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July 14, 2025
Solicitor Sues Law Firm £423K For Misusing Estate Proceeds
The solicitor for a deceased individual's estate has sued a law firm for £423,000 ($568,000), accusing it of using money from the sale of a house from the estate to carry out sham property purchases.
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July 14, 2025
Mathys & Squire Elevates 4 In London Office Promotions
Mathys & Squire LLP has promoted four lawyers in its London office, the firm said Monday, including two new partners and two managing associates as part of its latest round of internal appointments.
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July 14, 2025
Clifford Chance Denies Blame For SocGen's $483M Gold Loss
Clifford Chance LLP has denied breaching any duty to Société Générale SA with its advice on a $483 million gold bullion dispute, telling a London court that the blame for the French bank's failed claim lies elsewhere.
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July 14, 2025
RPC Launches In-House AI Tool To Streamline Lawyers' Work
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP said Monday that it has launched its own artificial intelligence assistant as a growing number of law firms are using the new technology to "augment" the way they deliver legal services.
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July 11, 2025
The Revolving Door: Goodwin Nabs Debt Pro From Kirkland
Over the past week, Goodwin Procter bagged a debt finance specialist from Kirkland & Ellis, Signature Litigation recruited two corporate crime veterans to establish a new white collar crime practice, and employment boutique Constantine Law added a regulatory expert from Irwin Mitchell.
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July 11, 2025
Legal Market Sees Record Team Moves Amid Battle For Talent
The London legal market is experiencing an unprecedented surge in partner hires, with law firms increasingly hiring teams wholesale in search of faster growth in a cutthroat business environment.
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July 11, 2025
A&O Shearman To Keep 69% Of Trainees In Post-Merger Round
A&O Shearman said Friday that more than two thirds of its trainees will continue to pursue their careers at the firm when they qualify in the fall.
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July 11, 2025
Solicitor Accused Of Unreported Convictions To Face Tribunal
A former lawyer at Olswang LLP and TLT LLP has been referred to a disciplinary tribunal on accusations of failing to promptly inform the Solicitors Regulation Authority that he had been convicted of driving while drunk and possession of cocaine.
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July 11, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen HS2 hit with a defamation claim by two ex-employees who blew the whistle on alleged under-reporting of costs, Craig Wright and nChain face legal action brought by its former chief financial officer over a fraud scheme, and pro-footballer Axel Tuanzebe bring a clinical negligence claim against his former club Manchester United F.C. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 11, 2025
Linklaters Hires 8-Lawyer Restructuring Team In Paris
Linklaters LLP said Friday that it has hired a team of eight lawyers from Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier to boost its global restructuring and insolvency practice, including the French law firm's former co-managing partner.
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July 10, 2025
DAC Beachcroft Taps Insurance Chief For Managing Partner
DAC Beachcroft said Thursday that its global head of insurance would become the firm's first new managing partner in a decade later in the year.
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July 10, 2025
Simmons Launches Enviro Team In Paris With 2 Hogan Hires
Simmons & Simmons has added a pair of Hogan Lovells veterans to bolster its Paris real estate offering and launch a dedicated environmental practice, the firm announced Thursday.
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July 10, 2025
Signature Hires 2 Pros For New White Collar Crime Practice
Signature Litigation LLP said Thursday that it has hired two new partners from Goodwin Procter LLP and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP in London to spearhead the launch of a new global white collar crime practice.
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July 10, 2025
Bird & Bird's Revenues Hit £580M As Tech Growth Continues
Bird & Bird LLP said Thursday that it has continued to grow despite facing challenging economic conditions as its revenue increased to approximately £580 million ($787 million) and profits rose in its latest financial results — though partner profits were flat.
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July 10, 2025
Firm Denies Giving Ex-Pandora Chief Negligent Tax Advice
A law firm has denied giving former Pandora boss Peter Andersen negligent tax advice that saddled him and the jeweler with a £3.3 million ($4.5 million) tax bill because of Andersen's pension trust.
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July 10, 2025
UK Consumers Seek 'Unbundled' Legal Services To Cut Costs
A record number of British consumers are turning to lower-cost "unbundled" legal services as rising prices have pushed many to seek more affordable legal help, the Legal Services Consumer Panel said Thursday.
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July 09, 2025
Osborne Clarke Adds Ex-Wolters Kluwer Lead As AI Chief
Global firm Osborne Clarke LLP announced Wednesday the hiring of a former team lead at Wolters Kluwer Germany and director of business development at the IWW Institute for Knowledge in Business as chief of staff for the firm's artificial intelligence management board.
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July 09, 2025
Norton Rose Fulbright Keeps Slot On Carlsberg's Legal Panel
Norton Rose Fulbright said Wednesday that it has been reappointed to Carlsberg Group's global legal panel and will provide legal services to the brewer for the next three years.
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July 09, 2025
Law Firms Rush To Hire PE GCs In Bid For Lucrative Sector
The gravitational pull of private equity in the legal sector is drawing a rising number of general counsel from investment companies into law partnerships, with no signs of the trend slowing down as firms look to capitalize on the lucrative sector, recruiters say.
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July 09, 2025
Historic Liverpool Chambers Merge To Form Hundred Court
Atlantic Chambers and Oriel Chambers have announced that they have merged, a move that sees two of Liverpool's oldest barristers' sets join forces to deliver enhanced legal services under one roof.
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July 09, 2025
Powell Gilbert To Open In Germany With Patent Trio
Powell Gilbert LLP said Wednesday that it has hired a team of three patent litigators from German intellectual property specialist Vossius as it prepares to open a new office in Düsseldorf, its first in continental Europe.
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July 16, 2025
Forsters Debuts Real Estate Funds Practice With New Hire
Forsters LLP has recruited an investment funds partner from Shoosmiths LLP to establish a new real estate funds practice in the U.K. to tap into rising client demand.
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July 09, 2025
Magistrate Reprimanded For Misusing Court Database
A magistrate has been reprimanded for breaching the required standards of judicial officeholders by accessing a court database for personal reasons, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office has said.
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July 09, 2025
Lawyers Warn Jury-Free Trials Won't Solve Court Backlog
Proposals to create a new division of court without juries will not solve the backlog of cases facing the criminal justice system without long-term investment to undo systemic underfunding, lawyers warned Wednesday.
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July 08, 2025
Fraud Trials Without Juries At Heart Of Radical Court Reform
A landmark independent review of England's ailing criminal court system on Wednesday called for serious and complex fraud cases to be tried by judge alone and the creation of a new category of court without juries.