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October 10, 2025
Kennedys' Rekha Cooke On The FCA Senior Managers Regime
Rekha Cooke, a partner at Kennedys, talks about the Financial Conduct Authority's reforms of the senior managers regime, telling Law360 that businesses should treat the reforms as a reason to strengthen their internal controls.
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October 10, 2025
The Revolving Door: Pinsent Lures Ashurst Markets Head
Over the past week, Pinsent Masons strengthened its London office with Ashurst's head of capital markets, Mayer Brown hired a corporate and equity specialist from Goodwin, and Orrick appointed four partners from Cadwalader. Here, Law360 looks at these and more of the week's most notable lateral hires around the U.K.
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October 10, 2025
Burges Salmon, HSF, Pinsent To Aid Nuclear Waste Programs
Burges Salmon, HSF Kramer and Pinsent Masons have been appointed by a subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to provide legal support on its infrastructure and development programs.
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October 10, 2025
Agent Blames Law Firm For Bungled £1.1M Property Sale
An agent has blamed a law firm for a bungled £1.1 million ($1.5 million) real estate deal that ended with the lawyers settling a negligence case, as she denied allegations that she intentionally tried to sell a property she did not have the rights to.
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October 09, 2025
Greenberg Traurig's Singapore Office Gains 6 More Attys
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced on Wednesday that its Singapore location has added the former leader of Simmons & Simmons LLP's Asian investment funds practice, along with five other attorneys.
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October 09, 2025
Taylor Rose Promotes 9 Partners In Latest Round
Taylor Rose said it has elevated nine lawyers to its partnership, noting that legal consultants accounted for three of those promotions following a surge in practitioners operating outside the traditional model.
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October 09, 2025
Lawfront Names New Chief Finance Officer Amid Growth Push
Lawfront Group Ltd. has appointed a new chief finance officer as it targets further expansion, having acquired more than a dozen law firms since it was founded in 2021.
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October 16, 2025
Weil Hires 4 More Latham Private Equity Lawyers In Germany
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has appointed four more private equity lawyers for its practice in Germany, adding to its previous hires from Latham & Watkins LLP in a practice area where there is considerable lateral movement.
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October 09, 2025
Ex-BLM Lawyer Must Pay £16K After Divorce Filing Delay
A tribunal has ordered a former head of family law at Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP to pay £16,500 ($22,000) after he oversaw a delay applying for a divorce decree, though it has ruled that he was only culpable of not providing adequate supervision to junior staff.
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October 09, 2025
Ex-KWM London Chief Cleared Over Kiss With Junior Staffer
The former managing partner of the London arm of King & Wood Mallesons was cleared of misconduct charges on Thursday as a tribunal said it could not conclude that he kissed a junior female colleague without her consent on a drunken night out.
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October 09, 2025
Developer Sues Paris Smith For £1.5M Over Land Deal Delays
A property developer has sued Paris Smith LLP for approximately £1.5 million ($2 million), alleging that the law firm's negligence caused significant delays in acquiring land to build houses in southern England.
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October 08, 2025
Pogust Downplays Risk Of SRA Scrutiny Over Dieselgate Exit
Pogust Goodhead has told a London judge that there is no reason to believe regulators would interfere with a proposed agreement that would see the law firm step back from the high-profile Dieselgate litigation.
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October 08, 2025
CPS Has Immunity Over Victim Address Leak In Court
A London appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Crown Prosecution Service is immune from a claim by a domestic abuse victim after its advocate inadvertently revealed the victim's new address to her abusive ex-partner in court.
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October 08, 2025
PE-Backed Research Group Completes £43M The Lawyer Buy
Researcher Legal Benchmarking Group has finalized its acquisition of U.K. trade publication The Lawyer for £43 million ($58 million) from media group Centaur Media PLC, the companies said Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
Eversheds Sutherland Retains 67% Of Trainees In 2025
Eversheds Sutherland said Wednesday that it has retained two-thirds of its qualifying intake of U.K.-based trainees in 2025 and boosted the salaries of newly qualified lawyers.
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October 08, 2025
White & Case Retains 86% Of London NQs In September
White & Case said Wednesday that 86% of trainees in its London office who qualified as solicitors in September have stayed on to pursue careers at the firm, a similar figure to the one it recorded earlier in 2025.
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October 08, 2025
Employment Judges Seek Input On Pension Loss Rules
A working group of British employment judges is reviewing the framework for how compensation for losses to pensions in a dispute is calculated in the U.K.
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October 07, 2025
Paris Biz Litigation Firm Le 16 Law Hires Atty From Liedekerke
French law firm Le 16 Law said Tuesday it has strengthened its international arbitration team with the engagement of an experienced lawyer who most recently practiced at Belgian firm Liedekerke.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-IT Exec Sues His Lawyers After Losing Hacking Case
A former chief technology officer has sued the law firm that represented him in civil proceedings against his ex-employer following his conviction for hacking their computer systems, accusing the law firm of breaching its duties by refusing to pursue an appeal argument.
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October 07, 2025
Dye & Durham Sells AML Software Biz For $104M
Toronto-based legal technology company Dye & Durham Ltd. announced Tuesday the sale of its subsidiary Credas Technologies Ltd. to U.K.-based anti-money laundering software provider SmartSearch for £77.8 million ($104.4 million).
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October 07, 2025
Class Reps Vie To Bring Rival Ad-Price Claims Against Google
A former judge and a competition law scholar on Tuesday fought to bring rival multibillion-pound class actions against Google over allegedly unfair advertising pricing practices, each arguing at a London tribunal that they would be the better candidate to take on the tech giant.
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October 07, 2025
AIG Denies Liability In £176K Solicitors' Negligence Claim
The U.K. arm of AIG has said it does not owe a retired teacher £176,000 ($237,000) to cover the alleged professional negligence of his insolvent solicitors in a row over an historic clinical negligence claim the insurer argued was "doomed to fail."
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October 07, 2025
Law Firms Push Gov't To Reverse PACCAR Judgment
Mishcon de Reya, Leigh Day and almost 20 other major legal players have urged the U.K. government to urgently introduce legislation to reverse a Supreme Court judgment from 2023 that upended litigation financing, saying its failure to do so is hindering access to justice.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Law Firm Chief Denies Initiating Kiss With Junior Staffer
The former managing partner of King & Wood Mallesons' London arm denied initiating a kiss with a junior female colleague on a drunken night out, telling a disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday that the colleague kissed him.
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October 14, 2025
Dentons Hires Covington Lawyer For UAE Office
Dentons has hired a partner from Covington & Burling LLP at its Dubai office to bolster its corporate team as it expects to see more dealmaking in the Middle East.