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May 29, 2026
A barrister was fined £3,000 ($4,033) at a London disciplinary tribunal on Friday after she admitted that she had referred to a Pakistani woman as a "little goat farmer" while acting in Crown Court proceedings.
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May 29, 2026
Clyde & Co. LLP said Friday that it has launched an in-house consultation over job cuts in its business services departments in the U.K. as the global law firm seeks to overhaul its back-room operations.
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May 29, 2026
Over the past week, Charles Russell Speechlys hired Mishcon de Reya's private equity head, Clyde & Co. lost a construction litigator to Stephenson Harwood LLP, and U.S. firm Alston & Bird LLP hired a Simmons & Simmons lawyer as its first ever tax partner in London.
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May 29, 2026
A manager at a law firm has been sanctioned for behaving inappropriately with female colleagues at a work conference after a tribunal expressed concerns that he didn't understand why it was wrong to joke about someone's virginity and restrict a wheelchair user's movements.
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May 28, 2026
Legal artificial intelligence startup nu:legal has raised €1.3 million ($1.5 million) to develop software that mixes the capabilities of a chatbot with attorney oversight, beginning in the employment law and data privacy fields.
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May 28, 2026
A London-based startup aimed at providing AI tools for litigation and founded by former associates at Willkie and Patterson Belknap has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and launched a New York office as part of its U.S. expansion, the company announced Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earmarked $500 million of its revenues to develop its own artificial intelligence platform that will allow its attorneys to leverage the firm's collective knowledge, Law360 Pulse confirmed Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Aliter Capital has continued its foray into the legal services market by making "a significant investment" in Clarkslegal LLP, a legal business based in Reading, south-east England.
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June 04, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP said Thursday that it has hired three partners from Morrison Foerster LLP into its London mergers and acquisitions team, with two of the lawyers rejoining the firm they left 10 years ago.
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May 28, 2026
Freeths LLP has revealed that eight lawyers at the firm have made the grade to become partners in 2026, part of a record-breaking group of 97 people across the business who have progressed to new roles.
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May 28, 2026
Gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore confirmed on Thursday that she is suing Good Law Project founder Jolyon Maugham KC for libel after he accused her of harassing a trans woman.
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May 28, 2026
A senior tax barrister accused of cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) genuinely believed he was using a legal tax strategy, his defense counsel told jurors at his criminal trial in London on Thursday.
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May 27, 2026
Octopus Group's estate planning and bereavement support business said Wednesday that it has acquired the private client team of NewLaw Legal Ltd., adding more than 50 legal professionals from the Cardiff-based law firm as it builds out its tech-enabled services.
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May 27, 2026
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP said Wednesday that it has appointed its first chief operating officer, a position that will involve operational oversight in the U.K. and other international offices.
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May 27, 2026
HF said Wednesday it has hired a team of around 40 lawyers from Rosling King, rescuing dozens of jobs after the law firm entered into administration.
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May 27, 2026
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has raised the salaries of newly qualified lawyers in its London office to £170,000 ($228,500), bringing the firm closer to the top of the pay scale in the city.
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May 27, 2026
A disciplinary tribunal struck off a former Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor on Wednesday after finding his convictions for child cruelty and assault had undermined the public's trust and confidence in the solicitors' profession.
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May 26, 2026
Legal technology budgets will double by 2028, according to an estimate published by global research firm Gartner, as artificial intelligence platforms accelerate routine workflows and improve efficiency for corporate law departments.
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May 26, 2026
Mark Pike, an in-house attorney and driving force behind artificial intelligence powerhouse Anthropic's recent launch of the Claude for the Legal Industry suite of AI tools, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about the new products and their effect on the market for smaller firms.
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May 26, 2026
Foley & Lardner LLP has expanded its artificial intelligence capabilities with a recent deployment of AI platform Harvey firmwide after what it says was a successful pilot program.
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May 26, 2026
Howard Kennedy said Tuesday that it is concentrating on a handful of core areas where it sees the greatest opportunities for growth, as the firm looks to bounce back after "subdued market conditions" contributed to disappointing performance in its latest financial results.
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May 26, 2026
A tribunal has ruled that Unite the Union did not unfairly penalize an employment solicitor who was a member of the union by refusing to fund legal action against his former employer after he terminated a retainer with his initial advisers.
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May 26, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it has started the process of finding a new chair, following Anna Bradley's decision to step down after an extended term designed to stabilize the watchdog after a series of scandals.
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May 26, 2026
A London judge threw out on Tuesday a property company's case worth tens of millions of pounds, concluding that the claimants' lawyers at Forsters LLP had failed to properly serve the claim over email to the solicitors of a construction group.
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May 26, 2026
Legora has said that it will open new offices in Singapore and Tokyo later in 2026 as the legal artificial intelligence platform extends its reach in the Asia-Pacific region and expands its operations.