Pulse UK

  • May 08, 2025

    The Times Pays Pogust Goodhead Damages Over BHP Article

    The Times newspaper has apologized to Pogust Goodhead for falsely suggesting that the law firm had pressured clients to reject a settlement offer in their £36 billion ($48 billion) Brazilian dam collapse claim against global mining giant BHP.

  • May 08, 2025

    Fieldfisher Expands Into Poland With Two New Offices

    Fieldfisher LLP has opened two new offices in Poland, becoming the latest law firm to enter the country's legal market in recent weeks as it expands operations into Eastern Europe.

  • May 08, 2025

    Tribunal Clears CPS in Legal Adviser's Discrimination Case

    The Crown Prosecution Service did not discriminate against a former legal adviser by giving him formal warnings about his attendance after multiple spells of sickness absence, a tribunal has ruled.

  • May 07, 2025

    Norton Rose Fulbright Rolls Out Associate-Led Client Program

    Norton Rose Fulbright on Wednesday introduced a new initiative in its London office that shifts certain client relationship management responsibilities to mid-level and senior associates, offering associates up to £500 ($667) each year to boost relationships with clients.

  • May 07, 2025

    Taylor Wessing Launches New Patent Practice In Paris

    Taylor Wessing LLP said Wednesday that it has hired Pinsent Masons' head of intellectual property in Paris and three other lawyers to launch a new patent practice in the French capital.

  • May 07, 2025

    Partner Moves In London Up 7% In March And April

    London law firms continued their partner hiring spree in March and April, with Sidley Austin LLP leading the charge as U.S. companies continue to be top hirers in the U.K. capital's legal market.

  • May 07, 2025

    Leigh Day Can't Ax £26M Negligence Claim Over Clinical Case

    Leigh Day can't strike out a former client's £26 million ($34.7 million) professional negligence claim after failing to convince a London court that the allegations are time-barred and have no real prospect of succeeding.

  • May 07, 2025

    Solicitor Wins Unpaid Wages From Shuttered Ex-Firm

    An employment tribunal has awarded a former solicitor at a defunct law firm in northwest England more than £4,000 ($5,346) in unpaid wages and other entitlements.

  • May 07, 2025

    RFB Beats Ex-Partner's Claim He Was Ousted By Boss

    The ex-head of employment law at Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP has lost his claim that he was forced to quit by the conduct of its former managing partner, after an employment tribunal rejected his allegation that he was demoted unfairly and exposed to bullying.

  • May 07, 2025

    Squire Patton Adds To EY Law's Woes With 5-Lawyer Hire

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP said Wednesday that it has hired a team of five specialists in financial regulation from EY's legal services arm in Britain, adding to the division's woes as it continues to go through a period of turbulence.

  • May 06, 2025

    India Stays Closed To UK Lawyers Despite New Trade Deal

    The Law Society called the absence of legal services from the trade deal that the U.K. and India inked on Tuesday "a missed opportunity" to open up market access for lawyers from both countries, as India continues to block foreign lawyers from setting up shop.

  • May 06, 2025

    HSF Names Chair, Senior Partner Of New Transatlantic Firm

    Herbert Smith Freehills LLP has named a leading Australian corporate lawyer as the senior partner of the new firm being established through its merger with New York's Kramer Levin due to complete in June.

  • May 06, 2025

    SRA OKs 1st AI Law Firm In Bid To Broaden Access To Justice

    The solicitors' watchdog said Tuesday it has approved the first legal services provider powered entirely by an artificial intelligence large language model, rather than human lawyers, describing it as a significant step toward enhancing access to justice.

  • May 06, 2025

    Knights Continuing Expansion With £16.6M Birkett Long Buy

    Knights Group Holdings PLC said Tuesday that it has struck a deal to acquire Birkett Long's law firm and financial advisory business for up to £16.6 million ($22.2 million) to continue its expansion in southeast England.

  • May 06, 2025

    Lewis Silkin Says Property Sale Advice Was Not Its Job

    Lewis Silkin LLP said it was never hired to advise a developer on the sale of a former car dealership, denying his bid for up to £8.7 million ($11.6 million) in alleged losses from a rushed sale.

  • May 06, 2025

    Law Commission Sued For Bias Over Recruiting Test Aid Fail

    An aspiring researcher for the Law Commission argued Tuesday that she should be able to sue the organization for disability discrimination after it declined to provide her with adjustments for her reduced vision during an online recruitment test.

  • May 02, 2025

    Law Firm Can't Ax €213M Action Over Claim Form Blunders

    A London court ruled Friday that an asset manager can amend its €213 million ($241 million) professional negligence claim against the London arm of an international law firm, as it would be unjust to strike out the action merely because the claim form had been prepared with "a remarkable lack of care."

  • May 02, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Premier League football club Newcastle United FC sue the owner of the land next to its stadium, Laurence Fox face a defamation claim by TV presented Narinder Kaur and a further sexual assault claim filed against actor Kevin Spacey.

  • May 02, 2025

    The Revolving Door: Linklaters Hires Public Law Head

    Over the past week, Linklaters hired a new arbitration partner to head its international law practice, Pinsent Masons bagged a pensions expert from Taylor Wessing, and Clyde & Co. opened its doors to an AI veteran from Kennedys Law.

  • May 02, 2025

    Ex-UN Judge Gets 6 Yrs For Forcing Woman To Work As Slave

    A former United Nations judge was sentenced to more than six years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of modern slavery offenses, including forcing a woman to work as her maid and conspiring to violate U.K. immigration law, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

  • May 02, 2025

    Excello Law Expands With Launch Of Boutique Firm

    Excello Law has helped a corporate law specialist to launch a boutique firm in southwest England under a business model that gives entrepreneurial lawyers the resources they need to establish their own legal business.

