costs budget as it battles a claim of breach of trust brought by an investor, rejecting its "gobbledygook" explanation for the blunder.
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April 10, 2025
Magic Circle Hiring Surges In New York's M&A Market
Magic Circle firms have gone from making no hires to nearly a dozen a year in New York's mergers and acquisitions market, as they continue to target growth in the world's most lucrative jurisdiction, according to research published Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
Litigation Funder Nera Capital Hires Banking Expert As GC
Nera Capital has appointed a finance expert with nearly a decade's experience in banking as general counsel, part of a series of senior hires as the firm looks to expand its reach.
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April 10, 2025
Irwin Mitchell Promotes 14 Women To Partner Roles
Irwin Mitchell LLP said Thursday that it is elevating an all-female group of more than a dozen lawyers to its partnership, including specialists in asbestos and occupational disease, employment, family law and medical negligence.
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April 10, 2025
King & Spalding Hires Squire Patton's EU Privacy Chief
King & Spalding LLP has hired the data privacy, cybersecurity and digital technology chief of Squire Patton Boggs in Brussels to help the firm build a practice in this area in Europe.
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April 10, 2025
Rooney's Lawyers Didn't Mislead Court On Vardy Libel Costs
Rebekah Vardy on Thursday lost her case that Coleen Rooney's lawyers had committed misconduct by allegedly understating their client's legal costs in the libel battle between the footballers' wives over Rooney's "Wagatha Christie" Instagram post.
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April 09, 2025
Ex-Axiom DWFM Lawyer Accused Of Diverting Client Funds
The Solicitors Regulation Authority accused a former solicitor at Axiom DWFM on Wednesday of diverting money that belonged to the firm into his account when he carried out client work.
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April 09, 2025
Orrick Denies Neglecting Hedge Fund Unit's €21M Debt Claim
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has rebutted claims by a hedge fund subsidiary that it neglected to recommend enforcing a €21 million ($22 million) debt in a French energy group's insolvency, arguing it was tasked with handling one specific case.
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April 09, 2025
Freshfields Partners With Google For Gemini AI Integration
Google Cloud announced on Tuesday a new partnership with Freshfields LLP in which the U.K.-based law firm will integrate Gemini, the tech giant's artificial intelligence tool, across its operations while also working together on new software solutions.
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April 09, 2025
Kingsley Napley Pilots AI Tool To Help Train Junior Lawyers
Kingsley Napley LLP said Wednesday that it has joined forces with a legal tech startup to develop a tool powered by artificial intelligence technology.