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April 23, 2024
Post Office GC Felt 'Scapegoated' Over Horizon Review
The Post Office's former general counsel felt "scapegoated" over the conclusions of an independent report she commissioned into the IT system used to prosecute hundreds of innocent people, she told the inquiry into the scandal Tuesday.
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April 23, 2024
Gender Wage Gap Begins At Start Of Career, Bar Council Says
Junior woman barristers in their first three years of practice earned an average of 13% less than their male colleagues in 2022, showing a slight improvement from the 17% disparity the year before, a Bar Council report published Tuesday found.
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April 23, 2024
Litigation Funders Face Risk Of Regulation In Judicial Reform
England's judicial adviser announced Tuesday that it has launched a review into third-party civil litigation funding that will consider whether to regulate the sector, cap fees and investigate conflicts of interest between funders and litigants.
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April 23, 2024
Simmons & Simmons Unveils Associates Leadership Council
Simmons & Simmons LLP said Tuesday that it has launched an advisory council for associates in the U.K. to give future leaders of the legal business early management experience.
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April 23, 2024
Ex-Law Firm Partner Fights SRA's Dishonesty Accusation
A former partner at a conveyancing firm urged a London tribunal on Tuesday to dismiss the Solicitors Regulation Authority's claim that he had acted dishonestly during a real estate transaction, arguing that the regulator abused the tribunal process.
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April 23, 2024
Freshfields Promotes 40 Lawyers To Counsel
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP said Tuesday that it has promoted 40 lawyers to counsel, with a quarter of the promotions drawn from the firm's London office.
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April 30, 2024
Restructuring Pro Rejoins Dentons From Faegre Drinker
Dentons has hired a partner back from Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP to head its restructuring and insolvency practice in the U.K., Ireland and the Middle East — a move the returning partner called "a really compelling proposition."
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April 23, 2024
Ashurst's Partner Promotions Hit All-Time High In 2024
Ashurst LLP said on Tuesday that it has elected 30 lawyers to its partnership, the third year in a row that the firm has added a record number of newly promoted partners to its global business in a single year.
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April 22, 2024
Obelisk Sees Rise In GC Roles As Businesses Seek Flexibility
Obelisk Support said Monday that it had launched a new service that provides clients with access to a general counsel as needed, without the expense or obligation of a permanent hire as it leans into opportunities as more and more lawyers look to freelance.
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April 22, 2024
Ex-Axiom Ince Chief Faces Bankruptcy Petition
The former head of collapsed Axiom Ince Ltd. is facing a bankruptcy petition after being accused of misappropriating almost £65 million ($80.3 million) to fund the acquisition of Ince Group PLC and property purchases.
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April 29, 2024
New Norton Rose UK Antitrust Chief Eyes Fresh Opportunities
Norton Rose Fulbright has promoted one of its partners to become its new head of antitrust and competition in London, with the new chief saying Monday she saw "new opportunities" for the group to build after her predecessor left for Cooley LLP.
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April 22, 2024
Ex-Law Firm Director Allowed Client Account Misuse
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined a former law firm director after he allowed his firm's client account to be used as a banking facility and failed to carry out client due diligence on a property transaction.
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April 22, 2024
Eversheds, Addleshaw Break New Partner Promotion Records
Eversheds Sutherland International said on Monday that it has promoted 40 lawyers to its partnership, the highest number on the firm's record for a single year.
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April 22, 2024
Frenkel Topping Acquires North West Law For £2.75M
Specialist advisory firm Frenkel Topping said Monday that it has acquired North West Law Services Ltd. for £2.75 million ($3.3 million) to expand its activities within the personal injury and clinical negligence advisory market.
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April 29, 2024
Clifford Chance Adds Private Capital Pro From Paul Hastings
Clifford Chance LLP has recruited an investments expert to join its London office as a partner, as the firm looks to add "firepower" to its global financial markets team.
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April 22, 2024
Law Firm Forced Staffer To Quit Amid Quarrel With Partner
A law firm unfairly pushed a member of staff to quit by stripping her of a vital part of her role soon after she complained about the hostile conduct of one of the partners, a tribunal has ruled.
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April 19, 2024
Reed Smith Can't Escape £21M Suit Says Shipping Co.
A United Arab Emirates shipping company suing Reed Smith LLP for £21 million ($26.1 million) has accused the law firm of "surreptitiously" telling Barclays Bank that the shipping company was sanctioned by the U.S. resulting in its funds being frozen.
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April 19, 2024
SRA Calls For Law Firms To Step Up Checks On Third Parties
Half of law firms have changed working practices to avoid getting instructed in meritless lawsuits that gag negative publicity, but they still need more checks and balances in place when they work with third parties on reputation management claims, the Solicitors Regulation Authority said Friday.
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April 19, 2024
Post Office Lawyer Denies Aggressive Litigation Tactics
A top Post Office lawyer denied that his team had a strategy of fighting off at all costs a civil action brought by wrongly prosecuted sub-postmasters in order to stave off criminal appeals, as he testified Friday at the public inquiry into the scandal.
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April 19, 2024
Shrinking Partner Rounds Mirror Shifting Associate Priorities
The economic downturn's impact on law firm profits has hit partner promotions in 2024. But it's not all doom and gloom, as the rise in salaries has lessened the desire among associates to own firm equity.
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April 19, 2024
SRA Fines Two More Law Firms Over AML Failures
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has fined two more law firms for breaching anti-money laundering laws as it continues its clampdown on the profession.
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April 19, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen U.K. holiday resort chain Butlins target Aviva and a huddle of insurers, Meta and WhatsApp tackle a patents claim by telecommunications company Semitel, an ongoing construction dispute between Essex County Council and Balfour Beatty, and Formycon AG hit a pharmaceutical company for infringing medical products. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 19, 2024
5 Questions For Taylor Wessing's Roland Mallinson
Roland Mallinson had dreamed as a child of becoming an architect, but a teacher set him on a different course, steering him toward the path of civil engineering before he eventually became an intellectual property lawyer.
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April 18, 2024
Ex-BigLaw Atty Can Stay Free During OneCoin Fraud Appeal
A Manhattan federal judge Thursday granted a former Locke Lord LLP partner's motion for bail pending appeal of his 10-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of laundering around $400 million in proceeds from the global OneCoin cryptocurrency scam, saying he does not pose a flight risk given his medical conditions.
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April 18, 2024
Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord Eye Merger To Buff Focus Areas
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP are in merger talks to create a combined firm with more than 1,600 attorneys and nearly $1.6 billion in revenue, in what appears to be an effort to lock in both firms' leadership in six industry sectors.