  • May 02, 2025

    BCLP Is Latest Firm To Launch Redundancy Consultation

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP said Friday that it has launched a redundancy consultation that will affect approximately 8% of its global business services on both sides of the Atlantic as the firm pursues its "business modernization program."

  • May 02, 2025

    Ashurst Appoints Claire Dutch As London Office Chief

    Ashurst LLP has appointed senior planning law specialist Claire Dutch to lead its office in London as she takes over from her predecessor, Helen Burton, who had held the position for two years.

  • May 01, 2025

    Kennedys Names 21 Partners In Bumper Promotion Round

    Kennedys LLP announced Thursday that it had elevated 21 lawyers to partnership across nine of its offices, marking a 23% increase on the number it promoted in 2024.

  • May 01, 2025

    DLA Piper Names New Office Chief For Manchester, Liverpool

    DLA Piper has appointed a corporate crime and investigations partner to oversee its offices in northwest England after his predecessor helped them overcome the challenges they faced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Practice Leader Insights From Mayer Brown's James West

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    James West, co-leader of Mayer Brown's private equity practice, discusses the challenges of conducting complex deals at pace, the benefits of maintaining a relatively light regulatory framework in the private equity arena, and why the current economic climate has led to a need for the industry to be more flexible in its approach to dealmaking.

  • Practice Leader Insights From Norton Rose's Paul Griffin

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    Paul Griffin, head of employment and labor for Europe, Middle East and Asia at Norton Rose, discusses the challenge of litigating a whistleblowing case with a CEO remaining in post, why the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal should be reviewed, and the importance of retaining one's authenticity as a lawyer.

  • What Rise Of AI Means For Future Of Junior Lawyer Careers

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    While artificial intelligence is reshaping law firms’ approach to core tasks, it is unlikely to eliminate the need for human oversight, and if junior lawyers can embrace new technologies with integrity, they can focus on more meaningful work and add greater value to their teams, says Valeriya Zinchenko at Teacher Stern.

  • Practice Leader Insights From HFW's Michelle Chance

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    Michelle Chance, head of HFW's London employment practice, discusses the challenges of defending a high-profile race discrimination class action in the civil courts, the need for male employees to take shared parental leave, and the significance of the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees.

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    Practice Leader Insights From Cleary's Sebastian Sperber

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    Sebastian Sperber, leader of Cleary's EMEA capital markets and debt finance practice, discusses the challenges of working on complex transactions in pre-internet days, why regulators should think carefully before imposing additional disclosure burdens on corporations, and his hope that the recent U.K. listing reforms will encourage more companies to choose to list in London.

  • What Age Bias Ruling Means For Law Firm Retirement Policies

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    The recent employment tribunal age discrimination decision in Scott v. Walker Morris demonstrates that while law firms may implement mandatory retirement schemes, the policy must pursue a legitimate aim via proportionate means to pass the objective justification test, says Chris Hadrill at Redmans Solicitors.

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    Practice Leader Insights From HFW's Christopher Foster

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    Christopher Foster, global head of insurance and reinsurance at HFW, discusses the challenges of conducting complex arbitration, why arbitration rules should be amended, and how learning about the market makes working in insurance law easier.

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    Practice Leader Insights From Broadfield's Sajjad Khan

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    Sajjad Khan, head of Broadfield's intellectual property practice, discusses how trademark matters that appear to be simple can end up being complex, why the regulatory framework for artificial intelligence and copyright is in clear need of reform, and how junior lawyers should persevere if interested in this competitive area of law.

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    Practice Leader Insights From Cleary's Gareth Kristensen

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    Gareth Kristensen, head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa intellectual property practice group at Cleary, discusses the challenges when data laws are not adapted to frontier artificial intelligence, why IP rights can have such significant value, and how nothing beats a deep understanding of what you enjoy within the realm of tech, IP and data.

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    PR Perspectives: 3 Misconceptions Around Law Firm Brands

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    Despite an implicit understanding of the value of brand, misconceptions around logo and financial value have resulted in law firms being slow to manage and build this valuable asset, without which it becomes difficult to attract the same caliber of client or recruit the best lawyers, says Daniela Conte at Gibson Dunn.

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    Practice Leader Insights From Covington's Sonia Campbell

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    Sonia Campbell, head of the U.K. insurance recovery practice at Covington, discusses the challenges of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, why cyber underwriting risk will be critical for sector reform, and how junior lawyers need to be resilient and tenacious.

  • Roundup

    Practice Leader Insights

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    In this Law360 U.K. Expert Analysis series, leaders of employment, intellectual property, insurance and transactions practice groups share thoughts on keeping the pulse on legal trends, tackling difficult cases and what it takes to make a mark in their area.

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    Practice Leader Insights: Bird & Bird's Rebecca O'Kelly-Gillard

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    Rebecca O'Kelly-Gillard, who co-heads Bird & Bird's international copyright group, discusses the challenges of working on long cases with complex issues, whether current copyright law is fit for purpose in light of artificial intelligence, ​​​​​​​and why understanding technology makes it easier to argue the nuances of the law.

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    Practice Leader Insights From Birketts' Maria Peyman

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    Maria Peyman, who heads Birketts' intellectual property team, discusses the challenges of cases involving multiple patents, the need to reform legislative provisions in light of artificial intelligence, and why junior lawyers should take opportunities to get a broad range of experience before specializing.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

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