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March 30, 2026
A solicitor has won £45,400 ($60,000) after a tribunal ruled that an immigration services business racially discriminated against her when it fired her without any notice.
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March 30, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Monday that it has launched a joint taskforce with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and other regulators to tackle poor handling of claims for motor finance compensation by some claims management companies and law firms.
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March 30, 2026
Arc Pensions Law said Monday that legal director Kris Weber has become a partner at the specialist boutique firm.
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March 27, 2026
A London judge has found that a probate executive's online reviews calling a law firm owner a "fraudster" amounted to defamation, but the firm itself couldn't claim that it had also taken a hit as it was left out of her one-star reviews.
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March 27, 2026
The past week in London has seen Apple hit back at a tech company's wireless charging patent claim, a flurry of businesses bring COVID-19 pandemic insurance claims as a key deadline draws closer and Ipulse Partners LLP file a claim against a luxury yacht company it represented in a trademark dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 27, 2026
The managing partner of DLA Piper's office in London is set to depart as a partnership vote looms on changing the structure of the firm.
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March 27, 2026
Over the past week, Morrison Foerster recruited a veteran litigator from Pallas Partners, Broadfield expanded its private client bench with a partner duo, and DLA Piper appointed a new intellectual property head in Birmingham.
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March 27, 2026
Debt financing work at the fund level has long been dominated on the lender side by attorneys from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP, but other firms are increasingly crafting formal practices and poaching fund finance stars from the more established players.
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March 27, 2026
Mewburn Ellis LLP has promoted five intellectual property specialists to its partnership, more than double the intake of those who made the grade to become partners in 2025.
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March 27, 2026
A director at a City law firm has formally been sanctioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority after he was found to have written a letter that undermined public confidence in the profession.
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March 27, 2026
The Ministry of Justice has said the number of cases awaiting trial at Crown Courts in England and Wales has climbed above 80,000 for the first time as the government said it would pull "every lever" to cut the growing backlog.
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March 26, 2026
A White & Case LLP staffer sued the law firm in New York state court Wednesday, alleging the firm's purported "hostile work environment" shielded his colleagues after they allegedly shared nude photos of him, which he claims were taken by his supervisor while he was unconscious at a firm-sponsored party.
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March 26, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that the Court of Appeal should uphold a ruling that a regulatory tribunal should rehear allegations that Dentons had breached anti-money laundering regulations, arguing that the tribunal had misdirected itself.
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March 26, 2026
Shoosmiths LLP said Thursday that it has elevated nine lawyers to its partnership, recognizing those who will help drive the firm's growth in the coming years.
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April 02, 2026
Morrison Foerster LLP said Thursday that it has hired a new partner from Pallas Partners in London, adding to the firm's strengths in complex litigation and helping it to build a practice in class actions and mass torts.
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March 26, 2026
The Legal Services Board said Thursday that regulators must do more to make sure lawyers follow strong ethical standards as it set out new guidelines to remind them of their important role in protecting the rule of law.
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March 26, 2026
A consultant suing his former solicitors for negligence must apply to add insurer AmTrust as a party to his claim, a London judge has ruled.
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March 26, 2026
U.K. search fund River Cam Group, which has completed its first acquisition, is now targeting additional small and midsized law firms and is positioning itself as a solution to the growing succession problem facing law offices in England and Wales.
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March 26, 2026
Morgan Lewis said Thursday that it has hired a five-lawyer team of experts in international trade and investigations from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Paris, as clients face mounting geopolitical uncertainty and increasing scrutiny from regulators.
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April 02, 2026
Burges Salmon has appointed Rebecca Wilsker, a specialist lawyer with "significant" international experience, as a director in its corporate and mergers and acquisitions team in London.
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March 25, 2026
Cyberattacks targeting law firms jumped in 2025, according to a new BakerHostetler report, which also highlighted recent spikes across a wide range of sectors in ransomware payments and class action lawsuits stemming from these incidents.
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March 25, 2026
The war with Iran hasn't yet prompted law firms to announce major changes to their operations in the Middle East, but the regional fallout is starting to weigh on the market, as recruiters report hesitation among some candidates considering a move to the region.
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March 25, 2026
Dentons on Wednesday sought to block allegations it breached anti-money laundering regulations being litigated before a tribunal for a second time, arguing at the Court of Appeal that the case had been rightly dismissed the first time.
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March 25, 2026
Ropes & Gray LLP has hired an eight-person team of private equity-focused lawyers from Latham & Watkins LLP, its latest mass hire in Paris as it marks its first year there.
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March 25, 2026
Kingsley Napley said Wednesday that it has hired the former managing partner of Taylor Vinters as its new chief operating officer, describing him as "an experienced leader."