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July 30, 2025
Cooley Adds Ashurst Pro To Boost Tech M&A Practice
Cooley LLP has hired Jonathan Cohen from Ashurst LLP for its mergers and acquisitions practice, as he described his new firm as the "life and soul" of the technology and innovation space.
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July 22, 2025
Ashurst Joins UK AI Industry Association
London-headquartered law firm Ashurst LLP has announced that it would join the U.K. AI Industry Association as a founding law firm member of its legal working group.
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July 22, 2025
Law Society Calls For Minimum Salary Increase For Trainees
The Law Society on Tuesday called for law firms to increase the minimum annual salary they pay trainee solicitors in London to approximately £28,000 ($37,884), as inflationary pressures continue to affect those earning a more modest income.
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July 29, 2025
McDermott Hires German Merck Lawyer Ahead Of Merger
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has hired a senior in-house lawyer from German pharmaceutical group Merck KGaA as its $2.8 billion merger with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP nears completion.
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July 22, 2025
DWF Beats Data Privacy Challenge In Injury Fraud Evidence
A London court tossed claims Tuesday that DWF Law LLP broke data protection laws when it analyzed and shared health information from three former personal injury claimants in a bid to expose alleged fraud patterns in road traffic accident cases.
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July 22, 2025
Eversheds Sutherland Launches Silicon Valley Office
Eversheds Sutherland is expanding its West Coast operations, announcing Tuesday it is opening a Silicon Valley office with Bradford Newman, a litigator from Baker McKenzie specializing in trade secrets and artificial intelligence, as its head.
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July 22, 2025
Gowling Boosts Pay For NQ Lawyers In London To £105K
Gowling WLG said Tuesday that it has hiked the salaries of newly-qualified solicitors in London to £105,000 ($142,000), a show of intent in a market that is characterized by high salaries for ambitious young lawyers.
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July 22, 2025
Macfarlanes Turnover Grows To £371M Despite 'Muted' Market
Macfarlanes said Tuesday that its latest financial results show that it has recorded more than £371 million ($500 million) in turnover and posted a rise in profit and partner profits, despite facing a slower market.
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July 22, 2025
Linklaters Posts Record £2.3B Revenue Driven By US Growth
Linklaters said Tuesday that its revenue has climbed to a record total of just over £2.3 billion ($3.1 billion) and that profits have also reached an all-time high, driven by 57% growth in the U.S.
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July 21, 2025
Baker McKenzie Ups NQ Salaries In London To £145K
Baker McKenzie said Monday it has raised the salaries of newly qualified solicitors in its London office to £145,000 ($195,796), joining a cohort of top firms competing to attract and retain junior talent amid a tight legal recruitment market.
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July 21, 2025
Ex-Union Lawyer Loses Claim Job Lost Over Whistleblowing
A former solicitor for the National Education Union has lost her claim that she was fired for raising concerns about its insurance cover, as an employment tribunal ruled she was actually dismissed for refusing to work.
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July 28, 2025
Disputes Pro Joins Lewis Silkin From Rosenblatt
A Rosenblatt Law Ltd. commercial litigation expert with extensive experience in the banking sector has jumped to Lewis Silkin LLP as a partner in its London dispute resolution practice.
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July 21, 2025
MPs Call For Review To Fix 'Dysfunctional' County Courts
U.K. parliamentarians called on Monday for an "urgent and comprehensive, root-and-branch" review of the County Court system after a scathing report warned of unacceptable levels of delays, rat infestations in buildings and outdated operations.
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July 21, 2025
Linklaters Workers Banned For Falsifying Overtime Hours
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has sanctioned three people who were employed by Linklaters LLP's business support division after they deliberately claimed overtime for hours they had not worked.
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July 21, 2025
Barrister Loses Appeal Over Disbarment For Dishonesty
A barrister who supervised an unregistered immigration advice firm and lied to his regulator about it failed to overturn his disbarment, as a judge held Monday that the sanction was "clearly appropriate."
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July 21, 2025
Pinsent Masons Appoints Former CMA Chief To Board
Pinsent Masons said Monday that it has appointed the former chair of the Competition and Markets Authority as one of two new external board members, taking the overall number of representatives to nine.
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July 21, 2025
Charles Russell Speechlys' Firmwide Revenue Tops £240M
Charles Russell Speechlys said Monday that revenue across the firm has increased by a double-digit figure to more than £240 million ($323 million), fueled by a strong performance by the business across the globe.
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July 20, 2025
LexisNexis Launches AI Assistant 'Protégé' In the UK
LexisNexis announced on Monday the U.K. launch of an assistant that uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to help lawyers carry out legal tasks quickly and efficiently, enabling them to focus on higher-value client work.
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July 20, 2025
Tech Startup CaseCraft.AI Launches Small Claims Platform
Legal technology startup CaseCraft.AI said Monday that it has launched an AI-powered platform to streamline the litigation process for small claims for individuals and businesses.
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July 18, 2025
BigLaw's Two-Tier Model Risks Widening Gender Disparities
More BigLaw firms are adopting two-tier partnership models, prompting legal industry experts to warn that the non-equity track risks becoming a "parking lot" for women — potentially entrenching gender disparities at the top of the profession.
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July 18, 2025
The Revolving Door: Ashurt's M&A Co-Head Joins Cooley
Over the past week, Cooley hired Ashurst’s tech M&A co-head, Cadwalader added a leveraged finance expert from Paul Hastings, and Latham & Watkins brought in a private equity heavyweight from White & Case. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires around the U.K...
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July 18, 2025
UK Law Firm Mills & Reeve Fills New AI-Focused Role
London-headquartered law firm Mills & Reeve this week promoted one of its construction attorneys to a newly created role focused on artificial intelligence.
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July 18, 2025
SRA Ends Probe After Fieldfisher Pro Lied About Assault
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday that it won't be taking any further action after a former senior associate at Fieldfisher LLP was fired following "deliberate false evidence" by a female colleague that he sexually assaulted her in a toilet at a work event.
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July 18, 2025
Irwin Mitchell Can't Escape Costs In Pension Fraud Claim
Irwin Mitchell LLP failed on Friday to recover costs after it persuaded a London court that it had been wrongly named in a retired naval officer's negligence claim because its broader effort to throw out the case fell short.
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July 18, 2025
Paralegal's Bias Claims Tossed Over 'Unreasonable' Conduct
A paralegal's employment claims against a law firm and legal recruiter have been thrown out, after a judge concluded Friday that her conduct in the proceedings is so unreasonable it's impossible to have a fair hearing.