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July 01, 2025
Charles Russell Speechlys Selects Harvey After 'AI Bake-Off'
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Tuesday that its lawyers and legal professionals will be using Harvey's artificial intelligence platform to support their work after the firm ran a "bake-off" to find a new AI provider.
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July 01, 2025
CILEX Says Equal Pay Rules Should Cover Race, Disability
The legal executives' trade group said Tuesday that employers should report pay gap data for race and disability as well as gender, offering an alternative to pursuing costly, lengthy and complex discrimination claims.
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July 01, 2025
LSB Chief Exec Departing After Less Than A Year In Role
The Legal Services Board said Tuesday that its chief executive will step down this summer for personal reasons — the second senior departure in four months following the sudden resignation of its chair in February.
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July 01, 2025
Crowell & Moring Hires IP Team From Dentons In London
Crowell & Moring said Tuesday it has hired a new U.K. intellectual property chief as part of a team of eight lawyers it has recruited from Dentons in London.
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July 01, 2025
Saudi Embassy Waived Immunity To Legal Claim, Staffer Says
A former worker at the Saudi Arabian embassy in London urged the Court of Appeal on Tuesday to overturn a finding that it had not waived its state immunity in an employment claim brought by the woman.
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July 01, 2025
Linklaters Continues US Growth With NY Capital Markets Atty
Linklaters LLP has brought on the former co-head of Proskauer Rose LLP's capital markets group as a capital markets and mergers and acquisitions partner in New York.
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July 01, 2025
Female, Minority Barristers Earn Far Less Than White Men
Female and ethnic minority barristers still earn significantly less than their white and male counterparts, even when practitioners of similar seniority and practice areas are compared, according to a report published Tuesday.
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July 01, 2025
Fieldfisher Sets Up In Portugal With Lisbon, Porto Offices
Fieldfisher said Tuesday that it has opened for business in Portugal with two offices and almost 70 staff members as it continues to strengthen its presence in Europe.
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July 01, 2025
HSF Kramer Sets NQ Pay At £145K In London After Merger
Newly qualified lawyers in HSF Kramer's London office have seen their base salaries increased to £145,000 ($199,420), one month after the merger between Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP went live.
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July 01, 2025
Ashurst's Revenue Tops £1B For First Time
Ashurst LLP said Tuesday that its revenue has passed £1 billion ($1.38 billion) for the first time in the firm's history and that partner profits have also hit a new high in a ninth consecutive year of growth.
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June 30, 2025
DWF, TLT Claim Spots On £35M Met Police Panel
DWF LLP and TLT LLP have been approved to provide legal advice to police forces and other public organizations under a framework worth £35 million ($48 million) over the next four years.
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June 30, 2025
Linklaters Extends Disputes Practice To Dubai
Linklaters said Monday that it has expanded its disputes practice with a new presence in Dubai, recruiting the team's chief from a project linked to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
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June 30, 2025
Fired Legal Chief Stops Cosmetic Pharma From Seizing Docs
A London court has overturned an order that required a sacked chief legal officer to hand over documents which allegedly expose her "sham" redundancy from a cosmetic pharmaceutical company.
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June 30, 2025
Dentons Partners With Legora In Europe
Dentons has become the latest law firm to announce a partnership with Legora to help lawyers work more effectively with artificial intelligence technology.
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June 30, 2025
Bird & Bird Joins Six-Figure NQ Pay Club With Raise To £102K
Bird & Bird is increasing salaries of newly qualified lawyers in London to just over £100,000 ($137,000) as law firms continue to hike salaries in the battle to lure top talent in the English capital.
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June 30, 2025
Stewarts' Revenue And Profit Surge As PEP Nears £2M
Stewarts Law LLP said Monday that it has recorded large increases in revenue and profits and that average profit per equity partner hit almost £2 million ($2.8 million) as the firm published its latest financial results.
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June 27, 2025
M&A Tops Baker McKenzie's 59-Strong Partner Class For 2025
Baker McKenzie announced that 59 attorneys will be promoted to partner by the start of July, with the number of internal hires decreasing from last year while lateral recruitment remained the same, at 48, over the past 12 months.
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June 27, 2025
Law Firm Fails To Ax Vanquis Bank's £4.5M Complaints Case
A London judge has refused to throw out Vanquis Bank's £4.5 million ($6.1 million) claim against a law firm it alleges inundated it with thousands of meritless complaints over loans, ruling that although the facts underpinning the claim were "novel," it was based on "well-established" principles.
