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April 28, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has hired a pair of antitrust partners in Germany from White & Case and Latham & Watkins to meet rising demand for cross-border regulatory advice.
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April 27, 2026
The Bar Standards Board said Monday it has 10 open investigations in the wake of the Post Office scandal that saw hundreds of branch managers wrongfully convicted of fraud and theft due an accounting software glitch.
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April 27, 2026
A solicitor has been cleared of dishonesty over emails she sent about lasting powers of attorney applications she had unknowingly filed late, with a tribunal finding no intention to mislead while accepting that she was overworked and given limited support from her firm.
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April 27, 2026
A top commercial crime lawyer admitted on Monday that his former barristers' chambers overcharged ENRC some of the £22 million ($30 million) his team earned on the Serious Fraud Office's criminal investigation, but denied suggestions the billing process was "shambolic."
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April 27, 2026
Shoosmiths has hired Peter Stockill, a construction disputes expert formerly at Penningtons Manches Coopers LLP, as part of efforts to meet growing demand from clients in the real estate sector.
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April 27, 2026
The U.K. data protection watchdog confirmed Monday that its commissioner has voluntarily stepped down amid a human resources investigation.
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April 27, 2026
Mayer Brown said Monday that its office in London had delivered record revenue of $268.2 million in 2025 as the firm invested in crucial practices including private equity and energy.
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April 27, 2026
Simmons & Simmons said Monday that it has promoted nine individuals from across the firm to its partnership, with women accounting for more than half of the latest round.
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April 27, 2026
Dentons failed on Monday to prevent a rerun of allegations that it breached money laundering rules while acting for a politically exposed client, as an appeals court said a new tribunal must decide whether the firm's actions amounted to professional misconduct and what sanction might follow.
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April 26, 2026
London boutique Three Points Law said Monday it has recruited a former KPMG and Bryan Cave lawyer in a deal where the firm will adopt a legal AI tool created by its new partner.
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April 24, 2026
Stewards and users of the U.K.'s employment tribunals are searching for ways to reform a system at breaking point — but proposed tweaks may not be enough amid a shortage of judges, rocketing numbers of claims and a deluge of AI-assisted correspondence.
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April 24, 2026
A BigLaw firm partnering with a leading developer of generative artificial intelligence models tops this week's news. Other developments include another partnership and a legal tech company establishing an entity in Singapore. Here's a roundup of the week's biggest legal tech news.
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April 24, 2026
The son of a diamond tycoon accused of swindling $1 billion from banks has lost his latest bid to challenge his legal bills from Howard Kennedy LLP, as a judge held Friday that he understood his "ongoing liability" from the international fraud case.
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April 24, 2026
Over the past week, Eversheds Sutherland recruited a derivatives expert from Macfarlanes, CMS UK brought on a patent litigation specialist from McCarthy Denning and Birketts appointed four new partners to boost its finance and construction offering.
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April 24, 2026
Only about one in five women are King's Counsel, even though women now make up the majority of lawyers entering the profession, the Bar Standards Board said Friday.
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April 24, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 23, 2026
A tax barrister has been suspended from practice until 2027, the bar regulator has said, following the failure of his £8 million ($10.8 million) libel claim against former Clifford Chance LLP partner Dan Neidle.
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April 23, 2026
The Civil Justice Council launched a consultation Thursday on reforming solicitors' costs, which could change how solicitors bill clients and how disputes over their fees are resolved.
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April 23, 2026
A former Rosenblatt partner argued on Thursday to resurrect his race discrimination claim against the law firm's senior figures and former chief executive, who he is suing for using a racial slur at a work dinner.
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April 23, 2026
A Chinese vape company and its solicitors defeated contempt proceedings over emails that asked the U.K. Intellectual Property Office to delay registering a trademark pending an appeal, as a London judge ruled on Thursday that this was "nothing improper."
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April 23, 2026
Legora said Thursday that it has acquired Stockholm-based legal startup Qura, which the company expects will strengthen its artificial intelligence research capabilities as competition grows for the emerging tech.
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April 23, 2026
Lawyers could be required to sign a declaration detailing how they have kept their skills up to date as part of a stronger regime of continuing competence that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has floated.
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April 23, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that it has fined Taylor Rose £160,100 ($216,000) for breaching client account rules over several years.
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April 22, 2026
Several international law firms, including Hogan Lovells, have formed a global legal tech alliance to foster innovation and collaboration, Law360 Pulse confirmed Wednesday.
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April 22, 2026
A lawyer has lost his bid to revive his disability discrimination claim against the chair of a Scottish inquiry into child abuse as an appellate tribunal ruled that he did his job too independently to be considered a worker.