Pulse UK

  • May 01, 2025

    DLA Piper Names New Office Chief For Manchester, Liverpool

    DLA Piper has appointed a corporate crime and investigations partner to oversee its offices in northwest England after his predecessor helped them overcome the challenges they faced during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.

  • May 01, 2025

    Keystone Law Nears Revenues Of £100M

    Keystone Law Group PLC said Thursday that investing in senior lawyers has reaped dividends for the firm as it recorded revenues of almost £100 million ($133 million) and saw profits increase by double digits in its latest financial results.

  • May 01, 2025

    BNY Can't Escape A&O Shearman's £93M Negligence Claim

    Bank of New York Mellon lost its fight Thursday to escape a claim from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling alleging that the lender caused Nationwide Building Society to face a £93 million ($109 million) tax bill by bungling the issuance of notes.

  • May 01, 2025

    Richard Susskind On What Attys Should Do In The Age Of AI

    Author Richard Susskind, who has a new book out about artificial intelligence, discusses how legal institutions are not ready for AI and what it will take for lawyers to recognize their potential vulnerability to being replaced by it.

  • May 01, 2025

    Injury Lawyers 4U Defeats Law Firms' Case Over Ad Prices

    Injury Lawyers 4U has beaten a case brought by three law firms in a fight over prices for TV advertising, with a court ruling that the company's directors were legitimately appointed before removing preferential ad rates.

  • May 01, 2025

    Ex-Solicitor Gets Prison For Pocketing £160K In Client Money

    A former solicitor who duped more than 300 clients over three years into paying more than £160,000 ($213,000) into her personal bank account rather than to her firm has been jailed for two-and-a-half years, police have said.

  • May 01, 2025

    Osborne Clarke Promotes 10 To Partner, Addleshaw Adds 15

    Osborne Clarke said Thursday that it has elevated 10 lawyers based in England to its partnership, a day after Addleshaw Goddard confirmed that it has boosted its numbers with a smaller intake of 15 new partners.

  • April 30, 2025

    DEI Champion Appointed Next City Law Society Chief Exec

    The former head of learning at Linklaters LLP will take over as chief executive of the trade body for City of London law firms, the appointment of a long-time diversity and inclusion champion as big U.S. firms face pressure over DEI.

  • April 30, 2025

    Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Practice With Milbank Hire

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.

  • April 30, 2025

    Cyberattack Forces Co-op Legal Services To Restrict Access

    The Co-operative Group said Wednesday that measures it took to restrict access to key internal systems caused delays within its legal services arm, after the company took action to minimize the threat from an attempted cyberattack.

  • April 30, 2025

    Clyde & Co. Picks Up Ex-Kennedys AI Partner

    A former partner of artificial intelligence strategy and delivery at Kennedys Law LLP shared on his LinkedIn Wednesday that he would be joining Clyde & Co. LLP as a partner of global innovation.

  • April 30, 2025

    Fried Frank Taps Sidley's UK Tax Head

    The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.

  • May 07, 2025

    White & Case Hires Back PE Pro From Kirkland In London

    White & Case LLP announced Wednesday the return of a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost its cross-border private equity offering to deal with the increase in transactions it expects to continue through the year.

  • April 30, 2025

    WFW, Stewarts Add 5 Partners Each In 2025 Promotions

    Watson Farley & Williams LLP and Stewarts Law LLP both said Wednesday that they have promoted five lawyers to their partnerships worldwide for 2025.

  • April 30, 2025

    Clyde & Co. Adds Cross-Border Insurance Pro From Brazil

    Clyde & Co. LLP has hired a corporate insurance expert as a partner in London, as the firm looks to strengthen its access to the "fast-evolving" and complex Latin American market.

  • April 30, 2025

    Axiom Ince Execs Deny Fraud Charges Over Firm's Collapse

    Five former senior figures at Axiom Ince denied allegations on Wednesday that they had defrauded clients and covered up their wrongdoing during a regulatory probe into the law firm, which collapsed with a hole of more than £60 million ($80.1 million) in its client accounts.

  • April 30, 2025

    Bird & Bird Appoints 17 To Partner In Latest Promotions

    Bird & Bird LLP said Wednesday that 17 lawyers have made the grade as partners in a wider annual round of promotions across the legal business globally.

  • May 06, 2025

    Linklaters Hires Arbitration Pro From A&O Shearman

    Linklaters LLP has snapped up an international arbitration expert from A&O Shearman to serve as its new head of public international law in London, the latest partner to exit the law firm in the city since its merger.

  • April 29, 2025

    Barrister's Suspension For Lie About Client Docs Overturned

    A barrister who lied to his client about misplaced case papers has successfully appealed against his six-month suspension from the profession as a London court ruled on Tuesday that a £25,000 ($33,500) fine was a more appropriate penalty.

  • April 29, 2025

    Trust In Legal AI Hinges On Human Oversight, Survey Says

    Many consumers say they think that artificial intelligence could make it more affordable to get legal services amid concerns about the cost of what many view as an "elitist" legal system, though few are ready to let technology take over completely, a survey from Robin AI reported on Tuesday.

  • April 29, 2025

    Solicitor Banned For Misleading Clients Over Failed PI Claims

    A disciplinary panel has struck off a solicitor after he confessed that he told clients that their personal injury claims had succeeded when they had in fact failed.

  • April 29, 2025

    Solicitor Denies Deleting Emails To Cover Up Client Complaint

    A solicitor told a disciplinary tribunal Tuesday that she did not attempt to mislead her firm by deleting emails about a client complaint, saying she could not remember deleting them and was under severe work stress at the time.