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June 27, 2025
Ex-TLT Chief And Law Society President Robert Bourns Dies
Robert Bourns, TLT's first managing partner and the 172nd president of the Law Society, has died after a more than 40-year career in the legal profession, the two organizations confirmed Friday.
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June 27, 2025
SRA Requests Post Office Files In Horizon IT Scandal Probe
The English solicitors' watchdog has asked a London court to compel the Post Office to hand over documents to the regulator's investigation into lawyers who worked for the company, following the Horizon IT scandal.
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June 27, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the British Basketball Federation sued by members of the men's professional basketball league for alleged competition breaches, songwriter Coco Star file an intellectual property claim against Universal Music Publishing, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the Post Office amid ongoing investigations into law firms linked to the Horizon IT Scandal. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 27, 2025
Ex-Kingsley Napley Pro Fined For Breaching Accounts Rules
A former partner at Kingsley Napley LLP has been fined for breaching accounts rules by letting a client use the firm's client account to facilitate mortgage payments without a legal transaction at play, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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June 27, 2025
Simmons & Simmons Hires 3-Lawyer IP Team In Paris
Simmons & Simmons LLP has expanded its IP practice in Paris with a technology expert and two associates from a boutique business law firm, bringing nearly two decades of experience to the firm.
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June 27, 2025
ICO Secures Guilty Verdicts In Massive Data Misuse Case
The director of a legal funding company and seven other men have been convicted over a personal injury data conspiracy at an English court, the U.K.'s data regulator has said.
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June 27, 2025
Justice Birss To Become High Court Chancellor
Justice Colin Birss has been appointed to become the new chancellor of the High Court, putting an appeals court judge who specializes in intellectual property law in one of the most senior judicial roles in England and Wales.

Incoming Law Society Leader Has Her Eye On Modernization
When Dana Denis-Smith launched her campaign to become president of the Law Society of England and Wales, her message was clear: the legal profession has changed dramatically over the past two decades — and must keep evolving.

AI-Driven Fake Evidence Could 'Play Havoc' In Legal Disputes
A recent High Court judgment exposed how nonexistent artificial intelligence-generated citations had been used in legal arguments — but experts say this could be the tip of the iceberg for increasingly sophisticated fake evidence making its way into disputes.

Pro Bono Plan Aims To Make CAT Claims Accessible To All
It might come as a surprise that the U.K.'s venue for high-stakes class actions against some of the world's largest companies is planning a new pro bono scheme. But the Brick Court Chambers antitrust silk running the program told Law360 that she sees a real chance to help smaller players get a fair shot at enforcing their rights under a complex area of law.

Apprenticeship Age Cap Risks Widening Legal Sector Divide
The government's move to restrict funding for solicitor apprenticeships to those under 22 risks widening the gap between large and small law firms, while reigniting concerns over social mobility and diversity in the legal profession.
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The Revolving Door: Sullivan & Cromwell Bags Finance Head
Over the past week, the head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's financial services group joined Sullivan & Cromwell, Baker McKenzie swiped an investment funds specialist from Latham & Watkins, and a cyber heavyweight exited Deloitte Legal for Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.
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The Revolving Door: Addleshaw Hires Cyber Chief From Bird
Over the past week, Addleshaw Goddard LLP hired a new director of cyber investigations from Bird & Bird LLP, Dechert LLP saw two experts in international capital markets transactions move to Baker Botts LLP, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP recruited an expert in secondaries transactions from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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AI-Powered Law Firm Sparks Debate On Legal Sector's Future
The country's first approved artificial intelligence law firm could be a turning point, making it easier for individuals and small businesses to get legal support. But the proliferation of artificial intelligence in the legal sector could also put considerable pressure on small firms and solo practitioners.
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Practice Leader Insights From Kennedys' Matthew Poli
Matthew Poli, head of Kennedys' corporate M&A transactions team, discusses the challenges of rushing to close transactions ahead of possible budgetary changes, why reform is needed in the way a company's statutory books can be altered at Companies House, and that client service needs to be a lawyer's watchword.
