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Pulse UK
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March 21, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a sub-postmaster sue the Post Office and Fujitsu, Russian insurer Ingosstrakh hit the Financial Times with a defamation claim, and Britvic-owned Robinsons Soft Drinks file a passing off claim against Aldi. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 21, 2025
Property Boss' Brother Faces Prison In Fraud Recovery Case
A London court has ruled that the brother of a property tycoon who funneled £13 million ($16 million) out of his family business will face a year in prison if he continues to withhold information about the family's assets to frustrate attempts to recover the money.
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March 28, 2025
Simmons & Simmons Hires 4 Insurance Pros From Kennedys
Simmons & Simmons LLP has hired a team of four lawyers from Kennedys to boost the international insurance claims service at its London office.
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March 28, 2025
Cahill Gordon Adds Euro Crypto Pro To London Office
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has hired a cryptocurrency expert to join its digital assets team as counsel in London, as the U.S. firm strengthens its emerging technologies team in Europe.
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March 28, 2025
O'Melveny Rehires Antitrust Partner From Gibson Dunn
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has rehired Stephane Frank as a partner in its antitrust and competition group after he served a five-year stint at Gibson Dunn LLP, as the firm continues to attract what it describes as "boomerang laterals" back to its practice.
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March 20, 2025
Shoosmiths Introduces Bonus For Exceeding Billable Hours
Shoosmiths LLP said Thursday that it will begin offering top-performing associates and other fee-earners a bonus if they go "above and beyond" the chargeable hours that they are normally required to record.
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March 20, 2025
EY Weighs Job Cuts At UK Legal Arm Amid Strategic Shift
EY is exploring fresh cuts to its legal business in the U.K. as it moves further away from its aim to become a major disruptor in the market.
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March 20, 2025
Ashurst Reelects Global Chair, Aims For £1B Revenue
Ashurst LLP has reelected its global chair for a second term, the firm announced Thursday, amid hopes of reaching its first year of £1 billion ($1.2 billion) revenue in 2025 after eight years of growth.
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March 20, 2025
Hogan Lovells Names New Office Leaders In Singapore, Dubai
Hogan Lovells has named two new managing partners for its offices in Singapore and Dubai.
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March 27, 2025
Vedder Price Hires A&O Pro To Launch UK Litigation Team
Vedder Price has recruited an experienced litigator from A&O Shearman to head up its new U.K. litigation practice as the firm expands its dispute resolution and arbitration offerings in London and beyond.
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March 20, 2025
MoFo Threatened With UK Claim For Refusing Trans Client
Morrison Foerster LLP is facing potential litigation in England after its London office allegedly failed to honor an agreement to represent a trans man, as the law firm is one of several facing scrutiny in the U.S. over its diversity policies.
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March 20, 2025
Sidhu Ban Shows Tougher Takes On Sexual Misconduct
The disbarment of the former head of the Criminal Bar Association is the latest example of professional disciplinary tribunals increasingly handing down the harshest penalties for sexual misconduct, even when the behavior in question does not cross the line into criminal conduct.
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March 20, 2025
Herbert Smith Fined £465K For Violating Russia Sanctions
The U.K.'s sanctions enforcer handed a fine of £465,000 ($600,000) to Herbert Smith Freehills CIS LLP on Thursday for breaching financial restrictions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine after finding that its Moscow office was responsible for paying out almost £4 million to three major Russian banks.
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March 19, 2025
Clifford Chance Extends Partnership With Legal Tech Biz
Clifford Chance LLP plans to continue to make the most of new artificial intelligence technology from Wexler following a pilot to free up lawyers' time on complex disputes, the two organizations confirmed Thursday.
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March 19, 2025
BT And Paralegal Co. Deny Conspiring In £8.75M Spat
A paralegal firm and British Telecommunications PLC have hit back at a retired real estate lawyer's £8.75 million ($11.4 million) London claim for allegedly conspiring to exclude him from a system he created to find real estate asset risks, saying it is "entirely speculative."
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March 19, 2025
Ex-Postmaster Sues Post Office, Fujitsu Over Horizon Scandal
A former sub-postmaster has become the first person to bring legal action against The Post Office and Fujitsu for withholding evidence about faulty software in the Horizon IT system, his lawyers at Simons Muirhead Burton LLP said Wednesday.
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March 19, 2025
CMS Promotes 56 Lawyers To Partnership Globally
CMS has promoted 56 lawyers from around the world to its partnership, nearly half of whom are women, the law firm said Wednesday.
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March 19, 2025
Ex-CBA Chief Jo Sidhu Disbarred For Sexual Misconduct
A disciplinary tribunal disbarred the former head of the Criminal Bar Association, Jo Sidhu KC, on Wednesday after concluding that he was guilty of sexual misconduct toward a young aspiring lawyer who he invited to his hotel room during a mini-pupillage.
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March 18, 2025
Oligarch's Ex-Wife Can't Split Payne Hicks Negligence Trial
The ex-wife of a Russian oligarch lost on Tuesday her bid to have a split trial of her claim that Payne Hicks Beach LLP negligently failed to advise her to seize her ex-husband's $200 million superyacht in a divorce battle.
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March 18, 2025
Barrister Sued For Mishandling Whistleblower's Tribunal Case
A barrister at Cloisters Chambers has been sued by a junior doctor he represented in a whistleblowing claim against an NHS trust, after the whistleblower accused him of initiating settlement talks with his employer without his knowledge.
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March 18, 2025
Staff Showing 'Dunkirk Spirit' At Struggling County Courts
The chair of a parliamentary committee noted on Tuesday that workers are showing a "Dunkirk spirit" to deal with difficult circumstances at toiling county courts as the head of England and Wales' civil judiciary defended the service they were providing.
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March 18, 2025
White & Case To Keep 87% Of Trainees On In March
White & Case LLP said Tuesday that it is retaining almost 90% of the trainees in its London office who qualify in March across its disputes, transactions and corporate teams.
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March 18, 2025
Lewis Silkin Hit With £8.7M Claim Over Dealership Sale Advice
A property developer has accused Lewis Silkin LLP of causing him to lose millions of pounds because the firm advised him to sell a former car dealership quickly to avoid being forced to sell the property to the local council.
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March 18, 2025
Litigation Capital Management Posts Loss Amid Volatility
Litigation Capital Management Ltd. said Tuesday that it had lost money despite recording 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million) in revenue in the first half of its financial year, reflecting what it described as "the inherent volatility of litigation finance."
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March 17, 2025
Companies House Opens Up For Corporate Service Providers
Britain's executive government agency for maintaining the register of companies said Tuesday that it would now allow third-party accountants, legal professionals and company formation agents to register as authorized corporate service providers on its website.