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September 12, 2025
Travelers Sued For £5.8M Client Funds Lost In Axiom Collapse
A property buyer has sued Travelers for a £5.8 million ($7.9 million) insurance payout under its policy with Axiom Ince, telling a London court that the company had misappropriated his payment for an apartment before collapsing into administration.
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September 12, 2025
MoJ Seeks New LSB Chair Amid Leadership Shake-Up
The Ministry of Justice has launched a campaign to recruit a new chair of the Legal Services Board, more than six months after the last person in the position stepped down midway through his first term.
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September 12, 2025
UK Legal Revenue Soars 7.9% In July Despite Flat Economy
The U.K. legal industry generated £4.87 billion ($6.6 billion) in revenue in July — its second-highest monthly figure in 2025 — defying broader economic and services sector trends, according to official statistics published on Friday.
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September 11, 2025
Clifford Chance Hires Ex-Fried Frank PE Partner In NY
Clifford Chance LLP announced Thursday the hiring of a private equity partner in New York who spent the past two decades at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
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September 11, 2025
Mayer Brown Adds 6 To Projects And Infrastructure Team
Mayer Brown LLP announced Wednesday that it has welcomed six attorneys to its projects and infrastructure group, including two partners from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Vinson & Elkins LLP.
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September 11, 2025
Sullivan & Cromwell Leaders Eye Steady Growth In London
After adding two restructuring and corporate partners in London, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has no plans to slow down over the next few years as it continues to build its operations in the capital, two of the firm's leaders told Law360.
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September 11, 2025
Ex-Ashurst Partner Barred By SDT Over Sexual Misconduct
A London legal disciplinary tribunal has barred a former Ashurst Madrid partner from practicing at an English solicitors firm after finding that it had jurisdiction to make a ruling against him.
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September 11, 2025
SRA Fines Law Firms Over Absent AML Client Risk Checks
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined a law firm £13,690 ($18,570) and another £4,282 over their eight-year-long failure to assess the money laundering risk of clients, damaging public trust in the solicitors' profession.
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September 11, 2025
British American Tobacco Names Regulatory Head New GC
British American Tobacco said Thursday that it was promoting its current director of corporate and regulatory affairs to the post of general counsel after 18 years at the company.
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September 11, 2025
Saudi Embassy Worker Wins Appeal Over State Immunity
An appeals court overturned on Thursday a ruling that the Saudi Arabian embassy in London is immune from a former worker's tribunal claim, holding that her role was not close enough to the exercise of sovereign authority.
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September 11, 2025
No New Judges As Employment Bill Nears Passage Into Law
The Ministry of Justice has admitted that it has so far drawn a blank in its push to recruit new employment judges in 2025, despite concerns that the Employment Rights Bill could trigger a surge in claims.
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September 11, 2025
Simmons Debuts Energy Group To Boost Market Share
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Thursday it has launched a new sector practice focused on energy, natural resources, infrastructure and construction, as part of its ongoing global expansion.
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September 11, 2025
Barrister Crowdfunds To Sue Jolyon Maugham For Defamation
Gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore of St John's Chambers has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pursue legal action against Jolyon Maugham KC, director of the Good Law Project, over social media posts that she claims are defamatory.
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September 11, 2025
Skadden Steers Legal Researcher In £43M Buy Of The Lawyer
Researcher Legal Benchmarking Group will buy The Lawyer for £43 million ($58 million) from media group Centaur, the companies said Thursday.
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September 17, 2025
Ropes & Gray Launches In Milan With Latham PE Trio
Ropes & Gray LLP said Wednesday that it has opened an office in Milan with three private equity partners joining from Latham & Watkins LLP, further scaling its European presence after recently opening for business in Paris.
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September 17, 2025
Twenty Essex Adds 4 New Barristers After Pupillages
Twenty Essex has revealed that four new barristers have joined its chambers after completing their pupillages, adding experience from New York through to Australia.
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September 10, 2025
Tribunal Warns Fee Disputes Could Undermine CPO Regime
The chair of a U.K. competition tribunal raised concerns Wednesday about the effect "another" fee dispute between funders and lawyers could have on the collective actions regime during a hearing on unclaimed damages from a claim over train fares.
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September 10, 2025
AIG Sued By Ex-Teacher Over PI Negligence Claim
A retired teacher has sued the U.K. arm of AIG for £176,000 ($238,000) to cover the alleged professional negligence of his solicitors, which represented him in a dispute linked to an earlier row over clinical negligence and is now insolvent.
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September 10, 2025
AI Legaltech Biz Buys Law Firm In 1st For UK Market
Lawhive said on Wednesday that it has bought a regulated English law firm, in a first for the U.K. legal market as the legal technology platform expands after securing funding from Google's venture capital arm.
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September 10, 2025
UPC Classifies Lawyers' Billing Hours As Confidential Info
The Unified Patent Court has ruled that lawyers' billing hours and charging rates count as confidential information, allowing sides to a dispute to keep details of their legal spend out of the public eye.
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September 09, 2025
Mishcon's Profits Soar As Revenue Hits £330M
Mishcon de Reya said Wednesday that the group's profits have exceeded £100 million ($135 million) for the first time as revenue increased by 9% in its last financial year.
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September 09, 2025
PE Firms Leap Into MSO 'Frontier' For Slice Of Legal Industry
Managed services organizations are quietly gaining ground in the U.S. legal industry as private equity companies eye the use of MSOs to overcome rules against fee sharing and nonlawyer ownership of firms, but critics warn that such a shift could open up an ethical Pandora's Box.
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September 09, 2025
Addleshaw Goddard Hires Innovation Lead From Macfarlanes
Addleshaw Goddard LLP announced Tuesday that it hired the former head of law tech and chief knowledge and innovation officer at U.K. law firm Macfarlanes as a financial services partner with a focus on bolstering its tech offerings to clients.
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September 09, 2025
BCLP Makes Antitrust Hires In London, DC
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has grown its international antitrust practice with the recent additions of two attorneys in the firm's Washington, D.C., and London offices.
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September 09, 2025
Linklaters Taps HSBC Talent Head As Chief People Officer
Linklaters LLP has hired the former global head of talent at the global bank HSBC as its chief people officer, it announced on Tuesday.
Expert Analysis
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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.