Pulse UK

  • March 23, 2026

    Consolidation Boosts Big Law Firms In Slowing PI Market

    The volume of personal injury claims has fallen sharply in recent years, but consolidation is creating opportunities for large law firms as smaller practices exit the sector, a new report from the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has found.

  • March 20, 2026

    UK Firms Risk Losing Talent By Cutting Back Flexibility

    Six years after the COVID‑19 crisis, experts warn that U.K. firms scaling back flexible working face risks to their hiring and gender‑diversity efforts, as U.S. competitors add pressure with higher pay and firmer expectations about office attendance.

  • March 20, 2026

    The Revolving Door: Goodwin Raided For Partner Quartet

    Over the past week, Goodwin Procter lost a private equity trio to Ashurst and a restructuring partner to Eversheds Sutherland, Norton Rose Fulbright snapped up an infrastructure lead from DLA Piper, and Paul Weiss brought on a funds specialist from Dechert. 

  • March 20, 2026

    HSF Kramer Plans To Expand AI Acceleration Team In US

    HSF Kramer is recruiting for at least three new artificial intelligence roles in the U.S. after appointing its first global chief AI officer, positioning its team as a driver of growth for the firm.

  • March 20, 2026

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen an ex-professional footballer revive a dispute with Charles Russell Speechlys, Virgin Media face a group data protection claim after hundreds of thousands of customers' personal details were exposed online for months, and Mishcon de Reya sued by a real estate private equity firm founded by a former Morgan Stanley executive.

  • March 20, 2026

    Ex-Withers Pro Barred For Misleading Firm Over Filing Dates

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority has barred a former senior company secretarial assistant in the Withers group from working for another legal business after he misled the firm over a missed deadline for filing a client's accounts.

  • March 20, 2026

    HMCTS Chastised Over 2-Year Delay In Settling WFH Request

    A tribunal has ordered the U.K.'s courts service to address an accountant's request to work from home after finding it mishandled the process and left the application unresolved for almost two years, awarding her £4,200.

  • March 19, 2026

    Irish Firm Arthur Cox Hires Ex-PTSB Lead As CTO

    Ireland-based corporate law firm Arthur Cox LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of the former head of enterprise information technology services at personal and business bank Permanent TSB Group Holdings PLC as its chief technology officer.

  • March 19, 2026

    Travers Smith Turns To AI For Growth Over Mergers And PE

    Travers Smith's managing partner has his eye on using artificial intelligence to drive growth for the U.K. firm in a market where an increasing number of players are turning to transatlantic mergers and private investment to fuel expansion.

  • March 19, 2026

    Mishcon Program Helps High-Growth Firms Expand In US

    Mishcon de Reya LLP has launched a new "accelerated learning program" to support high growth companies based in the U.K. as they look to expand in the U.S.

  • March 19, 2026

    SRA Chief Targets Risks To Consumers In 2026

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority will make operational changes and take a more forward-looking approach to identifying risks to consumers, after acknowledging failings in its performance.

  • March 19, 2026

    Lawyer Can't Lift Ban For Meritless Case In Feud With Parents

    A solicitor who was banned from practicing for filing meritless applications in a dispute with his parents over money has lost a challenge to the suspension as a London court upheld a decision that he showed a lack of integrity.

  • March 19, 2026

    White & Case Eyes $5B By 2028 Despite Market Volatility

    White & Case said Thursday that it is on track to hit its goal of $5 billion in revenue for 2028 despite volatility in critical markets in the Middle East, as the London office grew to post $584 million for 2025.

  • March 18, 2026

    Legal Software Company Luminance Hires Chief Tech Officer

    Luminance Technologies Ltd., a U.K. software company producing artificial intelligence tools for enterprise legal teams, announced it has hired the former vice president for product and AI at business software startup ClickUp to serve as its chief technology officer.

  • March 18, 2026

    1st SLAPP Ruling Delivers Symbolic But Limited Landmark

    A judge recently found for the first time that a claim met the statutory definition of a strategic lawsuit against public participation, offering a symbolically significant — if limited — test of new powers designed to curb abusive litigation.

  • March 18, 2026

    Slaughter And May Halves Partner Promotions To 3 In 2026

    Slaughter and May on Wednesday named three lawyers who are set to become partners, half the number it promoted in 2025, in the firm's smallest promotion round since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • March 18, 2026

    CMS Names 54 New Partners In Promotions Round

    CMS named 54 new partners worldwide on Wednesday — slightly fewer than in 2025 — with those in the U.K. making up about a quarter of those promoted.

  • March 18, 2026

    Rosling King Settles Negligence Claim With Developer

    Rosling King LLP has reached a settlement over claims by property developer Tonstate Group, which had accused the law firm of negligently handling litigation against its former chief executive.

  • March 18, 2026

    Lawhive Plots US Law Firm Buying Spree After NY Expansion

    Artificial intelligence-native law firm Lawhive opened an office in New York on Wednesday and disclosed plans to acquire other U.S.-based law firms to grow its presence across the country.

  • March 17, 2026

    Norway Startup Newcode.ai Raises $6.5M

    Norway-based Newcode.ai, which claims to be building an operating system designed for artificial intelligence use by legal teams, announced Tuesday that it raised $6.5 million in seed funding.

  • March 17, 2026

    Clyde & Co Can't Block Lawyer From Suing In Dubai

    A London judge has refused to grant Clyde & Co. an injunction preventing a lawyer from suing in Dubai to force the firm to pay his full bonus, concluding it was unlikely that an English arbitration agreement was still valid. 

  • March 17, 2026

    Final Lawyer Cleared Over Daily Mail Immigration Sting

    A tribunal has cleared a solicitor of misconduct after he was accused of encouraging an undercover reporter posing as a client to make up a false narrative to support an application for asylum in the U.K.

  • March 17, 2026

    Goodwin's UK Revenue Tops $220M In Record Year

    Goodwin Procter LLP generated revenue of more than $220 million in the U.K. in 2025, contributing to the strongest set of financial results in the law firm's history.

  • March 17, 2026

    Law Firm Must Pay Ex-Solicitor £4K Over Contract Breaches

    An employment tribunal has ordered a boutique law firm for entrepreneurs to pay £3,885 ($5,185) to a solicitor it let go without providing him with his notice pay or holiday pay, alongside another contract breach. 

  • March 17, 2026

    Tourism Biz Says Delayed Losses Save $74M Orrick Claim

    A Nigerian tourism business fought on Tuesday to save its claim that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP caused it to lose almost $74 million by negligently advising on an investment deal with private equity giant Carlyle Group.

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