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  • April 03, 2025

    4 Questions For Mishcon De Reya IP Chief David Rose

    By any measure, Mishcon de Reya LLP's soft intellectual property team had a good 2024. The team advised on three of the year's largest trademark cases, in a particularly busy year at the U.K. courts.

  • April 03, 2025

    Diageo GC Resigns For Top Legal Role At Thermo Fisher

    The general counsel at Diageo PLC will depart the British spirits maker for a similar position at biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., he announced in a LinkedIn post.

  • April 03, 2025

    Trump Must Pay £626K Legal Costs In Steele Dossier Case

    President Donald Trump was ordered by a London judge Thursday to pay about £626,000 ($820,000) to cover the legal costs for the defense of the authors of the infamous "Steele dossier" against his data protection claim, which was thrown out of court last year.

  • April 03, 2025

    Gowling, Police Team Up To Recoup Fraud Victims' Assets

    City of London Police said Thursday that it has teamed up with international law firm Gowling WLG to support victims of fraud through a civil asset recovery program.

  • April 03, 2025

    Co-op Legal's Revenues Top £80M In Financial Results

    The Co-operative Group said Thursday that revenue at its legal services business had exceeded £80 million ($105 million) in 2024 as profits surged, fueled by growth in its probate and estate-planning practices.

  • April 03, 2025

    New Corker Binning Partner Hails Firm's 'Good Bones'

    Boutique criminal practice Corker Binning has recruited a criminal litigation specialist as a partner from Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP as the firm continues to bolster its serious and general crime practice.

  • April 03, 2025

    Pinsent Masons Promotes 24 Partners In Latest Global Round

    Pinsent Masons said Thursday that it has promoted 24 lawyers to its partnership, a slight rise from 2024's numbers, with women accounting for more than half of those who made the grade.

  • April 03, 2025

    Charles Russell Boosts Partnership With 11 Promotions

    Charles Russell Speechlys LLP said Thursday that it is promoting 11 lawyers from its U.K. offices to its partnership, boosting partner numbers in practice areas including private client, employment and dispute resolution.

  • April 03, 2025

    All SQE Exams 'Equally Challenging,' SRA Test Body Says

    The assessment provider for the Solicitors Regulation Authority sought on Wednesday to reassure future candidates taking the lawyers' qualifying exam that all test papers are "equally challenging," despite noticeable differences in pass rates between exams.

  • April 02, 2025

    Ex-Metro Bank CFO Followed Legal Advice Over £900M Error

    Metro Bank PLC's former chief financial officer, David Arden, said at a London tribunal Wednesday that he had followed legal advice when preparing to publish a market announcement at the center of a £900 million ($1.1 billion) reporting scandal, arguing he and the bank's former chief executive officer should not face "career-ending allegations" for doing so.

  • April 02, 2025

    Law Firms Urged To Turn Up Client Wealth Scrutiny

    Solicitors in England and Wales must demand credible explanations for clients' wealth, or risk the public seeing firms as enablers of "kleptocracy, state capture and grand corruption," a charity task force warned Wednesday.

  • April 02, 2025

    Fladgate Promotes Corporate Duo To Partner

    Fladgate LLP said Wednesday that it has elevated two senior associates to its partnership, adding to the firm's intake of partners after it recently recruited nine from Memery Crystal as part of a larger team hire.

  • April 02, 2025

    Shoosmiths Launches £1M Staff Bonus To Boost AI Use

    Shoosmiths LLP said Wednesday that it has allocated £1 million ($1.3 million) to reward employees who use artificial intelligence more often as law firms strive to increase the productivity of their workforce.

  • April 02, 2025

    Corporate Pro Appointed To Lead Squire Patton In Manchester

    Squire Patton Boggs LLP has appointed a senior corporate dealmaker to lead its office in Manchester as its longtime incumbent exits from the post he has held for over a decade.

  • April 09, 2025

    Travers Smith Hires Restructuring Pro From Fried Frank

    Travers Smith LLP has recruited a specialist from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP to lead its restructuring and insolvency services.

  • April 02, 2025

    Developer Sues Law Firm For £5M Over Failed London Project

    A conveyancing law firm has been hit with a £5.1 million ($6.6 million) negligence claim from a property developer that alleges the solicitors scuppered the company's plan to redevelop its four-story building in southwest London.

  • April 09, 2025

    DLA Piper Hires Insurance Heavyweight From Keystone

    DLA Piper has hired a corporate insurance veteran as a partner in London, as the firm continues to strengthen its European team.

  • April 01, 2025

    DWF Avoids Doc Request In Health Data Breach Claim

    DWF Law LLP dodged an order in court Tuesday to hand over documents to three people who allege that the law firm unlawfully shared their health data, after a London judge concluded that the request was merely a fishing expedition.

  • April 01, 2025

    Simmons' Senior Partner Sees Opportunities Left By BigLaw

    Julian Taylor, senior partner at Simmons & Simmons, whose term has been extended to July 2027, discusses the benefits of working part-time, AI transformation and how leading City firms such as his can embrace opportunities opened up by BigLaw.

  • April 08, 2025

    Jones Day Hires Energy Pro From Addleshaw Goddard

    Jones Day has recruited an energy specialist from Addleshaw Goddard LLP to add to its strengths representing major clients in development projects and transactions across the globe.

  • April 01, 2025

    Kingsley Napley, Other Firms Announce Senior Promotions

    Kingsley Napley LLP said Tuesday it has promoted four lawyers to its partnership, as Lawrence Stephens Ltd. and Simkins LLP also said they had boosted their senior ranks.

  • April 01, 2025

    Ex-SFO Bribery Chief Rappo Exits Reed Smith After 21 Months

    A former joint head of the Serious Fraud Office's bribery and corruption unit has left Reed Smith LLP after less than two years working as a partner for its global regulatory investigation and enforcement practice.

  • April 01, 2025

    Fieldfisher Promotes 13 Partners Amid European Expansion

    Fieldfisher LLP said Tuesday that it has promoted more than a dozen lawyers in Europe to its partnership, an increase of almost a third on the previous year as it expands its business on the Continent.

  • April 01, 2025

    Candey Denies Mishandling Client's Funds In Libel Dispute

    Disputes firm Candey Ltd. has denied a claim by a former client that it mishandled her money following a settlement in a trademark dispute, while pressing home its allegation that her one-star Google review of its performance was defamatory.

  • April 01, 2025

    Birketts Promotes 5 Lawyers To Partnership

    Birketts LLP said Tuesday that almost all the lawyers it moved up to the partnership in its latest promotions round are women, although it halved its overall intake of new partners.

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