Pulse UK

  • April 09, 2024

    Trowers & Hamlins Unveils Energy And Sustainability Practice

    Trowers & Hamlins LLP has launched a new energy and sustainability practice to bolster its services to clients that need advice on matters associated with the energy transition and the goal to reach net-zero.

  • April 09, 2024

    Charles Russell Speechlys Floats New Tech Adoption Unit

    Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Tuesday it has forged a new department dedicated to ensuring the law firm leaves no gains on the table in its hunt to incorporate legal tech and artificial intelligence into its services.

  • April 09, 2024

    Addleshaw Goddard To Launch In Spain With KWM Team

    Addleshaw Goddard LLP said Tuesday it has struck a deal with King & Wood Mallesons to take onboard 13 partners among 60 lawyers to launch the firm's first Spanish office in Madrid.

  • April 09, 2024

    TLT Appoints 5 New Female Legal Directors In Birmingham

    TLT LLP said Tuesday it has appointed five new legal directors to its Birmingham office in an all-female recruitment round that the law firm hopes will boost its ability to advise clients on a range of disputes and deals.

  • April 16, 2024

    Ex-SFO Bribery Chief Joins Prosecution Boutique Firm

    The former head of bribery and corruption at the Serious Fraud Office kicked off a new role on Tuesday as a partner at Edmonds Marshall McMahon, the boutique private prosecution law firm has said.

  • April 16, 2024

    Charles Russell Speechlys Hires Banking And Finance Lawyer

    Charles Russell Speechlys LLP has appointed Philip Withey, a lawyer from Womble Bond, as partner in its banking and finance practice in a move the firm believes will boost its business.

  • April 08, 2024

    Allen & Overy, Shearman Name New Partners Ahead Of Merger

    Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP announced Monday that they have promoted 40 lawyers to partner ahead of the finalization of their merger in May.

  • April 15, 2024

    Kingsley Napley Debuts Int'l Arbitration Unit With New Partner

    Kingsley Napley LLP has hired a partner from Candey LLP to lead a new international arbitration practice amid rising demand from clients to settle disputes outside traditional courts, the law firm said Monday.

  • April 08, 2024

    Judicial Office Reopens Reverse Mentoring Program

    An annual program that gives lawyers from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to share their experiences of the legal profession with a judge has reopened for applications, the Judicial Office said Monday.

  • April 08, 2024

    Barrister Suspended For Failing To Pay £64K Court Order

    A barrister has been banned from practicing for six months after a tribunal concluded he damaged trust in himself or the legal profession by failing to comply with a court order to pay £64,000 ($80,875).

  • April 08, 2024

    Fladgate Promotes 3 Partners Across Its Practices

    Fladgate LLP said Monday it had promoted three lawyers to partner as the London-based law firm edges closer to the 100-partner mark.

  • April 15, 2024

    Kirkland Hires Leveraged Finance Pro From Allen & Overy

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP has recruited a debt finance specialist from Allen & Overy LLP as it continues to rebuild in the United Kingdom after undergoing a string of departures to rival U.S. law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in late 2023.

  • April 08, 2024

    Solicitor Accused Of Falsifying Costs Faces Tribunal

    A solicitor was brought before a disciplinary tribunal on Monday to face allegations that he made untruthful statements in costs schedules submitted to the High Court and undermined confidence in the legal profession.

  • April 08, 2024

    Minister Calls For Prison Time Over Post Office IT Scandal

    Individuals in the Post Office who wrongfully prosecuted innocent sub-postmasters "should go to jail," a minister said on Monday, on the eve of the inquiry into the miscarriage of justice resuming.

  • April 08, 2024

    Ropes & Gray Appoints New London MP

    Ropes & Gray LLP said Monday that it had appointed cybersecurity chief Rohan Massey as its London managing partner as the U.S. law firm continues to capitalize on strong demand for its services in the U.K.

  • April 08, 2024

    Attwells Denies Breaking Promise In £1.2M Loan Dispute

    Attwells Solicitors LLP has denied promising that it was acting on behalf of a man who, the law firm says, was probably fraudulently posing as the owner of two properties in a move to borrow £775,000 ($980,000) from a finance company.

  • April 15, 2024

    Hill Dickinson Hires 2 Teams From Irwin Mitchell

    Hill Dickinson LLP has recruited two groups of real estate specialists from Irwin Mitchell LLP for its new office in Birmingham after a corporate team made a similar move earlier in the year.

  • April 05, 2024

    CMS Breached Instructions Over Lawyer Fees, Ex-Client Says

    A former CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP client told a London court Friday that the law firm acted in breach of instructions when using some of the money earmarked for counsel in civil and criminal proceedings to pay itself.

  • April 05, 2024

    Ex-Ashurst Real Estate Chief Tapped For Employment Judge Post

    The Justice Secretary has appointed a property-focused consultant solicitor as a full-time salaried employment Judge, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary announced Friday, stepping up his involvement in the judiciary from two previous part-time posts.

  • April 05, 2024

    Travers Smith Saw Profits Dip As Wages Rose In 2023 Results

    Travers Smith LLP has revealed that its pre-tax profits dipped by more than 13% in its latest financial results as the law firm saw its staff expenses rise to nearly £90 million ($114 million).

  • April 05, 2024

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen the BBC sued by former Georgian defense minister David Kezerashvili, Russian businessman Ildar Sharipov file a defamation claim against the publisher of the Liverpool Echo newspaper, MEX Group Worldwide sue Barclays and NatWest, and a climbing gear company hit retailer Next with a claim of copyright infringement. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • April 05, 2024

    6 Questions For Paul Hastings' Stuart Alford KC

    Paul Hastings LLP's new partner, Stuart Alford KC, is a former senior official at the Serious Fraud Office and has worked at two heavyweight U.S. firms, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins. Here, he talks to Law360 about his career and about white-collar crime.

  • April 05, 2024

    3 Questions For Mishcon's David Rose And Jeremy Hertzog

    Clients look for many skills in intellectual property lawyers, but scientific expertise is not necessarily one of them, according to David Rose of Mishcon de Reya. Here, Rose and his colleague Jeremy Hertzog talk IP with Law360.

  • April 19, 2024

    Fieldfisher Expands Pensions Practice With 4 PwC Hires

    European law firm Fieldfisher LLP has announced it is bolstering its U.K. pensions practice by hiring a partner, two directors and an associate from PwC UK.

  • April 04, 2024

    Advocate Hit With 5-Year Ban Over Doctoring Emails In Jersey

    A legal tribunal banned an advocate from practicing in England for five years on Thursday following the ruling of a Jersey court that he had dishonestly doctored emails to hide the fact that he had caused "excessive" delays for a client.

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