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June 15, 2026
Baker McKenzie said Monday that it has appointed Joanna Hewitt, a senior specialist in corporate reorganizations, to lead its office in London — making her the first woman to take up the role.
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June 15, 2026
Wright Hassall bears no liability for a failed housing project because the developer's claimed £13 million ($17 million) loss resulted from the developer's mismanagement, not Wright Hassall's legal advice, the law firm's insurer has said.
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June 15, 2026
U.S. law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP launched a training contract program on Monday that focuses on private equity as it looks to expand its pipeline of talent in the London legal market.
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June 15, 2026
A renowned international arbitration lawyer who founded the international arbitration practice of WilmerHale LLP and had been with the firm for nearly four decades has joined King & Spalding LLP, bringing four other colleagues with him.
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June 15, 2026
A senior barrister accused of cheating the public purse out of almost £2 million ($2.7 million) told a court on Monday that he was "morally entitled" to pursue a strategy to reduce his tax liability.
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June 15, 2026
Addleshaw Goddard LLP said Monday that it is expanding into the Netherlands via a merger with Amsterdam-based Florent as part of its plan to build a stronger European platform and reach £1 billion ($1.34 billion) in annual revenue by 2030.
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June 12, 2026
The Court of Appeal is expanding with seven new justices, including experts in intellectual property, planning and environment, and immigration.
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June 12, 2026
For Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's senior partner, the biggest obstacle to the firm's plans for artificial intelligence isn't model hallucination or vendor risk, but something far more human — decision-making fatigue.
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June 19, 2026
Finnegan has hired a new life sciences litigator from Kirkland & Ellis LLP with experience leading cases in the FRAND space, as it builds a stronger intercontinental team to deal with increasingly global disputes.
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June 19, 2026
Morgan Lewis has hired a former co-chair of Goodwin Procter LLP's office in London to lead its European private equity practice.
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June 12, 2026
A disciplinary tribunal has suspended a barrister for 12 months after ruling that he helped his daughter breach a court order banning her from representing clients in court as a solicitor, the Bar Standards Board said Friday.
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June 12, 2026
The past week in London has seen the FCA bring a claim against a fund manager it accused of providing investment services despite having been banned, an Ardmore unit sue a contractor two days before the construction group's collapse, and shipping and cruise giant MSC hit back at an entertainment company following separate intellectual property litigation in the U.S. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 12, 2026
Over the past week, Morgan Lewis continued its expansion into the European private equity market by hiring Goodwin's London office co-chair, Cadwalader lost its first private wealth partner to rival U.S. firm Pillsbury, and Simmons & Simmons brought in a new general counsel and chief client officer.
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June 12, 2026
Mishcon de Reya LLP must review communications with a former litigation funder after a London judge ruled Friday that the correspondence is not protected by litigation privilege in the £340 million ($455 million) claims against Uber.
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June 19, 2026
Sheppard has hired a senior private equity partner from Simmons & Simmons to add to its transactional capabilities and take up the role of office managing partner in London.
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June 12, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has rebuked a former paralegal at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP after he was convicted of drink-driving.
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June 12, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday that solicitors overseeing unauthorized staff in litigation might need awareness of every file in some cases, as it urged the profession to take a risk-based approach when deciding on appropriate supervision following the Mazur decision.
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June 11, 2026
Telon, a managed services startup relying on artificial intelligence and cofounded by former executives at alternative legal service providers Lawyers on Demand Ltd. and Syke Legal Engineering Ltd., announced its launch on Thursday.
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June 11, 2026
Winston Taylor has appointed a senior corporate partner to lead its office in Paris as it settles into business following the merger of Winston & Strawn LLP and the U.K.-led business of Taylor Wessing, which went live at the start of June.
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June 11, 2026
Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr has told lawmakers that artificial intelligence could help broaden access to justice, saying that some judges are finding AI makes submissions from litigants in person easier to parse.
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June 11, 2026
A gap has emerged between the protections available to consumers and the safeguards they expect as more and more people use artificial intelligence tools to help with their legal problems, the Legal Services Board said.
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June 11, 2026
A senior barrister accused of cheating the public purse out of almost £2 million ($2.7 million) told a court Thursday that he had set up "tax-efficient" arrangements which "anyone with any sense would use."
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June 11, 2026
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has settled a claim in a London court that it caused a software company to lose £3.7 million ($4.9 million) through faulty advice on intellectual property ownership in a buyout of a rival.
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June 10, 2026
A senior tax barrister told a court Wednesday that HM Revenue and Customs prosecuting him for evading almost £2 million ($2.7 million) in tax was its way of "canceling" a person the tax authority found "extremely inconvenient."
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June 10, 2026
Kennedys said Wednesday that revenue in North America grew by more than 22% in its latest financial year, driven by strategic lateral partner and group hires as the firm remains open to more merger opportunities in the world's largest legal market.