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Practice Leader Insights From Broadfield's Caroline Yarrow
Caroline Yarrow, head of Broadfield's employment practice, discusses the challenges of analyzing huge volumes of data in a service provider transfer of 2,000 employees, why the employment tribunal system needs urgent review, and why being pragmatic and commercial when giving advice is important.
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8 Ways Law Firms Can Prepare For SRA's AML Offensive
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s recent plans to intensify anti-money laundering enforcement means firms need to concentrate on strengthening client matter risk assessments, policies and procedures, source of funds checks and firmwide risk assessments, says Harriet Holmes at Thirdfort.
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How Fostering Well-Being Can Drive Law Firm Profitability
To counter the common assumption that prioritizing lawyer’s well-being damages profitability, firms should look at the role itself and build strategies to reduce stress, especially with the current focus on delivering more billable hours in light of artificial intelligence tools creating new capacity, says Charlotte Clegg at The Mindful Business Charter.
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Practice Leader Insights From Bristows' Robert Burrows
Robert Burrows, joint head of patent litigation at Bristows, discusses the challenges of remote working when preparing cases, the need for reform in respect of second medical use patents, and whether recent European Union court decisions could mark the beginning of a shift in European litigation practice.
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Practice Leader Insights: Farrer & Co.'s Kathleen Heycock
Kathleen Heycock, leader of the employment practice at Farrer & Co., discusses why challenging cases foster a sense of achievement, how an increase in workplace investigations has affected her practice, and the importance of emotional intelligence when working on both positive and negative employment matters.
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Practice Leader Insights From Morgan Lewis' Timothy Corbett
Timothy Corbett, leader of Morgan Lewis' London corporate and business transactions practice, discusses the challenges of divesting a company of its Russia operations under wartime conditions, the need to align regional regulatory approaches to artificial intelligence across global businesses, and why junior lawyers should develop an area of special interest.
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Practice Leader Insights From Covington's Gregor Frizzell
Gregor Frizzell, head of the EMEA corporate group and vice chair of the global corporate practice at Covington, discusses the creative challenges of merger and acquisition document provisions, how modernizing the archaic stamp duty regime would be welcomed by tax lawyers, and the guidance offered by a recent case on the interpretation of material adverse clauses.
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Practice Leader Insights From Farrer & Co.'s Simon Ward
Simon Ward, leader of the private capital practice at Farrer & Co., discusses the challenges of coordinating an acquisition with lawyers from other practice areas, why finding ways to connect education institutions to regulators and decision-makers would be a positive shift, and why young lawyers should get involved in the business world early on.
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Practice Leader Insights From Morgan Lewis' Nick Bolter
Nick Bolter, leader of the London intellectual property practice at Morgan Lewis, discusses the challenges of acting in disputes where the other party is a lay person representing themselves, the need to refocus trademark law on consumer protection, and why IP is a challenging area of law.
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Practice Leader Insights From Mayer Brown's James West
James West, co-leader of Mayer Brown's private equity practice, discusses the challenges of conducting complex deals at pace, the benefits of maintaining a relatively light regulatory framework in the private equity arena, and why the current economic climate has led to a need for the industry to be more flexible in its approach to dealmaking.
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Practice Leader Insights From Norton Rose's Paul Griffin
Paul Griffin, head of employment and labor for Europe, Middle East and Asia at Norton Rose, discusses the challenge of litigating a whistleblowing case with a CEO remaining in post, why the qualifying period for claiming unfair dismissal should be reviewed, and the importance of retaining one's authenticity as a lawyer.
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What Rise Of AI Means For Future Of Junior Lawyer Careers
While artificial intelligence is reshaping law firms’ approach to core tasks, it is unlikely to eliminate the need for human oversight, and if junior lawyers can embrace new technologies with integrity, they can focus on more meaningful work and add greater value to their teams, says Valeriya Zinchenko at Teacher Stern.
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Practice Leader Insights From HFW's Michelle Chance
Michelle Chance, head of HFW's London employment practice, discusses the challenges of defending a high-profile race discrimination class action in the civil courts, the need for male employees to take shared parental leave, and the significance of the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees.
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Practice Leader Insights From Cleary's Sebastian Sperber
Sebastian Sperber, leader of Cleary's EMEA capital markets and debt finance practice, discusses the challenges of working on complex transactions in pre-internet days, why regulators should think carefully before imposing additional disclosure burdens on corporations, and his hope that the recent U.K. listing reforms will encourage more companies to choose to list in London.