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June 20, 2025
The Revolving Door: Sullivan & Cromwell Bags Finance Head
Over the past week, the head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's financial services group joined Sullivan & Cromwell, Baker McKenzie swiped an investment funds specialist from Latham & Watkins, and a cyber heavyweight exited Deloitte Legal for Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.
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June 20, 2025
Ex-Orrick Solicitor Gets 12-Month Ban For Groping Colleagues
A London tribunal has suspended a former associate at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP after it found that he touched two work colleagues in a sexually inappropriate manner without their consent.
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June 19, 2025
Pro Bono Plan Aims To Make CAT Claims Accessible To All
It might come as a surprise that the U.K.'s venue for high-stakes class actions against some of the world's largest companies is planning a new pro bono scheme. But the Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk running the program told Law360 that she sees a real chance to help smaller players get a fair shot at enforcing their rights under a complex area of law.
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June 26, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Adds Spheres GC To London PE Team
Greenberg Traurig has recruited a senior lawyer from European private investment firm Spheres, the third new shareholder in its private equity team in London in recent months.
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June 19, 2025
Browne Jacobson Posts Record Revenue Of £137M
Browne Jacobson LLP has reported that its revenue has broken last year's record to reach £137 million ($184 million), coinciding with an aggressive lateral hiring strategy and investment in new practice areas and technology infrastructure.
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June 19, 2025
AmTrust Wins Disclosure Appeal In £56M Claim-Funding Clash
A London appeals court said Thursday that AmTrust should be able to see another insurer's communications with two law firms amid a £56 million ($75 million) battle over who should cover the costs of a failed litigation-funding scheme.
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June 19, 2025
Pension Trust Denies BCLP's £256K Office Damage Claim
A pension fund trustee company that owns a Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP office has hit back at claims it caused the firm to lose £256,000 ($344,000) by negligently handling repairs after the building was damaged by strong wind.
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June 19, 2025
Kennedys Appoints 1st COO As It Eyes $1B Target
Kennedys said Thursday that it has appointed a banking sector veteran as its inaugural chief operating officer to help support the growth of the firm as it looks to become a $1 billion business by 2030.
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June 19, 2025
UK Legal Tech Startup Raises £550K For AI-Powered Platform
Legal tech startup CaseCraft.AI said Thursday that it has raised £550,000 ($740,000) to help it enhance an AI platform that will simplify the small claims process for people who are not lawyers.
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June 18, 2025
Church Court Chambers Names Its First Chief Executive
Church Court Chambers has appointed lawyer Claire Anderson to the newly created role of chief executive.
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June 18, 2025
Most Companies Lack Policies For Safe AI Use, Study Finds
Inadequate oversight of artificial intelligence tools is increasingly putting companies at legal, organizational and reputational risk as use of the new technology soars, Belgian legal AI provider LegalFly said Wednesday in announcing the results of market research it commissioned.
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June 18, 2025
UK Law Firm Mergers Plunge 25% As PE Deals Lure Partners
The number of law firm mergers in the U.K. fell by 25% in 2024, as senior partners hold out for potentially more lucrative private equity offers, research published Wednesday has shown.
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June 18, 2025
Pinsent Masons Ups NQ Salaries In London To £105K
Pinsent Masons LLP said Wednesday that it is increasing salaries for newly-qualified lawyers in London to £105,000 ($141,000), joining other firms which seek to attract and retain young professionals.
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June 18, 2025
English Law Firm Penalized £25K Over AML Breaches
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined a law firm £25,000 ($33,600) for failing to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, citing serious deficiencies in the outfit's controls and procedures, according to an agreement published Wednesday.
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June 17, 2025
Geradin Partners Hires Top Lawyers For German Expansion
Geradin Partners said Tuesday that it has hired five lawyers from the law firms Hausfeld and Osborne Clarke as it prepares to launch in Germany later this year.
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June 17, 2025
SRA Hits Firm With £64K Fine Over AML Lapses
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has hit a firm with a £64,000 ($86,000) fine after finding it failed to comply with anti-money laundering regulations for around six years.
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June 17, 2025
Ackroyd Denies A Duty To Warn On Failed £4.5M Property Deal
Ackroyd Legal has denied failing to warn a Qatari executive and his sister about a property deal that they said cost them £4.5 million ($6.1 million), arguing that it was not obliged to advise them on the "prudency" of the transaction.
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June 17, 2025
Profits Surge 29% At Manchester Firm With Four-Day Week
A Manchester law firm said Tuesday that it has adopted a permanent four-day working week for all staff after a nine-month trial delivered what it described as "phenomenal results," including a 22% rise in productivity.
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June 17, 2025
Spanish Law Firm Voids Danish Outfit's 'Legaltech' TM
A Spanish law firm has persuaded European Union officials to void most of a Danish organization's protections over its "Legaltech" name, proving that the word is too descriptive to function as a trademark.
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June 17, 2025
DWF Rolls Out Legora For Its Alternative Legal Services
DWF LLP said Tuesday it is rolling out Legora's artificial intelligence platform to handle routine legal work outsourced by clients — including other law firms — as more legal providers adopt generative AI to stay competitive.
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June 17, 2025
Legal Services Price Spikes May Hit Access To Services
The Legal Services Board said Tuesday that rising prices for legal services are potentially offsetting the benefits to consumers of shopping around and accessing legal support remotely, including where prices might be lower.
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June 24, 2025
Squire Patton Taps V&E For Partner On Construction Team
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has hired construction and engineering specialist Ciaran Williams as a partner in its litigation practice, as the firm continues to bulk up its global construction team.
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June 17, 2025
Anexo Investors Get More Time To Weigh Buying Out Stake
Anexo Group PLC said on Tuesday that its largest shareholders will have a further two weeks to say whether they plan to buy out the rest of the specialist motor accident credit hire and legal services business.
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June 16, 2025
Birketts Launches Employment Support Service, Resolve
Birketts LLP said Monday that it has launched a new service to provide holistic employment support to clients under one roof as workplace challenges become increasingly complex.
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June 16, 2025
McDermott Goes West To Mayfair As London Grows Rapidly
McDermott Will & Emery LLP said Monday that it will relocate its U.K. headquarters to Mayfair in London in 2028, moving from its current City offices to accommodate future expansion and to be closer to private equity clients.
Expert Analysis
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Once More Unto The Breach — Rehearing In Newman?
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York decided to seek appellate review of several aspects of the recent insider-trading decision in U.S. v. Newman and Chiasson. En banc rehearing petitions are rarely granted in any circuit, and are particularly rare in the Second Circuit, which hears the fewest number of rehearings of any circuit in the country, say Eugene Ingoglia and Gregory Morvillo of Morvillo LLP.
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UK Tax Advisers Are Beyond Legal Advice Privilege
A recent judgment from the U.K. Supreme Court in one of the most significant decisions on legal advice privilege for many years. Prudential PLC v. Special Commissioner of Income Tax, which dealt a blow to tax advisers and other nonlegally qualified service providers who provide legal advice to their clients, confirmed that — consistent with the position in the U.S. — legal advice privilege only protects communications to or from a qualified lawyer, say Richard Hornshaw and Daniel Cohen of Bingham McCutchen LLP.