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June 17, 2026
A barrister has been disbarred after he failed to disclose to the Bar Standards Board that he had been convicted of driving while disqualified and driving over the legal alcohol limit, the regulator said Wednesday.
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June 16, 2026
Half of women in law say their working pattern is unsustainable, and two-thirds have considered quitting amid concerns over their health and wellbeing, according to survey results published on Wednesday by an organization that champions women in the profession.
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June 16, 2026
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has expanded its structured-finance team on both sides of the Atlantic by hiring four attorneys from Morrison & Foerster LLP, Mayer Brown LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte as partners, Orrick announced Tuesday.
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June 16, 2026
Hill Dickinson LLP said Tuesday that it has promoted four lawyers from offices in the U.K. and Singapore to its partnership, taking the total number at the firm to 180.
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June 16, 2026
Wolters Kluwer priced a new seven-year, €500 million (about $580 million) senior unsecured Eurobond on Monday, marking the fifth consecutive year the professional information software and services giant has relied on this debt instrument.
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June 16, 2026
A senior barrister accused of cheating the public purse out of almost £2 million ($2.7 million) argued Tuesday that his former gardener perfectly understood that an agreement to be compensated for his services via a trust was not binding.
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June 16, 2026
Swedish startup Lightbringer announced on Tuesday the raising of a $10 million Series A funding round to expand into the U.S. while further developing its artificial intelligence patent platform.
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June 16, 2026
Travers Smith LLP named three lawyers on Tuesday who have made the grade to become partners at the firm, the smallest promotions round in more than a decade.
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June 16, 2026
Fieldfisher urged an appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it unfairly dismissed an associate after an internal investigation into sexual assault allegations, arguing that a judge impermissibly found that the woman who accused the lawyer had lied.
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June 16, 2026
A solicitor has been fined after a tribunal ruled that he hired a private investigator to obtain the contact details of a litigant-in-person while he was representing her former partner in family court proceedings.
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June 15, 2026
The Bar Standards Board and Bar Council said Monday that they have agreed on a defined process for handling reports of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment to improve support for barristers and other people working within the profession.
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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.