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  Insurers Face Climate Change Risks With New AI Data Centers

  By Martin Croucher

  Data centers concentrated in areas prone to environmental catastrophes could expose insurers to growing legal ri...(read more)

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  FCA Sets Scope Of Review Into Its Treatment Of Whistleblower

  By Tom Fish

  The Financial Conduct Authority outlined on Monday the scope of the review of its dealings with a whistleblower ...(read more)

• UK Probes Boston Consulting's Partner Pay After Court Ruling

  By Kevin Pinner

  HM Revenue & Customs is investigating how Boston Consulting Group's U.K. arm treats partners for income tax purposes, the company disclosed after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling allowing a hedge fund's managers to be taxed as employees.

• Google Inks Deal With Prospect Union Under New UK Rules

  By Irene Madongo

  British trade union Prospect said Monday it has secured an agreement with Google giving it the right to speak to the tech giant's staff in the U.K., just days after new rules empowering employee bodies to access workplaces kicked in.

• Amersi Denies Kazakh Payment Was Corrupt In BBC Trial

  By Ronan Barnard

  A prominent business executive and political donor denied Monday making a corrupt payment to a Kazakh woman connected to the country's ruling politicians in the early stages of the London trial of his libel claim against the BBC.

• AI Law Firm Eyes PE Deal As It Bids For Weil Tech, Talent

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  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.

• Spain Blocks Investors' €29M ICSID Award Assignment

  By Sophia Dourou

  The Court of Appeal has blocked the transfer of a €29.3 million ($32.8 million) arbitration award against Spain, ruling Monday that the investors who won the award cannot transfer its enforcement to another party.

• EHRC Says Nonemployees Can Claim Workplace Harassment

  By Adele Redmond

  A new duty on employers to take "all reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment of staff members can apply to contract workers, consultants and those working illegally, according to the watchdog charged with enforcing the change in the law.

• Rightmove Alone Would Gain If £1B Claim Is Opt-In, CAT Told

  By Eddie Beaver

  Only Rightmove would benefit if thousands of estate agents were forced to opt in to a proposed £1.1 billion ($1.5 billion) class action over allegedly excessive fees, the accountant seeking to bring the claim told a tribunal Monday.

• Binance And HTX Signal Regulatory Enforcement Priorities

  By Alex Davidson

  The $6.4 billion Binance hack and HTX's U.K. exit following Financial Conduct Authority legal pressure show why regulators want greater oversight of overseas crypto exchanges while exposing the limitations in cross border enforcement, lawyers warn.

• Irwin Mitchell Beats £1.4M Negligence Claim Over Advice

  By Sophia Dourou

  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.

• Weil Juniors Risk Being Left Behind In Partner Moves

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  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.

• Aviva Not Liable For Oxford Colleges' COVID Losses

  By Joel Poultney

  A judge ruled on Friday that Aviva Insurance does not have to pay out to a group of University of Oxford colleges that claimed to have lost £62 million ($83 million) in the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Property Lawyers Battle Flood Of AI-Generated Claims

  By William Janes

  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.