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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November 02, 2026
DWF LLP said Monday it has retained more than 90% of the lawyers who qualified at the firm in 2026, with more than a third of those retained based in its offices in northwest England.
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November 02, 2026
A tribunal has rejected a sales manager's bid to top up his award to include time he spent preparing his case, finding to be reasonable an employment law consultancy's threat to seek legal costs if he pursued his wrongful dismissal claim.
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November 02, 2026
Pinsent Masons said Monday it has named two practice leaders as its first co-heads of innovation and transformation, aiming to tie the firm's strategy more closely to how its lawyers deliver services to clients.
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November 02, 2026
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Monday it has hired a veteran real estate partner and four associates from Linklaters LLP in Brussels, bolstering its real estate practice in the heart of the European Union.
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November 02, 2026
AI-focused Scissero Law Ltd. said Monday that it is discussing a majority investment with around half a dozen midsized private equity firms and is also speaking with partners and other lawyers from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP about joining the firm.
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November 02, 2026
Knights Group's £27 million ($36 million) acquisition of Moore Barlow's commercial and private client practices has resulted in redundancies among business services staff, a source familiar with the matter said Monday, a day after the deal closed.
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October 30, 2026
Irwin Mitchell LLP defeated a negligence claim worth over £1.4 million ($1.9 million) by a finance broker, with a court holding Friday that the law firm was right to advise its former client to settle two meritless claims.
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October 30, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has withdrawn several cases from the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over concerns it could not prove allegations of dishonesty, after a string of setbacks with its cases.
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October 30, 2026
Trainees and junior lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP risk being left behind as partners negotiate moves to rival firms, recruiters say, with their prospects of joining those teams depending in part on whether departing partners advocate for them.
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October 30, 2026
The Bar Standards Board has said that it took supervisory action in two cases involving potential breaches of money laundering rules in the 2025–26 financial year, down from three in the previous 12 months, as it prepares to transfer oversight to the Financial Conduct Authority.
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October 30, 2026
A tribunal has ordered a local authority to pay £4,800 ($6,400) after ruling that it racially harassed its former legal director when an executive sent a revealing picture of a Black woman to a WhatsApp group chat.
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October 30, 2026
Over the past week, the wave of departures from Weil continued as it moved toward dissolution. Paul Hastings returned to Reed Smith for another fund finance hire, Latham & Watkins recruited the firm's technology litigation head, and Eversheds Sutherland and Squire Patton Boggs added to their financial technology and infrastructure teams.
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October 30, 2026
The past week in London has seen British-Georgian business executive George Howard Richmond file a claim against high-profile individuals including former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and the Mittal family, a DP World subsidiary file the latest claim in ongoing litigation with the Republic of Djibouti, and the U.S. government bring a claim against the owners of cargo ship M.S. Solong.
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October 30, 2026
From landlord-tenant disputes to planning objections and infrastructure judicial reviews, use of generative AI is causing a surge in lengthy, often meritless challenges that real-estate lawyers say are clogging up systems, straining budgets and confusing valid grievances with hallucinated law.
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October 30, 2026
Gateley PLC has hit back against a £820,000 ($1.1 million) negligence claim, denying that it's liable for any advice provided on a residential property investment company's pension program by its predecessor.
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October 30, 2026
Mishcon de Reya has admitted failing to properly advise a property investor over a requirement to give a valid right of refusal to tenants, but denied that its negligence caused him losses of £1.4 million ($1.8 million).
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October 30, 2026
The legal industry marked the last week of October with the death knell of a BigLaw powerhouse. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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October 30, 2026
A High Court judge and a recorder have been sanctioned for unreasonable delays in handing down judgments as English courts struggle with record backlogs.
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October 30, 2026
Louise Forster of the construction disputes team at Pinsent Masons recalls tearing up part of Edinburgh city center as a particularly challenging transport project. Here, she tells Law360 about the complexities of international construction disputes and the evolution of adjudication as a resolution tool.
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October 30, 2026
Lawyers in England and Wales should not need to declare when they have used artificial intelligence to help prepare their court filings, the Civil Justice Council has recommended.
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October 29, 2026
The wave of partner departures from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is highlighting the resilience that the Magic Circle's institutional client relationships and broader practices provide elite U.K. firms, even as U.S. rivals offer rainmakers greater earning potential, recruiters and consultants say.
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October 29, 2026
A series of leadership failures and strategic missteps preceded the precipitous downfall of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, sources told Law360 Pulse.
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October 29, 2026
The stunning collapse of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is the talk of BigLaw this week, as those in the industry grapple with how the powerhouse Wall Street firm could implode so quickly.
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October 29, 2026
Proskauer said Thursday it has promoted 21 lawyers to its partnership, a slight decrease from 2025, with its London office accounting for around a quarter of the newly elevated group.
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October 29, 2026
A judge has won a second shot at concealing her identity in a discrimination case against a barristers' chambers, telling an appellate judge that revealing her name might indirectly disclose the identity of her child, who has a disability.