A senior tax barrister accused of cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) genuinely believed he was using a legal tax strategy, his defense counsel told jurors at his criminal trial in London on Thursday.
A senior tax barrister accused of cheating HM Revenue and Customs out of nearly £2 million ($2.7 million) genuinely believed he was using a legal tax strategy, his defense counsel told jurors at his criminal trial in London on Thursday.
Gender-critical barrister Sarah Phillimore confirmed on Thursday that she is suing Good Law Project founder Jolyon Maugham KC for libel after he accused her of harassing a trans woman.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earmarked $500 million of its revenues to develop its own artificial intelligence platform that will allow its attorneys to leverage the firm's collective knowledge, Law360 Pulse confirmed Thursday.
Freeths LLP has revealed that eight lawyers at the firm have made the grade to become partners in 2026, part of a record-breaking group of 97 people across the business who have progressed to new roles.
Aliter Capital has continued its foray into the legal services market by making "a significant investment" in Clarkslegal LLP, a legal business based in Reading, south-east England.
Legal artificial intelligence startup nu:legal has raised €1.3 million ($1.5 million) to develop software that mixes the capabilities of a chatbot with attorney oversight, beginning in the employment law and data privacy fields.
Latham & Watkins LLP said Thursday that it has hired three partners from Morrison Foerster LLP into its London mergers and acquisitions team, with two of the lawyers rejoining the firm they left 10 years ago.
Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.
