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July 01, 2026
A senior barrister at Garden Court Chambers is set to face contempt of court proceedings over allegations that he breached rulings when he delivered a closing address to a jury while representing a Palestine Action activist in criminal proceedings.
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July 01, 2026
Simmons & Simmons said Wednesday that it has set records as profits climbed 14% and revenue rose to almost £700 million ($927 million), driven by a focus on sectors including asset management, use of new technology and growth in partner numbers.
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June 30, 2026
Legora's chief financial officer also serves as a director of a newly listed SPAC and could have oversight of future investments there as the legal artificial intelligence company grows through acquisitions.
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June 30, 2026
A recent ruling that communications between claimant lawyers and prospective litigation funders are not automatically protected by litigation privilege could widen disclosure and make it harder for claimant firms to secure funding, experts say.
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June 30, 2026
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego urged an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a ruling refusing him a quick win in his $415 million fraud claim, arguing that using a private intelligence agent to gain information from his opponent's lawyer did not amount to an abuse of process.
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June 30, 2026
Cripps has denied costing Margate Dreamland's operator £3.4 million ($4.5 million) for misadvising the venue on using a termination clause to exit a catering contract, arguing that the operator had not retained the firm during its sale to Live Nation.
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June 30, 2026
An employment tribunal has tossed a lawyer's second bid to sue the most senior judge in Scotland, finding that he already had his chance to sue over his suspension as a part-time sheriff.
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June 30, 2026
A King's Counsel successfully overturned his disbarment over falsely claiming he studied at the University of Oxford in an application for tenancy, as a London court found Tuesday that the penalty was disproportionate given the historical, isolated nature of the lie.
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June 30, 2026
The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Tuesday that it has barred the former chief executive of Sheffield-based PM Law Ltd. from working at another SRA-regulated law firm after finding he had caused or allowed withdrawals from client accounts that resulted in a shortfall.
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June 30, 2026
The Law Society said Tuesday that it is starting work to develop guidance for solicitors navigating ethical dilemmas in private practice after the Post Office Horizon scandal highlighted challenges facing the wider legal profession.
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July 07, 2026
Cleary said on Tuesday that it has hired a corporate partner at the Paris office of Kirkland in a move to boost the firm's capability in private equity transactions.
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June 30, 2026
A senior barrister accused of dodging almost £2 million ($2.6 million) in tax was driven by a "sense of intellectual superiority" in a desire to "get one over" HM Revenue and Customs, a prosecutor told the trial Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
Addleshaw Goddard LLP said Tuesday that its profits have soared and revenue has climbed to a new record of more than £640 million ($846 million) in its ninth consecutive year of growth.
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June 30, 2026
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader launches on Wednesday, betting that regulatory expertise now matters as much as Wall Street finance work to global financial institutions, as chief executive Miguel Zaldivar said that the merger has created a firm that belongs among the global legal elite.
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June 29, 2026
Collyer Bristow denies it cost a storage business £73.4 million ($97.3 million) by failing to explain that settling a swaps dispute with Barclays would block future claims against Clyde & Co. and others, telling a London court that its advice was sound.
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June 29, 2026
Manolete Partners PLC has set medium-term growth targets for the next three to five years after delays to several large case completions contributed to a dip in annual revenue.
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June 29, 2026
A tribunal has ruled that the University of Edinburgh does not have to pay any compensation to a solicitor it unfairly sacked after she deliberately altered emails and behaved unprofessionally toward her managers.
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June 29, 2026
HF said Monday it has opened a new office in Derry as it looks to expand its business in Northern Ireland beyond Belfast.
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June 29, 2026
Ashurst LLP and Perkins Coie LLP said Monday that their merger has gone live, creating a transatlantic law firm with combined revenue of around $2.8 billion.
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June 29, 2026
Shoosmiths said Monday that selling its serious injury business had slowed turnover growth, but the firm still posted a record £80 million ($106 million) profit in its latest financial results, as it continues to focus on core practices and technology.
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June 26, 2026
Cooley LLP this week launched Cooley GO Lab, an artificial intelligence-powered workspace for startups, with support from Legora and the startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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June 26, 2026
Legora's move to a consumption-based pricing model could spur other legal tech companies to follow suit and charge for usage, but experts say that any benefit for law firms won't be automatic or immediate.
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July 03, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP said Friday that it has boosted its team in London with the hire of a fund finance leader at A&O Shearman.
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June 26, 2026
Over the past week, Weil bolstered its corporate finance offering with a leveraged finance partner from Sidley and a senior fund finance co-head from A&O Shearman, Ward Hadaway continued its expansion into the education sector with two hires in Newcastle, and Travers Smith lost a longtime data and IP partner to Latham. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires across the U.K.
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June 26, 2026
Social media litigation pioneer Matthew Bergman believes the legal foundations for claims against technology companies for designing harmful products already exist in the U.K. — and that the only thing missing is lawyers willing to test them.