The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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The gender pay gap at the U.K.'s highest-earning law firms is 25% on average — but disparities within a single firm can vary from zero to more than 100%.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans on Monday to step down after losing the support of the Labour Party for him to stay on, clearing the way for former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to launch his bid for the top job.
In-house lawyers might send an email or get on the phone when they want to talk to outside counsel. But the head of artificial intelligence startup Legora tells Law360 he sees a future where a client's first port of call might be an artificial intelligence tool offered by a law firm.
A judge's challenge on Wednesday to the lawfulness of a secretive process used to appoint judges will shine a light on part of the U.K. legal system that is often criticized but largely opaque.
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September 18, 2026
Not many lawyers can boast a past career as a professional footballer — and even fewer can say that they tested the limits of FIFA's dispute resolution framework in a novel case of employment law in Ghana.
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September 18, 2026
The Law Society has said its members will decide in October whether to scrap a rule that prevents its president from earning more than a district judge in England and Wales, whose salary currently tops out at just over £144,000 ($192,500).
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September 18, 2026
A solicitor can recover all the legal costs of defending herself from contempt proceedings brought by a puppy farm after an appeals court held Friday that her fee agreement with her defense lawyers meant she could claim more than the legal aid rate.
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September 18, 2026
The past week in London has seen Victoria's Secret and Thomas Pink file competing IP claims, more than 1,000 retail consumers launch a group action against Binance, Baker Hughes targeted in a commercial claim by its former Russian subsidiary and university students hit four British institutions with breach of contract claims over pandemic-era closures.
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September 18, 2026
Walker Morris LLP said Friday that it has hired DLA Piper's former U.K. equity capital markets co-head to strengthen its capabilities in complex transactions.
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September 17, 2026
Litigation specialist Canford Law Ltd. has acquired property legal services provider PDC Group to form Canford Group, marking its first bolt-on acquisition after London-based private equity firm Queen's Park Equity completed a management buyout of the business.
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September 17, 2026
Mayer Brown LLP has hired two specialists from Morrison Foerster LLP to lead its cross-border private placements practice within the firm's global capital markets group in London.
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September 17, 2026
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP said Thursday it has hired an intellectual property litigator from Freshfields LLP, bolstering its ranks with expertise in both London's courts and the Unified Patent Court.
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September 17, 2026
Pinsent Masons LLP has been appointed to support the construction of Universal's first theme park in England, which is expected to generate almost £50 billion ($66.7 billion) for the U.K. economy by 2055.
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September 17, 2026
DWF LLP has hired five lawyers — including the former president of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers — from rival DAC Beachcroft LLP to bolster its major injury and casualty practice in Northern England.
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September 17, 2026
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP said Thursday that it has hired the co-head of Weil Gotshal's London office as well as another mergers and acquisitions partner, amid a series of senior departures from Weil on both sides of the Atlantic.
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September 17, 2026
A deputy High Court judge warned parties in employment disputes Thursday that they are responsible for ensuring AI-generated documents are accurate and concise after a worker submitted a 300-page argument written using ChatGPT.
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September 17, 2026
The Law Society has called for the Solicitors Regulation Authority to delay implementing planned changes to rules on who can hold compliance officer positions in law firms, warning they could disproportionately affect small law firms and lack sufficient evidence they will protect the public.
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September 17, 2026
An English judge has ruled that a law firm does not need to pay compensation for giving faulty advice to a property investment company that lost its £299,800 ($400,000) deposit on a failed development scheme.
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September 17, 2026
The Ministry of Justice has disputed claims that its new London Tribunals Centre went £164 million ($219.8 million) over budget — but it refused to disclose the project's original budget.
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September 17, 2026
An executive director at the finance watchdog urged law firms on Thursday to work with law enforcement agencies to tackle economic crime, saying they played a crucial role in detecting and investigating the spread of dirty money.
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September 17, 2026
The Law Society urged the solicitors' watchdog on Thursday to avoid unnecessary regulatory burdens as it considers rules on third-party litigation funding.
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September 16, 2026
Baker McKenzie has appointed one of the partners on its dispute resolution team to serve as the firm's global head of international arbitration, saying she brings more than two decades of experience representing clients in complex litigation.
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September 16, 2026
Legal technology company Purple Build Studio Ltd. has hired an ex-partner and managing director of Simmons & Simmons LLP's former innovation business to help the company's law firm clients create their own artificial intelligence-based legal services and tools.
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September 16, 2026
Thomas Goodhead, the former chief executive of Pogust Goodhead, has joined Bailey Glasser International, as the two firms continue to battle over who can represent the claimants in the £36 billion ($48.4 billion) litigation against BHP over Brazil's Mariana dam collapse.
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September 16, 2026
A law firm won an appeal Wednesday to have part of the £109,000 ($147,000) it owes a former paralegal for discrimination reconsidered, after a judge ruled that a lower tribunal failed to explain an award for aggravated damages.
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September 16, 2026
Covington & Burling LLP has boosted its London disputes practice with a former Freshfields LLP litigator, who said Wednesday that her new firm's capability in U.S. product liability cases tempted her to make the switch.
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September 16, 2026
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has raised pay for newly qualified solicitors in its London office to £172,500 ($232,000) as law firms compete fiercely for promising early-career lawyers.
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September 15, 2026
Law firms are increasingly considering whether to take outside investment, and Broadfield sees an opportunity to achieve similar growth without losing equity by outsourcing technology, recruitment and other forms of support, its U.K. chief said as it launches its first European office.
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September 15, 2026
Broadfield launched an office in Paris on Wednesday, its first in continental Europe, as the international law firm backed by an affiliate of Alvarez & Marsal Inc. continues to expand in critical markets.