The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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October 27, 2026
A former partner at Freeths LLP has been reprimanded for breaching accounts rules by authorizing a payment from a client's account to cover a completion fee for an unrelated property purchase.
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October 27, 2026
The administrators of class action services provider Goal Group have sued BDO for $30 million, alleging the auditor negligently failed to detect that the company was counting proceeds from clients' claims as revenue, ultimately causing its collapse.
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October 27, 2026
A committee that represents victims of a dam disaster has sought permission to appeal against a ruling that prevents it from replacing Pogust Goodhead before a damages trial against BHP, saying the decision leaves the claimants unable to choose who represents them.
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October 27, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has referred a former law firm leader to a disciplinary tribunal over allegations he repeatedly made sexual comments to a trainee at the now-shuttered firm he founded.
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October 27, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte has promoted 36 lawyers to the role of partner, approximately half the 74 it announced in 2025, as the firm looks to grow its numbers in New York and strengthen its private capital business.
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October 26, 2026
A magistrate has been formally warned after he crossed a line while criticizing an official from HM Courts and Tribunals Service over decisions relating to his expenses claims, the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office has said.
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October 26, 2026
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced on Monday the promotion of 31 attorneys, including 15 partners and 16 counsel, one shy of the record it reached last year.
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October 26, 2026
Ropes & Gray LLP on Monday named 26 lawyers who are joining its partnership, the largest partner promotion round in its history, with its office in Boston accounting for half the class.
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October 26, 2026
Clarke Willmott LLP said Monday its chief executive has been reelected to serve a second four-year term in the role, as the firm aims to generate more than £100 million ($134 million) in revenue by the end of the financial year running to 2030.
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October 26, 2026
Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.
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October 23, 2026
A German Burford Capital affiliate is pressing a Delaware federal court to keep on hold a German claims aggregator's lawsuit over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration agreement, disputing the latter company's argument that a London tribunal has confirmed that the matter belongs in court.
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October 23, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.
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October 23, 2026
U.S. law firms' race to dominate London's lucrative private capital market is making some partnerships more fragile, as Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has seen with increasingly mobile rainmakers across the city commanding huge pay packages and controlling client relationships worth tens of millions of dollars, recruiters and consultants say.
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October 23, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP has elected 36 associates to its partnership in its second round of promotions in 2026, with its New York office gaining the biggest share — just under a third of those who leveled up.
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October 23, 2026
A retired solicitor who invested in a redevelopment scheme in Birmingham, England, lost his bid to recover more than £432,000 ($578,000) when a London court ruled he didn't show the scheme's managers were negligent by failing to preserve tax relief in the deal.
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October 23, 2026
Angus Dawson, a partner at Macfarlanes LLP, speaks here to Law360 about how pressures from financing costs and uncertainty over regulatory approvals are shaping construction contracts, and why technically demanding projects such as data centers require more complex contractual arrangements.
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October 23, 2026
The past week in London has seen former solicitor Paul Baxendale-Walker file a claim, private equity firm Novalpina Capital sue its founder Stefan Emanuel Kowski amid fallout over its investment in NSO Group, and Boehringer bring a patents claim against Teva Pharmaceuticals.
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October 23, 2026
A former senior judge has spoken out against government plans to allow judge-only trials for cases of serious fraud and financial crime, rejecting arguments that juries are unable to understand complex cases.
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October 23, 2026
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has elected 24 lawyers across its offices in the U.S. and Europe to its partnership in a slimmer promotions round compared to 2025.
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October 23, 2026
Over the past week, Paul Weiss recruited two lawyers from Weil as the firm continued to lose partners, DLA Piper hired a nuclear energy specialist from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and Haynes Boone launched its U.K. derivatives practice with the hire of a Macfarlanes LLP finance partner.
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October 23, 2026
BHP criticized Pogust Goodhead and Bailey Glasser International over their battle for control of £36 billion ($48 billion) litigation arising from a collapsed dam, warning on Friday that the dispute has disrupted preparations for a trial to determine compensation.
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October 22, 2026
After dozens of partners left the firm this year, including several practice leaders, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP faced two paths: embrace a leaner footprint or merge with another law firm.
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October 22, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday it is increasing scrutiny of potentially higher-risk firms in response to recent law firm failures, while delaying planned changes to rules governing compliance officer roles.
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October 22, 2026
Boutique white collar criminal law firm Rahman Ravelli has gone into administration after a quarter-century of representing clients in corporate crime cases.
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October 22, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority warned law firms Thursday to ensure lawyers follow their anti-money laundering procedures, after finding that firms were failing to put their own policies into practice.