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March 26, 2025
Cooley Revenue Up 6% Despite Dip In London
Cooley LLP's revenue climbed nearly 6% between 2023 and 2024 to reach $2.2 billion even though its turnover in London slumped below $100 million, the firm's latest financial results show.
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March 26, 2025
10 Years On, CPO Regime's Success Hinges On Payouts
It's 10 years since the U.K. government approved legislation for opt-out collective actions, but lawyers believe it is still too early to tell whether the regime is working as it should be judged by what money ends up in the hands of consumers.
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March 26, 2025
Jury's Still Out: Law360 Looks At Decade Of UK Class Actions
Ten years after the Consumer Rights Act received formal approval in March 2015, lawyers are still grappling with the opt-out class action regime it introduced in the U.K. for the first time for competition claims.
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March 26, 2025
Ex-Law Firm Boss Denies Conspiring To Steal Probate Clients
The former boss of a law firm has denied conspiring to steal clients and business from a probate firm to advance her own interests, telling a London court that there is no evidence of such a plot.
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March 26, 2025
Linklaters Promotes 34 To Partners
Linklaters LLP said Wednesday that it has elevated 34 lawyers to its partnership, a sizable jump from the number it promoted a year earlier.
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March 26, 2025
Paralegal To Pay £20K Over 'Hopeless' Dismissal Claim
A paralegal must pay approximately £20,000 ($25,800) in costs after she brought a "hopeless" wrongful dismissal claim against her law firm and "behaved unreasonably" in turning down a settlement offer, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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March 26, 2025
Judge's Relative Can't Quash 'Merciful' Sentence On Appeal
A London appeals court on Wednesday upheld a "merciful" decision to suspend a man's jail sentence following his baseless accusations that his brother-in-law, a judge, was engaged in fraud and money laundering.
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March 26, 2025
Civil Service Cuts Could Have 'Significant' Impact On MoJ
The U.K. government said Wednesday it will cut administration costs in the civil service by 15% by the end of the decade, in a move that a trade union warned could have "significant ramifications" for the Ministry of Justice.
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March 26, 2025
Slaughter And May Promotes 6 Lawyers To Partnership
Slaughter and May said Wednesday that it has appointed six new partners in a London-based cohort spread across a number of practice areas.
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March 25, 2025
Delayed Tribunal Center Project To Cost Gov't £67M
A new tribunal center in London's financial district is currently set to cost about £67 million ($86.7 million) to make it fully functional following delays, the government has told Law360.
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March 25, 2025
Macfarlanes Paralegal Barred From Legal Work For Cheating
The solicitors watchdog has banned a former Macfarlanes LLP paralegal from working in the legal profession after an investigation found that she had gained access to model answers and a mark scheme for a training contract assessment.
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March 25, 2025
Womble Bond Atty's Contempt Order Isn't Final, 4th Circ. Told
A federal judge's order holding a Womble Bond Dickinson partner in contempt of court over misrepresentations he allegedly made to a foreign tribunal isn't a final decision capable of being appealed, a software company told the Fourth Circuit in seeking to have the appeal tossed.
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March 25, 2025
Barrister Fails To Restore Full Harassment Claim Against BSB
A tribunal has blocked a barrister's attempt to rekindle her claim that the Bar Standards Board racially harassed her by mishandling a 2018 misconduct complaint from her neighbor, upholding an earlier ruling that she brought some of the case too late.
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March 25, 2025
Law Firm PCB Fined £25K Over AML Failings On PEP Client
PCB Lawyers LLP has been fined for failing to carry out enhanced checks when it represented a foreign politically exposed person and associated companies for eight years, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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March 24, 2025
McDermott Hires Skadden Partner To Lead London Tax Office
McDermott Will & Emery LLP announced Monday that it has chosen a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner to serve as the new leader of the firm's U.K. tax office in London.
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March 24, 2025
Paul Hastings Plans UAE Launch With White & Case Attys
Paul Hastings is planning to launch its first Middle East office in Abu Dhabi after hiring a cross-border infrastructure team from White & Case LLP, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
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March 24, 2025
Irwin Mitchell Eyes More Growth With Bigger Liverpool Office
Irwin Mitchell LLP officially relocated to a bigger office in Liverpool on Monday as it targets further growth in the city in the coming years.
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March 24, 2025
Kennedys' New Senior Partner Eyes Business In US, Australia
Kennedys' new senior partner, John Bruce, is on a mission to catapult the firm into the spotlight by redoubling its focus on business development and client relationships— with an eye on growth in the U.S. and Australia.
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March 24, 2025
Solicitor Failed To Cooperate With SRA Probe, SDT Says
A solicitor who owns a Midlands law firm has been fined and temporarily banned from running a practice after he caused a months-long delay to a property sale and failed to cooperate with the solicitor watchdog's investigation.
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March 24, 2025
SRA Defends 'Inaction' In Wagner Group Case
The Solicitors Regulation Authority on Monday defended its decision not to take enforcement action against a law firm allegedly helping a Russian oligarch pursue defamation claims against a journalist, instead calling for new legislation to prevent strategic litigation against public participation, or SLAPP.
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March 31, 2025
Dentons Hires Competition Pro From Travers Smith
Dentons has brought on as partner a competition lawyer from Travers Smith LLP against a complex regulatory landscape that has increased demand for specialist advice.
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March 24, 2025
Macfarlanes Promotes 9 Partners In Larger 2025 Class
Macfarlanes LLP said Monday that it had promoted nine new partners in practices including corporate, finance and real estate, with women dominating the latest class.
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March 21, 2025
Paralegal Unfairly Fired For Contempt After Dating Client's Ex
An employment tribunal has ruled that a Welsh law firm unfairly fired a paralegal who started dating the ex-boyfriend of a client the firm valued because it botched the investigation — even if that may have been a good reason to lose trust in her.
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March 21, 2025
The Revolving Door: Gibson Dunn, Edwin Coe Make Big Hires
Over the past week, Quinn Emanuel lost a trio of lawyers from its construction and engineering practice, Edwin Coe snagged a seasoned private wealth veteran from Cripps and Sullivan & Cromwell lost an experienced duo to Gibson Dunn's restructuring practice. Here, Law360 looks at those and more of the week's most notable lateral hires around the U.K.
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March 21, 2025
UK Firms Could Win Recruiting Edge From US DEI Crackdown
The Trump administration's clampdown on diversity programs has already begun to spill over to the U.K.'s legal industry, and some experts warn that the changes big U.S. and Magic Circle players are making could give firms with less exposure in America a competitive edge in recruiting.