  • April 29, 2025

    Ex-Russells Partner Denies Role In Alleged Share Sale Plot

    Russells Solicitors and a former partner have denied being part of an alleged plot to hide plans for a $40 million takeover of a celebrity intellectual property licensing company to get a former director to sell his shares cheaply.

  • April 29, 2025

    Vardy Must Foot Rooney Costs In Lawyer Fee Challenge

    Rebekah Vardy was ordered on Tuesday to pay the full legal costs of her unsuccessful attempt to challenge a finding that Coleen Rooney's lawyers had not committed misconduct by understating their costs in the libel battle between the footballers' wives.

  • April 29, 2025

    Clifford Chance Boosts Partnership With 31 New Partners

    Clifford Chance said Tuesday that it has promoted more than 30 lawyers to its partnership, with its office in London accounting for the largest number of new partners in the latest promotions round.

Expert Analysis

  • Lessons In Civility From The Alex Oh Sanctions Controversy

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    Alex Oh’s abrupt departure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and admonishment by a D.C. federal judge over conduct in an Exxon human rights case demonstrate three major costs of incivility to lawyers, and highlight the importance of teaching civility in law school, says David Grenardo at St. Mary's University.

  • Rebuttal

    US Legal System Can Benefit From Nonlawyer Ownership

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    Contrary to claims made in a recent Law360 guest article, nonlawyer ownership has incrementally improved the England and Wales legal system — with more innovation and more opportunities for lawyers — and there is no reason why those outcomes cannot also be achieved in the U.S., say Crispin Passmore at Passmore Consulting and Zachariah DeMeola at the University of Denver.

  • Increasing Investment Scams Can Implicate Lawyers, Too

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    With the pandemic serving as a catalyst for increased financial fraud, it's important to recognize that these scams are not only devastating for victims, they also pose a significant threat to law firms and individual solicitors who fail to do their due diligence, say James Darbyshire at the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Heather Clark at Burness Paull.

  • UK Lawyers Can Adapt Due Diligence To Screen New Clients

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    As COVID-19-related fraud gains pace, U.K.-based practitioners should help combat money laundering by using alternative methods to verify that new clients are who they say they are, says Christopher Convey, a barrister at 33 Chancery Lane and chair of the Bar Council's Money Laundering Working Group.

  • Key Risks And Developments For UK Law Firm Culture In 2020

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    In 2020, law firms throughout the U.K. will be increasingly reshaped by rapid changes in societal expectations and advances in technology, say Helen Rowlands and Niya Phiri of Clyde & Co.

  • #MeToo Pressure On UK Businesses Is Set To Rise

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    Recent declarations by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority indicate that sexual harassment in the U.K.'s financial services industry may lead to consequences under the newly expanded Senior Managers and Certification Regime, and other sectors are facing growing scrutiny as well, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Corporate Wrongdoing Risks Go Beyond Exec Departures

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    Recent controversy over misconduct allegations that led to the ousting of a KPMG executive reminds firms that the challenges caused by suspecting or uncovering internal wrongdoing are not so easily solved by the implicated executive's exit, says Sarah Chilton of CM Murray.

  • 2 Perspectives On Navigating The Litigation Funding Process

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    Paul Martenstyn of Vannin Capital and Daniel Spendlove of Signature Litigation share their top tips on how to get a case funded, drawing from their respective experience as a funder and a lawyer.

  • Answers To Key Legal Finance Ethics Questions

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    While there is discussion in some quarters about new regulations on commercial legal finance, the hands-off approach taken by the majority of courts and legislatures is an implicit recognition that it is already sufficiently regulated, says Danielle Cutrona of Burford Capital.

  • New Scrutiny For NDAs In Sexual Harassment Matters

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    Recent government scrutiny of nondisclosure agreements related to allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against Steve Wynn and Harvey Weinstein raises the question of whether some uses of NDAs could amount to obstruction of justice or a violation of lawyers' ethical obligations, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Opinion

    SRA Should Not Condemn Lawful Tax Avoidance

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    In suggesting that solicitors who facilitate tax avoidance breach its code of conduct, the Solicitors Regulation Authority fails to distinguish between legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion, says attorney Martin Kenney.

  • Proposed Arbitration Law May Be A Misstep For India

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    A proposed Indian law, which could have the effect of excluding non-Indians from acting as arbitrators, is threatening to undermine the country's ambition to become an important seat of international arbitration, says Sarosh Zaiwalla of Zaiwalla & Co.

  • British Overseas Territories Can Benefit From Transparency

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    British overseas territories have pushed back against a recent U.K. measure requiring them to create publicly accessible registers of companies' beneficial owners. However, considering global trends toward transparency, perhaps the territories should embrace the new rules as a force of good, says Simon Airey of Paul Hastings LLP.

  • Legal Technology Is Likely To Flourish In The UK

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    The U.K. may soon surpass the U.S. in legal technology, thanks to regulatory reform, law firm investment and an entrepreneurial environment, says Bridget Deiters of InCloudCounsel.

  • Law & Reorder: The Emergence Of The UK Legaltech Sector

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    Recent market dynamics are driving the U.K. legal industry to adopt nascent technologies in new service offerings as well as pre-existing solutions. The rise of legaltech should also lead to an increase in acquisitions by law firms striving to maintain relevance, says Jo Charles of Livingstone Partners LLP.

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