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July 15, 2025
CILEX Names New Leaders Amid Drive To Boost Recognition
The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives has appointed a new president and chief executive as it continues efforts to raise the profile of its members across the legal profession.
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July 15, 2025
Gateley Revenue Ticks Up To £180M In Latest Results
Gateley (Holdings) PLC reported Tuesday that the group's revenue has increased to almost £180 million ($241.3 million) and recorded a pre-tax profit, despite the challenges of current market and political "volatility."
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July 15, 2025
Female Staffer Accuses Firm's Exec of Sexual Harassment
A female employee of a business advisory company has accused its director of sacking her because she rejected his sexual advances in his hotel room while the pair were on a business trip to France.
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July 15, 2025
Lawyer And Accountant Face 2027 Money Laundering Trial
A solicitor who is a former political candidate and an accountant charged by the National Crime Agency with money laundering are set to face trial in 2027.
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July 15, 2025
Taylor Wessing Revenue Tops €600M Amid Growth Push
Taylor Wessing said Tuesday that its global revenue has hit an all-time high of more than €600 million ($700 million) in its latest financial results, as it sets its sights on becoming a €1 billion firm within the next few years.
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July 15, 2025
Property Deals Remain Top Money Laundering Risk, SRA Says
Property conveyancing is still the biggest money laundering risk in the legal sector, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday.
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July 15, 2025
UK Regulator Targets Law Firm Mergers, Financial Risks
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has approved a timeline that would implement regulatory reforms like tighter oversight of mergers and acquisitions and enhanced scrutiny of law firms' financial stability by late 2026.
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July 15, 2025
SRA Flags Concerns Over High-Volume Litigation Practices
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has raised "serious" concerns about law firms engaged in high-volume litigation, disclosing more than 80 ongoing investigations into cases involving financial products, housing disrepair and cavity wall insulation.
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July 14, 2025
LegalFly, FromCounsel To Offer Barrister-Written AI Guidance
LegalFly has joined forces with a provider of expert legal content to help legal professionals minimize the time they spend carrying out research and to get access to legal answers at the click of a button.
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July 14, 2025
UAE Prisoner Voluntarily Drops Suit Against Ex-Dechert GC
A Jordanian lawyer imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates has permanently dropped a Philadelphia civil suit seeking discovery against Dechert LLP's former general counsel in the U.S. over what the law firm's leadership knew of alleged human rights abuses committed by a former partner.
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July 14, 2025
Travers Smith's Longtime Corporate Head Retires
The longtime head of corporate at Travers Smith LLP has retired from the firm's partnership after almost 30 years, the firm said Monday.
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July 14, 2025
SRA Shuts Down Law Firm Tied To Labour Councillor
A London law firm that had a Labour Party councillor as one of its managers has been shut down by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the solicitors' watchdog has said.
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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.