The Legal Services Board said Thursday that regulators must do more to make sure lawyers follow strong ethical standards as it set out new guidelines to remind them of their important role in protecting the rule of law.
The Legal Services Board said Thursday that regulators must do more to make sure lawyers follow strong ethical standards as it set out new guidelines to remind them of their important role in protecting the rule of law.
U.K. search fund River Cam Group, which has completed its first acquisition, is now targeting additional small and midsized law firms and is positioning itself as a solution to the growing succession problem facing law offices in England and Wales.
Morrison Foerster LLP said Thursday that it has hired a new partner from Pallas Partners in London, adding to the firm's strengths in complex litigation and helping it to build a practice in class actions and mass torts.
Shoosmiths LLP said Thursday that it has elevated nine lawyers to its partnership, recognizing those who will help drive the firm's growth in the coming years.
Morgan Lewis said Thursday that it has hired a five-lawyer team of experts in international trade and investigations from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in Paris, as clients face mounting geopolitical uncertainty and increasing scrutiny from regulators.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday that the Court of Appeal should uphold a ruling that a regulatory tribunal should rehear allegations that Dentons had breached anti-money laundering regulations, arguing that the tribunal had misdirected itself.
Burges Salmon has appointed Rebecca Wilsker, a specialist lawyer with "significant" international experience, as a director in its corporate and mergers and acquisitions team in London.
